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[demigoth]

[ The handwriting is scratchy and angular, like a mix of '00s emo fonts and ancient Greek carvings. ]

Are YOU used to angels being real? Please think Yes/No/Biblically/what's an angel responses directly to me so cranky people don't threaten other people's livelihoods again.

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[demigoth]

I haven't heard of the Faith of the Seven.

I guess I'm asking because I met one - or he looked like one. Maybe because I was raised Roman Catholic, so I thought angels were real. Then I found out the old gods were real, and I know angels aren't. It's complicated. I want it to be simple.

[northerndragon]

The Faith of the Seven is not my faith, but I can speak on it a little. I do not think it is common across these worlds. They follow one god with seven aspects: the Father, the Warrior, the Smith, the Maiden, the Mother, the Crone, and the Stranger. They don't show the Stranger's face and it is ill luck to speak of him overmuch. Not many pray to him. Mayhaps you can guess what he represents.

My sister Sansa was raised to the Faith. She might tell you more of it.

What is Roman Catholic?

[demigoth]

I can. People are always afraid of what they don’t understand. The roles sound familiar, but the Greek gods that match them are all different gods.

Roman Catholic is - more different than the Greek gods and the Faith of the Seven are. They follow one god with three aspects. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. I don’t understand it that well. Theres a lot of rules and rituals to keep track of, and I was never good at memorization.

wait until they figure out that the Archangel Michael is a guy in Solvunn

[northerndragon]

I don't know Greek, either. Except for Diana, I know her. She is a good lady.

But the Roman Catholic, with their rules and rituals — that sounds like the Seven. They have their holy book, The Seven-Pointed Star. Do those Catholics have a mother, or a warrior?

minds will be blown

[demigoth]

But Diana is a Roman goddess? Her name is Artemis in the Greek religion.

The Catholic holy book is called the Bible. There's a six-pointed star in Judaism, which is related I guess. There is a mother figure - the Madonna. The mother of the Son. She's not a god, but she is... venerated? I'm not sure what the word is. You're not supposed to worship her, but you can honor her and ask her to intervene for you. There are warrior saints, like Joan of Arc, but I've forgotten a lot of the catechism. I haven't gone in a long time. Maybe Michael, if you're looking for the warrior? But he's supposed to be an angel, and I don't think they're real.

[northerndragon]

I don't know much about it, but I thought the lady Diana here had something to do with something Greek. Might be she does not.

Can you tell me more of Joan of Arc?

[demigoth]

I'm not an encyclopaedia of all things Greek.

I don't remember much. She said God spoke to her and gave her advice for the French army, so they let her lead. She was good at it. Then something happened, and everyone decided it was evil that she wore pants, so they executed her.

[northerndragon]

I don't know what an encyclopaedia is, either. Like a maester, a learned man? The world I come from is nothing like most of what I see in the Horizon. It's more like this place, though there is less magic and less call to believe that magic is real.

They killed a girl for wearing pants? Sounds mad. Less mad that they'd want to kill someone who led an army. Did the French army falter after that? It would not surprise me if they did, if they had no one to follow who they believed in. You cannot expect your men to bleed for you if you will not bleed for them.

Sorry - twas on vacation

[demigoth]

It's a set of books that go together, with information on all sorts of things. It's what a maester would write for you if you told him to write 4 paragraphs on everything in the world. What kind of world doesn't matter for that. You probably call them something else.

Humans are kinda mad all the time. It's the only way to explain all the wars and fighting. I think they won a few decades later. It was during the Hundred Years War, so the whole thing was slow.

back from hiatus!

[northerndragon]

A library in a book. It sounds as though it is of great use.

Men are ever at war. That's the way it is where I come from, too. It isn't a thing of note if a king is good at war, though when I was a boy, I thought it was — it's a thing of note if he can bring peace and keep it. His people need harvests, not battles. But if they have battles, they must have a commander who is worthy of the name. You can't ask men to die for a foolish cause.