Anti-Villain: It turns out that the Sorrow is a construct of a world destroyed by the Tides, designed to prevent the Tides from being used to destroy more worlds.Ambiguously Brown: All the "normal" human characters look this way, as a result of it being the far future where all current ethnicities have mixed with each other to the point of unrecognizability.Amazon Brigade: By the end of the first act, a female Castoff can travel with Callistege, Rhin and Matkina.The murdens you meet in-game hardly challenge the stereotype. Always Chaotic Evil: Most humans view the murdens, crow-like abhuman scavengers, as this. Reading the Kickstarter-backer-only comic "So Long As You Can See the Moon" not only gives some backstory on Rhin's relationship with Otero but also some info on the nature of her world and by extension of the KKC world. Word of God from Patrick Rothfuss is that Rhin's homeworld is in fact Temerant, the setting of The Kingkiller Chronicle, and that she specifically comes from the little-explored country of Modeg.The later-released Torment supplement for the tabletop game reveals that the NPCs Jernaugh (the chiurgeon in Cliff's Edge) and Clairon (the military recruiter in the Fifth Eye) were members of the Jagged Dream, going some way to explaining their actions. There's a few tidbits from the Numenera tabletop RPG that flesh out the setting a bit, like explaining the nature of the "Jagged Dream" that the Changing God brought to the Sagus Protectorate in Aadiris' body (a cult worshiping war and conflict that seeks to start trouble wherever they go).It also confirms the player character's suspicions that the Observant Speck is literally the same person as Chila's best friend Speck from centuries ago, given Complete Immortality by the numenera. Silver - The Four Lessons of the Great Chila is the story most integrated with the game itself, and tells the same story you can hear from the Observant Speck about Chila the Great in much more detail.
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