By that, he means the Warp is a fucking miserable place that will drive you insane at a glance and is full to bursting with nightmarish representations of all forms of thought that reside on what little stable land it has. That is when you've got a gellar field. Without a gellar field, the nightmarish representations come flooding into every facet of reality you were dumb enough to bring in with you. Have you watched Event Horizon? Well, that could basically be considered what used to happen when a ship went through the warp, circa 38,000 years ago. After the gruesome fall of an entire superpsychic civilization resulted in a yawning gap in reality leading directly into the Warp, things have gotten quite a bit more dire. Think "low tide as compared to hurricane" dire. Within the Warp are things reasonably close to what you can call "islands", which basically just means that something big and nasty is powerful enough to generate its own subtle gellar field, enough to keep it from being torn apart. This can be giant mishmashes of ships lost to the Warp that range from Imperial cathedral-ships to Tyranid hive fleet clusters that constantly shifts and quakes under the reality-warping properties of the Warp; these are called Space Hulks, and even Space Marine Terminators (Space Marines who are so badass they can chew up other Space Marines) are hard-pressed to survive more than a few hours in them. In other, far more hostile cases, stability comes when some hugely powerful daemon takes the reins and enforces their own will on the surrounding area. This is presumably what's happening with the Warpwhale: either it's a daemon powerful enough to become its own Warp-worthy vessel and prey on dimensional travelers, or it's a Space Hulk that's been horrifically warped by some horrifically powerful daemon of Nurgle, the Chaos God of despair, acceptance, disease, persistence, and corrosion. Also, Bee, I loved that Gyo reference you tossed in. Guts wouldn't balk at eating rotten shark-flesh at all!And it looks like I was mistaken, need a post from the Imperial Guard before I can continue the whole girl from a metal coffin with the embodiment of a middle schooler's emotions and thoughts, a vampire, and a nature goddess scene. ... That is a weird situation. For now I'm still trying to decide Kiyomi's entrance. I have an option with the whole giant thing's stomach but apparently that's in the Warp? I'm kind of hesitant to put her there given what I know about the Warp.I know a lot about the Warp and I hopped in anyways. You gotta go balls out.
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It seems that Guts is currently literally in the belly of the whale. One that's filled with acid, corpses, and space stations. I guess you can insert your magical girl as another unfortunate teleported person trapped there with him.
Well, since ZeroHex and I are the only people consistently posting about the adventures in RE-land, I figure we might as well take over.
The takeaway from all this is "don't dismiss things as hokey mumbo-jumbo, because they'll turn out to be absolutely true at the worst possible time." Keep your oaths, kids. Otherwise you'll be forced to live through a generation-long winter before being assaulted by an army consisting of all the damned souls of the world working in tandem with all the fire demons and frost giants of the universe.The speaker of that quote proceeded to have three children that were powerful practitioners of the mentioned hokey religion.Said hokey religion then proceeded to help a torpedo pull off a ninety degree turn and blow up a planet destroying death laser. So don't knock it.It is also the same religion that allows its practitioners to manipulate one of the pervasive forces in the galaxy, dodge bullets, become immune to conventional firearms and poisons, and become immortal.
Said hokey religion then proceeded to help a torpedo pull off a ninety degree turn and blow up a planet destroying death laser. So don't knock it.It is also the same religion that allows its practitioners to manipulate one of the pervasive forces in the galaxy, dodge bullets, become immune to conventional weapons and poisons, and become immortal.
Hey, don't blame me. I'm not the person who decided that zero automatically makes something the lowest in a given list.Atheism, of course! Since in atheistic beliefs there are no gods, there are no myths about them!
Out of curiosity, what is the most straightforward?Atheism, of course! Since in atheistic beliefs there are no gods, there are no myths about them! Even the creation myth boils down to "space dust has a tendency to come together into big spheres, and Life Finds A Way".
weird words, weird meanings. not worth my time.It's not hard. Yggdrasil is, literally translated, World-Tree. It is a tree that connects every world. It has to get its food from somewhere, right? So wherever it gets its food is probably magical as well, right? So, Odin goes out in search of where Yggdrasil gets its water, and finds that a frost giant named Mimir has already taken it. Mimir, also looking for power and made intelligent by drinking from the magical spring Yggdrasil feeds from, decides to bargain with Odin. Since he's already super-intelligent, he decides he wants to be super-aware too, and so he takes Odin's godly eye in exchange for access to his magical spring, so that he can see as well as a god can. The story of how Odin learned runics is equally as simple. When you sacrifice to something, you get their blessing, right? The better the sacrifice, the better the blessing. Well, Odin decides he's going to sacrifice to Yggdrasil, since that's basically the strongest living thing in the universe by default. Since Yggdrasil is so powerful, it needs a very good sacrifice. So, of course, Odin sacrifices himself. Since a god is a spectacularly valuable sacrifice, Yggdrasil gives Odin his blessing. Since Odin is a god, he survives sacrificing himself and manages to take Yggdrasil's blessing without further troubles. It's all very materialistic and simple, once you get past the names. Even the names are simple, if you know the basics of Old Norse. Óðinn, for example, translates to "The Furious One", which befits his status as the god of war.
whatever, bunch-a weird mumbo jumbo to meNot my fault you can't understand the second-most straightforward mythology in the world. The Norse were a very "practical" people.
Yggdrasil. As in the ancient tree that Odin sac'd his eye to for knowledge in Norse mythology that seems to be a really popular name for things. Yeah idk either. I think the incident at Yggdrasil has cleared up.Odin sacrificed his eye to Mimir, a Jotun who owned a magical pond that Yggdrasil derived nutrients from. Odin sacrificed himself to Yggdrasil by hanging himself with the tree's branches, and invented runes by examining the formation of the twigs that he loosed from the tree in the process of hanging himself.
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