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[carbungle]

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the shield in that photo? your family?

[astralera]

Yes. The House Fortemps kite shield.

[carbungle]

might be a weird question but did it feel like the real deal? for sure? or could it be a rly good copy

[astralera]

It is spiritbonded to me. In theory the gods here may be able to replicate such a thing, but it would be a complex thing to mimic.

[carbungle]

huh

same with mine yeah, so I know it's legit or close enough that I can't tell

it's weird. this place is always weird

[astralera]

So long as a weapon does not break it is useful, no matter the origins or legitimacy.

That is one word for it, I suppose.

[carbungle]

royal arms work a little different from regular weapons, but yeah if it was just a copy i'd still have a shield in the end. i'll take it either way

so your world has a bahamut too?

[He'd almost included the Draconian bit, but considering earlier- maybe not.]

[astralera]

Had, yes. One of the First Brood.

[carbungle]

I'm guessing it came up with ardyn already but just in case, do you know any other names that cross over between our worlds?

[astralera]

Ifrit, Titan, Leviathan, Ramuh, and Shiva for our overlapping 'gods'. Carbuncle and Bahamut, obviously. I believe 'magitek' is a term used in your world as well. Midgardsormr is apparently some sort of giant serpent in your realm, from what Ardyn has told me.

[carbungle]

ugh yeah i hated that thing. totally demolished our antidote supply

thats a lot of crossover though. except bahamut's not a god but an actual dragon, and the same thing for our snake...

maybe it's a language thing? like our worlds somehow just share the same old tongue. that'd be cool

[astralera]

Bahamut the Dawn Wyrm was killed, then brought back as a Primal god.

The Dreadwyrm Bahamut brought about a Calamity, destroying much of my homeland and permanently altering the environment.

The Dawn Wyrm was apparently very kind and loving, caring immensely for his brood. Nothing at all like the god that was made in his image.

It is not impossible that your world is a parallel Shard of my realm. There are more similarities than mere names.

[carbungle]

[Oof, that sounds painfully personal. Mayhaps he'll just refrain from the whole... Bahamut stuff. He'd feel awfully callous talking about the apparent guardian of their family knowing another world's word association like that. Like if Era told him she was besties with an Iedolas.]

"parallel shard"? what's that mean?

[astralera]

One group's efforts to safeguard the life that yet remained on their dying world resulted in said world fracturing into fourteen pieces. Fourteen worlds, filled with life and love and potential.

One Shard was lost to Darkness. Seven others were utterly destroyed in the process of Rejoining with the Source shard. Yet another was very nearly lost to Light.

The Source and its remaining Shards are my charges. I exist to safeguard the precious life upon them as best I can, no matter the cost to myself.

My initial belief was that your world was one of my Shards. I know now that belief isn't wholly accurate, but in my heart of hearts I cannot shake the feeling that your world is connected to mine in some way.

[carbungle]

you know how long ago that happened?

this is probably the kind of stuff ardyn or aera are better for, somnus too. where I'm from we don't know that much about the origins of the world, most of it was lost bc the gods destroyed Solheim

that would be pretty cool tho, if we were linked somehow & didn't even know it

[astralera]

The Old World was lost over twelve-thousand years ago. It was the creation of the first gods that both saved and shattered their star.

Time flows differently between each Shard and the Source. A few weeks on one could be a few years on another, or a few years could be a century.

There are only a small number of people across the Shards that know more than one world even exists, and even less who know of their origins. My partner is more well-versed in the matter than myself.

[carbungle]

yeah he seemed like the kind of guy who'd be into that

[Book nerd, lectures people in libraries when they're trying to nap be useful, that sort.]

there was uhhhh

a portal, from another world, one time. or just a crazy girl who dreamed it up, but it sounded pretty legit

[astralera]

My partner is over twelve-thousand years old.

Are you able to elaborate?

[carbungle]

[that's SO LONG what the hell. he thought it was bad for Ardyn. The guy doesn't let it show at all.]

been a while but i can try

when we found her she didn't seem bothered about getting stuck in our world, just dragged us into this "quest" she had about stopping a bunch of goons from summoning a god. the imperials had a teleporter she said linked up to her world or something so they must've all come through

y-jim-may, idr how to spell her name, hang on

[IGNIS DID YOU WRITE IT DOWN? BRO? PROMPTO? okay someone was paying attention anyway.]

"y'jhimei of the y tribe" is what she said

actually now that I think about it she had a tail too. does your world have cat people

[Suddenly a few of the terms he's heard out of her are ringing very familiar.]

[astralera]

[ ...well, she had had her assumptions, of course. and that deep-rooted belief that their worlds were connected...

but still. ]

The imperials would be of the Garlean Empire. The 'goons' would be one of the Beast Tribes.

Of course it would be someone of the Y tribe to stumble across such a thing...

The Miqo'te. Though they have no relation to cats, and oft find the comparison offensive. The one you met would have been a Seeker of the Sun.

[carbungle]

[what. WHAT! is this actually legit...]

oh shit yeah thats the word she used! they aren't real on Eos, they're in storybooks and video games. i played one in an online game for a while

the imperials were OUR version, from niflheim. it was in their base. the beastmen were there though, they were trying to summon a god called garuda

1/2

[astralera]

Weird.

[astralera]

I knew there had to be a Garuda! (✧∀✧)/

[carbungle]

so

garuda's actually from your world?

["Weird" is definitely the word for... all of this.]

what the hell, there's legit a portal between our worlds in the middle of duscae

[astralera]

There is a Garuda of my world. The Lady of the Vortex.

I told Ardyn that your Hexatheon makes no sense — it has no balance within it. All the fundamental elements save for wind are represented. Either Bahamut should have been of wind, or your Hexatheon should be an Octatheon, with Bahamut having a counter-deity of Darkness to his Light.

That is not the strangest thing I've ever heard.