This post's authors have general content warnings that might apply to the current post.
Accept our Terms of Service
Our Terms of Service have recently changed! Please read and agree to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy
cy(mbe)l[le|i]ne
+ Show First Post
Total: 1267
Posts Per Page:
Permalink

Oh, that's.... convenient, in the sense that if it weren't true that would be really horrible.  There are higher planes of existence????

Permalink

Apparently!

Permalink

What are they like???  What does that even mean?????

Permalink

The book is not amazingly clear about this, there's a lot of metaphor and some of the angels and heroes quoted as reporting on the phenomenon maybe contradict each other.

Permalink

Huh...  Maybe this is something to ask a priest about.

Are the heroes and angels and stuff doing sea-people heroics, with like, killing their enemies and probably-not-eating-them-specifically?  Or is there something more human going on here.

Permalink

Nobody gets eaten in this book. There is a fair amount of enemy-killing, though there's also some natural disaster relief and famine aversion and peaceful conversions of wicked pagans.

Permalink

She thinks natural disaster relief is pretty cool, personally.  What's a famine oh that's a famine???  Wow.  She should learn more about where her food is coming from.  What are the sorts of things wicked pagans do?

Permalink

Wicked pagans do human sacrifice, or persecute virtuous Dualists who were just going about their own business, or make deals with and take instructions from demons (agents of the forces of evil).

Permalink

Oh good, not anything Cyllene's done.  Unless it's not obvious whether people are demons??

Permalink

It is sometimes not really clear how anyone was supposed to tell that somebody was a demon, actually.

Permalink

That's bad!!  What... traits.... do demons have........?

Permalink

They're on the side of evil! They oppose the angels! Sometimes they also do bad things but not always where, like, anyone can see them.

Permalink

 

She guesses that as long as peaceful conversions are possible it might not so much matter, politically, whether she's been a wicked pagan?  Do ex-wicked-pagans seem to be treated basically fine?

Permalink

Seems like it, yeah, though sometimes they dramatically give all they possess to the needy out of remorse or something.

Permalink

Maybe she'll just be able to give the needy a lot of things without actually needing to not have any of her possessions?  Does anyone else do anything like that in here.

Permalink

There's lots of giving things to the needy and sometimes the givers don't seem to be impoverished afterwards!

Permalink

Okay, that's good.  Huh, she - is Jane around?

Permalink

Jane's sitting nearby reading an unrelated book of her own, yes.

Permalink

She writes,

May people bathe daily?

and then wave-wave-waves for attention.

Permalink

"- may they? Yes, miss."

Permalink

She should really finish reading this before tomorrow morning, but it's been really a lot to absorb and she could use a nice break.

I may care to, then.

Permalink

"Yes miss. I will tell the librarian you're borrowing that copy of Duality?"

Permalink

Nod.  She should learn more about the system involved here, but in the meantime: time to go to bath.

Permalink

Jane checks out the book for her and wheels her to the bath and gets her a tub filled up.

Permalink

- Nope!  Cyllene gets struck with quite a bit of pain and writhes around trying to clutch at Jane's hands until she stops moving.

Total: 1267
Posts Per Page: