🚨SPOILERS FOR FANTASY HIGH JUNIOR YEAR EPISODE 8🚨
Dimension20 "Fantasy High Junior Year"
Episode 8 "Fracas at the Frostyfaire Folk Festival"
Timestamp: 39:40
Video Length: 4min. & 23sec.
Research into Cassandra and Ruvina + Learning about Oblivati Mori (Pt.1 | Pt.2 | ‣Pt.3)
Brennan: "But that would mean that if someone was able to write it, they would know it, but they would have to have a way of writing it without breaking Obliviati Mori. There's two pieces of information you guys can glean from that right away, the first of which is that belief and worship and the weird, tenuous alliances between gods where some of them are from the same region but have conflicting domains, and some gods have the same domain as other gods but are still ascendent in different areas or for different kinds of cultures or anything like that, all the gods have this agreement that is basically like, for lack of a better word, we're all playing the game, and if your fucking buddy or your pal or someone you love loses fair and square, you're not allowed to go to your mortal worshipers and say, "Hey, can we peel off a few followers to my buddy who's having a hard time right now?" It's basically like a law of, you are not allowed to root for each other. You are not allowed to pull for each other. You're not allowed to put a thumb on the scale in that way. If your flocks choose to have you work together, you can work together, but when a god dies, that's it. You're not allowed to cheat by reminding mortals that there was this other deity."
Siobhan: "But if we went and asked another deity about this god, would they then be able to tell us? Or would we have to specifically say their name?"
Brennan: "According to Obliviati Mori, they would not be able to tell you. But the law is a law, which immediately to you, Adaine, would tell you, well, any rule has ways of working around it."
Siobhan: "Ok, Great. So it's a law, but laws can be broken."
Brennan: "Yeah. And there might be enormous arcane penalties for so doing, but effectively, you know that there are dead gods. There are rules concerning how the other gods can refer to those dead gods to mortals, if they are even allowed to. And to a certain degree... But again, the second, biggest thing is, of course, this wouldn't be a thing unless gods could always remember dead gods."
Siobhan: "Mhmm."
Zac: "So do we have a sense of, when Lydia and her crew were on this mission, they never knew the name of this god, right? Or did they at one point know it?"
Brennan: "Lydia can confirm for you, she's like,"
Lydia: "We never knew the name of the god. We knew Bakur, the fiend, but-"
Fig: "Even though gods can't say the name, the name could still exist out there in texts."
Lydia: "Exactly, which is why a lot of, you know, if a god is trying to be crushed or scoured, you try to break their idols, erase their texts, burn the holy texts, all that kind of thing. But theoretically, if we had found the name written somewhere on text, that would have done it.
Fabian: "Then it makes sense why Cassandra said that thing about being like, I thought you were dead."
Fig: "I thought you were dead."
*multiple "yeah's" at the table* 😂🤣💀
Fabian: "Mm~."
Riz: "So if you had to get around it, maybe a way to do it would be to possess someone or something. Is it possible that Lucy..."
Fig: "Was possessed?"
Riz: "...was possessed?"
Fig: "All the Rat Grinders are suspiciously qui-. No one's grieving Lucy or anything like that."
Adaine: "Yeah, it's weird, right?"
Fig: "So the Rat Grinders are in on this, in some capacity. And I even think it's possible that, the way that Ivy reacted to me, either she saw through my disguise and so she was being cheeky, or Lucy's around somehow and they've just found another way to proselytize-"
Fabian: "Oh-! Maybe- Yes! 'Cause she did beckon to you, right? To be like-"
Fig: "Yeah, she was like, 'Oh- Okay, we're meeting up.'"
Fabian: "Ooo~ Yes, like a possession thing, where somebody's, the god is Lucy and- and-"
Murph: "What happened to that armor after Gilear had it?"
Emily: "What happened with the armor?"
Brennan: "He'd stolen it from Hell, and he just returned it to you when you guys got back from spring break."
Emily: "Where is it?"
Murph: "So, it just should be in Hell?"
Brennan: "Yeah, the Armor of Pride is back in the Hall of the Armors of Sin."
Murph: "Okay."
Brennan: "So the Armor of Pride is just down in Hell."
Emily: "And all the demons are archfey are fallen deities?"
Brennan: "Unclear. Some great celestials and fiends are created by gods in their status as celestials or fiends. Bakur was created by a god that he could no longer name, right, and so there's certain- But it looks like some divinities, some archfey or some celestials or some things like that, are gods who, their worship is waning and waning and waning or their divinity is waning and waning and waning, and they just make a decision to, rather than face death, become something that relies a little bit less on faith."