( video | un: jaguar )

[scarcastically]

Y'know, going up in space, visiting other worlds is supposed to blow your damn mind. The idea's that you're exposed to stuff so unreal, so beyond believin' that it's alien to you.

So why exactly are we celebratin' Christmas in space? Feels kinda weird, to be honest. But I guess capitalism and commercialism is a universal concept.

Still, though. Kinda gets me thinkin'. How do you celebrate your holidays where you're from? Don't tell me about Christmas though. We all know about Christmas.

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[necroyalty]

If I sat here trying to explain the religious practices and cosmology of my world, I'd be here all week, but here are the important things:

In the dead of winter 3000 years ago, the god of entropy and madness tried to destroy everything in my world, as he had for untold others.

All the other gods put their differences and feuds aside and sealed him away.

And the mortals chose to start the new year after all was said and done that year, to usher in a new era. I mean, he's going to come back one day, of course, entropy can never truly be stopped. But you know.

Now the dimmest three days before the new year are a purge of sorts, to cleanse ourselves of our most chaotic urges to start the year fresh.

Or if you're not particularly religious, it's a lovely excuse to get drunk and fight whoever.

[scarcastically]

[ whistles. quite the story. ]

Ours isn't as grand as all that.

[necroyalty]

It's been implied to me that my own world's lore is a bit of a hot mess.

[scarcastically]

Ouch. Isn't that kinda rude?

forgot this, but un: undyingsoul

[necroyalty]

It's got more gods than you could probably remember at one time, a vast array of planes beyond the material world that all have their incomprehensible politics, and I just learned that other worlds do not, in fact, consider demons and devils to be different beings.

But my mother was a theologian, and I suppose a lot of this is just because I grew up learning more apocryphal bits than strictly necessary. I'm the only one from my world here, at any rate.

So I suppose I see how they can think that, but yes, it's a bit frustrating.

[scarcastically]

There are places on Earth that have hundreds and millions of gods. So you're not alone in that.

Must be rough being alone here though.

[necroyalty]

It's a bit jarring. I miss my brother, my daughters and my companion dearly.

But you learn to make some friends here.

[scarcastically]

Is it easy?

[necroyalty]

It depends entirely on how much of yourself you're willing to give to others, I suppose.

I try my damnedest, but I often find myself exhausted.

And then a certain someone decided to break into my home, eavesdrop on my research notes, and bombarded the network with a bunch of half-truths that forced me to clarify the matter by revealing things about myself I'd prefer to have kept hidden.

Led to a few wounds in what few relationships I was able to forge.

She was thrashed for it by most everyone else, but if you've anything to hide - and most people do - I thought it prudent to warn you about that.

[scarcastically]

[ huh. definitely good advice. ]

This place ain't big on privacy then.

[necroyalty]

It really varies from person to person. I can give you her name and any relevant information that's public knowledge, just so you can avoid her in the future.

Truthfully, I'm a little amused about how she chose to assume how everything works just as it would have in her world.

The new arrivals occur every month or so, and I've mostly been on the lookout for anyone from my world.

It hasn't happened, but I found a few people who came close enough.

I do suppose my own world has a few other observances around this time, but I'm sadly not as educated in them as I ought to be. I do know that druidic circles (and certain clans of elves, though the two often overlap) observe the solstices and equinoxes, but that's about it.

[scarcastically]

Sure why not? Better to be safe and sorry.

This place don't have any info on your world at all?

[necroyalty]

The only sources of information the Moonblessed have on their own worlds is themselves.

Unless you've met anyone else from a planet called Nerthus, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one here.

[scarcastically]

Yeah, I've only been to one planet only. This is my first time traveling this far.

[necroyalty]

I've traversed other planes before, but never until a few months ago had I ever been to the void of space.

The blueprints for the spelljamming devices used by the ancients have been lost to time, so it's still a work in progress for us to recover them.

[scarcastically]

The ancients?

[ of course there's a weirdly superior ancient race. of course. ]

[necroyalty]

Everything we've been able to uncover in my world points to our ancestors having technology similar to this world's. Communication devices you could fit in your pocket, the steel carriages you see in the streets. That sort of thing. They had only just mastered the art of interstellar travel before, well.

That was all lost in the calamity I told you about earlier. The Unchained Revelry, they call it. Or just the Revelry.

It's a popular theory that there may be descendants of the ancient space explorers, unaware of what happened on Nerthus, but so far we've no actual proof.

[scarcastically]

How did a calamity wipe out that much though?

[necroyalty]

Tharizdun was a god.

[ She comes from a setting where the gods literally exist and this is proven and they regularly grant people magical powers, okay. ]

And the god of entropy at that. Even when every other god in the universe combined their forces against him, all they could do was seal him away. Because entropy can never be stopped for good; the most you can do is buy time.

Easy to destroy one planet when the end of all creation is your very nature.

[scarcastically]

Yeah, that makes sense.

Did you ever get a reason why?

[necroyalty]

I wish any of us knew for sure.

The leading theory is that he simply looked upon what all of creation had become - what it had been, what it would be in all the future timelines - and thought it better to start from a clean slate.

[ REALLY FUCKING DEPRESSING to think about, but also likely. ]