When I saw Mjollren's going to refer to the "bible", I let that posting pass unread. The full ducument was once sent to me, and wiped unread. I simply don't want to know background information not intended to the players; I want to play without knowing what's right or wrong. I don't want to "fake" my character, and I don't want to manipulate it by knowledge which might influence decisions.
Wasn't there a translation of the full deciphered text by Zhoi somewhere? I kept one of the cubes we found until the Exodus ... *sighs*
I have to say, though, that the Zorai - especially before the Great Swarming - often displayed a similar bonding to their own people like the Kami, if not as symbiotic. Therefore one might think that Nung, banned from his home country and his people, knew pretty well how it is to be "cut off", and he might have indeed felt that the exile was cruel and unethical. The reason he returned to the Witherings at the end of his life was his want to die amongst his own people; instead he died imprisoned in the Lakelands.
Daomei (atys)
As the reaction of Kami towards goo was discussed above, I want to add a detail from the amber cube notes of Nung Horongi (notes to Muang captured and deciphered by homins of the free peoples) about the effect of goo on Kami. Nung stated that, when a smaller dose of goo is applied to a Kami, "the Kami will be free immediately", meaning the loss of the connection with all other Kamis. A higher dose will destroy the Kami.
What is described by Nung as "freeing a Kami" is considered the worst mutilation possible by the Kami themselves, and possibly felt more abhorrent than destruction. From a homin's perspective, it may be considered similar to being muted, deafened and blinded at a time. It underlines the cruel and unethical nature of marauders' experiments with the goo.
Wasn't there a translation of the full deciphered text by Zhoi somewhere? I kept one of the cubes we found until the Exodus ... *sighs*
I have to say, though, that the Zorai - especially before the Great Swarming - often displayed a similar bonding to their own people like the Kami, if not as symbiotic. Therefore one might think that Nung, banned from his home country and his people, knew pretty well how it is to be "cut off", and he might have indeed felt that the exile was cruel and unethical. The reason he returned to the Witherings at the end of his life was his want to die amongst his own people; instead he died imprisoned in the Lakelands.
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Salazar CaradiniFilira Matia
Royal Historian
Member of the Royal Academy of Yrkanis
First Seraph of the Order of the Argo Navis