[ "Dreamwalking can be fatal" that's definitely new. Granted neither of them (from what Caster had heard of) has been granted this talent in full. No one he knows hops from a Dream to a Dream. It's the opposite, they are all pulled in during one night of a month— ]
Is there any relation between that Dream we share and the Moons, I wonder? There is a correlation in dates, and the magic is, in theory, the strongest during Full Moon, is it not?
[ Not for him, and not for other Mirrobounds from what he had seen. But he is not sure how well known this particular aspect is. As always, he is a bit reluctant to share what could be exploited as a weakness. ]
Speaking of which... The stories tell that mirrors in Looking-Glass House were a gift from the Sisters. Yes, the Moons themselves. They're an aspect, if not literal bodies, of pair of primordial goddesses. Their names long forgotten, but they still watch over the surface.
[ It's a story people tell in taverns at night. Someone might have made a song about it but everything is lost in so many layers of metaphors that without knowing the legend itself, one would never know it's about the Coven ]
Or do they? [ And then there is that ]
Back where I am from, even in different mythos the role of the primordial gods is very often similar. They create the world, they populate it, but then the next generation comes and dethrones them. Or— they are simply just tossed aside as those no longer needed.
[ Who needs a mother when all of the creation has been already made and is now self-sufficient? ]
One goddess was mourning in such pain that she was ready to destroy all her children that had abandoned her. I heard a similar story here, for some people believe, the Sisters created Cwyld as a punishment.
[ Those are "just" stories though. But there are always grains of truth in legends. Maybe some powerful beings created these gifts then left, later remembered as the gods? Still, he chuckles, and a joking lilt enters his tone. A storyteller told his part ]
That's it if you choose to entertain a possibility that gods exist and can affect this world. [ Or that a concept of their existence is a force strong enough to affect the world. But really, this world is full of magic, they have been brought here by an unknown force that eludes the investigation of the local population... Assuming that gods might exist and might even be partially related to everything here isn't that far fetched.
But Caster himself is a man of myth— divinity isn't a concept he is hard to be sold on ]
I couldn't find names of the gods in local pantheon although I've collected some aspects they govern over. [ Which on itself is curious. The erasure of names. ] But as I've been studying the runes, I found that the current alphabet has been in use for only around three centuries. That means a lot of knowledge is to be found in scripts older than that.
[ Admittedly, he did have a headstart due to the similarity to Ogham runes ]
If someone with similar interest wants to exchange notes I am always open for that. Should an expedition deeper into the Wilde happen, whatever traces of the past we might find will probably use the older script.
[ Would be useful if they had few people capable of reading them, yes? ]
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Is there any relation between that Dream we share and the Moons, I wonder? There is a correlation in dates, and the magic is, in theory, the strongest during Full Moon, is it not?
[ Not for him, and not for other Mirrobounds from what he had seen. But he is not sure how well known this particular aspect is. As always, he is a bit reluctant to share what could be exploited as a weakness. ]
Speaking of which... The stories tell that mirrors in Looking-Glass House were a gift from the Sisters. Yes, the Moons themselves. They're an aspect, if not literal bodies, of pair of primordial goddesses. Their names long forgotten, but they still watch over the surface.
[ It's a story people tell in taverns at night. Someone might have made a song about it but everything is lost in so many layers of metaphors that without knowing the legend itself, one would never know it's about the Coven ]
Or do they? [ And then there is that ]
Back where I am from, even in different mythos the role of the primordial gods is very often similar. They create the world, they populate it, but then the next generation comes and dethrones them. Or— they are simply just tossed aside as those no longer needed.
[ Who needs a mother when all of the creation has been already made and is now self-sufficient? ]
One goddess was mourning in such pain that she was ready to destroy all her children that had abandoned her. I heard a similar story here, for some people believe, the Sisters created Cwyld as a punishment.
[ Those are "just" stories though. But there are always grains of truth in legends. Maybe some powerful beings created these gifts then left, later remembered as the gods? Still, he chuckles, and a joking lilt enters his tone. A storyteller told his part ]
That's it if you choose to entertain a possibility that gods exist and can affect this world. [ Or that a concept of their existence is a force strong enough to affect the world. But really, this world is full of magic, they have been brought here by an unknown force that eludes the investigation of the local population... Assuming that gods might exist and might even be partially related to everything here isn't that far fetched.
But Caster himself is a man of myth— divinity isn't a concept he is hard to be sold on ]
I couldn't find names of the gods in local pantheon although I've collected some aspects they govern over. [ Which on itself is curious. The erasure of names. ] But as I've been studying the runes, I found that the current alphabet has been in use for only around three centuries. That means a lot of knowledge is to be found in scripts older than that.
[ Admittedly, he did have a headstart due to the similarity to Ogham runes ]
If someone with similar interest wants to exchange notes I am always open for that. Should an expedition deeper into the Wilde happen, whatever traces of the past we might find will probably use the older script.
[ Would be useful if they had few people capable of reading them, yes? ]