The World of Eora: an Avowed + Pillars of Eternity Lore Podcast

THE WORLD OF EORA is a news/lore podcast about the Pillars of Eternity games, as well as Obsidian Entertainment's upcoming release, AVOWED.

Today's episode we take a look at one of the unique races that exist within Obsidian's original fantasy setting, Eora: AUMAUA.

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"The World of Eora" is a news/lore podcast about Obsidian Entertainment's 'Pillars of Eternity' games, as well as their upcoming release: Avowed.

As part of a continuing and sporadic series I am doing focusing on looking at the lore related to character creation from Pillars of Eternity, we are looking (today) at one of the Class choices we have in the game: Paladins.

For those experienced in the fantasy RPG genre, a paladin is a familiar character class for us. For those uninitiated, they're usually the highly charismatic and heavily armoured holy warrior/knight character in games. The fascinating thing about Paladins in their history/origin, because as you can imagine, if you have a dedicated group of people who are zealous for a cause/king/creator that have continued existing for decades (if not centuries); then you can be fairly certain they have an interesting story behind them.

and the World of Eora is no different. Join me today as we overview the main Paladin oaths/orders in Obsidian's original fantasy setting: Eora.

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THE WORLD OF EORA is a news & lore podcast about Pillars of Eternity, and Obisidan Entertainment's upcoming release: AVOWED.

In today's episode, we dive into how magic works in the world of Eora, so that we can better understand (a) the mechanics of this world, and (b) how spellcasting classes actually cast spells. This will be especially helpful when we get to talking about some of the classes in Obsidian's fantasy RPG.

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The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about Obisidian Entertainment's fantasy world, EORA, as experienced in the Pillars of Eternity games, *and* in their upcoming Xbox/PC exclusive release, AVOWED.

Today's episode focuses on the Beast of Winter, aka: Rymrgand (ree-myr-gahnd). Seeing as how winter is in full swing for many of us, it seemed a fitting episode to do. I would have done a Christmas episode, but there is no Christmas in Eora (there is, however, a "Winter's End" holiday; but that more akin to a New Years holiday).

ANYWAYS! There is a lot of good, deep lore when looking at Rymrgand. [[[WARNING]]] There *is* spoilers in this episode, BUT I do give you a heads up when they occur.

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The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast exploring the fantasy world for Pillars of Eternity I & II; as well as Obsidian Entertainment's upcoming release: Avowed.

Today's episode focuses on exploring the main nations that exist in Eora, both "today" and in ancient history past. This episode helps to give context to those who find themselves lost amidst all the different nations and proper names I mention throughout other episodes.

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The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast for the Pillars of Eternity video games, as well as the upcoming game release, Avowed. All of which are developed by Obsidian Entertainment. Pillars of Eternity (I & II) is an isometric dark fantasy RPG set in the fantasy world of Eora; Avowed is (speculatively) a first-person open-world ARPG set in the same world. In preparation for Avowed's release, this podcast aims to bring everyone up to date on the canon lore of the world of Eora, as well as geek out about a fantasy world many of us love. Today's episode is on the Elves of Eora.

In Pillars, and likely Avowed, we get to interact with a character customization tool to sculpt the person we play through the games' narratives in. While we don't know what options will be available in Avowed, we can look to Pillars of Eternity to see what might be available. This way, when the game releases, we might better know what kind of character we want to build - getting you into the game's story and mechanics even faster ;)

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As AVOWED continues to undergo development at Obsidian Entertainment I wondered "what will the character creation choices be" and then I thought after that: "hey, that's a good episode idea", so here we are.

In most fantasy games you'll have an in-depth character creation menu, and Pillars of Eternity is no different. Today's episode (sorry it's a couple days later than normal) dives into the lore of one of the racial selections available in PoE: GODLIKE.

Hopefully the Godlike are available as a race selection for Avowed, as they are not only fascinating people, existentially; but they also look badass, which is always a plus.

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My friend told me I need to be more SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly. So here goes: AVOWED AVOWED AVOWED OBSIDIAN PILLARS OF ETERNITY LORE PODCAST WOEDICA AVOWED EORA JOSH SAWYER AVOWED EORA OATHBINDER. There.

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//fyi: while it likely will help with SEO, I was mostly doing it just to be humourous...

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Now that that's out of the way, what is today's episode about?

WOEDICA, is one of the eleven deities of Eora, and she plays a critical role (more SEO for you) in the first and second Pillars of Eternity games. AS WELL, her presence is indicated throughout the Avowed Reveal Trailer that Obisidan released waaaaay back in the summer of last year. So *likely* we will be seeing Woedica, or factions that serve Woedica, in Avowed's narrative. So, that being said, the more we know about Woedica and her followers, the more we can speculate on Avowed's story/setting.

Want some evidence of this? At the end of Avowed's reveal trailer we see a sword; on that sword are Aedyran runes which spell out the word "Oathbinder", which is one of the many names attributed to the goddess of justice, herself: Woedica.

Hope you enjoy today's episode! Some podcast updates at the end of the episode as well. Hey, this episode releases on Halloween...maybe I should've done something gimmicky for that...oh well. Enjoy this Eoran lore episode while trick-or-treatin' (if you're even allowed to in your area, that is).

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The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the Pillars of Eternity games, as well as Obsidian Entertainment's upcoming RPG release, Avowed. We aim to explore the fantasy world for these games, Eora.

This episode is solely a news episode! There's been a lot of buzz in Pillars and Avowed circles lately regarding the windowscentral.com article Jez Corden wrote. In this episode we do an overview of it to see what's a-happenin'.

the article: Details on Xbox exclusive Avowed: The Outer Worlds meets medieval fantasy | Windows Central

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The World of Eora is a lore (and sometimes news) podcast about Pillars of Eternity, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, and Obisidian Entertainment's upcoming release: Avowed. All three of these games use Eora as the fantasy world they are played in. This podcast explores that world.

Today we finally reach the end of our series exploring "Dyrwood", which is the setting for the first Pillars of Eternity game. There also is precedent/speculation that Avowed *could* be set in Dyrwood. Nothing definitive of course, and I know the consensus amongst many is that the game is set in the Living Lands **but** this is all still rumour, so who knows.

Today's episode wraps up the Dyrwood by looking at the people, their society, the major faiths practiced, and their cultural values. After these past five episodes you can enter into the first Pillars game with a firm foundation of the game's setting.

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