text; local human doesn't know what a human is.

[andstill]

Type: Text
Sender ID: andstill (Ardbert Hylfyst)
To: Public Post
Subject: 🧍‍♂️?
Warnings: None

Figure it's normal that someone would come here and see people the likes of which they've never seen before. Makes sense, that. New place, new people.

Thing that's confusing me is, more folk here look like me than ever did back home. All skin, ears the shape of seashells, two eyes, somewhere on the short side of of the mean. We call people like me hume, back home. Or hyur? I think it was hyur. Something like that. We cluster together sometimes, big families and all. But most cities, you'd see all kinds of folk. And they'd be built to be used by all kinds of folk, too. Everything made for people of all sorts of sizes.

Here it feels like every other person is my size. And I don't know I've seen more than a couple doors that a zun could get through comfortably.

That's not normal, is it? For there to be so many hume and so few of everyone else?

Comments

[yuezun]

Not always. This venerable one has met some mortals in this world that have similar power to the weaker of immortals that this venerable one knows. Mortals and Immortals are largely separated by how much they have grown their wisdom, if at all. Those born to immortality tend to grow their wisdom more easily, but it is not always the case that they will be more powerful than those mortals that have managed to become immortal.

[If that didn't make any sense to Ardbert, well, it was to be expected. Cultivation and practicing was often very complicated and nuanced even for those born to immortal races.]