[ He's glad to find he's not boring her with any of this. And at the question about the Rifter's rebirth and connection to Parfir, he nods. ]
Even Parfir himself cannot truly destroy the Rifter. They're part of the same whole. [ He glances out toward the double doors of the temple. ] The statues outside represent them both. Creator and destroyer. Parfir is always masculine, but the Rifter has been both women and men.
[ Which should explain why the statues outside are two men, and not a man and a woman. He looks down at the page again, humming. ]
My church prefers him as a man, though. Only in these old texts do they portray her as a woman.
[ The Payshmura are considered backwards by many other cultures, he's found. It's hard to imagine a world where they follow a goddess instead of a god. All of Basawar's history would have been very, very different. ]
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Even Parfir himself cannot truly destroy the Rifter. They're part of the same whole. [ He glances out toward the double doors of the temple. ] The statues outside represent them both. Creator and destroyer. Parfir is always masculine, but the Rifter has been both women and men.
[ Which should explain why the statues outside are two men, and not a man and a woman. He looks down at the page again, humming. ]
My church prefers him as a man, though. Only in these old texts do they portray her as a woman.
[ The Payshmura are considered backwards by many other cultures, he's found. It's hard to imagine a world where they follow a goddess instead of a god. All of Basawar's history would have been very, very different. ]