History Fridge / EmpiresSMP

* One of Lizzie's defenses for Critter City is a moat as she considers water to be "a powerful way to keep evil at bay". This works five-fold -- it can be [[PsychologicalProjection playing on]] how CatsHateWater, moats historically being used as measures of defense around castles as protection from siege weapons, the traditional belief that supernatural beings CannotCrossRunningWater, ''and'' a possible reference to the fact that the Ocean Empire, being built in the middle of the sea, is the most spared from Xornoth and his Corruption back in Season 1, enough for Lizzie the Ocean Queen to go about her business and personal character arc without dipping her toes into the wider server lore. The latter may double as a nod to Lizzie's Season 1 incarnation.

* It's revealed by WordOfGod after the season that Sausage, for some reason, doesn't exist in Scott's PersonalizedAfterlife. With the revelation of Sausage's post-Season 1 fate in Season 2, it makes perfect sense -- Sausage went to a ''different'' Afterlife and technically never died between ''Empires'' Season 1 and the ALSMP, so he'd have no reason to end up in the afterlife Scott ended up.

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!!General
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* The cycle of Aeor and Exor and their Champions has continued for centuries, possibly even millennia, before even Season 1 -- the relevant prophecy even describes it to be "an ''endless'' battle since the beginning of time". As Season 1 marks the end of another life-cycle, what's to say that the two gods wouldn't have ''new'' Champions in the years to follow? And while the characters of Season 2 are distanced to the events of Season 1, the cycle might be continuing into the new season as [[HeroOfAnotherStory Heroes and]] [[VillainOfAnotherStory Villains of Another Story]].
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!!Season 1
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* Jimmy using cod as a food source in his earliest episodes might be chalked up to a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, but cod ''is'' a cannibalistic type of fish in the natural world, which might help explain whatever ethics are involved in the issue.

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* Jimmy's perspective of the Rapture ends with him fleeing from his empire with his pets, declaring himself unworthy of his titles. Since Lizzie lost her memories after the oceans drained as a result of a certain prophecy, and the ''swamp'' similarly drained itself of most of its water, it's entirely possible that unless he made it to deeper water, Jimmy succumbed to the same DeathOfPersonality as his older sister off-screen.
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* In the finale, since a majority of the Empires rulers end up fleeing from their lands, forcibly or voluntarily, they may never know that several among them ''died'' during the Rapture even if they survive AfterTheEnd.
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!!Season 2
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%%* In the duel between the two iterations of Sausage, Dark Sausage is seen using a version of the Staff of Sanctuary made from dark oak wood. It's possibly just a DarkIsEvil shorthand, but Dark Sausage ''is'' a LiteralSplitPersonality of Season 1 Sausage, who ruled over a kingdom in the ''dark oak'' forest. Meanwhile, Protector Sausage's staff of lighter wood could be ''jungle'' wood, which Sanctuary is located in.
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** With the finale's revelation that the main antagonistic authority figure was secretly evil, it's likely that the Soot Witches pulled some strings in policy-making, especially since the sequel LetsPlay/WitchCraftSMP depicts witches' society without some of the aforementioned traits, e.g. some characters are self-taught witches.

* In the duel between the two iterations of Sausage, Dark Sausage is seen using a version of the Staff of Sanctuary made from dark oak wood. It's possibly just a DarkIsEvil shorthand, but Dark Sausage ''is'' a LiteralSplitPersonality of Season 1 Sausage, who ruled over a kingdom in the ''dark oak'' forest. Meanwhile, Protector Sausage's staff of lighter wood could be ''jungle'' wood, which Sanctuary is located in.

* By the end of Season 1, less than half of the contents of ''The Book Of Prophecies, Past & Future'' had been revealed, and most of the prophecies were still yet to be fulfilled, implying a SequelHook. Though it turns out most of those pages are blank, there's a fairly obvious ''in-universe'' reason for the book being irrelevant to Season 2--[[DistantSequel the two seasons take place many years apart from each other]], possibly over a ''millennium''. Since about a dozen prophecies have taken place over the course of Season 1 alone, the remaining prophecies have most likely already taken their course in the time gap between the seasons.

* The tenth prophecy in ''The Book of Prophecies, Past & Future'' reads that "An Empire that commemorates the fallen will be blessed by bountiful luck." As of Season 1, Pixandria is home to [[DueToTheDead The Vigil]], which is indeed used as a monument to the fallen... and also happens to be the only Empire spared from the ApocalypseHow in the season finale--or at least never had its fate revealed, meaning there's still hope that Pixandra might have been spared while all the other empires were devastated.

* Jimmy using cod as a food source in his earliest episodes might be chalked up to a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, but cod ''can'' be a cannibalistic type of fish in the natural world--or at least, Atlantic cod can be a cannibalistic species, which might help explain whatever ethics are involved in the issue.

* One may argue the fact that in spite of prophecies having a recurring intricate connection to the season's plotlines, it is odd that no one actively attempts to defy them. However, it's subtly suggested in Scott's perspective of events that ''Empires'' takes place in the same continuity as Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium, and one of the quintessential elements of ''that'' series is that only Men, and by extension, Hobbits, are able to forge their own destinies as mortals. In ''Empires'', upon closer examination, the characters whose arcs are ''defined'' by prophecies are all non-humans, most notably a pair of demigod/sea monster siblings and a pair of Elf siblings. Is it any wonder that YouCantFightFate is mandated for them to the point ''no one'' brings up the possibility of [[ScrewDestiny telling destiny to shove it]]?

* It's revealed by WordOfGod after the season that Sausage, for some reason, doesn't exist in Scott's PersonalizedAfterlife. With the revelation of Sausage's post-Season 1 fate in Season 2, it makes perfect sense--Sausage went to a ''different'' Afterlife and technically never died between ''Empires'' Season 1 and the ALSMP, so he'd have no reason to end up in the afterlife Scott ended up.

* One of Lizzie's defenses for Critter City is a moat as she considers water to be "a powerful way to keep evil at bay". This works five-fold--it can be [[PsychologicalProjection playing on]] how CatsHateWater, moats historically being used as measures of defense around castles as protection from siege weapons, the traditional belief that supernatural beings CannotCrossRunningWater, ''and'' a possible reference to the fact that the Ocean Empire, being built in the middle of the sea, is the most spared from Xornoth and his Corruption back in Season 1, enough for Lizzie the Ocean Queen to go about her business and personal character arc without dipping her toes into the wider server lore. The latter may double as a nod to Lizzie's Season 1 incarnation.

* The story of the jeweled skull: Scott heard about the ancient temple containing it, and that there were many other adventurers that have tried to tackle the temple but failed to so. That in itself is already pretty terrifying, since the presence of booby traps there implies that some people have ''died'' trying to retrieve the artifact. And then there's the skull itself--while whatever sources Scott heard about it from claimed the skull has two jeweled eyes, it actually only had ''one'', which begs the question: did someone ''else'' get their hands on the skull before him? If that happened, did ''they'' lose or gain an eye in the process?

* One of Lizzie's defenses for Critter City is a moat as she considers water to be "a powerful way to keep evil at bay". This works four-fold--it can be [[PsychologicalProjection playing on]] how CatsHateWater, moats historically being used as measures of defense around castles as protection from siege weapons, the traditional belief that supernatural beings CannotCrossRunningWater, ''and'' a possible reference to the fact that the Ocean Empire, being built in the middle of the sea, is the most spared from Xornoth and his Corruption back in Season 1, enough for Lizzie the Ocean Queen to go about her business and personal character arc without dipping her toes into the wider server lore.

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* One of Lizzie's defenses for Critter City is a moat as she considers water to be "a powerful way to keep evil at bay". This works in several ways--it can be [[PsychologicalProjection playing on]] how CatsHateWater, moats historically being used as measures of defense around castles as protection from siege weapons, ''and'' the traditional belief that supernatural beings CannotCrossRunningWater.

* Lizzie's youthful appearance despite being allegedly ReallySevenHundredYearsOld can be attributed to the fact that she's a blue ''axolotl''. Axolotls have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl#Neoteny neoteny]], i.e. mature adults never go through metamorphosis and retain gills under normal circumstances. This possibly applies to Jimmy as well, as the two are sea-blings even if he is associated with cod rather than axolotls.
* The tenth prophecy in ''The Book of Prophecies, Past & Future'' reads that "An Empire that commemorates the fallen will be blessed by bountiful luck." As of Season 1, Pixandria is home to [[DueToTheDead The Vigil]], which is indeed used as a monument to the fallen... and also happens to be the only Empire spared from the ApocalypseHow in the season finale -- or at least never had its fate revealed, meaning there's still hope that Pixandra might have been spared while all the other empires were devastated.

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* A lot of the lore surrounding the Sea-blings is pretty horrifying in itself.
** According to one of Lizzie's letters, the salmon "invading the ocean" caused Jimmy to no longer "be the same". Exactly ''what'' happened to Jimmy that was bad enough for Lizzie to "venture onto the land" to find the source of the salmon issue?
** Moreover, the prophecy in relation to them states that "should [the Sea-blings] leave the ocean behind, they are [[LaserGuidedAmnesia doomed to forget their true self and their past]]". Since ''both'' Sea-blings lost their memories, it implies that Jimmy, for whatever reason, decide to follow Lizzie onto the land.
*** Jimmy's perspective of the Rapture ends with him fleeing from his empire with his pets, declaring himself unworthy of his titles. Since Lizzie lost her memories after the oceans drained, and the ''swamp'' similarly drained itself of most of its water, it's entirely possible that unless he made it to deeper water, Jimmy succumbed to the same DeathOfPersonality as his older sister off-screen.

** He probably realizes this soon afterward, since he's quickly revealed to have become vegetarian.

!!Season 1

* Lizzie's youthful appearance despite being allegedly ReallySevenHundredYearsOld can be attributed to the fact that she's a blue ''axolotl''. Axolotls have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl#Neoteny neoteny]], i.e. mature adults never go through metamorphosis and retain gills under normal circumstances. This possibly applies to Jimmy as well, as the two are sea-blings even if he is associated with cod rather than axolotls.
* The tenth prophecy in ''The Book of Prophecies, Past & Future'' reads that "An Empire that commemorates the fallen will be blessed by bountiful luck." As of Season 1, Pixandria is home to [[DueToTheDead The Vigil]], which is indeed used as a monument to the fallen... and also happens to be the only Empire spared from the ApocalypseHow in the season finale -- or at least never had its fate revealed, meaning there's still hope that Pixandra might have been spared while all the other empires were devastated.

* A lot of the lore surrounding the Sea-blings is pretty horrifying in itself.
** According to one of Lizzie's letters, the salmon "invading the ocean" caused Jimmy to no longer "be the same". Exactly ''what'' happened to Jimmy that was bad enough for Lizzie to "venture onto the land" to find the source of the salmon issue?
** Moreover, the prophecy in relation to them states that "should [the Sea-blings] leave the ocean behind, they are [[LaserGuidedAmnesia doomed to forget their true self and their past]]". Since ''both'' Sea-blings lost their memories, it implies that Jimmy, for whatever reason, decide to follow Lizzie onto the land.
*** Jimmy's perspective of the Rapture ends with him fleeing from his empire with his pets, declaring himself unworthy of his titles. Since Lizzie lost her memories after the oceans drained, and the ''swamp'' similarly drained itself of most of its water, it's entirely possible that unless he made it to deeper water, Jimmy succumbed to the same DeathOfPersonality as his older sister off-screen.

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* In the finale, since a majority of the Empires rulers end up fleeing from their lands, forcibly or voluntarily, they may never know that several among them ''died'' during the Rapture even if they survive AfterTheEnd.

!!Season 2
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* Shelby's expulsion from the Great Witches Academy caused the Council of Witches to revoke her ability to officially use magic. Is ''that'' the central authority on magic-users? Are there no other magic schools that can accept her, or no Great Witches that are willing to take her on as an apprentice of sorts? How can witches' society be structured so that the moment someone gets kicked out of school, the moment they're no longer allowed to use their abilities?
%%** Shelby has also confirmed after the episode that witches who continue to practise magic without the Council's permission are to be "sent to witch prison".

* In Season 2, Shelby's expulsion from the Great Witches Academy caused the Council of Witches to revoke her ability to officially use magic. Is ''that'' the central authority on magic-users? Are there no other magic schools that can accept her, or no Great Witches that are willing to take her on as an apprentice of sorts? How can witches' society be structured so that the moment someone gets kicked out of school, the moment they're no longer allowed to use their abilities?

*** Jimmy's perspective of the Rapture ends with him fleeing from his empire with his pets, declaring himself unworthy of his titles. Since Lizzie lost her memories after the oceans drained, and the ''swamp'' similarly drained itself of most of its water, it's entirely possible that Jimmy succumbed to the same DeathOfPersonality as his older sister off-screen.