[Assuming things is a bad idea in new locations, and Erichthonios is just chock full of them. That they are in the same predicament surely only means that they're unable to explain to anyone else why the entire night sky looks different! Such is the blinding power of Disbelief and Hope - clearly this can't be another world, so clearly someone has a way back to where they belong..!
Except there's a way Hythlodaeus is phrasing things that makes it a far more difficult struggle to just blindly decide that this must be some part of Etheirys that he doesn't recognize.
Silence then, for a solid few minutes as this is processed. It could of course still be nonsense but the idea that any of their kind would go out of their way to deceive, to lie -- certain recent events aside, that's not a thing that happened! Thus it must be considered true.
Thus there are other worlds than their own with people on it. That look bizarrely like their own instead of bipedal tiny catfish or something. With all kinds of other decidedly familiar life, from plants to animals.
What are the chances of that level of coincidence?]
I don't mean to cast doubt on any of that, [he begins with a cautiously uncertain tone, of course it'd be odd, how could it not?] but it seems a bit .. much. This isn't some far reach of our star, but the life looks like it should, the people look like they should, and they even possess magics that can drag us to and fro with minimal difficulty..?
[SURE, it's true that as soon as he'd been dragged out of the water he'd been subjected to an explanation that certainly did fit with everything Hythlodaeus has said!
But frankly he'd been taking quite a bit of comfort in the idea that somehow he'd been mis-summoned to some village where people who liked to re-enact ancient history chose to live as opposed to an entire different planet.]
I don't have the skill to verify for myself, something's ... preventing me from using even the most minor of spells.
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Except there's a way Hythlodaeus is phrasing things that makes it a far more difficult struggle to just blindly decide that this must be some part of Etheirys that he doesn't recognize.
Silence then, for a solid few minutes as this is processed. It could of course still be nonsense but the idea that any of their kind would go out of their way to deceive, to lie -- certain recent events aside, that's not a thing that happened! Thus it must be considered true.
Thus there are other worlds than their own with people on it. That look bizarrely like their own instead of bipedal tiny catfish or something. With all kinds of other decidedly familiar life, from plants to animals.
What are the chances of that level of coincidence?]
I don't mean to cast doubt on any of that, [he begins with a cautiously uncertain tone, of course it'd be odd, how could it not?] but it seems a bit .. much. This isn't some far reach of our star, but the life looks like it should, the people look like they should, and they even possess magics that can drag us to and fro with minimal difficulty..?
[SURE, it's true that as soon as he'd been dragged out of the water he'd been subjected to an explanation that certainly did fit with everything Hythlodaeus has said!
But frankly he'd been taking quite a bit of comfort in the idea that somehow he'd been mis-summoned to some village where people who liked to re-enact ancient history chose to live as opposed to an entire different planet.]
I don't have the skill to verify for myself, something's ... preventing me from using even the most minor of spells.