"Oh, I don't doubt that. These factions have centuries of bad blood between them, any tenuous peace they may be play-acting at right now will break at the first imagined political slight." She's no stranger to the whims of war, and she's talked with Sam already about the very, very real possibility of things taking a turn for the worse sooner rather than later.
She nods a little, "Yes, the people who pulled me into Solvunn had a similar spiel about being chosen or important, things like that. I think all of them have something like that, that they say to try to put people at some kind of ease." The tone in her voice suggests it did not put her at any kind of ease at all.
"The best I understand, each faction has their own agenda with the Singularity. They all want the power for different reasons, Solvunn is a farming community, but they are also deeply religious. I wasn't there long enough to find out much, but there are a lot of references to... Old Gods, rituals performed in homes and during festivals in the town, superstitions that are followed, with a pretty decent reliance on magic. I think they may want to wake these...Gods.
"Cadens, as I'm sure you've already noticed, is much more military-focused, and much more reliant on technology than, I think, either of the other two. Thorne I know much less about, other than every single thing I've heard from anyone that's been there is utterly wretched. Keeping people as captives in dungeons and the like. Don't think I'll be going there any time soon."
This, she finds, feels more natural than a lot of things she's done since arriving here. The exchange of information is a little bit like coming home. Even though he's the wrong person, and the information is the wrong type, it's close enough.
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She nods a little, "Yes, the people who pulled me into Solvunn had a similar spiel about being chosen or important, things like that. I think all of them have something like that, that they say to try to put people at some kind of ease." The tone in her voice suggests it did not put her at any kind of ease at all.
"The best I understand, each faction has their own agenda with the Singularity. They all want the power for different reasons, Solvunn is a farming community, but they are also deeply religious. I wasn't there long enough to find out much, but there are a lot of references to... Old Gods, rituals performed in homes and during festivals in the town, superstitions that are followed, with a pretty decent reliance on magic. I think they may want to wake these...Gods.
"Cadens, as I'm sure you've already noticed, is much more military-focused, and much more reliant on technology than, I think, either of the other two. Thorne I know much less about, other than every single thing I've heard from anyone that's been there is utterly wretched. Keeping people as captives in dungeons and the like. Don't think I'll be going there any time soon."
This, she finds, feels more natural than a lot of things she's done since arriving here. The exchange of information is a little bit like coming home. Even though he's the wrong person, and the information is the wrong type, it's close enough.