The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode focuses on the God Totems found in Avowed, looking at the four deities associated with those totems, and how each god totem aligns with our Envoy's journey throughout the game's narrative. As well, what does it mean for your character to BE a Woedican, Skaenite, Waelite, or Galawain..ian? ite? Hope...
Aug 17, 2025•55 min•Season 1Ep. 144
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week I turn to the new weapons and armour from the latest major update (Patch 1.5) and check out some lore from those items. TO BE CLEAR I do not go through each and every item, that would be a ridiculous use of your time; but I do go through a few and explain the lore that's presented in them. The rest I'll leav...
Aug 03, 2025•32 min
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode asks the question: "Does the Living Lands, as presented in Avowed, line up with the lore we see from Pillars of Eternity about the Living Lands?" Bit of a mouthful I know, but it's something I was wondering about in a recent playthrough. Avowed is a much more different game than Pillars of Eternity...
Jul 27, 2025•1 hr 5 min
WARNING: This episode contains ***Major Spoilers*** for: AVOWED PILLARS OF ETERNITY, and PILLARS OF ETERNITY II: DEADFIRE Listen at your own discretion. The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode we discuss the entity of Sapadal, which is tied closely to the narrative of Avowed, and is also connected to some major spoilers from the Pillars ...
Jul 13, 2025•42 min•Season 1Ep. 141
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode asks the question: "Can we create a Monk, in Avowed, that is lore-friendly to how we saw them in Pillars of Eternity?" worldofeora@gmail.com @worldofeora ko-fi.com/worldofeora
Jul 05, 2025•41 min•Season 1Ep. 140
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode discusses the Archmage Ryngrim, whom we read about in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, but actually get to *see* in Avowed. In Deadfire all we knew were three things: (1) she's an archmage; (2) Tayn is desperately trying to befriend her; and (3) her magic specializations seem to focus on fear-base...
Jun 22, 2025•59 min•Season 1Ep. 139
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week I springboard of a recent Reddit post I created on r/Avowed wherein I asked you, the community, about what references do we see, in Avowed, to the Pillars of Eternity games. I had several finds of my own, but the community together easily tripled that list. This episode basically runs through that list, and ...
Jun 08, 2025•59 min•Season 1Ep. 138
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This episode ORIGINALLY started off as a "various unique items" lore episode, but it kind of turned into an episode all about Necropants, a much-beloved piece of "armor" you can acquire in Avowed. There's plenty of tangents I go on, and the lore is all over the place, but it's a fun episode. You'll wanna check this on...
May 26, 2025•36 min•Season 1Ep. 137
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode dives back into some foundational PILLARS OF ETERNITY lore, but still includes Avowed stuff as well (they're all in the same world, after all). Focusing on Wizards today. Mostly we discuss how it is that wizards cast spells, but we also discuss a famous magic academy: Bragganhyl Academy, which has ...
May 20, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 136
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode looks at a six-part set of in-game tomes aptly titled "Maxims of the Pargrunen". In there we see a direct change of Pargrunen-ness that the dwarves in Avowed have compared to their brethren elsewhere in the world. worldofeora@gmail.com @worldofeora ko-fi.com/worldofeora...
May 13, 2025•36 min•Season 1Ep. 135
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. Spoilers for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire in this week's episode. Nothing critical path spoiler, but some interesting lore you find in other questing. This week's episode we dive into the lore found in five books, as found in the "Dawntreader" sidequest. These are the "History of the Living Lands" books you may ha...
May 05, 2025•41 min•Season 1Ep. 134
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. Tangential spoilers for the ending segments of the game. KIND OF directly related to the mainline narrative, but technically something you could miss in detail. I leave it to you to decide. This week's episode focuses on a series of documents you can find, called "Orisons" later in the game, which allude to the histor...
Apr 27, 2025•57 min•Season 1Ep. 133
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. Sorry for the delay in episodes, I've had some life changes lately that I'm still adjusting to. This week's episode, now that it's out, features a talk regarding the origins of "Fior mes Iverno", the main settlement in the second zone of Avowed (Emerald Stair) and its surprising connection to ... Skaenism? Is that the...
Apr 13, 2025•40 min•Season 1Ep. 132
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. Sorry for no episode last week, I've started a new job and also had a mental health "crisis" (it wasn't really one, but felt like it at the time). This week I briefly cover the topic of "Soul Twins", and also "soul maladies" at large. I was inspired by a specific quest in early Avowed (though I don't specify the quest...
Mar 29, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 131
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode focuses on some of the lore we see in Dawnshore's "pick-up-able" quests. For context, in each of Avowed's mapped regions you have several repeating "pick up" quests/activities (no, not fetch quests, more like encounters). Such as: ancient memory fragments, god totem pieces, pargrunen cache location...
Mar 16, 2025•57 min•Season 1Ep. 130
[WARNING] : Spoilers for the side quest "Dawntreader" found in this episode. This is a side quest found in the first zone (Dawnshore) of the game Avowed, and can be accessed fairly early, or several level-ups into the game. The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode features looking at the 'Dawntreader' side quest for all the lore we get in...
Mar 09, 2025•45 min•Season 1Ep. 129
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode features an overview of the major factions/themes/lore as seen in Avowed. Largely it centres around your character, the Godlike Envoy of Aedyr and the major factions seen in Avowed: The Aedyran Empire, the Steel Garrote paladin order, and the Living Lands itself. There's also a bit of talk about so...
Mar 03, 2025•52 min
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode focuses on (1) my first impressions on Avowed and how the playthrough is going; and (2) the most important lore touchstones (and other episodes to check out) that I've seen so far. It's a very good episode to start out on for new listeners and old listeners alike. I top of the episode with a readin...
Feb 24, 2025•52 min•Season 1Ep. 127
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode marks a very special moment for us here, because (1) well, the game is OUT, baby! and (2) I got to sit down with Cameron (aka: Venus Theory) to discuss the Score for Avowed, which was really great because he also composed said score. We discuss a lot of stuff, not just Avowed. We talk about YouTube...
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 126
This is a unique/special episode of the podcast, that I don't think would fit in at any other point in time. In this week's episode, I just decided to give you the full story of this podcast's inception, creation, and journey of where we are today. I end of the latter half of the episode with some thank you's to people who have helped keep this show going. Whether it's friends/family or individuals who emailed me or just the people on reddit (especially in the early days), you've had a positive ...
Feb 10, 2025•49 min•Season 1Ep. 125
This ancient [podcast episode] is [recorded on] silver thread[s]. The broken [vocal patterns sound like] the shape of an eye. The [audio] at first appears to be gibberish, a collection of symbols and characters with no apparent connection between them. As you study [], however, you could swear that the [audio] begin[s] to move. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, they shift and [merge] and realign, and you are able to [understand the content]: "jALSj3!508fAjdurslsdk7&*#$%%&lsdffjaoeofjda'dlrke...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 125
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their upcoming action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode marks my return behind the microphone, and it's great to be back. This time we are FINISHING the "History of Eora" series with (what I'm calling) the Apocalypse Books, the final four volumes in this anthology of in-game books. In there we discuss world-ending ice ages; cataclysmic god batt...
Jan 12, 2025•36 min•Season 1Ep. 123
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their upcoming action RPG: Avowed. This episode is a smattering of recordings from a year or so ago that I did about some more of the off-screen Stronghold Adventures from the first Pillars game. I'm still in the middle of a very busy Christmas season delivering with UPS, so I haven't had time to record a decent episode (but don't worry, I hav...
Dec 30, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 122
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their upcoming action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode will focus on several theories that both myself and contributors on Reddit have come up with regarding "The Voice" in Avowed, as well as our Godlike nature. This episode is entirely speculative, but it draws on a substantial amount of lore from the previous Pillars games. Interestingly, th...
Dec 16, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 121
I touch on Spoilers for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire around the 30min mark. Once you hear the jazz music interlude if you don't want to risk it feel free to jump off, but I try not to say anything spoilery outright, I just skirt around it as best as I can. Nextly, apologies for this episode being a week late. I've made the episode a bit longer than usual to make up for that. The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their c...
Dec 08, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 120
Spoilers for Aloth's companion quests in both Pillars games, but NO major narrative spoilers for the crit path of either games. The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their upcoming action RPG: Avowed. This week we look at Aloth, a companion from both Pillars of Eternity games, and fan-favourite within the series. Our resident Wizard from the Aedyr empire, this episode talks about ...
Nov 25, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 119
NO SPOILERS :) The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their upcoming action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode discusses the major city settlement in the second Pillars game (Deadfire), "Neketaka". We look at the city overall, with some of its history and culture, before doing a brief dive into each of the city districts. Finally, we top the episode off with a look at some ancient ru...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 118
NO SPOILERS THIS EPISODE :) The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their upcoming action RPG: Avowed. This week's episode we discuss A TALKING SWORD!! Yep, that's right. We look at the story behind Modwyr, and her "owner", Yngfrith. It makes for an interesting tale, and also some good audio clips. worldofeora@gmail.com @worldofeora ko-fi.com/worldofeora...
Nov 11, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 117
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their upcoming action RPG: Avowed. Warning: Major spoilers for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire in this episode. This week's episode discusses the lost city of Ukaizo, which is an ancient city of mythology and legend in the Huana culture (the tribes that live in the Deadfire Archipelago, the setting for the second Pillars game). What Ukaizo re...
Nov 04, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 116
The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their upcoming action RPG: Avowed. [major spoilers for ***BOTH*** Pillars of Eternity games in this episode] This week's episode follows up on our series looking at the "History of Eora" anthology from the second Pillars game. The theme for today's tomes: Engwith. Looking at some of their origins, their political ties, and cunning hubris. worl...
Oct 27, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 115
