Thread:Swordsofwrathadmin/@comment-31955138-20200513190949

So this is my first blog post. I am thinking about using this format to discuss some of the meta content around the lore, I'll see how this goes. I'm going to use this one to talk about the Crystal Bearers Paradox - what it is and how it might be resolved

This is a contradiction in the known lore of the Twilight Kingdoms that derives from a mismatch between the character lore videos and the epilogue on Heroes of Mighty Magic which states "One hero shall arise from every kingdom .... They are the Twilight Force."

Meanwhile this is the earliest known location of the Crystal Bearers taken from their respective lore videos:

As eagle eyed observers will have spotted, we have a number of problems:


 * The origin of De'Azsh isn't specified.
 * There are two Crystal Bearers (Lynd and Chrileon) from Aloria
 * There are no crystal bearers from Khrond, Ungaliath or Aeonia
 * There are 6 crystal bearers not 7

When asked about it, Blackwald responded that the missing Crystal Beaer is that of Khrond. So we can discount the Crystal Bearer of Khrond from the list. So all we have to do now is move one of the Alorian crystal bearers to Ungaliath or Aeonia and then assign De'Azsh to whichever remains.

Except there was a row and Chrileon was replaced with Allyon. Now the canonical affects of Chrileon's departure haven't been fully explained (given Chrileon had one of the most complex backstories his departure must have been a bit of a blow). But let's, for simplicity's sake, just discount him as not the one the prophecies were speaking about.

The story details Allyon being found in Vhardas so that removes the two Crystal Bearers from Aloria problem but now we have two crystal bearers from Vhardas (remember, that's where Blackwald was an aprentice). In light of this let's have a look at the list of problems now:

But you said you'd solve this paradox, not make it more complicated
 * The origins of De'Azsh still aren't specified.
 * There are two Crystal Bearers (Allyon and Blackwald) from Vhardas
 * There are no crystal bearers from Ungaliath or Aeonia

Yes, indeed I did. So let's get on with it. First we must decide whether Blackwald or Allyon is most likely to have come from somewhere else. That somewhere else is probably Ungaliath (Aeonia is about as far from Vhardas as it is possible to get in the Seven Kingdoms). So was it Blackwald or Allyon who grew up in a tropical swamp?

On one (throughly scrubbed) hand Allyon seems significantly older and more clued up than Blackwald was when he was a novice on the other (time laidened) hand it is hard to imagine someone going from living in a swamp to being a dessert nomad. I think ultimately it seems like Allyon most likely came from Ungaliath before moving to Vhardas.

This leaves De'Azsh to come from Aeonia. Problem solved. There are of course alternate explanations which I invite people to comment bellow but what I have so far is:

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