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[inlaid]

[ooc: warning for stick figure drawings of a dead/partially eaten goat and horses with too many legs??

Context: thread 01, thread 02, & thread 03]

How. Why. Someone please explain.

The goats of Norse gods are apparently milked for mead, not milk? Does this make them walking, fermenting kegs on legs?



Is this why a certain god will eat the goats that pull his chariot and then resurrect them?



Do the goats remember they were killed and eaten? For eternity? I mean this sounds kind of horrifying to me. The goats pull the chariot. They are killed. They're eaten. They are brought back from the dead and then pull the chariot more or get milked for mead until someone gets the munchies again?

But more than that, I just...okay. People/Gods have two legs. Horses have four.



Simple, right? So if people or gods have babies with other people and the babies have two legs, and the horses have colts and fillies with other horses and they have four legs, how is it that a god in horse form somehow mates with a stallion and then gives birth to an eight-legged horse? How?



Why are there so many legs??



Is this also why they have the goats pulling the chariots instead of horses? The goats provide meals on wheels whereas the horses are for weird spider-horse procreation?

[If goats are for food and horses are for banging what happens to the chickens??]

Comments

[deathkid]

i'm not immortal
but i do have some of my father's powers
as for where i stand...
most mortals don't notice people like me
the mist makes mortals see what they want to see
while we protect them from danger and destruction

[inlaid]

May I ask what kinds of powers?

Is it actual mist or more of the name for some sort of divine illusion that prevents mortals from seeing the reality? Is it also present here?

[deathkid]

my father is hades
so my powers are related to death and darkness.
"underworld-y" you could call them.

as for the mist, it's both.
and as far as i can tell, it's not.
mortals see my sword instead of a baseball bat
they can see monsters instead of something else
it's weird.

[inlaid]

What is the Underworld?

How strange, though...the mist must be specific to your particular dimension as opposed to something that hovers around you.

Do you mind mortals being able to see you so clearly?

[deathkid]

where people go when they die
it's split into different sections
the fields of elysium for the heroic/good
asphodel for those who did nothing with their lives
and the fields of punishment for the wicked.
there's also tartarus, but only monsters come and go from there.

[ not exactly true. he knows three demigods who traversed through tatarus and he's one of them. it's an experience he wishes he could forget. ]

i don't mind being seen
it's more when i'm fighting
and mortals think i'm beating up someone
who's actually a monster
but they can't tell the monster part.

[inlaid]

Oh, I see. Our dead go to the Higher Planes where our deities were formed. Even in death they're only a step away from us, with our deities bridging the gap. I don't know that they separate it out that way, however. They're remarkably tight-lipped about the whole thing.

[And have been for centuries. It's simply one of those things everyone from her country has come to accept as it is, something they will never budge on.]

I can see how that would complicate things immensely. Does it happen that often for you that you're having to protect people from monsters in your world?

[deathkid]

i see.
that's pretty complicated.
i think i like my father's domain better

as for fighting... a war recently ended in my world
one that would've destroyed it if we demigods hadn't fought
and it started just six months after another war
that threatened to wipe people off the map

[inlaid]

It certainly sounds orderly, and fair in judgment I assume?

It doesn't surprise me that you're faced with more dangerous situations than mortals, but that seems a very short period of time between conflicts...has it always been that way? One thing after another in quick succession?

[deathkid]

for the most part, yes.
to both questions.
monsters like eating demigods
so we usually have to fight for our survival
on top of protecting people.

[inlaid]

Surely you have some assistance from the deities of your world as well, yes? You work with them to counter these threats?

[deathkid]

they can help on occasion
but can't directly because that would be
interfering with the fates.

[inlaid]

The fates...just like they sound?

[deathkid]

essentially, yes.

[inlaid]

I've never heard of anyone or anything powerful enough to prompt a deity not to stick their nose in where they please...

[deathkid]

oh, they are
but it's better to not mess with causality