I’ve been wondering what the Orb really is and why we would want it. I’ve come to something that is probably dumb, but holds a place in my heart. I think that rather than making the Orb, Zot was an adventurer who stole it from it’s original place in Pandemonium. This is why the Lords of Pandemonium aren’t amused when you break it’s cloaking spell and try and finish what Zot started. I think the Orb might have allowed a king to rule over Pandemonium, but now all the lords are fighting. I also think that Zot was trying to bring the Orb to the surface, but it’s corrupting influence took hold of him. In a last gambit, he may have created the Realm of Zot, and sealed it with the rune gate so that only the strongest adventurers, those able to resist the Orb’s corruption, could free it.
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What if Zot is the friends we made along the way? (None)
~ Saint
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I agree that it’s got to be connected/owned by entities of pandemonium somehow because of the orb run.
My head canon is that the zot lungs are a factory for blowing magic into the orb. The ambient magical pressure in the dungeon is quite high which explains your character’s rapid progression (despite coming into the dungeon weak with a background). Once you take the orb out of the dungeon, the magical pressure inside is too great and it pops, likely killing the player.