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Cake day: March 17th, 2024

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  • There are two main accoints of the story and, ironically, he didn’t actually manage anything useful in either of them

    In the oldest one, he was sent from Athens to Sparta to ask for help against the invadng Persians. He ran 240 km in two days in this version of the story, only for the Spartans to say that actually they were busy with a religious festival and would not be coming to help. He then ran back. In this one he runs more than ten marathons in a matter of days and doesn’t die, and while the Spartans didn’t help someone did have to go ask to find that out

    In the later one, he ran the 40 km from the battle of Marathon back to Athens to say “we won” and then die. Of course, there’s not really any strategic decisions required from the information of “we won”, so in this version he ran himself to death for basically no reason at all





















  • There’s not a solid answer on exactly what it is, though given that I made the video I’m sure I don’t need to re-iterate what I think. A lot of people, myself included, think that it was a part of the Lands Between that got hidden away because of a few different things. The Suppressing Pillar inscription and Miyazaki’s own statements make it pretty direct, in my opinion, but there are various other smaller things. I’ve seen some people argue that it’s an afterlife of a sort, or that it’s entirely within Marika’s dreams, but I don’t personally find those explanations particularly convincing or satisfying. Whatever it is, it was at some point “obscured by the Erdtree”, and there is literally a colossal veil hanging over the entire sky to reinforce that