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The Universe
11 months ago
In the beginning, a god of light and a god of shadow fought with one another. The god of light won, banishing a majority of the darkness, and giving way to matter. From the ashes of the fight, rose the forges that would create worlds. Tirelessly and ceaselessly creating new realms, new places to explore, but so many times, there were flaws... errors... glitches... Each world a place where life could thrive, but it could also die...
No one knows where the god of light went... But new gods came forth that brought balance to each world... Some worlds were dead, and thus their gods silent, while some worlds were vibrant with activity, resulting in just as passionate gods. Mortals could not see the gods, but they felt their influence... Until one day... A curious creator started to explore these worlds. Every last one of them.
The explorer would judge the worlds, see their progress, and try to understand how things functioned. The forges created so many worlds, but the explorer didn't need to explore all of them, only the ones that lived. Each world felt like a different version of a sister world in some way. What decision led to what outcome within that world, could it be reversed, could it be given another chance, or could it lead to the death of a world? These curiosities piqued the interest of the explorer...
... Deeper and deeper the explorer dove, into more and more complex worlds, more and more vibrant worlds, and then... ... They stopped. The explorer found themselves on a dead world... "I swear it had life before I came." the explorer would say... ... ...
I swear... It had life before I came...
...
No one knows where the god of light went... But new gods came forth that brought balance to each world... Some worlds were dead, and thus their gods silent, while some worlds were vibrant with activity, resulting in just as passionate gods. Mortals could not see the gods, but they felt their influence... Until one day... A curious creator started to explore these worlds. Every last one of them.
The explorer would judge the worlds, see their progress, and try to understand how things functioned. The forges created so many worlds, but the explorer didn't need to explore all of them, only the ones that lived. Each world felt like a different version of a sister world in some way. What decision led to what outcome within that world, could it be reversed, could it be given another chance, or could it lead to the death of a world? These curiosities piqued the interest of the explorer...
... Deeper and deeper the explorer dove, into more and more complex worlds, more and more vibrant worlds, and then... ... They stopped. The explorer found themselves on a dead world... "I swear it had life before I came." the explorer would say... ... ...
I swear... It had life before I came...
...
And it's "Piqued", BTW.
It's one of those critical things about why spellcheck sucks, and it can be a problem with autocorrect as well. I've got a really long list of things filed under "Why spellcheck sux". I've thought about writing a journal on that sometime.
And boy, do I wish I could turn off the autocorrect on my notes program... It's NEVER helpful. All it ever does is fuck me up.
It is not a bad thing.
Boy, it's been decades since I played D&D, though...
Don't really know anything about those.
If you look back through her journals she talks about some of them. She's also written a lot of books.
I've been following her for a long time too, but not THAT long.
Brain is tired... -w-... I had three bad fortunes tonight... So trying to distract myself...
Btw, it reminds me a bit of this song:..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evrCWD_kfeU
It reminds me that in the beliefs of Mesoamerica there were several attempts to create the human, only the last one successful (from corn in case of Aztecs/Maya, from mud in Tarascans)..
Well, let's hope that our world will not be the one where "I could swear that life had been before"; Personally, I'm rather optimist about this (that the earthly life will continue to exist for long time), but in the case of that one species that actually happens to be on the top of all the digestive chains, I really cannot say anything certain ~~ Who can
You study similar things to me! How lovely! 'w'!
And remember... "Humans in their last years will weep and tell Mother Gaia that they are sorry for ruining her... But then she will smile, and merely say 'You never ruined me... You just made things impossible for yourselves. Everything else will move on without you.' And then life continued." Even if humans were to nuke the planet, it's very unlikely they'd destroy all life. There has been worse extinction events where over 99% of all life has been eradicated, but we recovered from that. Earth still has plenty of time left.