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[white_raven]

How many of you knew of an "Asgard" before arriving here? Be it a place, a land, a person, a book, an animal race or something else. Fictional or real both apply.

To rephrase: Did the word "Asgard" exist and mean anything in your world, and if yes, what? Or did you encounter it first after being drafted to this place?

[Testing the waters and theories.]

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[text]

[white_raven]

...Or if all of them do, or only a fraction.

[text]

[eisenrache]

All are possible, but no less concerning.

[text]

[white_raven]

It's not like they would answer a question to that end.

[The words equal a shrug.]

And there's the same question about our return. [And that might be even more troubling.]

[text]

[eisenrache]

And possibly agree to the fact they are not all-powerful? I doubt it. The egos of gods are not something to underestimate.

Ah yes, the return. The fact that the Gods don't want us to leave until they have reached a goal that they won't even explain to us.

[text]

[white_raven]

Yet some people return ahead of time. Or rather, leave this place.

[He would of course love to think that what they tell them is true, and tries to believe it - all the details hint into that direction, after all. BUT. That might just be what they are meant to think. Human, and other beings minds, are rather easily played with if the person knows how to do it.]

[text]

[eisenrache]

For what seems like no reason at all. If the gods really did want us to return color to this place, save the native people, and everything else they preach - why let anyone leave at all?

Unless it's yet another thing the gods don't actually have control over.

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[white_raven]

They say that "nobody can know God's ways for they are mysterious and above all human knowledge" about the Christian god, but I wouldn't grant the gods here nearly that much authority.

[He's a regular churchgoer, but more out of habit and because hsi father takes him along each Sunday than because he is really invested or convinced. Yet it is the closest thing to the definiton of "gods" that he knows.]

[text]

[eisenrache]

No, not at all. I feel as though these gods are much less divine. Less omniscient.

[text]

[white_raven]

Less transcendent, too.

[Showing themselves and all.

Also it is great to meet someone who lives in the same house, but being able to find them again would be great...] May I ask your name?

[text]

[eisenrache]

[Give Erik a moment to think about that before answering. Does he really want to give up his anonyminity?]

Erik. Erik Lensherr.

[text]

[white_raven]

Bran Davies. It's a pleasure to meet you. [And he actually means that. It isn't often that he meets people that he'll actually take for serious and consider the right brand of intelligent to have longer conversations with.]

[text]

[eisenrache]

Likewise.

[The sentiment is shared, really. Erik thoroughly enjoyed this discussion. One of the first decent ones he's had since coming to Asgard.]

[text]

[white_raven]

[It might not be an opportune wish here, because it means that they will both stay here longer and not be taken back home, but] I hope to talk to you again at one point.

[text]

[eisenrache]

I'm sure we can arrange that.

[text]

[white_raven]

Let's hope that it will be under agreeable circumstances. [With what this place does to them, you can never be sure of that.]

[text]

[eisenrache]

I wouldn't be so optimistic, but we can hope.

[text]

[white_raven]

They say hope dies last, right? [In this instance, text does not carry less expression than spoken words because there would be no expression in his words either way.]

[text]

[eisenrache]

Indeed.

[Erik is not going to comment when it comes to his own ideas on hope. Not something he would even consider bringing up. But he has a nice chuckle to himself while staring at his bracelet.]