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[seaboards]

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE

There have been a lot of riftfarers arriving lately. It seems like there have been more arriving than usual. So many different kinds of people from different kinds of worlds with stories to tell and experiences to give.

A little game has appeared on the shellphone network in hopes of getting to know just a little more about these otherworlders. You might find it on your shellphone as you’re scrolling through one day.

Tell the world two truths and one lie about yourself. And let others try and decipher which of the three is your lie. If they can guess right, perhaps you’ve been able to make a new acquaintance. Or in the least learn more about someone from another walk of life.

Comments

In before he finds out The Bad News from Emet-Selch

[beshackled]

We as a civilization resolve our differences primarily with debate, Dion. What rivalries that exist are expected to be settled in Halls of Rhetoric, and failing that, by judgement of the Convocation and its Emissary.

Were we to go to battle against each other in numbers, given all we are capable of, the star would suffer. And our duty as a people is first and foremost to the star. To nuture it, that it might flourish with life.

To despoil the land over naught but territorial bickering would be unconscionable.

[haveaflare]

I do not mean conflicts within your own nation, but threats from others.

[beshackled]

The only beings that I personally know of that engage in such behaviors by nature are fauna and ambulatory flora seeking to demonstrate to prospective mates that they can protect an area from species that prey on them for sustenance. Or... mayhap to secure a preferred mating grounds?

[haveaflare]

Is yours the only nation on your star?

[beshackled]

We are a singular people. We do not all live in one place, but despite differences in the ways we do some things, we do not split ourselves into rivaling nations.

[haveaflare]

It isn't a matter of splitting, but a matter of being unable to come together completely. Since earliest memory, we have existed separate, as various clans across the face of Valisthea. These clans may have changed names, some been absorbed into others, but we are too...disseparate for complete cohesion; belief a chief cause for this segregation. My people recognize Greagor as the one true goddess and recognize our Emperor, through the clergy's guidance, as her servant. The Iron Kingdom worships the crystals themselves, and is quite violent to opposition to this belief. The Dhalmekian Republic, in contrast, is ruled by something akin to your Convocation, but theirs is a region of deserts and wastes and thus the wars they wage are over resources rather than faith.