Twilight and Spike lived their childhood in Canterlot Castle under the benevolent eye of Princess Celestia and violent protection of her resident, so called, monster. A monster she returns to to find peace with but also unexpected danger and threats.
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There's a big difference between living and surviving. Raedgan is too focused on second.
I wonder if the rifts could be plugged, by building a cairn on top of it or dropping a huge rock there to prevent anything from coming through. Of course, there's still the one beneath the seas and the one in the air, but the others could possibly get plugged up to prevent anything from coming in or going out?
Just.. Fuck.. Them dying away one by one would have been cruel.. But this? This is.. FItting. It explains a lot and I sorta thought about such events taking part in his life. I mean, we saw some of it already. Though, I am not certain how the verdict will be in the end, if they trust and forgive him, or if he gets what he thinks he deserves.
Joshua Graham, the burned man
Wow this was hard to read. But this was a fantastic chapter not to mention a look into his troubled past.
Wow, just wow
Doing dark things, behind the backs of those you care about, all in the name of protecting them. Walking the line of madness and then having it all come crashing down at the hands of those you thought you were protecting. Christ no wonder he and Luna latched onto each other.
Damn, just...damn!
… Well, holy shit. That… explains a lot.
So, the Leviathans were made by something else, and then got dropped through a rift. That explains… a lot.
But were they dropped deliberately?
Oh, sweet Jesus.
Holy shit man. Sympathize with the devil and what not
Hoo wee!
hmmmmm...
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Holy shit. I have been reading this from the start. fantastic work man!
Okay here's my theory either Applejack's parents were killed by something that came through the rift. Or they accidentally fell into the rift. That might be why he left Applejack all that money.
7346647 I think that's most likely what happened. But however unlikely this may be what if Raedgan came across Applejack's parents. when he was still jumping from world to world. he did say he met others.
7345160 Perhaps, as a short term solution, though mostly they'd prevent you from accessing them. Something else could still get through, and if it's something like a leviathan then a rock wouldn't be that much of an issue.
7345173 7345185 Not over yet. He's not done talking.
7345565 As I said, not done yet. He's got more to say. The next part is about his version of Nightmare Moon.
7345838 Next chapter there will be a "reveal" if there were driven there or not. If it's true or not however...
7345995 Trust me, he knows quite a lot better than he would if it wasn't for the previous one who did love him though that doesn't mean that much. Wait a week and you'll see.
7346284 Thank you! I hope the rest of the ride gets better.
Ok, this chapter is basically half of Raegdan's story or what he's gonna say to anyone other than Luna. We got one more like this, then it's gonna be relatively better times for the duo, with some bad times interspersed here and there, but mostly they're gonna get a break for a while. After that...
Welp, I guess I can relate. I've been ditched a lot, though never on the level of extreme Raegdan was. I'm still loving this story, continue on as best you can.
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Those are some good theories, but I've got another, and I pray it isn't right. He mentioned getting answers whenever he went through a rift to a new world, I'm assuming he got that information through torture, but I could be wrong. I think he ran into her parents when he came through to Equestria, and got information.
I think that would explain the money being given to the family, and also potentially why he was being held and seen as a monster when he saved twilight as a filly.
7347070 that is very possible. Didn't it say somewhere in the story he was muzzled when he first arrived? Hell he might have ate her parents after he was finished interrogating them.
7347214 I can definitely see that being something he'd do, I mean to him not eating it would be a waste of good meat
I just looked it up, "Raegdan" means "Wrongdoer" in J.R.R. Tolken's fictional language "Sindarin".
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I don't think that's quite right.
Surely he's come across people who don't know the same languages, so he'd be able to tell they were not worth the effort.
He's not cruel or malicious to random strangers, so I expect if he stumbled upon some ponies and realized he couldn't get any info from them (and he'd have heard them talk LONG before any torture started) he'd have let them go and just run off.
He's good enough now to evade capture and being followed unless the group is forced to seek out other people for supplies and weapons, so he'd have easily been able to make a clean getaway, and he'd have known that, so he had no reason to kill them for knowing about him or even the risk of the ponies running off to get help or "tell the cops".
I've included "Luna117" here in the conversation because he's expressed similar thinking:
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I think the most likely situation is that he came through, found a couple horse-like creatures frolicking around in the grass, and killed them before they'd even known he was there.
(He did say they learned how to hunt and provide for themselves, so no doubt he knows how to tan hides for clothing and preserve meat. Even the bones would be useful for some rudimentary weapons.)
Then along comes some royal guards when a little filly and her brother start crying about their missing parents, they find some wild looking monkey creature wearing the skin of the ponies they were sent out to find, and when they realize that the creature is immune to magic (they can't track him or stop him with their most powerful tool in situations like these) they call in the Princess because she's the most experienced and strongest being around.
Raegdan realizes he just ate and was seen wearing the skins of two of the locals, but at that point, he's already screwed.
(He may have begun his efforts to understand their language at this point, for tactical reasons if nothing else.)
Celestia captures Raegdan (realizing he's intelligent and simply speaking another language) to stand trial for his crime, and we all know the rest of the story.
Twilight was wrong, this is worse.. I would have rather heard about them dying one by one. I can't take this emotional strain..
I can't believe I never actually thought to Google his name.
Villain. His name means 'villain.' Holy crap, I can't tell if that's really clever or really corny.
From Blind Guardian's "The Curse of Feanor," a power metal band rather famous for doing "Lord of the Rings" songs. Raegdan's story keeps making me think of that one. He probably would've loved them.
Honestly, if the rifts actually worked like Raegdan thinks they do, they should be flickering all about the place willy-nilly without ever resting for more than a few minutes. Do you have any idea how many insects there are in the world? Quadrillions, literally, and some are as big as your fingers and can still fly. They should be hit by something like that on the average of like 50 times an hour. Unless there's a minimum mass for how big something needs to be to trigger one, they just don't really make sense. Has no bird ever flown into that one in the sky? No fish ever swum into the one in the ocean? At all? In twenty years? It sounds unreasonable.
And you will weep as you face the end alone.
You are lost.
You can never go home.
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How about the fact that going through them makes you able to have a kind of GPS for them in your head? The whole idea is that he knows almost nothing about them. Heck, even his assumption that they've been used only six times can be wrong. He can "sense" direction and measure distance by judging the pain, but he's neither awake 24/7, nor can he accurately tell if the ones further away have been used if he doesn't pay attention, and he certainly can't tell if they are at the same place today they were yesterday. He doesn't know how they work, if they're natural or not, if they have rules or not, if they slowly multiple, decrease, or are steady in number, and he surely doesn't know why they kept taking him to the finest vacation resorts available.
I love Blind Guardian, but I must admit, I never thought how those lyrics in particular fit him. Pretty weird.
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It kinda works, I suppose, it's just all very vague and seems a bit too tailor-made to be a plot device for a tragic story. The actual mechanics of it just kind of don't take into account just how busy of a place the natural world is. The whole "few minutes of peace" phrase made me think it was associated with a rift temporarily being absent, rather than specifically passing through one, which he definitely should be noticing. If they flicker around the place just slightly, so much that he can't even really tell they've moved at all, I suppose that's ok, but still.
It's almost uncanny, isn't it? "Time stands still at the Iron Hill" fits Luna fairly well, too, in a somewhat self-ironic way. Like the kind of story she'd tell herself about herself, in a weak moment.
Of course, Luna is no Fingolfin, exactly. The character's general theme of stained and unsung nobility suits her fairly well, though.
And, of course, he is the brother of Feanor.
Ok great story, this last chapter a lil dark, but his so called friends betray him, honestly if they ended up back on the first world the were on , id call it just desserts. His past is sad, always having to be the bad guy so that the weakest of them can continue to live in fantasy land. I agree with Raegdan, leaving thoose few to their own devices, and protecting your own in the longrun was the better option.
Also its not like Celestia is blamless here, she know steadfast ray and the rest of the solar guard are itching to assasinate Luna and Raegdan, its what they were trained for, not the defense of Equestria, but the return of Nightmaremoon, so they could kill her. I can garuntee you that the real reason for the small population of thestrals is because the solar guard hunted them down, Celestia already proved that she didnt care about the thestrals, by letting their numbers dwindle so far.
7349009 I do have a set of rules for them in my mind which hopefully addresses these problems. For instance, there are prerequisites to go through them. It is entirely possible for someone to cross through the area of one and nothing happen, and the next person to go through gets "rifted". Size/mass is definitely another one, otherwise why stop at insects? They have a way to be controlled, and stuff like that. I just prefer not to get more into them for spoiler reasons.
The ones in Equestria, I picture them moving only a few kilometers every time. It's why I believe someone like him wouldn't notice every single movement. His radar is basically like the hot/cold game, it has been such a constant pain he barely pays attention to it, and the other four get overpowered by the one closest to him.
But of course, in the end of the day, they ARE tailor made to be a plot device. I gave some thought to the "humie gets ported to equestria" cliche, came up with a system they could work, but their main reason of existence was to get Raegdan to Equestria. Everything else came afterwards.
I like the idea of "villains" being failed or fallen heroes. Sauron, to stay in theme, for instance started out with good intentions. He revered progress and order, and honestly believed he could do great good by being in charge until being in charge overtook everything else, and chose to pursuit power for power's sake instead of following his early goals. Or Doctor Doom, who is my favorite marvel character. I love it whenever he gets written by a writer who pictures him as a person who wants and can better humanity, but gets overridden by his pride. I think the notion I've seen a lot in late years that he just hides behind a fake code of honor takes away something extremely powerful from the character. Others also, like Darth Vader for instance. Luna in this story? She could be a hero, a Fingolfin. Almost was, but she broke at the end.
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Well, that's really the important thing. So long as you know how they actually work, that's fine. I was just pointing out that how Raegdan describes them working doesn't really make any sense, as written. They can't work like that and be consistent with the story he tells us.
Well duh. It shouldn't be too visible, though.
This kind of thing is why I like the saying "everyone is the hero of their own story." Almost no one ever actively does what they think is the wrong thing. Everyone is always trying to do the right thing, from their perspective. Sometimes, somewhere along the way, they just pick up some really wrong ideas about what the right thing actually is. Luna, for example, might see herself as the unsung hero of that song, noble and solitary, but the truth is that she was also an antisocial loner and trying to protect the people she cared about from themselves for their own good, instead of doing the sometimes oh so very much harder thing and letting them be hurt a little so they'll be more able to take care of that kind of thing themselves later. Which is, appropriately enough, a flaw that she and Raegdan really have in common.
And Dr. Doom is, I believe, comically enough an excellent ruler canonically and his home country a happy sci-fi utopia, as is what usually happens to the world in the alternate timelines where he wins. If only he could let go of that pride-fueled obsession with Reed Richards.
By the way, I noticed that you were nice enough let Twilight make my point about humility to Raegdan herself. I really liked that. It makes me feel all appreciated.
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A Dungeon Master's most important rule: Always reward great ideas.
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It really makes being all effort-post in the comments here worth it when you can tell the writer is listening and cares.
I stopped reading this for a while because I got burnt out, but now? Christ, I'm glad I did, because I've binge read the fuck out of the recent chapters. This story is amazing, man! The whole 'Traversing worlds with rifts' by itself would make an incredible book series of its own. I'd love to see an actual novel about Raegdan going through all of these worlds as he gradually changed from the person he was, into the person he is now. That slow descent into madness would be incredible to witness. Good plot, my dude. Keep up the good work!
Please make Scipio come back and have Raegdan fuck him up.
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The show is called "Sliders." You're welcome.
7351111 All of the thanks.
Is it weird that if similar circumstances came up I know I'd likely react similarly?
man, this guy Reagdan is a pure pillar of badassitude.
I can't wait for the next part of the gruesome story he's telling
"So, take this night. Wrap it around me like a sheet.
I know I'm not forgiven, But I need a place to sleep.
So, take this night. Lay me down on the street.
I know I'm not forgiven, But I hope that I'll be given
Some peace."
Wow, this chapter was terrible. Not in the sense that it was written poorly, but rather it made me feel awful.
I wonder if discord could close these rifts..... Maybe even open them?
Haven't commented on this story until now, but i have to say this is probably the best piece of writing i've seen on this site so far and i've been coming here for a few years now. Thank you so much for making me feel all these feelings Crimmar. This is certainly the only story on here that's made me cry. Also i feel that "Mother I'm Here" from bastion fits Raegdan perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlfUcnSbKDA
Again, thank you for this wonderful story.
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No they were spoiled and probably died long ago.
What's that? Oh, yeah, I already know, dude. Nah yeah it's kinda obvious, Raegdan did nothing wrong.
For someone that survived all this? He is remarkable sane...