01. AIRSHIPS!! [Text]

[mech_and_mutt]

I didn't know we were gonna get the chance to get our own airships! I know I missed being able to wake up and see nothing but sky and clouds out the window. Made drying the laundry a lot easier, too.

But that kinda got me thinking- you couldn't get very far without an airship back where I came from, but a lot of the people I've talked to have said they've never seen anything like them before! I know a few people here have had SOME sort of flying machine back in their world, though. If yours did too, I gotta know- what were they like?

For that matter, how many other pilots do we HAVE here, anyway?

-Red

Comments

[littlemhigan]

yes. all aether is aspected to fire, ice, wind, water, earth or lightning, and then astrally or umbrally. places with lots of wind aether tend to be very windy. places with lots of ice aether tend to be very cold and so on.

i don't know about the airships here. i'd have to fly one.

[mech_and_mutt]

Wait a minute

You're telling me that the weather happens because the magic for rain or lightning just gets too high?

[littlemhigan]

theres an area of eorzea called coerthas. it used to be a nice highland. after the calamity, the area's ambient aether got tilted heavily towards ice and now it's winter all the time there.


so yes???


it doesn't so much control the weather as it makes the weather go batty if it over-saturates.

[mech_and_mutt]

Hold on

[The first part's almost immediate, but there's a bit of a delay before the next line.]

Calamity?

[littlemhigan]

one of our moons had an ancient dragon god in it.

nobody knew except the fool who called it down.

maybe. i dont know if he really knew. i wasnt there but apparently he was stark raving mad.

the moon fell and the dragon god fell out of it and did a bloody number on eorzea. we still havent completely recovered.

thats the calamity.

[mech_and_mutt]

Oh.

[A pause.]

So he dropped the moon on the planet and a dragon came out? That wasn't what I was expecting. Why would be even DO that? Was he just trying to

I dunno, destroy everything?

[littlemhigan]

yes? i think?

The dreadwyrm bahamut tempered him from afar i think. it made him call the moon down.

[mech_and_mutt]

So what happened next? I don't think a moon falling down OR a ticked-off dragon god would be something a world could survive that easily.

[littlemhigan]

i shouldnt talk about it. it could cause problems on my world.

[ There's a bit of a pause as Castor considers her options. There's more indication of her typing and deleting something several times. ]

archon louisoix channeled enough aether to break up bahamuts body but it wasnt enough to completely kill it. bahamut was dormant for five or so years. some friends and i put him down for good before he reformed properly.

[mech_and_mutt]

So this guy blasted a God so hard it exploded?? [...Okay, that actually does sound kind of cool.]

Good job finishing it off. Just sealing it away would only have made you regret it sooner or later. But why would talking about it here create problems back where you came from?

[littlemhigan]

principle of it. primals like the dreadwyrm need prayer and aether to sustain their form. less people who think on him the better. an' nobody ought to know the truth of what louisoix did for the same reason.

[mech_and_mutt]

So you're saying they actually get stronger the more people believe in them?

Or should I not even think about it?

[littlemhigan]

yes and probably.

most primals temper more followers to make them stronger. its one of the reasons theyre so dangerous.

[mech_and_mutt]

Hey, you know what? Let's talk about something else! [So he can stop thinking about this whole power-of-belief thing, because frankly it's a little disturbing to think about-- especially he can't actually get the thought out of his head.]

So you guys don't have a moon anymore, huh?

[littlemhigan]

we still have one! in eorzea we call her menphina.

[mech_and_mutt]

Is that the moon, or is that the name of some kinda Goddess inside it?

Who has two thumbs and forgot her text tags? THIS GAL.

[littlemhigan]

menphina is the name of the moon goddess. sometimes we call her the lover. in all my wanderings ive found her to have a lot of names.

[mech_and_mutt]

Oh. So it's both. Your world's got some weird moons.

That one never came down, I hope?

[littlemhigan]

no its still where it should be, thankfully. menphina is much larger than dalamud was.

[mech_and_mutt]

Here's hoping that whole moon-drop thing doesn't end up repeating in the future.

I know it's nothing anyone should HAVE to worry about, but the whole world-ending thing can happen multiple times if you're not careful. Trust me on this one.

[littlemhigan]

yes i dont think we would survive a second one right now. an eigth umbral era might be the end of us right now.