audio; un: long rope

[eyeofthavnair]

My fellow travelers. Before our guide asks us to move on from this...ah, relatively peaceful place, I have been wondering about your experiences with undead. What we saw in Serthica was not like the undead that I know of from my home world. Mayhap this is to be expected, when we are so far from the familiar...but I am curious if such an observation holds true for you as well.

So...do you have undead where you are from? What are they like? How did they come to be?

On Etheirys, most undead are classified as “ashkin”. There are some created by necromancers – that is, illegally created, of course – but others occur naturally. Festering humours, or lingering memories and unresolved feelings...anything that prevents the creature from returning to the Lifestream upon death.

...so - that is my understanding of undead. Will you tell me yours?

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un : deft hand of little deaths (voice)

[scrapgege]

Well, ghosts and demons and yao and all of these things are normal where I come from. It's all about the flow of energy. As lon as the energy is balanced, it's normal to have things on both sides, so to speak.

There's different kind of ghosts, from those who don't bother humans at all to those who are capable of great destruction, and those ones of course you need to take care of. But they're not... unnatural? They're just a part of the world, it's just most of the times humans don't get impacted with them.

In Serthica is was... weird. normally when so many people died, here should have bene human souls and ghosts around and a lot of them and there just... weren't. It's not normal for there to be no ghosts in a lace with so much death.

[eyeofthavnair]

[Varshahn makes a thoughtful noise. It's an interesting viewpoint, and it does make some sense.]

The flow of energy...yes, I see. I suppose that is how we view undead as well, in a way...

[...] It is strange that Serthica was...devoid of such flow. Are you able to - sense souls? Perhaps there is a stagnation of energy on this world...?

[scrapgege]

I can feel souls, yes. This place is... every place we've visited is sort of wrong in some way. This place is one of the few that feels normal. There's a bit of a high ghost concentration, but that happens sometimes.