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* The Phillipines, or what's left of them, ''are'' the northern half of the EO3 world map, with broken Sulawesi and Borneo being the south. Note that the city in the northwest corner is Hong Kong, and the bits of land on the southeast edge are the western points of New Guinea. The rest follows from there.
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The games in the series seemed to have a pattern going, in which an element from the previous game turns up in the next. In the first game, [[spoiler: Visil was revealed to be [[OlderThanTheyLook the man behind the Yggdrasil Project]] conducted [[Really700YearsOld nearly a thousand years ago]].]] In the second game, [[spoiler: the Overlord was experimenting with humans with the Holy Grail to try to grant [[CompleteImmortality immortality to other humans]], which Visil in the first game had in [[TheAgeless Type II]] form, and [[BrainUploading uploaded himself into a machine to continue his experiments]].]] The third game has Abyssal King Seyfried, who [[spoiler: [[ArtificialHuman uploaded his consciousness into a mechanical body]] around the time of the Calamity, similar to the Overlord.]] Since the [[TrueFinalBoss Sixth Str]][[BonusBoss atum boss]] of ''The Drowned City'' [[spoiler: was [[EldritchAbomination Abyssal]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast God]], the [[ManBehindTheMan Man Behind the]] [[MonsterLord Monster Lord]] and was the ''actual'' ''[[BonusDungeon Sixth Stratum]]]]'', it would make sense to bring that on a much larger scale in the fourth game, considering the Japanese subtitle, translated, is ''Legend of the Large God''.

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The games in the series seemed to have a pattern going, in which an element from the previous game turns up in the next. In the first game, [[spoiler: Visil was revealed to be [[OlderThanTheyLook the man behind the Yggdrasil Project]] conducted [[Really700YearsOld nearly a thousand years ago]].]] In the second game, [[spoiler: the Overlord was experimenting with humans with the Holy Grail to try to grant [[CompleteImmortality immortality to other humans]], which Visil in the first game had in [[TheAgeless Type II]] form, and [[BrainUploading uploaded himself into a machine to continue his experiments]].]] The third game has Abyssal King Seyfried, who [[spoiler: [[ArtificialHuman uploaded his consciousness into a mechanical body]] around the time of the Calamity, similar to the Overlord.]] Since the [[TrueFinalBoss Sixth Str]][[BonusBoss atum Stratum boss]] of ''The Drowned City'' [[spoiler: was [[EldritchAbomination Abyssal]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast God]], the [[ManBehindTheMan Man Behind the]] [[MonsterLord Monster Lord]] and was the ''actual'' ''[[BonusDungeon Sixth Stratum]]]]'', it would make sense to bring that on a much larger scale in the fourth game, considering the Japanese subtitle, translated, is ''Legend of the Large God''.
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* TheChick is loyal to Gertrune.

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* TheChick TheHeart is loyal to Gertrune.



* TheBigGuy or TheChick turn out to be a Deep City Spy.

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* TheBigGuy or TheChick TheHeart turn out to be a Deep City Spy.



** TheChick (might be the one who will be turned into an Yggdroid because {{Moe}} RobotGirl) once had a brush with the Deep Ones which scarred her, so she will side with the ones openly opposing them. If you join Armoroad, she might, if she was also the TokenMiniMoe who looked up to you, be ''[[BreakTheCutie heartbroken]]'' by the fact that you joined with the enemy, YouBastard.

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** TheChick TheHeart (might be the one who will be turned into an Yggdroid because {{Moe}} RobotGirl) once had a brush with the Deep Ones which scarred her, so she will side with the ones openly opposing them. If you join Armoroad, she might, if she was also the TokenMiniMoe who looked up to you, be ''[[BreakTheCutie heartbroken]]'' by the fact that you joined with the enemy, YouBastard.



** TheChick will either be filled with despair at the idea of having to fight you or, in order to cope with her sadness, [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul willfully allowed her Yggdroid transformation to take over he mind]], leaving her as an [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]] killing machine. So her battle quotes will either be her crying throughout the entire fight or talk like a machine.

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** TheChick TheHeart will either be filled with despair at the idea of having to fight you or, in order to cope with her sadness, [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul willfully allowed her Yggdroid transformation to take over he mind]], leaving her as an [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]] killing machine. So her battle quotes will either be her crying throughout the entire fight or talk like a machine.
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While your Guild could easily [[OldSaveBonus make the jump from]] ''Etrian Odyssey'' to ''Heroes of Lagaard'', certain endgame events make such a reappearance unfeasible -- mainly, [[spoiler: their 'involvement' in the immortality project]]. While your heroes are meant to be [[{{AFGNCAAP}} blank slates]] and everything about them hinging solely on your imagination, that sort of ending demands ''some sort'' of follow-up if they return... which is exactly why they ''won't''.

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While your Guild could easily [[OldSaveBonus make the jump from]] ''Etrian Odyssey'' to ''Heroes of Lagaard'', certain endgame events make such a reappearance unfeasible -- mainly, [[spoiler: their 'involvement' in the immortality project]]. While your heroes are meant to be [[{{AFGNCAAP}} [[FeaturelessProtagonist blank slates]] and everything about them hinging solely on your imagination, that sort of ending demands ''some sort'' of follow-up if they return... which is exactly why they ''won't''.
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Based on how the characters are set up (Raquna from Ontario, "from the north", and Arthur and Simon from Gotham (a common nickname for New York City), it would only be logical that Etria is somewhere in the northeastern United States. Why Ogdensburg? That is where Sir-tech Software, the company that created the ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}'' video game series, was headquartered, and was a ''major'' inspiration for EO (and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff was popular amongst many Japanese RPG players]]). Furthermore, Ogdensburg is also sometimes known as "Frederic Remington Country" (the manual for ''Wizardry'' noted this). The other main character? ''Frederic''a Irving. (With those in mind, the fifth stratum [[spoiler:Lost Shinjuku]] is an ArtifactName.)

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Based on how the characters are set up (Raquna from Ontario, "from the north", and Arthur and Simon from Gotham (a -- a common nickname for New York City), it would only be logical that Etria is somewhere in the northeastern United States. Why Ogdensburg? That is where Sir-tech Software, the company that created the ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}'' video game series, was headquartered, and was a ''major'' inspiration for EO (and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff was popular amongst many Japanese RPG players]]). Furthermore, Ogdensburg is also sometimes known as "Frederic Remington Country" (the manual for ''Wizardry'' noted this). The other main character? ''Frederic''a Irving. (With those in mind, the fifth stratum [[spoiler:Lost Shinjuku]] is an ArtifactName.)
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[[WMG: ''Millennium Girl'' takes place near Ogdensburg, New York.]]
Based on how the characters are set up (Raquna from Ontario, "from the north", and Arthur and Simon from Gotham (a common nickname for New York City), it would only be logical that Etria is somewhere in the northeastern United States. Why Ogdensburg? That is where Sir-tech Software, the company that created the ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}'' video game series, was headquartered, and was a ''major'' inspiration for EO (and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff was popular amongst many Japanese RPG players]]). Furthermore, Ogdensburg is also sometimes known as "Frederic Remington Country" (the manual for ''Wizardry'' noted this). The other main character? ''Frederic''a Irving. (With those in mind, the fifth stratum [[spoiler:Lost Shinjuku]] is an ArtifactName.)
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[[WMG: The settings of each of the games.]]
''[=EO1=]'' is ''exactly'' where it is; [[spoiler:Lost Shinjuku leaves little doubt as to ''exactly'' where you are]]. Which makes it kind of odd that so many of the new characters added by ''Millennium Girl'' seem to be from North America, but the explicit confirmation is still there, and doubled down on when ''Nexus'' has Persephone describe Etria as a city "to the far east."

Starting in ''[=EO2=]'', things got a little less obvious. However, given the way the new, treated-as-locals classes are dressed (or are literally shaggy bears), the colder climate in general, and being located up in the mountains as a refuge for older, larger cities as per Lagaard's legend, it's often been suspected that Lagaard is located in northern or eastern Europe, in the Ural Mountains, the Alps or maybe even the Scandinavian Mountains. ''Fafnir Knight'' reinforces this a decent bit, with Bertrand's blatantly French last name and Arianna being from the relatively nearby kingdom of "Caledonia" - that being an old name for ''Scotland'', which all leans on the Alps theory. ''Nexus'' has Persephone describe High Lagaard as a "northern Duchy".

''[=EO3=]'' is also not super obvious... by itself. The island itself and the dress of a lot of the inhabitants suggests it's in the Mediterranean, which would also make some sense given the nearby archipelago. ''Fafnir Knight'' also drops the hint that it's located in the general "south", which also could suggest the Mediterranean, though some have taken it as a suggestion it's located further south and possibly in the overall global south, perhaps in the South China Sea, the Philippines or Indonesia. The map, at least, is ''definitely'' the South China Sea, with Hong Kong in the northwest. It is described as being in "the southern seas" in ''Nexus''.

''[=EO4=]'' is perhaps the most "non-obvious" of the main games. [[spoiler:At first. Despite the "European genericness" of Tharsis and the Nordic bent of the Empire's royal family, between the obviously Chinese-inspired second land (particularly the names), the blatantly Japanese names of the third, and the heavily terraced hills in and visible beyond the fourth land, it seems very likely that the Tharsis Yggdrasil is located somewhere on continental Asia, probably either in China itself or on the Indochinese Peninsula.]] Nexus continues making it non-obvious by stating that Tharsis is a "remote city", though airships being confirmed as ancient Lemurian technology does possibly indicate relative closeness between the Tharsis region and Lemuria.

''Nexus'', taking all the above hints regarding the other regions from Persephone into consideration, is likely between Armoroad and Tharsis but kept separate by the violent seas. Lemuria is likely the Philippines, with Armoroad a more general South China Sea and Indonesia and Tharsis the Indochinese Peninsula. Lemuria itself is a rough ring of islands and one of the more prolific enemy types is the Ananas, killer pineapples, while the Philippines are one of the leading producers of pineapples.

The Midgard Library, featured in the ''Untold'' games, likewise has no definite position, but ''Fafnir Knight'' has characters there describe High Lagaard as being to the north and Armoroad to the south, which based on the above Armoroad theories would put it in either central Europe or the Middle East.

Ontario? [[RunningGag It is always definitely Ontario.]]
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[[WMG:There's going to be an ''[[VideoGame/DynastyWarriors Etrian Warriors]]'' (''Sekaiju no Musou'') game.]]

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[[WMG:The upcoming game on Switch will feature map-drawing after all.]]
* The 9.0.0 Switch update introduced a "Stylus" touchscreen sensitivity, thus increasing the likelihood that this new game will retain the cartography mechanic. Of course, this doesn't account for map-drawing in TV mode...
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* {{Jossed}}, Team Etrian is planning out the outline for a Switch-based Etrian Odyssey for the future. Also, you're late, EO is already guest-starring in someone else's gacha game.

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* {{Jossed}}, Team Etrian is planning out the outline for a Switch-based Etrian Odyssey for the future. Also, you're late, EO is already guest-starring in someone else's gacha game.

[[WMG:There's going to be an ''[[VideoGame/DynastyWarriors Etrian Warriors]]'' (''Sekaiju no Musou'')
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Hypnotists: They'd fight using mind control spells on enemies (like the Hexer but much moreso than that), such as making enemies attack themselves or their allies or making them take hits in place of your party. Those spells would should probably only work a percentage of the time (maybe there'd also be a skill that gives Hypnotists a chance to use a mind control spell a second time in a row for free), since that would be too cheap if they succeed all the time on bosses with no chance for them to resist. They'd also inflict ailments that mess with the enemies brain, such as fear, confusion, and sleep, and maybe also stun and blind, too.

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* Hypnotists: They'd fight using mind control spells on enemies (like the Hexer but much moreso than that), such as making enemies attack themselves or their allies or making them take hits in place of your party. Those spells would should probably only work a percentage of the time (maybe there'd also be a skill that gives Hypnotists a chance to use a mind control spell a second time in a row for free), since that would be too cheap if they succeed all the time on bosses with no chance for them to resist. They'd also inflict ailments that mess with the enemies brain, such as fear, confusion, and sleep, and maybe also stun and blind, too.

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* Psychics: Mages that use telekinesis to execute physical attacks. They'd also be able to bypass row-based penalties due to their attacks (even their standard attacks) being ranged. Can also dual-wield.

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* Psychics: Mages that use telekinesis to execute physical attacks. They'd also be able to bypass row-based penalties due to their attacks (even their standard attacks) being ranged. Can also dual-wield. They also have skills that involve creating barriers and directly taking hold of enemies through telekinesis




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* Dragons: They would fight using both claws and bites (powered up by Strength and physical attack), as well as breath attacks (damage determined by Intelligence and magical attack). They'd also have skills that involve flying (from immunity to damage and mud tiles to dodging attacks to lifting enemies in the air and then dropping them).
Hypnotists: They'd fight using mind control spells on enemies (like the Hexer but much moreso than that), such as making enemies attack themselves or their allies or making them take hits in place of your party. Those spells would should probably only work a percentage of the time (maybe there'd also be a skill that gives Hypnotists a chance to use a mind control spell a second time in a row for free), since that would be too cheap if they succeed all the time on bosses with no chance for them to resist. They'd also inflict ailments that mess with the enemies brain, such as fear, confusion, and sleep, and maybe also stun and blind, too.
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[[WMG:[[ImGoingToHellForThis I'm sorry, but]] the "future plans" for the series will be mobile gacha games.]]

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[[WMG:[[ImGoingToHellForThis I'm sorry, but]] the "future plans" for the series will be mobile gacha games.]]]]
* {{Jossed}}, Team Etrian is planning out the outline for a Switch-based Etrian Odyssey for the future. Also, you're late, EO is already guest-starring in someone else's gacha game.
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* As well as to maintain a connection to previous games in the series while making it clear it's going to be much different in terms of gameplay, since it seems like stylus-based touchscreens on game systems (which make the ''Etrian'' non-''Mystery Dungeon'' games possible in the first place) are going to die with the 3DS and Wii U.

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* As well as to maintain a connection to previous games in the series while making it clear it's going to be much different in terms of gameplay, since it seems like stylus-based touchscreens on game systems (which make the ''Etrian'' non-''Mystery Dungeon'' games possible in the first place) are going to die with the 3DS and Wii U.U.

[[WMG:[[ImGoingToHellForThis I'm sorry, but]] the "future plans" for the series will be mobile gacha games.]]
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* As well as to maintain a connection to previous games in the series while making it clear it's going to be much different in terms of gameplay, since it seems like stylus-based touchscreens on game systems are going to die with the 3DS and Wii U.

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* As well as to maintain a connection to previous games in the series while making it clear it's going to be much different in terms of gameplay, since it seems like stylus-based touchscreens on game systems (which make the ''Etrian'' non-''Mystery Dungeon'' games possible in the first place) are going to die with the 3DS and Wii U.
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* Maybe the Sniper/Nightseeker or other class combination that can dual-wield two bows (for their standard attacks) are able to do so by attaching each bow to a mechanism/attachment that enables them to be used like a crossbow?

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* Maybe the Sniper/Nightseeker or other class combination that can dual-wield two bows (for their standard attacks) are able to do so by attaching each bow to a mechanism/attachment that enables them to be used like a crossbow?crossbow?

[[WMG:The non-*DS games will be called ''Yggdrasil Labyrinth'' in the West as a nod to the *DS games' Japanese titles.]]
* As well as to maintain a connection to previous games in the series while making it clear it's going to be much different in terms of gameplay, since it seems like stylus-based touchscreens on game systems are going to die with the 3DS and Wii U.
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[[WMG: Etrian Odyssey 5 actually is on Mars, despite the English translations.]]
It's entirely possible that the humans of Earth had colonized Mars while the Earth was undergoing restoration, and the Arken (having gotten a distress signal from Earth) arrived so late that Earth had been already restored. Since they'd only been given a description of the planet in question, they landed on Mars, which looked the closest to the description they'd been given - and as to what few human survivors of the final boss, they were so shaken and traumatized that they all convinced themselves that going to Mars had all just been a dream.
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* Boosthammerarms: Warriors that use rocket-powered hammers, called "Boost Hammers" (like the ones from the God Eater series), as their weapon of choice. Similar to Drivebladesmen, but their attacks are faster, but weaker, plus they deal blunt damage instead of cut damage. Can use moves like a single fast and powerful attack, multi-hit strikes, tornado attacks (that have splash effects) aided by the rocket, use of the rocket flames to execute a ranged fire attack or set up a heat field that acts as a means of counterattacking, or rocket-enhanced strafes that help dodge enemies more often.

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* Boosthammerarms: Warriors that use rocket-powered hammers, called "Boost Hammers" (like the ones from the God Eater series), as their weapon of choice. Similar to Drivebladesmen, but their attacks are faster, but weaker, plus they deal blunt damage instead of cut damage. Can use moves like a single fast and powerful attack, multi-hit strikes, tornado attacks (that have splash effects) aided by the rocket, use of the rocket flames to execute a ranged fire attack or set up a heat field that acts as a means of counterattacking, or rocket-enhanced strafes that help dodge enemies more often.
often. They could also have slots on the striking end of the head that can hold an explosive rocket that explodes when the hammer strikes an enemy.
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* As mentioned in one sidequest, he has a family. It's quite possible that they one day went camping or hiking, got attacked by a monster or two, and Egar had to defend his family from them. His kids, awed at his combat prowess, affectionately started referring to him as "Stabdaddy" and it's stuck ever since.

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* As mentioned in one sidequest, he has a family. It's quite possible that they one day went camping or hiking, got attacked by a monster or two, and Egar had to defend his family from them. His kids, awed at his combat prowess, affectionately started referring to him as "Stabdaddy" and it's stuck ever since.since.

[[WMG:How party members can dual-wield bows.]]
* Maybe the Sniper/Nightseeker or other class combination that can dual-wield two bows (for their standard attacks) are able to do so by attaching each bow to a mechanism/attachment that enables them to be used like a crossbow?
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* Indirectly Jossed; there won't be a ''3 Untold''.
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*** Well, it's more implied than anything. ''Cross'' is stated to be the final ''3DS'' game and unless Atlus somehow finds a way to make ''Etrian Odyssey'' work on a successive platform right down to the iconic mapmaking, or is somehow [[LyingCreator lying]], ''3 Untold'' is exceedingly unlikely.

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* Psychics: Mages that use telekinesis to execute physical attacks. They'd also be able to bypass row-based penalties due to their attacks (even their standard attacks) being ranged. Can also dual-wield.
* Vampires: a new race-based class that heals the HP and TP of themselves and their allies by stealing energy from enemies or transferring energy between party members.
* Boosthammerarms: Warriors that use rocket-powered hammers, called "Boost Hammers" (like the ones from the God Eater series), as their weapon of choice. Similar to Drivebladesmen, but their attacks are faster, but weaker, plus they deal blunt damage instead of cut damage. Can use moves like a single fast and powerful attack, multi-hit strikes, tornado attacks (that have splash effects) aided by the rocket, use of the rocket flames to execute a ranged fire attack or set up a heat field that acts as a means of counterattacking, or rocket-enhanced strafes that help dodge enemies more often.
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*** Well, it's more implied than anything. ''Cross'' is stated to be the final ''3DS'' game and unless Atlus somehow finds a way to make ''Etrian Odyssey'' work on a successive platform right down to the iconic mapmaking, ''3 Untold'' is exceedingly unlikely.

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*** Well, it's more implied than anything. ''Cross'' is stated to be the final ''3DS'' game and unless Atlus somehow finds a way to make ''Etrian Odyssey'' work on a successive platform right down to the iconic mapmaking, or is somehow [[LyingCreator lying]], ''3 Untold'' is exceedingly unlikely.
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*** Well, it's more implied than anything. ''Cross'' is stated to be the final ''3DS'' game and unless Atlus somehow finds a way to make ''Etrian Odyssey'' work on a successive platform right down to the iconic mapmaking, ''3 Untold'' is exceedingly unlikely.
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* Indirectly Jossed; there won't be a ''3 Untold''.




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* Indirectly Jossed; there won't be a ''3 Untold''.
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* He has a family, and it's quite possible that they one day went camping or hiking, got attacked by a monster or two, and Egar had to defend his family from them. His kids, awed at his combat prowess, affectionately started referring to him as "Stabdaddy" and it's stuck ever since.

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* He As mentioned in one sidequest, he has a family, and it's family. It's quite possible that they one day went camping or hiking, got attacked by a monster or two, and Egar had to defend his family from them. His kids, awed at his combat prowess, affectionately started referring to him as "Stabdaddy" and it's stuck ever since.

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