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''The Adventure Zone: Ethersea'' is a [[ScienceFantasy Science Fantasy]] themed arc of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'' podcast featuring the Creator/McElroyBrothers (Justin, Travis, and Griffin) and their father Clint. The arc started with a five-part prologue using the map-making game [[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjJ3sK1zMDyAhVPn-AKHTBTAJYQFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fburiedwithoutceremony.com%2Fthe-quiet-year&usg=AOvVaw39R6KZnxM_ggvMpr_Anx8r The Quiet Year]] by Avery Alder to build the setting beyond its bare bones description, while the main campaign in and of itself is played in [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition]]. Griffin is the DungeonMaster; the other three play as Bard Devo [=LeMain=] (Travis), Ranger Zoox (Clint), and Monk Amber Gris (Justin).

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''The Adventure Zone: Ethersea'' is a [[ScienceFantasy Science Fantasy]] themed arc of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'' podcast featuring the Creator/McElroyBrothers (Justin, Travis, and Griffin) and their father Clint. The arc started with a five-part prologue using the map-making game [[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjJ3sK1zMDyAhVPn-AKHTBTAJYQFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fburiedwithoutceremony.com%2Fthe-quiet-year&usg=AOvVaw39R6KZnxM_ggvMpr_Anx8r The Quiet Year]] by Avery Alder to build the setting beyond its bare bones description, while the main campaign in and of itself is played in [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition]]. Griffin is the DungeonMaster; the other three play as Bard Devo [=LeMain=] [=La Main=] (Travis), Ranger Zoox (Clint), and Monk Amber Gris (Justin).
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* TheOldGods: [[Cambria, a giant flatworm beneath the water who claims to be the ancestor of all life. It was the one who summoned the citizens of Founder's Wake underwater in the first place, although its plan to have them live with it didn't end up working out.]]

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* TheOldGods: [[Cambria, [[spoiler: Cambria, a giant flatworm beneath the water who claims to be the ancestor of all life. It was the one who summoned the citizens of Founder's Wake underwater in the first place, although its plan to have them live with it didn't end up working out.]]
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* OldFriends: Amber and Kodeira were friends on the shoreside 25-years-ago, but after Amber fell in with Joshy's crowd and Kodeira became a Ballaster, they've grown apart.

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* OldFriends: OldFriend: Amber and Kodeira were friends on the shoreside 25-years-ago, but after Amber fell in with Joshy's crowd and Kodeira became a Ballaster, they've grown apart.

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* UnfortunateName: The Biggest Baby, the ship that defends the city, often elicits laughter when the name is brought up. [[spoiler: Koda, the vestige who inhabits the ship, despises the name.]] It was originally going to be called The Big Baby, but when an effort was made to change the name, it got even worse.



* WeUsedToBeFriends: Amber and Shret were "practically raised together", along with a third friend, Kimbra. [[spoilers: Kimbra began to use a drug called grotto and became violent with Amber and her little brother one night, before she disappeared.]] Shret now deals grotto, which Amber strongly disapproves of, and their relationship is openly hostile.

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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Amber and Shret were "practically raised together", along with a third friend, Kimbra. [[spoilers: [[spoiler: Kimbra began to use a drug called grotto and became violent with Amber and her little brother one night, before she disappeared.]] Shret now deals grotto, which Amber strongly disapproves of, and their relationship is openly hostile.

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* OldFriends: Amber and Kodeira were friends on the shoreside 25-years-ago, but after Amber fell in with Joshy's crowd and Kodeira became a Ballaster, they've grown apart.



* PiecesOfGod: Koda was a Vestige who was killed long ago on the shoreside where the prologue takes place. His body became a metal called kodite, which was used to create a ship called [[UnfortunateName The Biggest Baby]]. [[spoiler: His consciousness inhabits the ship, and he is able to speak directly to, and sometimes possess, those who work aboard it.]]

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* PiecesOfGod: Koda was a Vestige who was killed long ago on the shoreside where the prologue takes place. His The pieces of his body became a metal called kodite, which was used to create a ship called [[UnfortunateName The Biggest Baby]]. [[spoiler: His consciousness inhabits the ship, and he is able to speak directly to, and sometimes possess, those who work aboard it.]]



* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The focus of the prologue is how the people of four very different nations must come together to create a new society for the sake of the world's survival. While the crisis gives them a common goal and forces them to work together, there's also a lot of culture clash, not helped by the fact that most citizens don't exactly have a lot of faith in the Council they instilled to try and keep things somewhat in order.
* YoungAndInCharge: It's [[VagueAge unclear]] exactly how old the Boyar Hermine is, but she's introduced as a "young girl" in the prologue who nonetheless quickly accumulates a lot of influence in the community, to the point where she's able to dissolve the increasingly-inefficient Council and begin the process of forming a new government with basically no hassle.


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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The focus of the prologue is how the people of four very different nations must come together to create a new society for the sake of the world's survival. While the crisis gives them a common goal and forces them to work together, there's also a lot of culture clash, not helped by the fact that most citizens don't exactly have a lot of faith in the Council they instilled to try and keep things somewhat in order.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Amber and Shret were "practically raised together", along with a third friend, Kimbra. [[spoilers: Kimbra began to use a drug called grotto and became violent with Amber and her little brother one night, before she disappeared.]] Shret now deals grotto, which Amber strongly disapproves of, and their relationship is openly hostile.
* YoungAndInCharge: It's [[VagueAge unclear]] exactly how old the Boyar Hermine is, but she's introduced as a "young girl" in the prologue who nonetheless quickly accumulates a lot of influence in the community, to the point where she's able to dissolve the increasingly-inefficient Council and begin the process of forming a new government with basically no hassle.
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* HunterOfMonsters: Amber, as with all the members of Ol' Joshy's school, considers blink sharks her sworn enemy and hopes to eliminate them entirely. [[spoiler: She succeeds [[AnotherDimension: (in this dimension, at least)]].]]

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* HunterOfMonsters: Amber, as with all the members of Ol' Joshy's school, considers blink sharks her sworn enemy and hopes to eliminate them entirely. [[spoiler: She succeeds [[AnotherDimension: [[AnotherDimension (in this dimension, at least)]].]]
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* HunterOfMonsters: Amber, as with all the members of Ol' Joshy's school, considers Blink Sharks her sworn enemy and hopes to eliminate them entirely. [[spoiler: She succeeds (in this dimension, at least).]]

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* HunterOfMonsters: Amber, as with all the members of Ol' Joshy's school, considers Blink Sharks blink sharks her sworn enemy and hopes to eliminate them entirely. [[spoiler: She succeeds [[AnotherDimension: (in this dimension, at least).least)]].]]



* [[spoiler: LongLostRelative: The Auctioneer, the mysterious figure who ran the Abyssal Auction, turns out to be a young man named Tolliver Cern. In the finale, Devo reveals to Tolliver that he is also a Cern; how exactly they're related is still unclear.]]

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* [[spoiler: LongLostRelative: The Auctioneer, the mysterious figure who ran the Abyssal Auction, turns out to be a young man named Tolliver Cern, the long-lost son of the Ballasteer Declan Cern. In the finale, Devo reveals to Tolliver that he is also a Cern; how exactly they're related is still unclear.]]



** Amber and Zoox have sea related names. "Ambergris" is a whale biproduct, while Zoox (a coral robot man) is named for Zooxanthellae, a type of plankton that has a symbiotic relationship with coral.

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** Amber and Zoox have sea related sea-related names. "Ambergris" is a whale biproduct, byproduct, while Zoox (a coral robot man) is named for Zooxanthellae, a type of plankton that has a symbiotic relationship with coral.



* PiecesOfGod: Koda was a Vestige who was killed long ago on the shoreside where the prologue takes place. His body became a metal called Kodite, which was used to create a ship called [[UnfortunateName The Biggest Baby]]. [[spoiler: His consciousness inhabits the ship, and he is able to speak directly to, and sometimes possess, those who work aboard it.]]

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* PiecesOfGod: Koda was a Vestige who was killed long ago on the shoreside where the prologue takes place. His body became a metal called Kodite, kodite, which was used to create a ship called [[UnfortunateName The Biggest Baby]]. [[spoiler: His consciousness inhabits the ship, and he is able to speak directly to, and sometimes possess, those who work aboard it.]]
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* [[spoiler: AlternateTimeline: By repeating the Call into the past and adding a message to Orlean to bring his family, Devo accidentally splits the timeline in two. In this new timeline, Orlean never joined the church, and his mistreatment of Devo never made him leave, so he remains the Hand of Devotion while Amber and Zoox perished on their first mission without him.]]



* DeityOfHumanOrigin: The Vestiges were once ordinary people from another world who fell into this one. [[spoiler: In the finale, Amber and Kodeira jump through a portal [[HistoryRepeats and become the gods of the next world]].]]



* GodIsFlawed: The Vestiges
* HunterOfMonsters: Amber, as with all the members of Ol' Joshy's school, considers Blink Sharks her sworn enemy and hopes to eliminate them entirely. [[spoiler: She succeeds (in this dimension, at least).]]



* [[spoiler: LongLostRelative: The Auctioneer, the mysterious figure who ran the Abyssal Auction, turns out to be a young man named Tolliver Cern. In the finale, Devo reveals to Tolliver that he is also a Cern; how exactly they're related is still unclear.]]



* TheOldGods: [[Cambria, a giant flatworm beneath the water who claims to be the ancestor of all life. It was the one who summoned the citizens of Founder's Wake underwater in the first place, although its plan to have them live with it didn't end up working out.]]
* PiecesOfGod: Koda was a Vestige who was killed long ago on the shoreside where the prologue takes place. His body became a metal called Kodite, which was used to create a ship called [[UnfortunateName The Biggest Baby]]. [[spoiler: His consciousness inhabits the ship, and he is able to speak directly to, and sometimes possess, those who work aboard it.]]



** Zoox is simply said to be "not very old." Amber later says he "just woke up" and he doesn't dispute it, hinting he may have only gained consciousness in the last few weeks.

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** Zoox is simply said to be "not very old." Amber later says he "just woke up" and he doesn't dispute it, hinting he may have only gained consciousness in the last few weeks.weeks.
* YouNoTakeCandle: [[spoiler: The blink sharks talk like this, likely because their language or way of processing reality is completely foreign to Zoox, the one who cast the spell that let him speak to them. That's because they're from another dimension.]]
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This information was later revealed to be untrue; in Zoox's case, he was never an Einarr spirit, he's instead "something new".


** Zoox is simply said to be "not very old." Amber later says he "just woke up" and he doesn't dispute it, hinting he may have only gained consciousness in the last few weeks. The fact that he's a Brinearr and made up of several souls makes the matter of his age even more murky.

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** Zoox is simply said to be "not very old." Amber later says he "just woke up" and he doesn't dispute it, hinting he may have only gained consciousness in the last few weeks. The fact that he's a Brinearr and made up of several souls makes the matter of his age even more murky.

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