text - Xuanwu

[cloakedinruins]

Here's a thought: The Heavens and gods have worked in a certain way for beyond memory. Gods die and then they come back as younger versions of themselves, souls are gathered as shinki to aid them, and the ayakashi are set against them. There is a balanced rhythm to this place and how it all worked.

And then it didn't. Something happened, the balance was broken, the gods died and nothing came back. So what happened? A new way to fill in the missing pieces appeared. Us.

Now, I'm just theorizing out loud that this system is a mutation caused when a body, or The Heavens as it turns out, feels it's under attack and trying to keep itself alive and functioning. In order to do that, it has pushed to fill in the spots that it has lost too fast by doing the unthinkable - by grabbing people like us.

Does that mean there's an underlying sickness? A rot in the system that the pull of faith or belief is trying to heal through us? Or is this just an experiment to see if we are able to shore up the problems inside a collapsing system?

Any other theories, or am I just thinking too much on this?

Comments

[beyondtheblade]

That does not seem... too far fetched, though I have been trying to figure whether or not there is a rhyme or reason to who gets pulled here and who does not, as well.

[cloakedinruins]

There seems to be some numbers from a similar world, but I am unsure just how many those are and if there are people who are lone representations of their homes.

[beyondtheblade]

Aye, some from my world appear to be the same as me, while others... not as much, on top of that.

[Including another of her, once.]

[cloakedinruins]

I see. I suppose it is still nice, to have some people from your world here, if they remember that is.

[beyondtheblade]

Far less so if they don't, or it raises ... questions about things you cannot know in regards to what has happened back home.

Which always seems to be a danger.