video; un: mogget

[themogget]

I want to hear about the creation of the worlds of the people here.

[It's that cat again. His bright eyes are sharp on the screen, giving the impression he's really looking at anyone who happens to see his message and respond.] Whether it be myths or known fact. I'm interested to know it.

[Perhaps it's simply part of his way of 'caring' about more things than himself. To say nothing of the typically brusque way that he delivers his query.]

For my own, life capable of independent existence was brought into being by seven of nine beings known as the Bright Shiners - the first Free Magic beings to develop conscious thought. [He pauses a moment, considering.]

As for why, I'm not certain even now. Vanity, perhaps. What other reason is there to create life in such a way?

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Video | UN: koko1010

[scriptwriter]

Wait, seriously? "Bright Shiners" sounds like a rock band if you ask me.

[Hm... Kotarou actually takes a moment to think about this. After his experiences on the moon, he could say that he's gotten a bigger picture on how the world and everything beyond that had worked.]

In my world... There's an essence of life that I like to call "Aurora". Every planet and lifeform carry this life force within them and it's used to build and create worlds from scratch. Just like how all lifeforms have a limit of life, planets have a limit of Aurora too.

[themogget]

[There's a faint narrowing of Mogget's eyes at that first comment, but he lets it pass for now... because he does not want to divert the topic by asking what a 'rock band' is.]

Hm... interesting. Do you consider this to be a form of magic or is it approached from a more scientific angle?

[scriptwriter]

That's a bit hard to say. I guess it would define on what you consider a "miracle".

[It came in all sorts of forms, after all. There was still a lot of mysteries about Aurora that not even Kotarou could figure out, but he knew plenty from his personal experiences.]

In some ways, it's very magical-like... But it can handled in a scientific way too. It usually comes in the form of pure energy, but it can transformed into all sorts of things like liquid. It's a pretty damn flexible thing, that's for sure!

[themogget]

Hm. Transformed by someone like yourself?

[Mogget has the strange talent of being able to sound utterly bored of something while being very interested at the same time. He is keeping his eyes trained on Kotarou as he speaks.]

Does one need a special talent to handle this energy?

[scriptwriter]

W-Was it that easy to figure out? I thought I was being really mysterious here!

[Kotarou often had the subtle of a bulldozer, but he continues even if he wasn't sure if the little kitty was very interested in his tale. It was a good thing that Kotarou hated long silences, so he knew how to keep a conversation going! Plus he really liked cats, so he'd give him as much attention as he wants.]

Technically, anyone can use Aurora.... But only a very small few can use this energy to its fullest potential. But if you're a Summoner, then you can definitely pull a powerful familiar like rolling for a gacha game!

Video / un; Berserker

[beewulf]

Multiple creators breathing life into the world? That certainly is a running theme. It does bring up question of similar, and dissimilar everyone's worlds are.

[That might be a thought for another time.]

Hm, as for my people's belief. The tale of creation involved multiple generations, forces of nature, and events.

[themogget]

It does seem ridiculous to think that one being could manage it alone. How narrow such a creation might be, without the benefit of differing opinions.

[Monotheism? Don't know her.]

Does this tale of yours have a single starting point?

[beewulf]

Certainly wouldn't say ridiculous, but perhaps foreign to some.

[Oh, oh! Beowulf knows about monotheism! It's that weird, new religion aggressively forcing itself on everyone back in his hayday~!]

In a way, it begins with a void, and two lands of ice and fire. Niflheim, the Land of Ice. And Muspelheim, the Land of Fire. Between the two was the Great Void known as Ginnungagap. It was the interactions between those three, over a long period of time, that would slowly shape creation.

Within Niflheim there is a spring known as Hvergelmir. It's water is what would feed and grow the great tree that forms the world known as Yggradsil, as well as creates and grows the ice that makes up the lands of Niflheim. While the intense heat from Muspelheim would grow ever hotter and reach the borders of Niflheim, thawing some of the ice and causing drops of water to fall towards Muspelheim. Sending sparks and mist into the void of Ginnungagap.

[themogget]

[Monotheism? Don't know her.

This is interesting, and a kind of creation myth that Mogget has not heard before, so the way his attention is focused on it is rather obvious in how still he sits and how keenly his eyes stay set on Beowulf while he talks.]

Is it worth asking where Niflheim and Muspelheim came from, or does the mythology tend to break under such probing?

video; un: ems

[unhappy]

Are all cats this philosophical or is this a you thing?

[themogget]

All cats may be, you would have to ask them.

[unhappy]

Not an animal mage, so that's out. Don't you like, speak cat? As a cat.

[themogget]

[Sigh...]

I could communicate with them if I wished, but they rarely have anything to say worth listening to. I, however, am not entirely a cat.

video; un: jean

[rustyhonesty]

I have no idea how our world was created, but if we find out it was titans, I'm going to fucking flip.

[He heard from someone that titans, in some worlds, are considered God-like beings so... nope. He's noping out of that thought.

Some creators they'd be.]

[themogget]

And what is a 'titan' to you, that you consider they might hold such sway as to have had a hand in the creation of your world?

[Maybe he misunderstood? Or maybe he's trolling. It's hard to tell at any given time when it comes to Mogget.]

[rustyhonesty]

[Not sure which it is, but... he's gonna answer anyway.]

Giant monsters that roam the world I come from and eat human beings. The only reason I'm worried is because one of them is considered the Founding Titan with immense powers... but hopefully that's just the founder of the titans and not everything ever.

[themogget]

It does seem a rather on the nose moniker, but who called it that?

[The cat does not appear to share Jean's concern that such a creature could be the source of life and creation on his planet.]

If it was people like yourself then I doubt you have too much to be concerned about. Names like that only serve the purpose of sounding impressive, when it comes down to it.

video; un: stargazer

[leicesters]

My world has a lot of diverse myths and legends, and I'm sure there are countless more in lands I've never been to. But one of those I know best is Fódlan's. The Church there teaches that the goddess Sothis created everything.

...Whiiich proved to be a load of bunk, but it had a kernel of truth in it. Sothis did exist, for instance, she just got way more credit than she was entitled to.

[themogget]

Hm. Not an uncommon tale, I'm sure.

[When it comes to people getting more credit than they were due... ehhh... Mogget may be a little bitter, still.]

You seem to know the truth of it, though.

[leicesters]

I do. It's a long story, and it took a lot of war and heartache to get there, but the Church's lies were exposed for what they were. Sothis was a powerful being in her own right, but she didn't create the world -- she only created her own children. We'd call them dragons here. But then Sothis was slain, and her children were almost wiped out by humans so they could take their power for their own.

To cut a long story short, Seiros, a child of Sothis, prevailed over her mother's killer and ended the war against humans. Terrified that it would happen again, she rewrote history to make herself into a saint and her mother into a progenitor goddess of all Fódlan. From there, her stranglehold on faith meant she could pretty much steer the tides of history and politics at her leisure... Convenient, right?

[themogget]

Very convenient. What a pity that those kinds of machinations aren't limited to humans.

[The small cat yawns, showing off white teeth and a curled pink tongue. It's not surprising to hear - he imagines that any creature of intelligence might make the decision to do something like that.]

Though, with the destruction of almost her entire family at the root of it, I suppose that it's understandable. How is it that you know of the deception?

video; un: crashtestdummy

[inkbled]

( That... sure is a talking ball of fluff. )

Um... ( She could talk about the creation of Astaria as it is now, how technology came to rule the world and why magic all but vanished, but the actual creation?

Hm. They kind of skimmed that at school. )

I think it's, like, just all these elements coming together and developing? My teacher joked that we were, like, the product of a great universal stew. Like, if you get everything to the right temperature, you make a yummy meal. Except the meal is people. And you're not eating them.

[themogget]

I see.

[He can understand that within the context of his own 'creation', though he does blink at how she chooses to conclude her explanation.]

You have a very curious thought process. [And it's difficult to tell whether or not he's saying that as a compliment or an insult.] So 'people' were created immediately?

[inkbled]

Uh...

( Hm. ) Y'know. I dunno. School never, like, went into that kinda stuff. I guess?

( That kind of thing would be deemed irrelevant to general education. The only reason Rosa knows that much is because someone asked her teacher the right question. )

[themogget]

[Hm. That's disappointing.]

Then it sounds as if your education was sorely lacking. They don't think to explain what happened between the beginning and the present day?

[Mogget tends to find that lack of education results in lack of ability to think critically about certain subjects. He wonders if that is the case here.]

What were they teaching you?