クレバテスⅡ-魔獣の王と偽りの勇者伝承-

Morrowind did something like that. The whole game you're chasing after the nerevarine prophecies and fulfilling them up until the point where you can claim the ring that proves you fulfill them 100%... where you meet a bunch of ghosts of people who also thought they were the nerevarine. Less of "you were the chosen one so you had to fulfill the prophecy" and more "you fulfilled the prophecy, so you must be the chosen one".

I'd already supposed that Alicia was the true hero, but I didn't recognize her revival at all! It happened so early in the series, it entirely left my mind! Good catch! For some reason, I keep feeling that there are a few more guesses that haven't been thrown out of the pot, yet: - All the Lords of Dark Beasts are former heroes. - All of this is taking place on some kind of intergalactic ship (or prison?) - This is all a mistake that none of them can remember their way beyond.

I feel like part of it is "other Dark Lords are the bigger threat". Remember, Clevatess had to undertake certain measures in S1 because he didn't want any of the other Lords to realize he'd left his territory. We know that one of the Dark Lords is actually on sorts decent terms with her subjects, to the point that they actually worship her. Voridin may have been actually experimenting with humanity... And Clevatess seemed perfectly content to leave them be until the Heroes actively went after him.

This honestly feels a bit too on the nose that alicia is going to be a true hero, not that I would be disappointed, but it just feels like the very obvious story route. I feel like cleavatess might go the same way frieren did in that even if she's not a "true" hero, she will still succeed at being one anyway. It also seems to be a bit implied the humans(and possible heros) of the past were completely emotionless, so perhaps alicia will become a hero of modern humanity, and different from the heros of old, likely succeeding in preventing whatever apocalyptic event happened that destroyed the ancient humans.

So we're post-apocalyptic, though I think that's not really a surprise given the hints that were dropped before. The ruins don't really look Earth post-apocalyptic though, which is a little different. Evil mode princess is kind of hot. It's nice to see Alicia having a solid kick-ass moment killing that beast from S1 and then the chimera abomination too. Flying baby Luna is very fun, talking baby Luna is a little creepy but still also fairly fun given how he was characterized. He even had baby themed jokes. I feel like Alicia is going to have less of a hangup about fighting and killing her fake father than evil princess is expecting.

The ruins don't really look Earth post-apocalyptic though Its fantasy post-apocalypse, one that went from gilded fantasy to dark fantasy. Its a pretty fresh take. Evil mode princess is kind of hot. She looks like a dark magical girl I feel like Alicia is going to have less of a hangup about fighting and killing her fake father I think she will hesitate at first but after a few blows she will remark how its not a perfect copy, being either weaker or not as skilled, at which point she will strike it down.

Really? I thought that baby talking luna was the best part of the entire episode. He is so frkn adorable! Also, evil princess definitely looks hotter than her princess peach outfit. Also, the whole pre-Apocalypse civilization, could easily be a far off future earth. To the point where continents shifted, humanity loss touch with their emotions, and magic beasts became a thing. Although, im pretty sure that the implications that this is a very different world were kind of obvious.

Dear Sub writers, A "four-hundred percent" improvement to his carbon ability is a five -fold increase. If you have a 400% IMPROVEMENT then INCREASE is 400%. The final Result is 500%, or five fold. But it is NOT a five fold increase. That would instead make it a 500% improvement resulting in 600% overall. You've talked yourself into the exact kind of mistake you're trying to correct unless I've overlooked something. And got upvoted for it. EDIT: Looked into it more. Basically the entire phrase sucks and we're both right. 10 increased by threefold can be read as either 30 or 40. By all rules of ordinary English 10 increased by X = 10 + x. But folds is old #@$@ed up language that spits in the face of normal English rules. Because English evolved and the phrase didn't it's used inconsistently. In both news and science you can find both usages of folds. Style guides in science directly treat the phrase as a known problem rather than a settled term. In fact a pharmacologist who spent decades reading the literature concluded that “fold increase” and “fold higher” are used incorrectly more often than correctly. So best practice is actually to just throw the phrase in the garbage completely because its unclear and disagreed on.

Increase is addition, not direction. Your RPG character's attack increased by 10. You add 10 to the attack. Your profit increased by 100%. You add 100% to your profit. 4 fold improvement is a 4 fold increase, or a 400% increase. You add 400% to it, meaning it is now at 500% (whatever "it" is). If your profit is 4 fold of what it was previously, THEN your profit is 400% instead of adding 400%. You are not confused about the meaning of fold. You are confused about the words surrounding it.

Did some digging, tl;dr its an old messed up phrase that doesn't follow modern English conventions. Style guides in science treat the phrase as a known problem rather than a settled term and a pharmacologist who spent decades reading the literature concluded that “fold increase” and “fold higher” are used incorrectly more often than correctly. So basically the phrase should be left dead and buried in the past where it belongs, it does not fit modern language, and you'll never know exactly how the writer was using it unless they explicitly tell you because it's used so inconsistently. You're right and the other guy is right. It's used both ways regularly.

Yes, increase by 4 times. You have $10. How much do you have if you increase it by 1 time? $20. How much do you have if you increase by 2 times? $30. 3 times? $40. 4 times? $50. $50 if 5 times the amount you originally have ($10). But you increased it only by 4 times. Again, it's the word surrounding it that you are confused by. You understanding fold perfectly. You are not understanding "increase by" or "improvement".

I understand your non-standard interpretation of "n-fold increase" is internally consistent, but that's just not how the phrase is commonly used. Pulling examples from the dictionary entry : The three projects – “Grateful,” “Rhizome” and “Trinity” – were chosen from 15 submissions following a two-round process of materials review and interviews, the ACF said. The lineup marks a threefold jump from last year’s single recipient, [Baseline 1, Result: 3 (3x)] The death toll marked a threefold jump from the official figure of 99 deaths released Thursday last week. [Baseline: 99, Result: 302 (3.05x)] The results show a fourfold increase of global riverine N2O emissions [Baseline: 70, Result: 291 (4.15x)] Lewes Beach reported a fourfold increase in stings compared to 2024...Lewes Beach Patrol treated 295 stings in 2024, the first year the data was collected, but reported over 1,200 cases so far in 2025 [Baseline: 295, Result: >1200 (4.07x)] To your point, the common usage for "n-fold increase" means that a "1-fold increase" means no change; and I think that's reflected in much less use than higher multipliers ( ) and that this ambiguity/misunderstanding is why all of these forms are falling out of favor.

You are correct that people use it the way you showed with those links. But those are incorrect usages. So if the discussion is about what do people mean, I won't say people mean this or what. But since the discussion is about what do those words mean, then I stand by what I said. Like you said, based on the common usage for "n-fold increase" means that a "1-fold increase" means no change. That's just absurd. If a "1-fold increase" means the same as "2-fold increase", it would be equally absurd. So that common usage is just wrong. But again, I do acknowledge that people do use it the way you showed. I'm arguing they are using it incorrectly. But I guess this is like "literally". "Literally" has been used incorrectly so often that it also took on the incorrect meaning.

"fold" is understood to mean multiplication, a five-fold increase is a quintupling. "Increase" indicates direction. If my budget is $50 and I INCREASE my budget by $50 I now have a budget of $100. If my new budget is two fold my original $50 budget I now have a budget of $100. If I INCREASE my budget by two fold my original $50 budget I now have a budget of $150. The INCREASE is two fold, but the total is three fold.

I was thinking something similar since the end of the first season when it was revealed that the furnace was a book and maybe this was the retelling of a pre-written story, or a simulation of it with today's episode we have some kind of extra clues to add: - humanity world was destroyed and they were emontionless before. so maybe they were some sort of NPCs - Dark beasts apparently were "reborn" or at least they have new "versions". Vordin seems to still remember something, but not Clevatess - Alicia and the other students got a power up after succeeding in the first test. It felt like a law of that world, there's some "programmed" event that is triggered after finishing that test and gives you a power up. and power ups are something you earn in a videogame after a trial, specially JRPGs. I wouldn't be surprised if Alicia earns another power up after succeeding the second test if we go back to the first season, we don't know anything about the rest of the world, maybe it's because there's nothing at all, or that's the end of the "map". still they show us that it seems they live in a round planet (when Alicia is thrown to the atmosphere), but we don't have more information to theorize about it. Dark beasts seem to don't know anything either about the rest of the world, but they know they have to protect it from humans or anybody that wants to go through their domain maybe their world is some sort of simulation or "contained world" that came to an end (or some creator put to an end) and now we are watching a new iteration of it, with more improvements that the previous one. it seems to me like a JRPG too in fact, with all of this stuff of heroes, beasts, kingdoms, power ups, keys, doors, hidden rooms .... this could be just a bunch of nonsense for sure, but I like to theorize lol it edit: typos

It does feel like this is a video game world where the hero gets the bad end of losing to vordin first time and the universe just keeps on going. The teleportation doors feel extremely RPG. Plus the whole "open the world" thing people keep on talking about feels like it would be impossible if thats the case. When you beat the final boss in a video game you don't actually get to keep on playing. Have the feeling the outside world is just empty sky boxes.