[Imagining the reaction of some of the Church faithful to that description of Sothis actually gets a laugh from Claude.]
Hah! Sure, we can go with that theory. In Fódlan, she went on to create many children who founded their own civilisation. The story got changed over time, though, and to humans, she became revered as a progenitor goddess that supposedly created Fódlan itself, and all the life in it.
Which is nonsense, by the way. My homeland and plenty of other places have people and nature in them too, even with or without the influence of Fódlan's goddess. It'd be like you having a few kids and suddenly people are being convinced they should compare you to Ra.
[ 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.
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Hah! Sure, we can go with that theory. In Fódlan, she went on to create many children who founded their own civilisation. The story got changed over time, though, and to humans, she became revered as a progenitor goddess that supposedly created Fódlan itself, and all the life in it.
Which is nonsense, by the way. My homeland and plenty of other places have people and nature in them too, even with or without the influence of Fódlan's goddess. It'd be like you having a few kids and suddenly people are being convinced they should compare you to Ra.
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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.