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A few things...

Sep 24, 2007 22:07

Sorry for posting so much lately to the comm, but, hey, it has to be used at some point. In any case, my muse has been smacking me to post these up for a while now, so might as well humor her, and attempt it.

The first order of business is something I started pondering about today. Actually, I should say seriously pondering, because this has been ( Read more... )

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callisto_chan September 25 2007, 16:57:21 UTC

I'm okay with whatever you decide to do with Freolic (though any new costume changes for Geoffrey might take some getting used to ;P) and I'm okay with the concept of "guerra" (if you want Latin forms, I saw three words that might fit: belligero -are [to wage war]; bellum -i n. (old form , duellum), [war, fighting]; or bellicus -a -um [of war , warlike]).

That being said, I'm going to be blunt and think you overstepped yourself with religion. If you don't want Sumika, Laulea, or Freolic to have religion/gods/beliefs/what-have-you, then fine, that's your call. But in that vein, Caelestis, Azibo, and Baldurnan belong to their creators, and if they want to have gods/religion in them, it should be their decision.

I had planned from the beginning for my kingdom to have gods (now whether or not they are real is another thing, but for argument's sake the people believe that they are); hence Antigone being a priestess; hence there being temples and families heavily involved in religion and the temples. Your idea, that they have gods but don ( ... )

erin_hime September 26 2007, 01:38:18 UTC

You are so lucky. I was totally going to bash you out, mostly because I was really irritated by the fact that the office manager made me wait until someone came back from lunch to leave, despite the fact that we were dead, and I had to wait an extra twenty minutes before I had to leave.

However, anijel 's response made my muse go whoo, and thus, I have a solution ( ... )

callisto_chan September 26 2007, 20:29:31 UTC

The different gods of Caelestis are just Ariadne, but they all think they are different things.That part got me thinking that perhaps each 'goddess' is actually derived from an epithet they gave to Ariadne (ex: as Ariadne Evariste she would have been seen as helping with birth/life/whatever, as Ariadne Something-else, she would be the patron of some other particular aspect) and within time they were eventually confused? It would work for their female gods; maybe the male ones were perhaps originally old deified kings/emperors/statesmen that kind of became lost to history ( ... )

erin_hime September 26 2007, 20:40:33 UTC

Mostly what I was thinking was that they worship the 'gods', but always start their prayers with "Oh Great Spirit", although they have no clue why. Tradition really. But your way works as well. Especially since having the two names would get complicated after a while, so they would just start calling her by the one name as not to get them all confused. The gods I was actually thinking that it would simply be the exact same thing as the goddesses, except the people choosing the name decide on a male name because they want to 'worship' a male instead of a female, and that got lost in translation ( ... )

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anijel September 26 2007, 00:48:45 UTC

I don't mind any changes you want to make to Freolic. I like Geoffrey and Alden but I'm not as attached to the details surrounding them. I'm too lazy to go back and change past posts, but we can pretend any changes you want to make (especially costumes and such) were there all along. Does Alden get to keep his glasses? XD ( ... )

erin_hime September 26 2007, 01:15:49 UTC

This is good, because, basically, all that will change is the culture. And the outfits. And what Geoffrey does, which I don't think was specified yet. I still haven't figured how how being a pirate would have been productive to an Uni. Now I've got to find a good Druid-era outfit to put Geoffrey in.

I always saw religion, when I saw it, be be like that of ancient times until I realized that I didn't actually see religion in the story. I always liked mythology anyway, and I thought it would make sense to people traveling across dimensions to think they lost their link to their Gods. I don't know much about Japanese and Chinese mythology, which is why they don't have religion. However, I like the idea of them praying to Ariadne to get their messages across. She wouldn't be viewed as a Ra figure, though, because they all know she's just a spirit, and not a goddess. I find it funny, though, because Ariadne would totally be like 'Dude, I can't talk to your gods, QUIT PRAYING TO ME! They don't exist, okay! (No one said she was a ( ... )