[ A hint of alarm dopplers across Matt's mind like a distant flare. But ghosts and other revenants aren't unknown, where he comes from. He's spoken with a number of them. And they largely confirm what Drizzt is saying: it's not so bad being dead.
Of course, there's some sampling bias there. The spirits who do find it intolerable tend to move on. ]
That's what's been posited, yeah. By one of the local deities. Grain of salt, because I haven't seen this demonstrated, per se; I'm mostly taking his word as a subject matter expert on things relating to to energy, existence, creation and destruction ... but like. So normally, my understanding of cycles of life is that when you die, you go on to create the necessary energy for life elsewhere. As calories for carrion, chemicals to nourish the earth, the soul-ness of your soul moving the wheel on to the next cycle.
In this case, the assertion is that when our Shards are destroyed-- [ Sunlit kiss, flickering flame, snuff. Smokeless dark. ] --that energy is gone. It doesn't move anywhere. There's no--metaphysical fertilizer.
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Of course, there's some sampling bias there. The spirits who do find it intolerable tend to move on. ]
That's what's been posited, yeah. By one of the local deities. Grain of salt, because I haven't seen this demonstrated, per se; I'm mostly taking his word as a subject matter expert on things relating to to energy, existence, creation and destruction ... but like. So normally, my understanding of cycles of life is that when you die, you go on to create the necessary energy for life elsewhere. As calories for carrion, chemicals to nourish the earth, the soul-ness of your soul moving the wheel on to the next cycle.
In this case, the assertion is that when our Shards are destroyed-- [ Sunlit kiss, flickering flame, snuff. Smokeless dark. ] --that energy is gone. It doesn't move anywhere. There's no--metaphysical fertilizer.