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Post by King Mir on Dec 14, 2023 18:13:35 GMT
I'm most interested in how Annie, as a living person, could be called to be psychopomps when she doesn't have the ability to just appear when a person dies. Will she gain that ability? Will the dead need to find their way to her? Will she gain that ability when she herself dies? What if she has a child, will she be able to continue her duties? Even after she passes away and her fire is passed to the child? Will the child need to continue her mother's work? I hope some of these questions are answered, and Annie doesn't make the same mistake Kat did and not read the terms and conditions of her new role that she will most likely accept, begrudgingly.
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Post by Igniz on Dec 15, 2023 4:19:48 GMT
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Post by silicondream on Dec 15, 2023 20:53:37 GMT
I'm most interested in how Annie, as a living person, could be called to be psychopomps when she doesn't have the ability to just appear when a person dies. Will she gain that ability? Will the dead need to find their way to her? Will she gain that ability when she herself dies? It seems like the psychopomps came and got Surma when she needed to do her job. Perhaps Annie will be a similar "specialist consultant" for difficult cases like Jeanne and the ghost boy. |
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Post by Hatredman on Jan 5, 2024 5:01:04 GMT
If that's the case it's not such a bad deal. I was under the impression that Annie would be living in the 'pomps separate dimension, dettached from physical reality.
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Post by silicondream on Jan 5, 2024 14:02:57 GMT
I mean—isn't this kind of just a simplified way of explaining the roles conveyers of death/gods of death take in many myths? i.e. that they're delegates of a creator-god designated to convey their offspring/creations into an afterlife established under the creator gods' own domain/demesne(s). Think Anubis or Ereshkigal or Charon. Something like that. What I really want to know is—how does the ether treat atheists? Does a psychopomp/creator-god just claim them based on their lineage? Does their god become a secular monument/idea instead, as in American Gods? As I understand it, it's not directly belief that powers the Ether, it's stories. For example, Ysengrin and Renard are not deities at all, they were just subjects of popular stories, popular enough that they brought two powerful Etheric beings into existence. It could still be a matter of belief. Many children die believing Santa Claus is real, after all. |
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