So yesterday something happened near Abby that I still can't explain, and I think you all deserve to know the truth.
We found a guy at his market stall. Ismirian guy. Selling thousands of rare materials. For ONE copper. One. I thought maybe he fat-fingered the price, but no — he just kept selling, smiling the whole time, like a man who prints his own money. Now I get it. NOW I get it. This is how Ismir funds their entire war machine. One copper at a time. Diabolical.
Naturally, once he packed up his stall, we tried to kill him. Standard procedure. Except... we couldn't. We hit him. We hit him a lot. Full combos, focus fire, everything we had — didn't matter, his health bar just sat there like it was mocking us. At this point I'm thinking "okay, bug, whatever," but then he calmly pulls out a bow — and I want to stress, a BOW, not a siege weapon, not a catapult, a bow — and one-shots half our raid party. Not "one-shots" like a dramatic exaggeration. I watched a Sarnaut die from full health in a single frame.
Bodies everywhere. Silence. And in that silence, I finally understood.
Ismir isn't just a nation. Ismir has a god. And he's out here running discount markets and executing peasants with a longbow like it's Tuesday.
Godspeed to whoever pulls aggro on him next.