tearsofademon: (gazing at the people)
Ryner Lute ([personal profile] tearsofademon) wrote2012-08-01 11:15 pm

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[The 'gear is at an angle this evening - it was obviously turned on on purpose, but it's not recording him head-on, instead from his side, while he's lying down. That doesn't mean you won't be able to make out things like the tiger stripe-like markings on his arms, or the fact that he's wearing sunglasses at night, or the fact that there's a tiny yellow spider cuddling very happily between his neck and shoulder, but.]

So, I'm kind of curious. Anyone got any interesting legends or anything, back where they come from?
milquetoasthero: (56. i used to be your biggest fan)

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[personal profile] milquetoasthero 2012-08-04 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
All right. [He clears his throat, pauses to gather his thoughts, and starts.]

Once, there wasn't a heaven or an earth - only the Primeval Giant, a powerful being who was also the god of creation. However, he was incredibly lonely - so much that he died from it, eventually. From his body came Devaloka and from his head came the gods, and so that's how the world was formed.

Unfortunately, even gods are greedy, and the ones that lusted after power the most were cast down from Devaloka and onto a land - a prison, really - that the other gods created, and that was Naraka. And that's how humans came to be. For thousands of years, the fallen gods - the humans - prayed to the gods and wished for entrance back into Devaloka, but they never were allowed. Eventually, humans forgot all together that they were descended from gods and stopped believing in a way to get back the Providence they had sought for many years before.
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[personal profile] milquetoasthero 2012-08-04 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. But um... my world has had the problem, recently, of humans being born with the souls of gods, as since the Fall those souls had no where to go... They hate those kind of people and either use them for experiments or for war. But really, those people are just the same as any other person, except they can remember their past lives as gods.
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[personal profile] milquetoasthero 2012-08-05 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
...I guess they have the advantage of having a higher endurance and being able to access unimaginable power, since they're technically reincarnations of gods in human form, but they still feel pain and have the same amount of tolerance for it, generally, as anyone else. It was horrifying to see them all in tubes, being used to power machines or otherwise.

[It was chilling, really.]
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[personal profile] milquetoasthero 2012-08-06 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
I know, but that's how things are back home. I think the only thing that could change that is the Manifest... That's the Primeval Giant's will and wish, left over from when he died, and it was sought after by the gods for many years before the Fall, and was guarded by a fierce three-headed dog named Cerberus. After the Fall, it was in Sky Castle, the last piece of Devaloka that remained, but it ended up getting stolen by the leader of a radical organization. I think if we had that, maybe things would get better. But there's nothing I can do right now.
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[personal profile] milquetoasthero 2012-08-06 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
We are. Um, my friends and I, I mean. I'm not sure what we'll do after we have it, but we can't just sit by and let people use it to destroy the world.

[...Now he wishes he was home again.]
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[personal profile] milquetoasthero 2012-08-07 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too. Um... Do you have any interesting legends from home?