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Astrid Boons
🕑 Added 2025-07-12 19:22:17 +0000 UTCHello! I'm writing and thinking at the moment, and I'm guessing that we're... maybe 20-30 chapters away from Astrid hitting level 16? Honestly, I have no idea. But anyways. At that point, I'll be giving Astrid the Great One's boon. I have a couple ideas, some of which are listed below. If you like any of them, say as much. If you have your own ideas, let me know. I'm pretty flexible with this, though which possibilities get offered and what she chooses will be a little up in the air haha.
Anyways. Thank you for caring about my book, and I hope you continue to enjoy! I'm a little behind on today's chapter, maybe by a couple hours. Depends on how edits go.
Edit: per a received comment, here’s a little bit of additional information. For the racial sublimation, this would mean that she gets six additional attribute points that she can choose into which attributes they are applied. For example, she could put two each into power, fortitude, and alacrity. The other six that she gets from her race already, the plus one to every stat, would remain.
The bonus iron quest is something that was briefly mentioned in the last chapter. Smith mentioned that he had made the shield as a part of his acquiring his iron class. Anyways, for each tear, once you reach the final level, you receive a quest once you have reached the max amount of experience. So, in the case of bronze, once she has reached 40,000 experience, she will receive her class evolution quest. The bonus iron quest would be a higher difficulty, higher reward option for her. The resulting class would give better bonuses to her skills, maybe a better attribute distribution, or even a higher attribute gain.
The skill sublimation would offer for one skill of her choosing to be evolved to iron tear at the time of her own evolution to iron tier. This would be in addition to any other skill evolutions that come as a result of the classes evolution.
Comments
Apoca
Out of these options the Racial sublimation makes the most sense to me. The other two not that much mainly because it's a delayed stuff for later. She should get something instead of a new skill. Skill sublimation may be good if he gets the skill evolution at that level. Not 4 levels later the next tier. Extra quest is meh. Not really a reward, right? She should get better class because she is better. And the extra stats would lead to better class either way, right? The Racial sublimation would not just some extra stat would be but it would allow her to customize her stat per level which would make a big change for her next class. Especially if she equalizes her physical stats. Or maybe gets some minimal mental stats
Vytmuir
I'm probably late to the party, but I'll throw my 2 cents in anyway. Boons are a reward from the Great One for maxing yourself out. We have also heard of people with boons being distinctly above their counterparts, even at Steel tier. Soooo.. Racial trait: I like it, it will continue to scale and set someone apart from the pack as they level, it is immediately useful and makes sense for the Great One to give. Class Quest: I'm mixed on this, because it doesn't actually feel or act like a reward. If the class quest stayed the same, but the rewards got pushed up in quality, that'd be a reward. But that's not happening, the reward scales with the quest still, therefore there is no difference if we take this option or not, after all, the quest will be however hard the author makes it. I'm betting on a quest that can be completed with differing levels of effort to scale rewards, incentivise risks, and show off what Astrid can do. Skill option: honestly? Don't like this one at all. I read it as she gets an extra skill choice when tiering up, which makes it possible to go for a boon in iron if you are really lucky, but otherwise doesn't do anything that we won't get without it. It just feels like delaying the boon till iron. All in all: I reckon we take the racial buff and give her some way to use magic, like a natural talent to form temporary magic tattoos that act as buffs depending on how they are formed. This gives her an advantage working in the background, a way to use magic that will need time to develop so it's not immediately useful, and ties into both the spellblade she wanted to be and her fathers talismans.
