![]() ![]() But then, when I was on one quest, “A Temple in Need,” one of the kyrian I was assisting with a newly kyrian-ified aspirant told me that not all memories are bad, but they still must be purged. ![]() You “cleanse” or “purify” new kyrian aspirants by fighting the physical manifestation of their pain or doubt, represented as monsters. When the game first takes you through the ascension process, the kyrian Borg present this induced amnesia as the “cleansing of the trauma of death” and a “purification” of the negative emotions that might cling to a once-mortal soul. ![]() Turns out not only must you shed your mortal form to become a generic male or female kyrian, you also have to shed all the memories of your mortal life. Sounds terrifying, right? Like something straight out of a World of Warcraft-ifed version of Get Out. A process by which all the characteristics that defined you in life are stripped away and replaced with a fairly generic blue-skinned, white-coded, flying angel being. I wondered, then, if there was some kind of sinister assimilation process a soul undergoes in order to become kyrian. And yet, despite being a place where the breadth of sentient life goes to their eternal repose, every kyrian looks the same. All the good, honorable souls from all the many planes of existence supposedly go there to join the ranks of pseudo-valkyries, the kyrian. As I explained when talking with my WoW coworker Mike Fahey, there’s something off about Bastion. ![]()
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