sørmirbæren
July 4, 2025, 4:13 pm | # | Reply
I am slightly disappointed that the mention of modern small arms in possession of Jagganoth’s army all the way back in Book 1 hasn’t paid off yet. It is cool to have guys swinging swords at each other, but if there’s a time to have a machinegun it’s this.
The Rhyming Wax Head
July 4, 2025, 6:32 pm | # | Reply
In’t north, in furs, folk tales
he guards his scars but fails.
Mae e o Stockholm, dw i o Gymru
Abobo
July 4, 2025, 8:55 pm | # | Reply
1. Would lips not be helpful for a berserker? it feels like they’d get dry tongues.
2. Are these special spikes that make the bearer stronger, like Jagganoth’s nails? Because I would have thought piercing muscle tissue would make it weaker.
3. Are these regular soldiers of the republic? Or master swordsman or some other supernaturally powerful martial artist? Because regular people would be much better suited to killing god’s armies with a host of automatic firearms and projectile explosives than with swords. I guess Mottom never got around to Earth and so the most advanced firearms in Throne are muskets and flintlocks?
or am I just nitpicking and should suspend disbelief cause its cool. which I am also fine with.
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Ocean
July 4, 2025, 10:24 pm | # | Reply
As far as i remember, supply of automatic firearms around the multiverse is difficult because advanced technology decays while being transported along the King’s Road. Which is the only way to get between worlds if you’re not a demiurge.
Such guns would probably be useful in such a situation, but too difficult logistically to equip as standard for a world-hopping military. Which these folks are.
This does imply that a place like our Earth would be pretty hard to invade without help from a demiurge or other supernatural freak with extreme personal power. But the *majority* of armed conflicts in the wheel involve swords and spears.
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