SPOILERS SERIOUSLY!!! Watchtower and corpses...

[RandomWanderer]

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Was anyone else FREAKED OUT by all the starborn CORPSES on the other side of the Armillary?

Torin said he thinks starborn just move to another universe when they die.
If he really believed that, then why didn't he suicide out of the Watchrower prison, instead of suffering their abuse for 8 months? If he believed that then why was he SO messed up by the death of his starborn friend?

Then I remember that his friend didnt immediately turn to stardust upon death. His friend actually lost half their head and died a real death.

Then I remember what I witnessed on the other side of the armillary. All those starborn corpses... Like those starborn are trapped - actually dead - and unable to ever disperse like normal?!

Assuming Sirrick was intentional with having actual corpses of starborn, and didnt just forget that Starborn turn to dust.... just wow. I hope he is going somewhere with that lore-defying revelation!

So now I'm wondering if that's why Torin didn't escape Warchtower by simply star-dusting himself... But would he even know that Watchtowers power suppression would make him "proper dead" if he tried it?

The whole thing just needs exploration and explanation to be honest.

 

[Aroarachnid]

i think the reason he didnt dust himself was because he wasn't one hundred percent sure if he was right about starborn jumping to another universe when he dies. at the start of watchtower, its just a theory he has. its only later confirmed by the watchtower database. so thats why i think he didnt try it? i dunno. maybe he just didnt get the opportunity. its a bit of a morbid thing to do even if you know youll survive.
but yeah, watchtowers apparent ability to perma kill starborn is terrifying

 

[RandomWanderer]

i think the reason he didnt dust himself was because he wasn't one hundred percent sure if he was right about starborn jumping to another universe when he dies. at the start of watchtower, its just a theory he has. its only later confirmed by the watchtower database. so thats why i think he didnt try it? i dunno. maybe he just didnt get the opportunity. its a bit of a morbid thing to do even if you know youll survive.
but yeah, watchtowers apparent ability to perma kill starborn is terrifying

Wait... the Watchtower database confirmed that starborn jump to other universes when they die? Where was that? I read and clicked on everything (I think) and didn't come across that.

 

[Aroarachnid]

Wait... the Watchtower database confirmed that starborn jump to other universes when they die? Where was that? I read and clicked on everything (I think) and didn't come across that.

its under "why do watchtower try to capture starborn".
they answer that they do not kill starborn, because "doing so would not remove the threat, but merely transfer the problem to another universe."