106th moon [audio]

[paladinlost]

To be in accordance with this world's natural laws, a whole half of my heredity should have been removed from my body. The half I inherited from my Lunarian father, to be exact. As there are only two half-Lunarians in the world, I cannot know exactly how it sets me apart from pure humans, but there is no doubt that there must have been something for this land to take away from me.

[Cecil doesn't know why he feels the need to talk about this now. His words come hesitantly, like he doesn't quite know if he wants to keep going.]

...Yet I feel no different, barring the usual loss of magic that even full humans go through. I look the same. I act the same. My skin still does not tan, no matter how much time I spend on the beach. The manner in which I age remains constant even after five years spent in this world. It's as if the absence — or presence, for that matter — of my Lunarian blood is completely meaningless, as far as my life is concerned.

[He stops for a moment, and then here it comes. The true, uncertain confession.]

I... don't know what to think of that. At all.

Comments

[blazeit]

Okay so how does that work
Like
Scientifically speaking?

[paladinlost]

...The phoenix is supposedly immortal. It could be that even a body part as small as a fallen feather still contains some of that power. But only some; phoenix downs cannot revive those who have truly died, or who have expended too much of their energy.

[blazeit]

Okay, that makes more sense than what I was imagining... I mean. I guess that sounds a lot more realistic than most things here...

How rare are phoenixes, though??

[paladinlost]

Extremely rare. I've traveled all over the world more than once, yet I've never met one.

[blazeit]

Then where the fresh hell do their feathers come from?? How would you know you have a REAL phoenix feather?

[paladinlost]

...That's an excellent point. I'll have the baron Chamber of commerce investigate their provenance the moment they return home. Those feathers might work as advertised, but that's no reason to sell just anything.

[blazeit]

Yeah, I think it'd be really fuckin unfortunate if somebody got scammed with a fake revival... feather... thing...

[paladinlost]

Considering they are often used by travellers who are not accompanied by white mages, it'd be a disaster. The death toll would reach the hundreds extremely quickly, especially among merchants.

[blazeit]

yyyyeah like
I don't even live in your mage world but that sounds kinda like the potential for things to be fuckin awful is really high to me

[paladinlost]

Yes, it certainly is. In fact, considering the number of pheonix downs we've bought over the years, I'm surprised we've never had that problem... Then again, perhaps a large sword is enough to deter most scammers.