u/LaserQuacker

I know it doesn't work. We all know it doesn't. But what I don't understand is HOW it doesn't work.

More than a month ago I found this card with a Swift 1 thanks to the Winged Charm. I suspected it would not have worked, but I had a thought:

- Cards effects follow the order in which they are written.

So I took it out of experimentation and expected one of these two things to happen:

1. The turn ends. Since the turn is ended, the other effect does not go in play and the cards are not drawn.

2. The turn ends. There is still an effect "on the stack", so you draw the cards AFTER the turn is ended, during the beginning of the enemy turn, and they stay in your hand, kinda like when Centennial Puzzle is triggered by an enemy attack and other such effects. And you get to use those cards in your next turn.

What INSTEAD happens, as many of us know, is:

3. You FIRST draw the cards, THEN the turn ends and you discard them.

And what I don't understand is... why? Am I not understanding correctly what "end of the turn" means? What is the order of things here?

Can someone explain to me why does it work that way? In this order? When other cards follow the order of the sentences?

Sometimes this game really likes to troll

I've already discussed and see discussed this topic in other posts around and I wanted to make a post with this focus.

There is a curious character that recurs in many cards.

Mainly colorless cards, but also statuses from the Knowledge Demon and the Worm from Act 2 and, curiously, the "Enfeeble" skill from the Necrobinder.

They look anonimous and their face is never shown, but they have some defining features that distinguishes clearly, especially in their hands:

- Their hands only have 4 digits.
- They have claws
- Their hands look scaly, feathered or bird like. It is difficult to distinguish clearly, but they really look like they are the same hands.

Hands aside, there are also other features that recur in the cards:

- In the "Dramatic Entrance" we can see that a character with the same hands descripted above has a hood and a long crocodile like tail.
- In various cards we can see that there are what look like feathers or scales on their forearms.

- Note: In the frantic escape we can also see these legs that seem to have feathers on them. It is unclear though if it is indeed the same character, or just a feature of the art. It could also be part of the outfit and nothing else.

- Note: in "sloth" we see a figure with many of the features talked above, but they have 5 digits, so it is not the same char. Curious similarity though, with the hood and the bird like arms...

So, there are 2 main theories I had in mind and talked about in various comments and seen shared by others.

1. This is simply a "anonimous figure" that Megacrit designed to appear on many cards and that's it. There is nothing behind.
2. This is actually a real character in lore. If not a playable one, which is unlikely, one that could exist somewhere in the Spire world.

Honestly, my money is on theory number 1, but it is fun to dream about 2, isn't it? Also, it is pretty cool to take notice of this little detail.

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I've also noticed and included other cards that feature other anonimous figures that are similar but not identical to this character. They kinda look like other characters.

In particular, I noticed some weird connections between Omnislice, Ultimate Strike, Ultimate Defend and Backflip. And maaaaaybe a connection with the character already mentioned.

In Omnislice we see a character with braid and long curved swords held backwards. This character, also, seems to wear the same vest shown in Dramatic Entrance.

In Ultimate Strike we see a character with a long curved sword held backwards, similar to Omnislice. (It is unclear if it is backwards, tbh, the hand is... weird. It almost looks like a right hand on a left arm).
This character has a weird helmet/hood and a mantle.

In Ultimate Defend we see another character with a weird helmet, but with loooong braids behind them. And the same kind of mantle.

In Backflip, we see a character with a helmet and braids behind them.

To me, these look like the same character shown in different moments, with the hair that have the same style that change over time in length. Or different characters related to each other.

That, or the artist simply liked to draw these features on anonimous figures, of course!

What do you think of all of this?

EDIT: alright, I'm clearly missing some quote/reference here guys, why does everyone say it's John Spire or John Colorless? it's hilarious, but can you explain it to me? sorry english is not my first language and maybe I'm missing something