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[wodenworhteweos]

Type: Text
Sender ID: wodenworteweos (Barnabas Tharmr)
To: Everyone
Subject: Boredom
Warnings: Barnabas is a warning all by himself.

I'm bored. Fight me.

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[wodenworhteweos]

It's the name of one of my attacks. It means, in the common tongue, Odin Wrought Idols.

[pinksidekicking]

Your common tongue sounds difficult to say.

If I squint, it almost looks like "wooden, worth, woes".

[wodenworhteweos]

I meant Oden Wrought Idols was the translation from the old tongue into the common tongue.

But that is close to how you would pronounce it.

[pinksidekicking]

Yeah, and I meant it! Who even uses words like "wrought" anymore?
And what in the world is an odin?

[wodenworhteweos]

There is a time and place for such words. Blacksmiths still use the word.

Odin is the eikon I embody. He is the Warden of Darkness.

[pinksidekicking]

We still have blacksmiths, but I haven't heard them use that word in like... five hundred years, maybe?

Okay, what is an eikon? Is there a Warden of Light, then?

[wodenworhteweos]

Perhaps it is because we are from different stars.

Eikons are the creations of God to enact His will. And yes, there is. Bahamut is the Warden of Light, and his Dominant is here, one of the Paladins. There are nine eikons in total, one for each of the eight elements, and then Ifrit, the one who will become God's physical vessel.

[pinksidekicking]

It's just amazing how many stars are so far behind mine.

What kind of will does God need enacted that he needs so many eikons? So you've got... darkness, light, fire, earth, ice, lightning, and wind, Ifrit and... What's the last one? What if this Ifrit doesn't want to be God's vessel?

[ Nimona is absolutely counting those out on her fingers. ]

[wodenworhteweos]

Water. Though that Eikon has been lost.

Ifrit is the physical manifestation of God, created by him, for him. And the eikons are to empower Ifrit to his full potential.

All is His will. As He created us, we all serve Him and His plans.

[pinksidekicking]

So water and ice are different? That's a little weird. How did that one get lost?

Yeah, but... you can't just make everyone conform to your God's will. Well, I mean, you could try, but that's not going to end well for anyone. And what does a God even need with a physical vessel?

[wodenworhteweos]

Yes. And they died off.

We are His creations. To defy Him is blasphemy.

To preform a spell to recreate the world, fix the mistakes mankind has brought to our star, and lead us to paradise.

[pinksidekicking]

How does an eikon just die off?

Okay, okay. That might be true for you, but not everyone is going to have faith in your religion. The more you push, the more resistance you're gonna get back.

Wait. Your God wants to basically just hit the reset button on the world and people? Even if there's a promise of paradise at the end... you can't just have peace, harmony and all that good stuff without the bad.

[wodenworhteweos]

The eikon is passed down through bloodlines. Leviathan's bloodline died off.

It is true for my star.

You can. It was what our Lord wished for us to have. But man grew too proud while He slept and formed false faiths.

[pinksidekicking]

Oh, I get it. They didn't have kids.

I seriously doubt it's true for everyone, unless you've got people... sort of brainwashed.

No, I mean, you literally can't. How would you even know what peace and all that even is after a while?
You'd just exist in the same state for eternity, become numb to everything because you forgot what it felt like to be hurt. You'd stagnate and eventually die out, because what would be the point of having children and passing on lessons when you already have everything you want?

[wodenworhteweos]

Yes.

That was humanity's original state. The state we should have stayed.