[He sounds a touch incredulous, but he's still not really experienced how those work here - the one time he had such a dream-nightmare, it hadn't overlapped at all into the waking world. He'll allow it for the time being, because prophecy was a possibility, why not looking back? But he'd want evidence in time, and an explanation for how they became intelligent if they really were just animals once.
It didn't bode well for his eventual fate, though.]
When you say 'earliest', how early do you speak? Millions of years? Most species rise to sapience in the span of only a few million, but the implication is that these ... humans had already been thus and intelligence only came far after them, and the local mortals are not particularly further along than the earliest of advances thus cannot be an ancient species.
[There must be information somewhere indeed, but how much could a blind faun really do by way of research?]
... If you have not already, it might be advisable to seek a spell which will translate the written word into speech for you. I fear I will not be a great example of whether or not one might go mad simply through belief, for I have already fallen victim to it. Expectation leads the result, one would have to isolate a new monster with no information leading from the Coven, and then keep them that way for some months.
[A difficult prospect!
But easier to consider than other things.]
Ah, there is no pity needed. We are used to spending decades, sometimes centuries alone. This is merely an inconvenient problem which could have been made easier by a willing ally.
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Date: 2021-02-25 01:07 am (UTC)[He sounds a touch incredulous, but he's still not really experienced how those work here - the one time he had such a dream-nightmare, it hadn't overlapped at all into the waking world. He'll allow it for the time being, because prophecy was a possibility, why not looking back? But he'd want evidence in time, and an explanation for how they became intelligent if they really were just animals once.
It didn't bode well for his eventual fate, though.]
When you say 'earliest', how early do you speak? Millions of years? Most species rise to sapience in the span of only a few million, but the implication is that these ... humans had already been thus and intelligence only came far after them, and the local mortals are not particularly further along than the earliest of advances thus cannot be an ancient species.
[There must be information somewhere indeed, but how much could a blind faun really do by way of research?]
... If you have not already, it might be advisable to seek a spell which will translate the written word into speech for you. I fear I will not be a great example of whether or not one might go mad simply through belief, for I have already fallen victim to it. Expectation leads the result, one would have to isolate a new monster with no information leading from the Coven, and then keep them that way for some months.
[A difficult prospect!
But easier to consider than other things.]
Ah, there is no pity needed. We are used to spending decades, sometimes centuries alone. This is merely an inconvenient problem which could have been made easier by a willing ally.