rest, my brother, and tell me all about the ocean

[extramural]

FORM: Sending crystal.
SENDER: The Outsider
RECIPIENT: everyone
WHAT: Poking the hornets nest.
WHEN: Nowish?
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: He creepy.

What a tumultuous time it is in this world. An empire at war, ancient protectors showing what many feel to be their true colors, strangers falling from the sky -- the more things change, the more they stay the same.

I am not of this world, though it bares similarities to my own -- namely a prominent disdain for the other and ridiculous class differences -- as much it it shows its differences. Empires rise and fall; I admittedly have little interest in wars that have played out hundreds of times in similar ways across hundreds of worlds.

However, I do want to know what you find interesting about this world, if you will share.

Comments

helping

[byblow]

The other what?

oh my god

[extramural]

I imagine that depends on the individual in question.

[rowancrowned]

[ thank you sweet eru he's been planning this melodrama for at least a month. ]

Nugs.

[extramural]

[ brofist ]

Nugs?

[ Guess who hasn't seen one yet!! ]

[rowancrowned]

They have [ pause. ] hands.

And the Men of this world think that if it has hands, it must pray.

[ thranduil you read one treatise on giants that had some lunatic suggesting as much- ]

[justice_is_blond]

[He sounds entirely out of it, like someone who really shouldn't have access to a crystal at all right now.]

There's a... a very great... other. Fearing other. Others. Fear is bad. Lives and fear...

[A pause while he tries to gather his thoughts. It's harder when there's only one set of scattered thoughts to collect, somehow.]

Does your world have cats? It should have cats.

[extramural]

[ okay but

what about the rest of the body, thranduil ]

And I take it you believe they do not?

[ WHAT IS A NUG HE'S JUST IMAGINING A BLOB WITH HANDS ]

[extramural]

[ popcorn.gif ]

Yet there is always fear and few attempts at understanding.

[ please sit down or something, Anders ]

Yes, there are cats. I imagine that if there were more of them, the plague in Dunwall would not have been as much of a problem. [ Beat. ] Or the rats would have been better fed.

[justice_is_blond]

[He's even lying down. But grief and headpain and suddenly not having a voice in your head make for a very difficult combination.]

Be-because fear is easy. Fear is easy. You can control people if they, if you teach them to fear others and trust you. They want easy. Many want easy. Understanding is work. And worth it. But work.

Cats are work and worth it too. You should have had more cats.

[rowancrowned]

No. [ he scoffs. ] However, they do.

[ well, he's not. wrong. ]

... I had assumed you would agree with my sentiments.

[theproperglove]

It would be easier to share what I do not find fascinating about the world, this one or otherwise.

Do you not think the same of the place you're from?

[extramural]

I have never had any sort of pet, personally.

[extramural]

For all I know, a nug is another sentient species in this world. If it is not- then no, I doubt they pray.

[extramural]

No.

People are predictable. The world has cycles -- growth and prosperity and betrayal and ruin. Only those that do the unexpected, that make choices I cannot predict, are interesting.

But this is a new world.

[theproperglove]

People are predictable, certainly. ( Her voice is laced with a tinge of amusement. She would be a poor diplomat if she was unable to read others. ) That does not necessarily mean they cannot be interesting.

Has anyone surprised you? Since you've been here in Thedas, that is.

[extramural]

Several, but- that is to be expected. There are different races, different cultures here. Even the common beasts are different and uncommon for it, the first time I saw them.

Your cattle have very flat teeth.

[theproperglove]

Very...flat teeth? Are your cows pointy, then? But that would mean -- no! ( She gasps. ) Don't tell me they're carnivorous!

[extramural]

Omnivores. The predators in my world have to try a bit harder to kill and eat blood oxen than I imagine they do for Thedosian cattle. Those that fail are sometimes eaten.

[justice_is_blond]

I meant for the plague. Rats. Rats with plague?

[disgracedchampion]

I suspect when you say the other you mean those who are marginalized or different in some way?

[motherfucking_ghost]

I think magic's pretty interesting, but that's because I come from a place that doesn't have magic. So. That's just me.

Dragons? Dragons are interesting in a 'fascinated by terrible giant predators that remind you of dinosaurs' way. I mean I wouldn't wanna meet one, but knowing they exist is...a thing.

Uhhhh oh! Also. I guess it's not really this world but something between worlds, but I gotta say, interdimensional hopping is a new one for me.

[extramural]

I'm sure if people had known a plague was to be introduced, they would have stocked up, as it were.

[extramural]

Is there something else I might mean?

[extramural]

Magic can be interesting even to those who know it, depending on the type and what is done with it. Every once in a while, someone is more than a little creative.

I imagine that is new for a great deal of people. Do you remember the moments between? [ Because he sure doesn't. :| ]

[disgracedchampion]

The inscrutable other, I suppose, not so much a person as an idea.