The World of Eora: an Avowed + Pillars of Eternity Lore Podcast

IMPORTANT: At the end of the episode I recommend a YouTube channel to you, but because of "stupid brain", I misspelled their channel name. It's SENTEGRAPHS. Check them out for a 'Lorethrough' of Pillars of Eternity. It's excellent stuff. The World of Eora podcast is a news/lore program about the fantasy world/setting developed by Obsidian Entertainment for use in their cRPG Pillars of Eternity ser...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy world/setting created by Obsidian Entertainment used in their cRPG Pillars of Eternity series, and their upcoming first-person RPG: Avowed. Today's episode I'm describing as "soft lore", which means that we are using lore from other areas (particularly areas of the soul, reincarnation, and whatnot) to ask "what gives...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy world/setting used in Obsidian Entertainment's cRPG Pillars of Eternity series, and their upcoming first-person RPG: Avowed. Today's episode looks at the unique lore for the 'Ranger' class. If you've played or consumed fantasy media at all, you're probably familiar with the ranger character archetype (woodsman, hunt...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about games and media placed in the fantasy setting/world developed by Obsidian Entertainment, particularly for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their upcoming first-person RPG: Avowed. Today's episode looks at one of the unique sentient creatures that exist in the world of Eora called "Vithracks". Who I've often just called &qu...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the unique fantasy setting/world used in Obsidian Entertainment's cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their upcoming first-person RPG: Avowed. Today's episode looks at one of the off-screen companion adventures (beginning of the episode explains what that is) you encounter in the first Pillars of Eternity game. We run through the pitch/hook...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy world/setting created for Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity cRPG series, and their upcoming first-person RPG: Avowed. Today's episode is a follow-up from last week's episode on the Undead (such as Skeletons, Fampyrs and Revenants). This week focuses, instead, on Lichs - a very powerful and immortal form of Undead, an...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy world/setting created by Obsidian Entertainment and used in their Pillars of Eternity cRPG series, as well as their upcoming first-person RPG: Avowed. Today's episode features discussions on Undead enemies in fantasy, in particular the world of Eora. Skeletons don't just get up for no good reason, and sometimes those reasons go bey...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy world/setting developed by Obsidian Entertainment for their Pillars of Eternity cRPG series, and for their upcoming first-person RPG: Avowed. Today's episode is a short episode; I'm out of town this week volunteering at a Youth Camp, so I recorded something short and sweet just to make sure you had *something* to chew on while I wa...

[SPOILER WARNING: The *second* half of today's episode contains major spoilers for BOTH Pillars games, but you can safely enjoy the first half before the break spoiler-free] The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy setting/world developed by Obsidian Entertainment for their Pillars of Eternity cRPG series, and their upcoming first-person RPG: Avowed. Today's episode is re...

[In the second portion of today's episode there are SPOILERS For BOTH Pillars of Eternity games] The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the original fantasy world/setting developed by Obsidian Entertainment for their Pillars of Eternity series, and their upcoming first-person RPG: Avowed. Today's episode discusses the ever-important Engwithan society that existed millenniums before...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy world/setting used in Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity series, and their upcoming first-person RPG: Avowed. Today's episode comes in the wake of all the news/videos revealed recently. I've requested and collected all sorts of speculations and theories regarding Avowed (gameplay, game systems, lore, narrative, etc.)...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy world/setting for Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity series, and their upcoming first-person RPG: Avowed. Today's episode is a special (and long) one. Recently we saw official gameplay of Avowed at the Xbox Games Showcase 2023, with an entire trailer to go over. As well there were some exclusive interviews with developers...

Rather than leave you guys without any content the host of Avowedcast, Tsora, sent me the audio from our latest recording with Remeran and Jesse discussing the initial reactions to the newest Avowed trailer. For those who haven't plugged into Avowedcast, this is their most recent full episode. For those who listen to both, sorry you only get this one this week. I'll be back next week with...

SPOILERS related to Pillars of Eternity: the companion DURANCE, and his Companion side quest, "Trials of Durance". The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the world/setting for Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity games, and their upcoming release: AVOWED. Today's episode comes by popular demand; we are looking at one of the companions you have in the first Pillars...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy world/setting used in Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity series, and their upcoming release: AVOWED. The Bleak Walkers embody the philosophy of Bleak War, which is the purposeful use of violence for a specific end. Join me today in a discussion for some of the most bad-ass and terrifying people you can encounter in Eora's...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy world/setting used by Obsidian Entertainment for their Pillars of Eternity games, as well as their upcoming release: AVOWED. Today's episode looks at the human races in Eora, and their subraces. Each subrace of human is generally tied to a particular culture, so by learning the differences between humans we can know how to identify dif...

'The World of Eora' is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy setting/world developed by Obsidian Entertainment for their Pillars of Eternity games, and their upcoming release: Avowed. Today's episode looks at one of the races in Eora: dwarves. While most of us are familiar with a dwarf from other fantasy-based media, Obsidian's take on dwarves a little bit different. Sure, they&#39...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the world/setting for Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity series, and their upcoming RPG, Avowed. Today's episode focuses on Eothas, god of light and redemption. This one has been a long time coming, and is (frankly) too big an episode to get in all at once. This episode, surprisingly, has NO SPOILERS WHATSOEVER. So listen to your hea...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the world/setting of Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity game series and Avowed (upcoming). Today's episode we focus on the story of a character (Od Nua) from an ancient advanced civilization (Engwithans). This story showcases the writing at Obsidian as well as the foundation for some of the major narratives in Pillars of Eternity. wo...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MAJOR NARRATIVE SPOILERS FOR PILLARS OF ETERNITY - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. "The World of Eora" is a news/lore podcast about the setting/games of Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity series and Avowed. In today's episode we read through volume number ten (of fifteen) in a series of esoteric lore books from Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - Forgotten Sanctum DLC. In...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the games and fantasy setting (Eora) used for Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity series and Avowed. Today's episode looks at one of the eleven gods in Eora's pantheon, more specifically the "evil god", Skaen. However Skaen is not just an evil god for evil's sake - there are layers to this deity and his divine purpos...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the world & setting for Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity series, and their upcoming release: Avowed. Today's bonus episode is a short little venture into the Vailian language; just going through some examples of direct one-to-one translations of words including (of course) some "fun" words. Sprinkle some of these into...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the Obsidian Entertainment original fantasy setting created for Pillars of Eternity I & II, and AVOWED. Today's episode focuses on one of the major factions from the first Pillars game, and is also a faction that *could* be in Avowed (though I suspect unlikely). They are one of the most interesting cultures/nations in a game I've ever play...

The World of Eora is a news/lore podcast about the fantasy setting for Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity games, as well as Avowed. Today's episode focuses on the pirate faction of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire; who, sadly, I doubt we will see in Avowed, but are still interesting nonetheless. Join me today as we discuss who they are, their history/origin, and their culture/val...

This episode of the WORLD OF EORA is a unique one, in that I am aiming to bring up to speed those out there listening to don't know *anything* about the what the show is about...be it about the fictional fantasy world called "eora", or the Pillars of Eternity games. I know of a couple people who listen to just like the show, even though they haven't heard of what most of the content is about; as w...