Ah. Yes, I'm quite familiar with how convincing Yennefer can be.
[ If that comes across as some manner of innuendo, Thancred doesn't particularly care. It's always entertaining to keep people guessing. ]
No, I wouldn't expect them to have morals. They way they view and interact with the world is far different from how we do, I imagine, and many of their actions could just be a simple whim.
I'm aware that Himeka and others in Solvunn have used such methods to try and establish a line of communication with the gods, to varying degrees of success. [ There's also that incident with Nero's arm... ] Where I'm from, with enough raw magical power as gained from crystals and with genuine faith, primals can be entreated and even summoned, so I'm familiar with the concept.
[ That doesn't mean he's ready to try it himself, realizing how terribly that could backfire. ]
Oh, there's a lot of hullabaloo that human slike to get obsessed over, proclaiming about anything has power that they can trick the masses over. I've seen witches make use of a hunk of crystal before, but I think a big ol' rock could've done the job just as well.
Primals are magical beings, often based off of gods but rather than being a true god, they are more like a corrupted bastardization of them. They siphon aether — or life energy, I suppose you could call it — from the planet, and are one of the many threats my order has tasked itself with opposing.
However, because they are beings of great power, certain tribes or groups of people will choose to summon them as a means of protection and arming themselves. They do this with their faith, and with crystals, which are a strong source of magical energy on our star.
Of course they'd be corrupted. No one, being or otherwise, can recreate the divine. And why not then take from the living world, as they were denied sovereignty by nature of being nothing more than a cheap replica reaching grabby hands for whatever they can access.
Based off... Let me guess, was it man thought it wise to bring such creatures into the world?
Thancred isn't expecting such an admittance, and who would? It's quite the claim, that one is a god or anything like it, and yet he also can't see why Lucifer would have a reason to lie. He doesn't appear as anything more than a person, and yet it's not as if Thancred would have any means of sensing something different. ]
My Father created the universe, and then my siblings, and then had the unfortunate itch to create humanity out of some sense of boredom and not knowing when to stop.
[ Hmm. While Thancred's experience has mainly been with false divinity, the closest he can think of to what Lucifer's describing are the Ascians themselves — leftovers of the Ancients.
And, well, he'd never been fond of the way that Emet-Selch and the like would look down their noses at them. ]
[ Lucifer's sounding more and more like Emet-Selch, which is not at all a good thing in Thancred's book. They've worked together well in the past, but this is still bringing back some unpleasant memories.
Gods, even the begrudging comment is like the Ascian. It makes Thancred relieved that he's long gone from Abraxas. ]
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[ If that comes across as some manner of innuendo, Thancred doesn't particularly care. It's always entertaining to keep people guessing. ]
No, I wouldn't expect them to have morals. They way they view and interact with the world is far different from how we do, I imagine, and many of their actions could just be a simple whim.
I'm aware that Himeka and others in Solvunn have used such methods to try and establish a line of communication with the gods, to varying degrees of success. [ There's also that incident with Nero's arm... ] Where I'm from, with enough raw magical power as gained from crystals and with genuine faith, primals can be entreated and even summoned, so I'm familiar with the concept.
[ That doesn't mean he's ready to try it himself, realizing how terribly that could backfire. ]
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[ This is just Normal where he's from, so he isn't quite following... ]
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Primals are magical beings, often based off of gods but rather than being a true god, they are more like a corrupted bastardization of them. They siphon aether — or life energy, I suppose you could call it — from the planet, and are one of the many threats my order has tasked itself with opposing.
However, because they are beings of great power, certain tribes or groups of people will choose to summon them as a means of protection and arming themselves. They do this with their faith, and with crystals, which are a strong source of magical energy on our star.
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Yes, though it's a practice that extends all the way back to ancient times, as it turns out.
[ Learning that even Zodiark and Hydaelyn were primals had been quite the revelation. ]
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Thancred isn't expecting such an admittance, and who would? It's quite the claim, that one is a god or anything like it, and yet he also can't see why Lucifer would have a reason to lie. He doesn't appear as anything more than a person, and yet it's not as if Thancred would have any means of sensing something different. ]
Your family?
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And, well, he'd never been fond of the way that Emet-Selch and the like would look down their noses at them. ]
Not a fan of us humans, then?
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[Sorry Thancred, he can't help but be honest.
But he doesn't leave it there, take that as you will.]
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Gods, even the begrudging comment is like the Ascian. It makes Thancred relieved that he's long gone from Abraxas. ]
Well, at least there's that.