Готовый перевод Его не звали, но он приперся / They never called, yet he is here: WOG_Yoke

Q: What is the Yoke and how does it work?

A: The Yarmo is a conceptual influence embedded in the world itself, along with the System and the Summoning Mechanism. Though extremely crude and insignificant in comparison, it is inscribed. As if someone had taped a calculator to the hadron collider with duct tape and super glue.

Something like that.

The Yoke covers the entire world, but only the uppermost individuals (royal families, high ranks, strongest guilds, and organizations) have access to summoning rituals that are now automatically combined with the activation of the Jarmo.

It means.

It is not activated every time separately, it is always there and is believed to be there.

When the Yoke is imposed, it leaves a kind of path in the brain, by which people (and not people) to whom the control threads of the ritual have been passed can manipulate the Summoned.

Let's say there is a Chosen One.

She's experienced. Already level 55+, with mental armor of the highest class. Her control circuits are passed on to a young prince of 16 yo. The first thing he does is activate Yoke and tell her that she wants to pull up her dress right now and get more pleasure than she's ever had in her life. And she pulls it up and gets it.

All the mental armor is in place, and the intellect is unaffected, but she sincerely believes that:

1. This is a normal situation, and he has every right to demand such things of her. At the level of "the sky is blue," "the water is wet," etc.

2. She made the decision on her own.

They'll tell her to fall in love, and she will.

If they tell her to be a sweet bimbo, she will, even if she has the intellect of a quantum physicist.

If they tell her to go and kill, she will go and kill.

They tell her to lie down in the ritual circle for the removal of the class - she will lie down.

If they tell her to forget an episode from her life, she'll forget.

Alchemy, charms, and other goodies are only auxiliary tools. To eliminate even the tiniest percentage of the probability of not even a rebellion, but a slight misunderstanding of the situation.

Is it possible to break the Yoke as a ritual? As a concept?

It's a good question.

Is it possible to take the Summoned out from under it?

It's an even better question.

Both are possible, but how is a spoiler.
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Q: Are Chained used in bed? In between uses in combat. It's such an ego boost when you're being served by an entire Hero.

A: Of course yes.

Rather, almost always yes. They even diligently select controllers of the opposite sex. But I was talking about the fact that no one keeps Heroes for such use alone.

Not everyone is so uptight and conceited, of course, but there must be more than a few such uses. It's like riding on an aircraft carrier to a pizza parlor.
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Q: Are there states that summon heroes without Yoke or are unaware of Yoke's existence? Is it even possible to change the ritual to summon Heroes without Yoke?

A: Yarmo is no secret. The Yoke is a superstructure in the world System. Once the Yoke is created and set up, ALL Heroes pass through the Yoke when they are summoned.

Even if someone did not know that it was being created (although many people were involved in the creation and preparation, including the same elves), very soon it empirically came to them.

The Yoke is a super-awesome hack of the System itself, created by literally the entire world and most of the Gods.

Any ritual for summoning a Hero automatically affects the Yarmo. The summoning rituals themselves are the same (except for minor differences and modifications, which are made separately) as they were thousands of years ago.

You can't change the ritual so that you summon a Hero who isn't Chained. You just can't, not at all, on a systemic level.

Since Yoke is not an original part of the System, it is work not without accidents. Once again the analogy about a calculator taped to a hadron collider. Both are high technology, but the level is still different.

There is a chance that a Hero will not be hit by Yoke - such are killed immediately. They are killed because the appearance of an unaffected by Yoke will be found out. How this is a spoiler, but they will know. And no one wants to be accused of sloppy use of nuclear weapons.

...So the fact that somewhere walks a hero without a yoke is by and large already known?

A: That's the thing, no - the coincidence of a huge number of factors allowed Hero to go unnoticed.

That's it - no one knew about him, otherwise this story would have been frustratingly short.
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Q: And anyway, who is able to build something on top of the Summon System?

A: The best minds in the world, backed by the lion's share of the Pantheon and pouring in finances from all sides.
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Q: Who summons the Heroes?

A: Humans, elves (various types), occasional dwarves, and beastfolk. Orks, demons, and other crap don't summon at all. Seems to be, but what's really there is unknown, and some rumors do leak out.

Q: How big is Yoke's scale?

A: Yoke works all over the world, allowing you to adjust the summoning and brains of the hero as you see fit. In theory, you can even do nothing except for Yoke's effect - it unknowingly increases obedience and consent on the part of the hero.

It's just that the summoners prefer to be on the safe side in case of unforeseen accidents. A few Chosen Ones who gained mental clarity at the wrong time (albeit briefly) taught them to be cautious. In fact, if you're raising a Hero for meat, you don't need to use the extra effects. But if you're raising a loyal assassin and an obedient toy, you'd better take precautions.
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Q: What gives the title of Hero?

A: And how do you think all sorts of office slaves grow up to be of such caliber to found kingdoms, assemble harems of deadly magicians and save worlds?

The Hero's title is the same booster as the gift of classes. It allows you to intuitively understand human nature, to persuade and guide. Without this, a Hero would simply be a particularly strong fighter and not, in fact, a Hero.
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Q: Let's imagine a situation, some clan has a Summoned Hero, powerful, imbued with loyalty, programmed with all the right stuff. But then a fight begins between the families, and their clan is cut down, but the aggressor is killed by the hero. A ronin without a master. What happens to the hero? The masters are gone. Will he be free, or is there some other nuance to the yoke?

A: There are ways to make Yoke's leash go to a pre-selected target when the controller dies. Could be siblings, aunts, or uncles. As a finale, it can go to the ruler of the country or some other important person, but it's not often allowed.

More often than not, the Hero becomes enraged by the loss of meaning in life and rushes into battle to take revenge without a backward glance. Thus he dies when significant forces are massed against him - in such a state, he will not retreat or flee.

There are different options, but these two are the most common.
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Q: How many classes and what grades do the Chosen get when summoned?

A: They have at least one mythic and four more legendary ones. At max levels, they get five mythics. And once every five levels, they get five class points.
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Q: It's no longer a coincidence. Every movement of the Hero is watched by a team of directors and screenwriters desperately trying to tie together the whole cannon of all the trouble going on. There is no other way to explain everything that is happening, it could not happen by coincidence.

A: Um... First of all, he's a Hero, which automatically allows him to be in the thick of things with a minimum of effort. Or even making a maximum effort not to.

Second, he's the Main Character of this work, so I'm quite logically trying to play the cards so that he doesn't fall out of character, but also doesn't die choking on a cherry pit.
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Q: The title of hero huck the brains out or something?

A: Hero is not just a word in the description of Status.

A Hero is more than that.

It's less about brainwashing and more about uncovering what we originally have, but which are asleep under the pressure of dull life. The hero is not necessarily kind, as you might think, and there are enough scumbags among this brethren (there were enough before the appearance of Yoke) of those still scumbags. It's more complicated than that, but that would be a spoiler.
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Q: The author has already described in the comments that the level 50 heroes (summoned or "naturally evolved") local rulers have only a few units, less than a dozen in the toughest kingdoms. So it's unlikely they're bargaining chips. Another thing is that the Summoned also need to pump first, but they pump up faster and easier than the aristocrats. First, the level of the class is not cut, secondly, a set of classes, and third, the enslaved Hero just can be sent against all sorts of serious ABS. It's not to go out to battle in person.

A: Exactly! A summon is a pile of resources and months of work by unique specialists, so Heroes is a resource, but a VERY valuable one.
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Q: It seems to me, according to the specifics of this world, to get a level 50 - is not so easy and is quite consistent with the heroic achievement. After all, according to the logic of the System, to grow in levels you have to fight with commensurate threats.

A: Right. Absolutely right - you can't get it without feats.
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Q: Am I correct in assuming that the main quest of the MC is to eliminate Yoke for the world of Alurei? That is, unscrew the calculator from the hadron collider. Not to remove the yoke from the heroes, not to kick the aristocracy, not to save everyone, but to fix the "hardware" problem?

A: Actually, one thing follows from the other. To "save everyone" you have to destroy the calculator, otherwise there is no point in saving it.
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Q: Can a person at level 50 get the title "Creature" instead of the title of Hero? If he has a worldview that is chaotic evil, in D&D parlance, has crossed more than a hundred moral horizons, and is considered a monster, even by the standards of the monsters themselves?

A: It's a spoiler, but it's possible. Thinking back to a certain good old man. I won't say more, for spoilers, but there was some truth in your post.
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Q: I have a suspicion, based again on the "Shyngys precedent," that at the 50th the System only consolidates the status quo, while being a Hero (even for a local) is possible before that point. To behave differently than expected, to go against the system, to assert one's will, not just another crook wearing a crown.

A: That's right. That's exactly right.

No, no one prevents one from becoming a Hero by faithfully serving the Crown, but a Hero still carries his will for the world, among other things. That is why they are allowed to do so much, because that is their essence: to bend the world to their liking.

And, by the way, yes - being King puts a very tough boost on Status. Kings are rarely pathetic and weak. First, they have enough money and influence for the transplant ritual. Secondly, they get experience from state activity, and the more successful and more complex problems they solve - the more it goes.

Also, similar to the Landlord of Holan, King Melareth's class is legendary. And some Emperor's is even mythical.

Even though these classes aren't exactly military, they deserve their rank for all it's worth.
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Q: So, just sitting on your ass honestly following orders, and generally keeping your head down won't make you a hero.

A: Not really. If you regularly go into the thick of it when you're in the army, going into every battle with the enemy. If you don't get out of all the tombs and wildernesses, cleaning up monsters for years. If you're the number one hardcore pro in your business, keeping all the trade/accounting/administrative of half the kingdom on your shoulders.

All this will make you a Hero, if it doesn't break you earlier.

But you are right in saying that you have to go against resistance, and it doesn't matter who resists you - society, enemies, or the government. The essence of being a Hero is overcoming.
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Q: Can Kostik be less worried when he gets level 50? Like a hero became at level 50 and in general, I was born here, my house is on the edge, and so go far away...

A: Such people do not appear out of anywhere. They'll start thinking, asking questions, and looking for "where you've been pumped". There might be even more problems. But the probability of being mistaken for a Summoned Hero is significantly reduced. However, the standard conspiracy is still better.
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Q: Hmmm, how did the Summon look like before the System? When there were no classes and artifacts are also completely systemic (although who knows what if there is a non-system ability in them).

A: The Hall of Choice was exactly the same, and the Summon was exactly the same through ritual. It was just all done without the System. And the Heroes, respectively, were just uber-talented mages, like in Mary Sue in books. After a couple of lessons, they could wield a sword better than warriors who had spent their entire lives developing, immediately discovered true vision, and threw fireballs with their eyebrow movements at the first attempt at meditation.
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Q: And what is the difference between Hero and Chosen? At least in comparison to anything.

A: Multiply the Hero by another Hero in terms of ability to change the world and influence fates and probabilities.
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Q: I'm starting to get the suspicion that this whole situation with the "chaining" of Heroes was originally done not even for their bonuses, but just to keep the country free of moronic individuals who uncontrollably create all kinds of heroic bullshit. In any case, Kostik, with his "here comes the fucking pies" hints at this very well, damn it.

A: Well, it's not as sad as it may seem. Although there is a certain amount of sense in what you say - among the Heroes there were enough guys who were completely screwed up, causing a lot of problems by their very existence.

The worst thing is that these bastards often didn't give a damn about class and title, easily arranging an attack on the highway robbers, or some baron who loved to skin careless peasants alive, or a full-fledged prince who decided to cheat them on the promised reward for saving them from the legendary monster.

And this, unlike a pile of corpses of townspeople and peasants, is not at all forgivable.
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Q: Are the heroes (level 50+) of the state and private individuals described in the books?

A: Yes, and a lot of them. There are books about these kinds of people Losius reads about, too. This is because their memoirs are, in one way or another, historical chronicles. They were and are, in many ways, history-makers themselves.

...It is clear that there are classified in the special services.

A: Of course. But even those who aren't classified have to hide at least part of their life path. Where he gained power, what special aspects of magic/warfare he developed, what tools gave him/her the most trouble, special titles and build - even a good investigator, visionary, or even writer/literator will pull out a lot of interesting stuff from a cleaned-up memoir. And then that interesting stuff can easily be used to train a team of customized liquidators.

...But I'm sure those individuals are PRing themselves as best they can. So in free sale should be books like: - 12 Great Heroes of the Empire.

A: Yes, yes, yes, three hundred times yes. But always with caution. Popularity is undoubtedly nice, but even the most popular individuals cover a lot of things as streamlined as possible, or even falsely, so as not to expose their own weaknesses.

...If the memoirs of criminal bosses are printed and sold. A hero on Alurei is like a rock star in our world. They must have fans.

A: You're right, no doubt. But a level 50+ individual is not only a media persona, but also a combat unit. Showing off new tanks at the parade can be nice and good for the image, but not when someone can calculate the thickness of armor, weaknesses of running gear and even the exact location of all tank divisions in the country and ways to cut off their communications, based on reservations and circumstantial evidence.

There are enough detractors at this level to last you several lifetimes, with very few exceptions like hermits, monks, and other saints (in all aspects, not just class).
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