To be clear, I am not an “AI is a scam” guy. I find this tech fascinating and powerful and potentially very dangerous, albeit not world-ending. But scientists are also driving the net cost of electricity toward zero and designing boutique mRNA vaccines. That’s at least an equally huge deal!

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Priesthoods are famous at taking a core set of virtues and mapping it to the needs of the moment.

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So I think it was just unexamined boilerplate; Iandir was great at churning out areas in a hurry with a lot of things that did turn into amazing hooks for lore. Other times it was just more generic fantasy. I think I brought it up being a little off-key for Jolinn, but he pointed out that...

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They're a great stock fantasy monster, but the ones in the mountains there never really had an adequate place in the lore to me. Clearly not descended from Titans, they aren't chaja... where did they come from?

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Krilin was one of the workman-like areas Iandir churned out in order to be ready for launch. He grew up in rural Alaska, so I imagine that sort of frontier risk would just slot into something you'd do in an RPG. You can see the giants there don't really fit well with the other things going on!

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