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Hello. My name is Inej, and I currently reside in Solvunn. I have been attempting to research information on the Gods and religious practices here. I have been told some wive's tales by the locals about not going out at night if you do not know the way, and the way a single person's fault can affect the lives of many if the Gods take offense.

My research in the library has not given me much more in way of specifics, just vague tales of them, theories of how they might have looked, but one thing does keep coming up: The Singularity came before them. I do not know if that means that the ones the locals see as Gods here were once people like us, pulled into this place... or if it means that the Singularity somehow created them. All the books hold the same theory: Prayer and dedication will wake them from their sleep.

I found something hidden in one of the volumes I was looking at today:

Ever searching Ever longing Lost and greedy Wails of mourning What has been found is never enough Her reach is vast and cutting.

The parchment was ripped and smudged, nothing else could be made out on it. I am uncertain if it means anything at all, but I see no reason not to share it, just in case it might match something someone else has found.

If you have made it this far in this message, I appreciate your time. Thank you.

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I have a strong belief in the Saints of my world, so I suppose you could say yes, we have just such stories. Maybe not every dire warning is true, but is the truth that might be in it not worth investigating? Or are you so content to be here that you do not wish to understand more about what we were brought here to do?

Quite dire for a children's song, don't you think?

Way I understand it, some channeling folks in Thorne are what brought me here for their ends. Stands to reason I'll get more answers from people than old songs and cradle rhymes. Also stands to reason that old songs and cradle rhymes are full of the two-fold truth. The truth on top and the real truth it represents.

Someone once told me stories and songs are metaphors for the truths of history that people don't like confronting. That it's easier to accept the idea that magical things and dark spirits did bad things than that people like you and me did. But then again...SOMETIMES the stories are true just as presented. Makes a man wonder. But I still put more stock in people than stories.

No I don't. Perfectly normal fodder for children's songs.

You present this as though I have not spoken to, and am not currently speaking to, plenty of people in this endeavour. I simply sought to share something I found interesting in my searches, I never once have claimed we should rest everything on this alone.

[Maybe it's a lack of knowing their tone, not being able to read their faces as they speak, but she's super not loving the attitudes a few of the people responding to her seem to be coming at her with. So much aggression over what is actually only a simple share of information.]

Not at all. I just think context and culture ought be taken into account when it comes to this manner of thing, that's why I asked about what kind of place Solvunn is. I don't know a speck about it, I've been in this world for two weeks.

But what I do know are stories and songs. Spent time with a Gleeman, learned a lot from him. About how stories come to be and how we use them.

They're a relatively simple, hard-working, highly religious people in my experience thus far. Very family and community-focused sort of living styles. Can't say much more than that so far.

Anything in particular that you'd like to share?

'Simple' could mean more than one thing. Uneducated or rural?

Different people use stories differently. It's why a Gleeman has different collections of songs and stories depending on where he's playing. In the cities it's all ballads and haunting tales and tragedies because city folk are safe and warm within their walls and need the reminding. For them it's all entertainment, they make things up out of being bored. In the villages and little towns in the forests and mountains, it's silly songs and raunchy songs and stories where the ending's a joke. Because those folks don't need any reminding, they have their own ballads and haunting tales. They make up stories to warn about real dangers.

Rural.

I never quite considered it in such a way. But that does make sense.

I never did either, till a man who makes his living telling stories started telling me about it. But it does make sense, doesn't it? How do children learn about the world when they're too little to be a part of it? Stories.

If they're rural folk I'd bet there's dozens more little snips and rhymes wandering about. Might make more sense in context with other local legends.

That is true. I dare say, even as we get older, there's plenty left to be learned about the world in stories.

Certainly something I'll try to look into.

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