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[ The elf on the camera is bristling, cast in the blue firelight of the Fire district. His hair is oddly bright white, as are the almost-glowing lines that trail down his chin and neck, and disappear into the collar of his armor. Over one shoulder is the absolutely massive hilt of a sword, which looks comically out of proportion with him. Fenris had finally figured his device out, but it involved a lot of making a fool of himself in front of the Kedan, which he does Not Look Pleased about.

The effect of his otherwise withering glare is somewhat undermined by the fact that he opens his mouth to speak but compulsively twitches his head to the side to stare over one shoulder for a few moments, paranoid about things lurking in the shadows. He wets his lips when he finally looks back, suspicion and unease written across his pointed features before he schools them into a sneer again. ]

I am not a mage-- [ he practically spits the word, what a pleasant first impression he's making here ] but even I can see that this is not the Fade. In Between, they say. Bah. What nonsense.

[ In fact while he's at it let him just stare distastefully down his nose at the thing in his hands. "Technology?" Unlikely. By its strange glow and stranger capabilities, it is totally obviously something far worse!! ] This place reeks of magic all the same. And I wonder who has suffered to make it so? Magic comes with a cost. It always comes with a cost.

Whoever did this will reap what they've sown. I should like to be as far away as I can be when that day comes.

[ooc: Please don't reply with text!! Fenris is illiterate and kinda ashamed about it, so he would just skip over text replies without saying anything in order to save face.]

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Once or twice. [Sometimes even deliberately! No, seriously, he went to a doctor who could temporarily kill him and everything, just so he could talk to Death. Yeah. That Death.]

How unfortunate it did not stick. [ wtf is ur life dean ]

I guess the man upstairs just wasn't done with me yet. [He says it lightly enough, but there's a thread of discontent in his voice. At some point, Dean is going to die for real and it will be awesome. He's a wee bit tired of all this coming back to life stuff going on.] So like I said, you're right and you're wrong.

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Who? [ Seriously wtf are you talking about. There is no Christianity in Witcher land. Iorveth might be thinking you are actually mentally damaged rn;. ]

[THAT MIGHT ALSO BE TRUE.] It's a euphemism for God, dumbass. All powerful deity that runs and ruins everything.

Which one? [ So much side-eyeing ]

Where I'm from, he's just called God. His religion kinda took over. The rest of 'em weren't too thrilled about that. [Hoboy. Ask him about Kali someday. Fun times.] And then his kids tried to destroy the world. Twice. [Angels and leviathans. God isn't too good with children.] Ain't nobody too happy about that.

Took over and wreaked havoc? Seems a fitting god for humanity to follow. [ BECAUSE HOSTILE TAKE OVER, YOU JERKS, UGH. ] And with such an original name.

Hey, at least he didn't demand the kind of sacrifices the old gods did. Infants and shit like that. He's a dick, but at least he's not eating people's livers or eyes like Odin used to. [Of course, Odin's dead now, so it's a moot point. Not a lot of gods left, actually!] He might've had a name, too, but it's been...four...five thousand years since anybody heard it, so fucked if I know what it is.

...You had gods that ate infants and livers? And you call us monsters. Humans are stranger in your realm than they are mine, dh'oine. [ judging, tbh ] There are not legends still remaining? Or do your people have such poor memory as well?

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Not so many of them anymore. [Yeah. See that look on his face, Iorveth? You're looking at the guy who executed a number of gods and demigods from a lot of different pantheons. It wasn't fun.] And trust me, we've got our legends. Problem is, you get one guy who wants to make himself look good, so he changes a couple details. Makes himself sound more heroic than he was. A couple other people do the same thing and before you know it, half the legends are wrong. [It makes his job hell, tbh]

[ A snort. Whatever, bro, ur still human. ] Not particularly worthy of worship, but I suppose it suits. [ Humans don't deserve nice gods, boo :V ]

You have no remaining connection with your god? [ Dana doesn't walk around flaunting herself, but there's still stories of those who claim to have encountered her, in one shape or another. ]

[Dean snorts.] I never was much of a believer. Far as I'm concerned, God is dead and good fucking riddance. He never did the world a damn bit of good. [Dean and monsters: not friends. Dean and deities...really not friends.]

Then why did you fools ever worship such a thing? [ hoomans r dum ]

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Because there's a lot of shit out there that wants to eat us. [NO U] Hey, I'm with you, I think it's bullshit, but if believing there's something out there makes people less afraid of the dark, there's no real harm in it. World could use a little less fear.

The spirits and gods of the land are not here to protect you. [ And maybe he's thinking humans would leech of things like that. Wherever there is power, something to take. ] Is there nothing left of what natural beings brought forth the Earth in your realm?

Believe me, I know. They'll give you a mild winter in exchange for your mother's head, but they're not so much with the protecting as the eating. But hey, whatever makes people happy. [Dean shrugs. He's got his own rituals and his own power, none of which comes from gods, lucky him?] And I dunno what you mean by natural beings, but God made most of the things on the Earth, humanity included.

[He mutters to himself, clearly not intending the last bit to be heard.] Makes a whole bunch of humans for Heaven to use as chew toys and Heaven wonders why we hate 'em.

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Natural beings - a spirit of a forest, of a river. The land has life within it. Or is the realm you come from so dead and hollow? [ he can't imagine walking through a woods and not feeling like there's vibrancy all around him. ]

Are you certain it isn't the reverse? Cruel spirits are known to be summoned by the misdeeds of the living.

[Dean rubs his face, thinking. How best to explain...] We don't exactly have that. Closest we have is probably Death, but the rest...not really. There's things that live in rivers, but they're not really spirits. Same for forests. Only spirits we have are ghosts, really, and yeah, some of them are pretty vengeful, but after 40, 50 years without a tether, it's less vengeful and more insane.

What empty lives you must live.

[ That's pretty much it. Yep. ]

[Snort] I wish.

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