crystal;

[arkitect]

FORM: crystal
SENDER: Emet-Selch
RECIPIENT: Everybody in Riftwatch
NOTES: none atm!

Well, a bit late is better than never, as they say.

[perhaps 'late' isn't entirely accurate, given that the delay was intentional on his part, but. details! sometimes you show up and things get busy, and that certainly isn't his fault.]

If we haven't met previously, I am Emet-Selch-- and as I suppose my presence here makes any titles not currently applicable, we may leave it at that for now.

But for those of you not currently occupied with more... pressing matters, I have a curiosity or two of my own I should like to satisfy, wherever the time may be found for them. Further study of this world's magicks, for one, particularly if you've much experience in the field of creation; reading may be helpful enough, but I find there to be no true substitution for first-hand demonstration. If you happen to have the talent and the inclination to indulge a relatively new arrival's questions, then do let me know.

On a separate and more mundane subject, however, if you're familiar with the stars and celestial bodies of Thedas: I have some interest in them as well, whether the mythology and constellations you know, or more practical applications such as navigation. My interests do lean more toward the former, but there's nothing wrong with a more well-rounded study.

Comments

[arkitect]

Something of the sort. But every being considered to be a deity is similar, at its core: something created through faith, through prayer, through sacrifice. The lesser manifestations were somewhat fairly treated as a threat, as their nature makes it nigh impossible for them to be truly benign presences even if they wish it to be so... but as I said, they could be an excuse as much as a true danger.

[notathreat]

Gotcha.

Here, they're mostly not involved. Or at least I haven't seen any real evidence of 'em yet.

[arkitect]

Merely uninvolved, more likely than not. Where one finds believers, so too will you find the object of their worship-- whether it existed before them or they brought it into being.

[notathreat]

In my world plenty of people believed in things that never showed up.

... but I've seen enough things show up now to wonder.