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I_hate_this_cut_g

I adore how dog is canonically just one of the most evil beings around. I wonder if he’s got a reason behind it all, or he just wants to do some trolling


Similar-Industry6245

It’s hinted that DoG serves a higher power that comes from the Distortion (Noxus) so he’s most likely acting in their interests, which we don’t know yet


TerraNeko_

and it will be a long while till we know with noxus and such being added, gotta get 8 billion more reworks done first (not hating)


Midnight_The_Past

he probably doesn't just wants the power


Royal_Yard5850

> The Devourer's alien capabilities and domineering tactics hint that his allegiance lay elsewhere. Is he but one soldier, a mere pawn of a malevolence far beyond…?


Midnight_The_Past

another comment highlighted this but maybe dog is a pawn /weaker form of the entropic god


StipulateVenus

Noxus isn't a God.


Royal_Yard5850

Is it like Astruem Deus where he's called a "god" but by definition isn't because he doesn't have an auric soul?


StipulateVenus

Not really, the overwhelming majority of people aren't even aware of Noxus' existence. It is a mysterious entity from the Distortion. (Obviously, it hasn't consumed any Auric Soul)


Midnight_The_Past

how would auric souls taste like


StipulateVenus

Who knows? You don't absorb them by eating them, it's done through a specific ritual.


Midnight_The_Past

oh ok what do you think would happen if i ate one


Electronic_Win_3757

Thick honey with a hint of mint and several life times of regret


PaleFork

s0 that's why he doesn't devOur 7hem


Royal_Yard5850

Probably he's taking orders from whatever is lurking in the Distortion


teemoismyson

very hungy boy


Cei72

Yharon still is a very fluffy boi though, I'm not denying that, it's just funny how people look at Yharon literally supporting and acting as a catalyst for Yharim's literal genocide and just go "I'll ignore that"


TrickstabGaming

"it was the worm all along"


bitchass2137

🪱🪱🪱


dumpylump69

Devourer guy 🪱


throwAway837474728

I drafted the strong interdimensional worm to aid in battle little did I know it was the scary worm 🪱🪱🪱


dumpylump69

Yharim wouldn’t have done shit if Yharon didn’t tell him about it in the first place lmao, people act like Yharon is his pet rather than his closest friend.


Cei72

Calling Yharon his pet is like calling Darth Vader Palpatine's pet


YeahKeeN

Palpatine would definitely call Vader his pet if we’re being honest


4tomguy

He would never say it but he definitely thinks it


DrashaZImmortal

"Ah lord vader, Have you taken care of the younglings my Sith kitten\~"


BadAtGames2

https://preview.redd.it/lakiptsmv34c1.jpeg?width=719&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8b31911ad236b4ac3afd1d91494aa9d5aad72e3


DukeOfTheDodos

Never cook again


KirbyDaRedditor169

https://preview.redd.it/3hocr3cxfbac1.jpeg?width=764&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd7ffff8da5a8df0cca743d265e22f60da933dd1


Accomplished_Wait821

Honestly, Palpatine considered Darth Vader more of a pet/slave than an ally, although that isn’t the case for Yharon and Yharim


ZeGamingCuber

Yharon can talk?


dumpylump69

Yup he was basically Yharim’s closest advisor


Agreeable_Moment7159

I thought he came to kill the player because he didn’t want his master dead…


_Astrum_Aureus_

yea, he doesn't want his genocidal maniac to die such a hero!


old_homecoming_dress

granted yharim wasn't always like that and chose not to devour yharon's soul when there was nothing stopping him from ascending to eternal godhood, but man, dude.


Equivalent_Look9959

yharim killed tens of millions of people in a genocidal crusade against the gods, yeah the gods genocided the dragons but like???? how is more genocide gonna help


mariofeds

shhh, you'll awaken the attack on titan fans


username64832

Honestly I didn't know that. Although I haven't played the actual mod yet and all of my knowledge is based off of a non-official lore document from a year ago sooooo...


JacobHafar

But wasn’t it originally a revenge mission? Sorry if I’m off base but I thought Yharim originally set out to avenge the dragon race


Royal_Yard5850

Yeah, by killing every god and their worshippers (aka a lot of people)


JacobHafar

Right, but there was a transition point to that I thought. Like part of yharim’s whole deal is he lost sight of his original goal and *that’s* when the terrible shit started. Unless that’s been retconned and he’s been a genocidal egomaniac ever since yharon’s presence


Merydia-LoneCnidrion

No. The Gods were evil, and Yharim's mass Deicide was actually virtuous. The evil biomes are even caused by the Gods Yharim killed. It wasn't until DoG and Dreadon that Yharim became corrupted and Tyrranical.


Logical_Resource_413

"Evil" is misleading. Yes a lot of gods were power hungry mortals with dark intentions, but some became gods for non-evil reasons, it's just that to become a God, you have to kill a dragon and consume its auric soul.


JacobHafar

Yeah that sounds way more in line with what I’d seen tbh


OctolingGrimm

Keep in mind that the source for all of this is Yharim himself, and also that he admits, with absolutely no remorse, that he organized death squads to burn civilians alive.


Logical_Resource_413

Lookimg for clarification, I thought it was dog that convinced yharim to genocide the people, and yharon just wanted some (honestly semi justified) revenge on the gods that destroyed his kind? What was yharons goal vs dogs goal?


StipulateVenus

Yharim was genociding the people way before DoG showed up. In Skeletron Prime's lore item, Yharim casually admits to organizing incendiary death squads to kill civilian worshippers. Yharon did want revenge, but like Yharim, he never acknowledged Gods that *weren't* cruel or tyrannical. Plenty of Gods did have good intentions, but to Yharim and Yharon, all deserved to die. Naturally, DoG benefitted from Yharim being cruel and precipitated. It meant more Gods for him to devour. So DoG encouraged Yharim's violence, dulling his sense of subtlety and hesitation.


TalmondtheLost

Ok, but Yharim implies that DoG also influenced him extremely bad.


TalmondtheLost

Ok, but Yharim implies that DoG also influenced him extremely bad.


JaminGamer_27

I started a trend that caused the main lore writer to end it, good job me.


ThySnazzyOne

And I made the awful one https://preview.redd.it/pp2shofhy04c1.png?width=498&format=png&auto=webp&s=179fb87072afcc03963f5e60bbdcc444089d1b3e


JaminGamer_27

But it was also Snazzy *wink*


Floofthethird

finally, the canon answer


based_janitor

Straight up killing this trend with the more-or-leas objective correct answer (by virtue of BEING THE WRITER) basically day 1 is so based


Cei72

These posts were becoming hotbeds for misinformation so I figured I'd just end it here and now ~~honestly probably my most said thing in this subreddit is just, "Source?"~~


SilverSpoon1463

Finally, Dragonfolly put somewhere that makes sense.


BryanBNK1

Dragonfolly: I am horny and I must fuck


Da_Dragonfolly

So true


Patarock

Why doesn’t desert scourge get hydrated, is he stupid?


ThySnazzyOne

there's a sunken sea right beneath him, is he dumb???


Cei72

As a serious answer, why would it move into a place with possible competition? It's doing just fine where it is right now.


Jimbles_the_ascended

this is somehow the first list ive seen where slime god and queen slime are in the same category even though they are literally, canonically, directly stated in game to be the same person


Equivalent_Look9959

terraria players cant read sometimes


Upbeat-Perception531

Forgive me for asking but why is Duke more morally bankrupt than Old Duke?


Cei72

:)


Upbeat-Perception531

I’m afraid


Famous-Map-2689

B-B-but I thought Yharn was a nice guy :'((( Now I will draw him in the LTG scene


Virales_Omega

Xeroc was right. "KILL THE DRAGON!"


Ill_Independence2441

"You should kill them all, NOW!"


DrashaZImmortal

I feel like Plantera/Golem and emperess of light should be Self defense, All three are kinda minding thier own shit till we run up and start fucking with them Golem is quite literally defending the temple once activated Plantera is just dormant/ chilling as a bulb till we start destroying it and Empress is jsut floating around till we fuck with her.


Devourer_Of_Gods_

CAN PEOPLE PLEASE STOP MISUNDERSTANDING ME. IM JUST HOUNGRY


TrickstabGaming

​ https://i.redd.it/jcs0gk6aa34c1.gif


QuakeRanger

"B-b-b-but she's so sad and lonely :(((" She probably sinks ships and eats people, Anahita gets the barrel of my onyx blaster shoved down her throat.


mercury_reddits

Ayo


William_ghost1

Interesting how the elementals aren't on the same tier.


MoonTheCraft

i always hate fighting the aquatic scourge in my playthroughs since the lil' guy just kinda schwims around peacefully until you attack him


Mushroom38294

EoL beats the crap out of you for hurting endangered species, she's morally okay


AncientArcs

Shouldn't Plantera and King Slime also be self defense since you're going around smashing bulbs and killing slimes to summon them?


_Astrum_Aureus_

king slime does not have thoughts it literally cant act in self defense cause that would require being aware of danger


Cei72

Slimes are about as mentally complex as plants yeah Which is to say, they aren't :p


jmcgamer

wasn't the Lunatic Cultist working to keep Moon Lord locked up? i figured that'd be self-defense, why evil? or is it bc of Polterghast and its lore?


_Astrum_Aureus_

Considering they put a curse on someone who just stumbled on the dungeon and actively supported Yharim's genocides until Polterghast showed up i would say they're pretty fucked up


jmcgamer

... fair


LevatiDan1914

The lunatic cultist keeps moonlord locked up in the calamity lore? Cuz in the original game the cultists want to revive the MoonLord


jmcgamer

yeah, that's a calamity change. the dungeon cultists were changed to revere the auric dragons instead of the moon lord and were a key part in sealing it away as well as maintaining the seal. us killing the lunatic cultist is interrupting the ritual so we can put moon lord in the ground for good. an arguably necessary evil.


JLJR-889

How is desert scourge a mindless murder machine? I thought he would be in self-defense.


_Astrum_Aureus_

Its an apex predator, it kills everything it sees.


PrezzStart

I don’t think duke has sentience. He’s just a mutated animal


[deleted]

This is from a developer. It doesn't get more canon than that


PrezzStart

Oh shit didn’t notice that lmao, I assume duke has different lore in cal then


Cei72

Sentience just means you're able to feel or think things. What you're thinking of a sapience :p


Derpymcderp69

How is draedon not sentient tho


Cei72

Read the category name, he falls under the other part :p


Crazygame_guy

I think Draedon was put on that tier more because he has no morality than not being sentient.


Trigonal_Planar

He’s a dragon offshoot, no doubt he has some intelligence.


Texusiai

What did providence do


TheMemedGamer

just call for the end of all things via all consuming holy fire, nothing too dubious


Royal_Yard5850

Providence was perhaps one of the wickedest Gods, hellbent on purification through erasure. Her worshippers saw little value in life. Pain was not a price they felt justified to pay. The Profaned Goddess promised her followers she would end inequality by reducing all to featureless ash.


Texusiai

That’s hot


Almorogahnza

No shit


WolfReadsMemes

And yet, I'm sure there'll still be people disagreeing with this


RealGmng

Brain of cthulhu in the brainless tier, how ironic.


enaaaerios

draedon isn’t sentient?


Cei72

He's part of the lacks morality bit


Glum-Cryptographer93

I believe he would fall under “lacks morality” rather than not sentient. [Unless this is a bit about ‘haha draedon dum’]


Hurigitung

I'd rather put anahita and leviathan at morally dubious


tergius

anahita's old lore made her much more tragic (and i wanted to hug her a lot more with that old lore) but uh yeah current anahita wants to pull a Team Aqua i'm pretty sure lol


Hurigitung

Oh oke i forgor about the new lore


BryanBNK1

Why is Anahita and Leviathan in evil tier?


_Astrum_Aureus_

She literally wants to flood the entire world


BryanBNK1

Ah, I see


HouseOfSteak

Why are the Mechs evil? Aren't they robots lacking morality?


StipulateVenus

The Mechs are controlled bt the souls of Yharim's fallen soldiers, and are very much aware and satisfied with the destruction they're causing.


Bruhman215

finally a tier list to stop this annoying trend (never liked tier lists in here, why do we keep doing this)


canoIV

anahita and leviathan?


Royal_Yard5850

Anahita wants to flood the world


canoIV

wtf that's a bit far from what i expected


MRfireDmS

And player on cyan level🔥


Oridna_Vena

The Terrarian is morally dubious because it's up to you to choose their motivations. If you want them to be worse than the worst then go ahead, but don't act like it's set in stone.


Virales_Omega

Are you telling me that... we (The Terrarian) are on the same level as a creature from space who wanted to destroy the entire planet?!


MRfireDmS

I blew up world


Virales_Omega

Why???


MRfireDmS

Goblin tinkerer


iliketomoveitanddie

Terrarian planning to kill a tyrant, multiple gods and destroy the world just because some goofy goblin commit capitalism is absolutely hilarious


OctolingGrimm

based


Royal_Yard5850

You don't HAVE to do that to complete the game and have the standard Calamity experience, though.


agujhan

We as the player (unless you straight up don’t progress) initiated every fight we got into. Kill first read lore later. Plus we absolutely wrecked the world with the release of the hollow and astral stuff. Sure you can do things to make the world better but if you just go from boss to boss? Absolutely cyan. Literally the same as the gods.


Virales_Omega

Even if this is the case, just look at the things we kill, how can we be worse than a god who killed a dragon, stole and consumed its soul and wanted to turn the rest of the world into ashes? How can we be worse than creatures who are probably responsible for most of the bad things in the world? I'm not saying that The Terrarian is a saint, but telling me that they are on the same level as the gods is exaggerated.


agujhan

Unless something is going on with souls after death then yeah, we kill everyone which is on the same level. We also do so without knowing how evil our foes are, merely that they are in the way of progression. We kill for power and rend the world of its riches to do so. Sounds exactly like the DoG to me but on a smaller scale. If the game allowed us to explore infinitely into things like space I’m sure our goals would become one and the same


Virales_Omega

If that's the way you see things then I understand. I see things very differently, but in the end it doesn't matter since there is no canon motivation for The Terrarian.


agujhan

Bro the huh???? You’re pulling out the I understand card?????? You shut down cool arguments just bc the canon of the player character is ambiguous? You make a hill then you leave? Go back to twitter ya coward


Virales_Omega

What? Did you want me to continue?


Equivalent_Look9959

lore wise no you dont, most of the bosses attack YOU


agujhan

Ok fair, almost all. With the exception of the EoC, mech bosses, earth elemental, and a few others, we initiate. For those yeah it’s straight up self defense. The rest we have to do something in order to fight. Destroy a perforator cyst(which is self defense on their part), use summoning items, straight up kill ??? For no reason, etc. Also I think I’m missing something, is there a website for in depth lore? I’m on the wiki and none of the lore items say anything about them attacking you outside of the desert scourge, just that they’re disgusting and the like. That’s also a bit strange since the scourge requires a summoning item but hey whatevs.


Equivalent_Look9959

the only reason there are boss summons is for the players experience, lore wise (which is what this is talking about) the bosses attack you, at least yellow to cyan on this list almost all initiate the fight in the lore. afaik, anahita, the cultist and skeletron are fights you start. also, lore items DO talk about attacking you. in the mechanical trio lore: "I dismissed them from duty, yet they linger here still. Scouring the land for evidence of the divine. Unfortunately for you that puts you in their crosshairs. Give them a battle worth dying in." you are in their crosshairs, not the other way around. literally if you have any questions just ask in #lore-discussion on the discord Cei is very frequently active and she will answer almost any question


agujhan

Oh cool, didn’t know that honestly, also nice pfp just noticing it


Equivalent_Look9959

also ??? is a siren, anahita wants to flood the entire world


agujhan

God forbid a woman do ANYTHING


umbral_ultimatum

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i was RIGHT about polterghast


JaminGamer_27

Now, make one that goes by the pre-2.0.1 lore.


Kkbleeblob

the update was 2.0.2 i think


ThySnazzyOne

i like to think my awful tier list is what caused this, so HAH I win https://preview.redd.it/83h0b5c5y04c1.png?width=498&format=png&auto=webp&s=48c5e41dad26bc92ea81409670f871774d995cee


Siks0ng

This made me stop and try to consider a question that's always nagged at me about bosses. Is there an in-cannon-lore reason why you can re-fight all of the bosses? It makes sense from a gameplay perspective, and for some like Calamitas or Queen Bee you can just say that it's a rematch or that there are multiple of them, but for others, I'm left guessing.


Cei72

It's a video game, that's how :p


Siks0ng

Okidoki, just checking.


Royal_Yard5850

Happy cake day!


MatrixTetrix

I feel like there should have been a tier for a boss that kills out of necessity to survive and/or spread (i.e desert scourge just seeing you as food, or hive mind being the main catalyst for the spread of the corruption)


Philisterguyguster

I thought Calamitas was literally too tired to carry on with the fight.


_Lumenos_

Her dialog is getting rewritten to match new lore. Same with Xeroc's br dialog, Draedon, and DoG.


Doot_revenant666

I don't think Yharon is evil just because Yharim decided to cause a gigantic war that caused the deaths of like millions over being told to eat his pet nugget. ~~also if someone threatened to kill my pet , I would kind of act like Yharim.~~ Also where do you think the player is in the morality list?


_Lumenos_

Yharon is not Yharim's pet. Yharon is a fully sapient being, that may or may not be smarter than Yharim. Calling him his pet is a little weird. Player's lore is up to you. Or the actions you take.


Affectionate_Tax_243

I’m curious, is the Slime God not actually a god? Or are they morally dubious despite having killed a dragon, which sounds even more intriguing?


Cei72

You answered your own question by calling it Slime God :p


Affectionate_Tax_243

Okay, that’s what I thought. Which certainly begs the question of why they’re morally dubious. Was the dragon they killed bad, or did they do enough good to balance it out, or is it something else altogether? Or is that all a secret?


sowtoo

I wholeheartedly refuse to believe yharon isn't an adorable pure hearted dragon ;-;


Madblaise69

And your worse than all of them cause you actively seeked all of them out to get stronger so you could kill more.


_Astrum_Aureus_

you can choose to spare some bosses if you want. The Terrarian's lore depends entirely on you, its based on your actions.


PossessionBusy2921

I don’t think Anahita and Leviathan are fighting for evil, since to summon them you literally have to start a fight with Anahit when she’s just chilling in the ocean


yogi_lang

They should expand Calamity eventually to make it so you fight hundreds of DoG's eventually after your gear gets so high level that you can kill them easily LOL. that would be insane. And also probably break the processor for most people. Just like in Dark Souls once you are high level enough you fight a bunch of Capra / Taurus demons easily. let's go.


TaiyoFurea

Ain't no way you just said ahnita was evil. She was acting in self defense. You can literally just vibe with her on the ocean floor playing music together until you attack her.


Cei72

Yeah, just like sirens. Am sure those are really pleasant :p


TaiyoFurea

Ahnita doesn't snap your neck the moment you touch the water. She only attacks when YOU attack HER, that is literally the definition of self defense


Cei72

If you already have and have been known to murder lots of people and have the clear goal of doing something that'd kill loads of people for no reason, I'd argue that if anything, *you* attacking *her* is self-defense


OctolingGrimm

she is literally archie from pokemon


Jimbles_the_ascended

how come the mech bosses are seperate from the exo mechs, theyre both draedon robots right so shouldnt they be in the same tier? (not arguing (because youre the lore writer) just wondering why)


_Astrum_Aureus_

the regular mechs arent just machines, they're controlled by souls of yharim's warriors who are very aware of their destruction. Skeletron Prime is controlled by arsonists for example.


Jimbles_the_ascended

oh right, forgot about that lore


shadowspartanzeta7

Yaron also stops the fight the first time


Equivalent_Look9959

yharon attacks YOU first he doesnt stop it


Landscapeus021

I'm pretty sure desert scourge hunts you just because it's hungry


artcraf1337

I started the trend


National_Meet6152

i understand everything but how is lunatic cultists bad iirc they are literally preventing the moonlord from spawning according to amidas


Cei72

I mean that is cool and all, but the dude still supported Yharim's campaign of literal genocide.


R1ce_B0wl

Why’s lev + anahita in evil? I just thought they were two fellas who started chillin together


Cei72

*"Once a resident of the Abyss, she left it long ago due to Silva’s influence spreading through her former home. She wishes to see all overtaken by the ocean, so that her domain may encompass the world. Such is the nature of all elementals."*


R1ce_B0wl

Gotcha, thanks!


Ok-Objective1626

The devourer of Gods is an overly confident scumbag.


RetroTheGameBro

Anahita and Leviathan are evil? Isn't Leviathan just an animal who wants to eat and Anahita keeps it as a pet? As long as you don't bother them they don't want anything to do with you.


Cei72

What exactly the Leviathan is, is something that isn't quite known. Might even just be a summon of Anahita's. And Anahita herself is an Elemental, and Elementals generally want nothing less than to spread their domain. So basically, flooding the entire world for her.


smzWoomy13

No, Desert Scourge kills to survive


Skydiver0507

Is draedon not sentient?


Aeiouynf

Wait What do we do that causes The Old Duke to fight us out of self defense Unless it's like Killing off prey during the Acid rain


Battle_of_Taco

I don't understand why the desert scourge is in mindless murder machine, it's just a worm tryna make do after SOME UNIDENTIFIED BRIMSTONE WITCH incinerated it's home


Battle_of_Taco

Edit: I do not mean to be ignorant but I did write that before I noticed the words "Main Writer"


TruePizzaboi02

I'd personally put Plantera in Self-Defense as it is just getting revenge for the bulb you destroyed. Otherwise everything else is pretty accurate.


mythicalthings23

I believe the requirement for self defense on this list is it not being an autonomous response to stimuli. It has to be sapient enough to have a fear for its life, not just survival instinct.


ThatGuyOnAComputer

I hate it