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[qelizhus]

3 excerpts of a conversation between tyren cator & amanan 

transcript & tag list below the cut. beware spoilers, lol. 

clip one: 

“I will always be human,” Tyren cuts in, firm. “I will always be human, so long as I have my memories, and my love, and—”

“Yes, yes, you’re right. That’s my point. You have the physical form of a deity, now. You have all of our powers, our gifts. But you think with the mind of a human. And that is why you won’t understand why I did what I did. We—we have a different society than you did, Tyren. And you won’t—you won’t understand any of that, you won’t belong among the Palace City, if you don’t accept that you’ve died. If you—if you want any of this, you must assimilate.” 

“I don’t want to assimilate,” Tyren blurts, then stops. Quieter, they say, “But you didn’t assimilate. Did you? You didn’t.” 

clip two: 

“Isn’t relevant? You’ve taken me away from the place you want me to assimilate into... for what? Finding a foreign god? A deity that doesn’t even have power over his own subjects, nor any influence on the world I come from?” 

“He is not a foreign god, Tyren, he’s—”

“Your friend,” Tyren says, voice flat. Unimpressed. 

“He was once my friend, yes.” 

“And now?” 

clip three: 

Amanan laughs and leans forward. In a playful, conspiring tone, they say, “Because I’m the only one who would listen to him. Everyone else—everyone else we grew up with, us founders—has a... grudge, of sorts, against the Spirit Lord. All for different reasons, of course.”

“And you don’t?” 

They hum, tilting their face to face the sky. “I don’t think I could hold a grudge even if I wanted to.” 

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[qelizhus]

Storyteller Saturday: Your characters appear in a portrait/picture painted by a famous artist, who is the artist and what is the scene?

hey!! thank you @inexorableblob for popping by, i’m sorry i’ve been so behind in answering asks. 

the fun thing is i’ve actually thought of this before! my answer is kind of a cop-out, but i wanna talk about the deities in the odes ;)

because they’re their own sort of religion/myth to the humans, they get represented artistically in many ways. 

the one who’s represented the most often would be the Spirit Lord, for obvious reasons. He’s like the king of the deities, in a sense, and does most of the dead-spirit-judging. he’s a big symbol of authority and power, and stuff. 

Lady Amara and Riya get drawn a lot, too. They’re the ones who created the “human race”, so they’d get a lot of respect too, I think. 

After that, it would be Carena (whose moniker I have yet to settle on), but she’s the ‘godly mother-figure’. The idea behind drawing her is that if she takes notice of you, you’re more likely to become a deity yourself. 

After that, it would be Myrau, for less pleasant reasons. She’s a common figure for fairy-tale bedtime stories, a warning for little children. There are bigger pictures of her, of course, and more positive ones, but warnings through her are the most prominent. 

anyway, thank you for the ask!

[qelizhus]

🖊

thank you, @bittersweetbisexual for the ask!

today, i’m gonna be gushing about Frelik, aka the Spirit Lord. bc it gets kinda long and it’s just me rambling, i’ll be dropping this under the cut. 

see, Frelik’s a pretty chill dude. he’s one of those people who are infinitely better people as a kid than an adult, if there are any people like that. (normally it’s the people who get nicer as they get older, i think, but The PressureTM gets to him. he’s still a well-meaning guy, but like 70% of my characters, he just makes terrible decisions.)

so picture this: Frelik is a cool, friendly, kinda-shy blob of mist. your usual guy who grew up on a dangerous world 90% unsupervised with friends. sounds fun. so, as this happens, he meets a few more mist-blobs and they parade around the dangerous world trying to Find Stuff. he’s not the one trying to find stuff, but he’s a cool, supportive friend. 

and then, one of his friends die. oh no! say the rest of his friends, frelik, it’s your job to do stuff now. save ‘em… actually, no, save all of us. ‘cause we need saving. 

so, this poor fella goes: yeah! you do! i’m smart, i can do this! despite having, like, 0% confidence in himself or background info/experience. he does a pretty good job, though! good for you, Frelik. 

so his friends go: wow! frelik, you’re such a cool dude. can you keep doing this for, like, ever? 

and he goes: yeah! you bet! ‘cause he’s a nice guy who likes his friends. so he does. here comes the Palace City and the whole… society of mist-blobs, i guess. he’s doing a pretty good job ruling the place; gets a nice new moniker etc etc.

then one (and a half) of his friends goes: yeah, sorry, i’m not really feeling this and ditches him for another world. yay! it’s ok, he’s still got Carena (and Endelor, Amanan, and Iker, i guess, but mostly just Carena). he’s feeling a little sad and a lot stressed at this point–it’s tough work, and most of his friends have just kinda left him to his devices with Big Expectations. so he creates Lao (not mist, surprise!) to help him with work. now, knowing from personal experience that no supervision is not always the perfect solution, he’s kinda harsh on Lao. sorry, buddy. Lao grows quickly, and they end up having a Mostly Okay relationship… nevermind, i lied. they’re on OK terms, but like, it’s not super healthy. it gets better though, so don’t worry on that front. 

anyway, Carena comes along and says, hey frelik, you look like you’re in trouble. need some help? i can raise the entirety of us mist-people and all of riya/amara’s noble ‘humans’, if you want. 

Frelik, not knowing better, says okay! just make sure they love me even though i’m not doing anything!

bitterly, Carena says, yeah! sure! no problem! 

of course, there is a problem. there are a Lot of problems, but Frelik doesn’t know that there are any. there are so many problems Carena kicks her daughter out of the Palace City and Tyren comes knocking on his front door and then Rylee comes knocking on his front door (after tyren leaves, ofc, nothing is ever easy for rylee im sorry) and at this point, Frelik is both:

a) really confused bc he’s not up to date with the going-ons of the Palace City (smh) and 

b) really tired. 

so anyway, that’s Frelik, the Spirit Lord. 

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