“richard was muslim…” ah, but what a really curious thing to add, and he is the leader of rhir boys, really?, with his behavior???, i would have think that he should fit more in chandrar instead of the T siblings.

well, i suppose there cant be story withouth side charachters, and rhir being the mosot importantierer of the lot, just doenst get enough screen time, plenty of charachters introduced, or remembered, to die lol. Is that or did i miss some clown chapters? i dont member the clown brigade or the crelers fights.

They intend to sacrifice 100000. To get a 1000 Earthers.

Just wanted to add, the points about drakes and gnolls fighting being a “blip in history” mentality would show that Rhir, as well, doesn’t seem to know the rest of the world very well, because they are too blinded by the stuff they have been dealing with. Drakes and gnolls have been fighting far, far longer than the Blighted Kingdom has even existed.

They may not be in such an all-out war against each other like the Blighted Kingdom and Demons, but they’ve been skirmishing for tens of thousands of years, not just 5,000. Both races have probably lost many times as much of their populations to each other as the Blighted Kingdom has, overall.

Putting them together with absolutely no warning would be a truly stupid way to manage forces. It will likely work out in the end because plot reasons, but it’s just another example of the stupidly warped views the entire Blighted Kingdom seems to hold.

Even if Earth wanted things from Innworld, it would be far more likely for the powers-that-be on Earth to wipe out the Blighted Kingdom rather than join in their war. The Blighted King is basically performing mass kidnapping and torture by extension, then forcing his kidnapping victims into becoming “child soldiers”.

Earth would probably be more than happy to have decent relations with other parts of Innworld, but the Blighted Kingdom? Nope, almost guaranteed to not go the way Osthius wants.

Crelers are not on the same side as Demons. They aren’t on the same side as anything. Even other creatures spawned by the sleeping god – such as the Antinium – are vehemently opposed to crelers.

The new monster is likely more on the level of vorepillars – an atrocity created by the Demons to go against the Blighted Kingdom, but that’s it.

Everything we’ve been told so far honestly points to the Demons being no worse or better than any other race on the planet, except in regards to the Blighted Kingdom specifically – a kingdom that has, itself, been waging a genocidal war against the Demons for millennia, while committing their own atrocities towards the Demons.

I’d say this is somewhat incorrect. The people of Innworld do level rather slowly, especially compared to past time periods. And much of this is due to a lack of adversity.

A good example is adventurers. On one hand, we have an adventurer like Crossbow Stan. He was noted to have been an adventurer for quite a long time, but he is still fairly low level – almost certainly below level 30, since he isn’t anywhere close to gold rank. And he’s only at that level because he only takes “safe” jobs – ones that he can nominally finish within 6 crossbow bolts fired. He faces a huge lack of adversity, and thus doesn’t level.

On the other hand, we have the Horns. They’ve gone through numerous situations way above their level. Simply having a necromancer and an Antinium in their party creates a higher baseline of adversity, even for just walking through cities.

Prior to the current Horns, Ceria was in a group with Calruz – who was nearly gold rank himself, just due to sheer prowess – taking on silver rank threats. And the old Horns also had a large number of members. They, like Crossbow Stan, probably didn’t truly face much adversity in the tasks they took on. Yvlon was likely similar with her group, mostly sticking to “safe” requests.

Peslas is another good example. He’s a drake in a drake city, a city that has really good walls. He gets some bonus xp for making his inn higher quality, but he caters only to drakes and really doesn’t seem to have that much competition. His level of adversity is small, compared to, say, a human running an inn outside the city walls.

Levels in other classes besides your main one do seem to make leveling slower, but not by equivalent amounts. Your example of a level 20 vs a 5/5/5/5 is nowhere near correct. The level 20 is going to need far more experience to get to 21 than the other would need to get any class to level 6. I would be hesitant to say the person with the level 5’s would even need double the normal experience to reach level 6 in any given class.

This can be fairly easily shown by some of the gains that Erin received and canceled. After the siege, while already being a level 37 Magical Innkeeper, she was supposed to have gained 4 levels and class changed into General. There is no way she gained enough to be equivalent to have taken her to level 41 in her main class, considering how long and how much she had to go through to actually get to that level afterwards.

My current guess for the xp formula is: ((<Current Level> x 100) + (0.1 x <Level of highest alternate class> x 100) + (0.2 x <Level of second highest alternate class> x 100) + (etc.)) x (<Class tier modifier>)

So, for example, a level 20 class needs 2,000 xp to level. A level 37 class needs 3,700. Xp gain would also have diminishing returns based on relative levels/adversity – killing a goblin at level 1 might give 100 xp, at level 2 might give 50, at level 25, etc. Thus, leveling not only requires more xp for each level, but gets progressively harder as things tend to give less xp.

Using the above formula, Erin going from level 2 to 6 in Warrior would normally take 200+300+400+500= 1,400 xp, if that was her only class. With her level 37 innkeeper class, she would need (200+370)+(300+370)+(400+370)+(500+370)= 2,880 xp. Double the total it would have taken normally, but not even as much as a single level for her main class.

Similarly, the person with 5/5/5/5 classes would need 500+50+100+150= 800 xp to get any single class to level 6 – more than 50% more, but still far less than the 2,000 xp a level 20 class would need.

What this means is that extra classes do require more, but a single extra class wouldn’t make things prohibitive. However, over time, even a single extra class can start to add up to a lot of extra xp needed. Multiple extra classes would add up even faster: a person that got four classes at level 1, and only leveled a single class afterwards, would end up needing 60 extra xp per level. The hypothetical 5/5/5/5 person, if they took one of those classes to level 100, would need 28,500 total extra xp – the equivalent of having another class at level 23.

While I agree that this isn’t likely a war that can be stopped with diplomacy, at this point, I think there’s plenty not evidence to say that the Demons are nowhere near the genocidally destructive creatures the Blighted King makes them out to be, at least on a worldwide scale.

We know that there are at least some people that trade (apparently) peacefully with the Demons. Since they definitely aren’t doing so by way of through the Blighted Kingdom, the Demons must have some sort of coastal connection. Which means they could, theoretically, leave the continent at any time. And while they’d almost certainly be hunted down if they did so, we have yet heard any mention of major Demon attacks anywhere in the rest of the world.

If they were truly as evil as the Blighted King claimed, they shouldn’t be doing any peaceful trading with other races at all, and would almost certainly be sending out strike forces to random places to inflict terror and death on the rest of the world.

I personally feel it was more likely that the original Blighted Kingdom actually “started” the war via bigotry against whatever the Demons originally were – probably just mutated people living on Rhir that survived the crelers. That eventually led to them being persecuted and labeled as “demons” after things escalated to violence. Now, both sides have committed way too many atrocities against each other to stop.

They shouldn’t be the same type of thing. A’ctelios was specifically stated to be one of the things that came from beyond The Last Tide, and that the Drath people had fought similar beings multiple times. If that was all the sleeping god was, Teriarch wouldn’t be so cagey about it.

It likely isn’t a full god, like what the dead gods used to be, but it is almost certainly much stronger than the eldritch horrors similar to A’ctelios. It was able to destroy a level 79 Antinium Queen, along with most of the Centenium, as well as however many normal Antinium were brought, all while sleeping and not actively fighting back. It created a species of creatures that caused a worldwide war for 800 years. That is far beyond the power of something that could be taken down multiple times by a relatively small population such as Drath.