You said you wished you had brought history books from your world. I was thinking, maybe we—Riftwatch, I mean—we should be collecting histories from all of you, as well as you can remember them. And anything else. Mathematics and fables. Writing it all down and putting it in the library.
I know there is some debate about, ah, [ a pause, and he goes on in a gentler and less excited-about-an-idea tone, because it’s a sensitive issue, ] how real your worlds are. But if we assume they are real, and there is a way now between them, Thedas might need to know someday. Vous comprenez. What is out there.
That sounds like quite the project. [ Which doesn't mean that Loki is disinterested, oh no. He just wonders how difficult it will be to pull together. ] Where would you like to start?
I don't know. It is a lot. I suppose first I would just like to know what you think. It is easy for me to think of the ways we Thedosians would benefit from compiling everything we can gather from you, but it needs to be good for you as well. And I can imagine—you know, people not trusting us. Or I can see how writing so much down that seems fantastical, it might uh—what is the word—exoticize you, when a lot of rifters have been trying hard to integrate and not be frightening.
I think... [ Hm. ] I think it'd be best if they're framed just as stories and nothing more, so that the truly frightening things can be set aside as unlikely to become real here.
[ Because the people of Thedas broadly are (perhaps, rightfully?) terrified of quite a lot of things. Including Rifters. ]
A frightening story and a benevolent one, to balance things out. That's how I would do it.
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I know there is some debate about, ah, [ a pause, and he goes on in a gentler and less excited-about-an-idea tone, because it’s a sensitive issue, ] how real your worlds are. But if we assume they are real, and there is a way now between them, Thedas might need to know someday. Vous comprenez. What is out there.
[ What might come try to kill them. ]
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[ Because the people of Thedas broadly are (perhaps, rightfully?) terrified of quite a lot of things. Including Rifters. ]
A frightening story and a benevolent one, to balance things out. That's how I would do it.