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Claude von Riegan ([personal profile] leicesters) wrote2022-12-06 08:26 pm
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communion; during pt 2 of the seeds of unrest event

[personal profile] redsoil 2023-04-25 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ It eats at him, for a time. Cybernetics, ceramics, magic nullification, animal husbandry, Egyptian mythology. Cybernetics, ceramics, Egyptian mythology. Cyberneticsceramicsegyptianmythology. He had voiced his concern to Byleth, in the moment - questioning Aetós's interest in his divine kin and kind. What could he be plotting to do? And then, because he is not foolish, he begins to wonder: what has he already done?

So, it is to Claude he goes. The sense of him on the approach within their Communal space like a most indelicate thundercloud, sleek and dark and crisp. He pummels at the edge of Claude's consciousness, demanding attention an audience. If ( when ) granted, he leads with no formalities, only a demand in the form of a question: ]
What happened to Adelfoúla, after she led you to Vander? Where did she go?
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[personal profile] redsoil 2023-04-30 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
I did not say 'hello'! [ Claude, are you hearing things?

He bullies his way further into the Communion, a thundering force of dense soul and sharp attention. It is the equivalent of a determined creature planting hands upon the arms of whatever seat someone might be lounging in, and getting in their face — though his attention lacks the edge of violence customarily found clinging to him. Instead, he's rife with a single-minded focus. ]


So, she is gone? I had a question to ask her, about her creation. The tomes Aetós had left behind — they could have pertained to her. She was made of ceramic, after all. And I am, trying to discern the intentions behind studying my kin. 'Egyptian mythology'.
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[personal profile] redsoil 2023-05-01 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Beyond the trappings of the soul, I am concerned they could have brought another god through the timestream, another like me, to use in an aeternae.

[ If anything, the writings about a god may differ from the god's experience. What is written is interpretation, the human desire to make sense of archetypical beings that have human traits, but are undeniably inhuman. What Set can offer is insight, his reality, and what Claude might do with it? Well, that is the domain of free-spirited humans! ]

You read it.

[ Said in the same mildly-scathing tone someone who has just had, like, their diary read. ]

Honestly, it would be no wonder if they sought to emulate our model of life, death and rebirth. The soul is the summation of multiple parts, and all together, they make the complete identity of the individual. If Aetós was reliant on the parts of a single soul, then — perhaps it would explain why she was the way that she was.

[ deadpan weird ]

So. Did the tome satisfy you?
Edited (shifts words around oops sorry) 2023-05-01 18:28 (UTC)
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[personal profile] redsoil 2023-05-01 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Everything is a sensitive topic, to him......... ]

Yes, Heliopolis, Jwnw, the House of Ra. When I arrived here, and found the name of my home being used by those who do not even pay homage to her? The audacity of it. Cyrus did say that Meridian's power is that of the light, pure and scourging all the same — not so far from the divinity of the sun's domain.

[ He sounds reluctant to discuss it, but — it is not a poor question. Plenty of pantheons have a central sun deity. Quetzalcoatl is one, after all, but for Meridian's might to be that of the light, the sun, and its center to be called Heliopolis? ]

— sometimes, I do wonder if my world was lost long before the Tree woke me. If it was built into this.

[ arrogant of him, maybe????? ]
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[personal profile] redsoil 2023-05-01 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course not. My own existence must be nonlinear, I do not walk a direct line between past and present as a human might. In Kenos, I must follow the same path — but, I know in my heart that I do not. Time is a cycle, after all. What lives, will die.

[ Even gods!

Anyway, he does perk up — curiously, when Claude brings up two names. One, he vaguely recognizes ( maybe ) and the other is one he had heard more recently. ]


Byleth mentioned Sothis. She is the goddess that resides within him, as I recall. Sopdet... as I know her, is a minor goddess of no renown, [ in his era of knowledge, that is how he recalls her! ] She spent the last several centuries cowering with the rest of them while I ruled. Tsk.

[ now that claude has mentioned it, though — instinctually, he knows that sopdet-sothis is a connection. it's that funky divine syncretism at work! ]
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[personal profile] redsoil 2023-05-02 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
He sprung her name upon me, upon learning I was a god.

[ Claude's reaction is mild, innocuous. Likely made of concern for Byleth, and it still stings. To Set, it comes with an overtone of judgment. Why you? ]

That does explain why he asked if I 'had a star', as well. 'Sothis' being another name of Sopdet is also not surprising, we often have many names associated with us, dependent on our humans. If anyone knew anything about a goddess of some star, it would have been Nut. She is the embodiment of the sky and all that resides in the heavens. Stellar goddesses would be under her authority.

[ A pause, before. ]

She probably got tired of being a two-bit side piece in Egypt and crossed liminality to become some hot shot in Fódlan.
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[personal profile] redsoil 2023-05-04 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Surprise, Claude! Set doesn't like mortals OR gods, and is equal parts disdainful and blasphemous toward everything.

The Church of Seiros would weep. ]
There are other pantheons in my world, as well. I have contact with a number of them, their people and their gods alike. It is — different, maybe, than what you think of when you hold the existence of a god of some domain alongside the domain itself and compare the two.

In Egypt, I am the desert. I am the shape you see before me, and I am simultaneously the land itself. There is no question of 'influence' or 'which came first'. Were I to visit your homeland, and there were a desert there, the authority would belong to the your desert-god. If I did not exist, the deserts of Egypt would decay and cease to exist as well. It is not nonsense, to me.