To All

[a_better_man]

I have a query for the masses, if you'll take a moment or two and indulge me.

Tell me about animals from your world. Or your favorite of the animals from your world. Or the most interesting. I'm curious. Friends in the Horizon have shown me critters I've never even heard of before, and even been kind enough to create one or two for my domain. And I want more. I want a vast menagerie of amazing creatures.

I've got plenty of animals I know well - foxes, badgers, rabbits, sheep - and some I don't think exist outside of this world that I've seen in Thorne. But so many of all you fine and lovely people come from amazing and vastly different worlds and I would be honored by a contribution to my little project.

Of which there is to be more than just a showcase of odd animals, and I will share with all when it's finished. But for right now...

It's all about the animals.

Comments

[shadowthief]

Probably. Ours are all pretty basic, I think? Horses and deer and rabbits, and forest creatures like that.

You don't think maybe they existed at some point, in the far reaches of your world's history? Is it a political title of some kind?

Oh, you should talk to Himeka about dragons, by the way. She has some small ones in her domain that look like nicer versions of the ones from stories in my world. Hers talk, at least a little which was fascinating all on its own.

[a_better_man]

Yeah we have those.

I doubt it, the animal symbol was named after the man. It means something very powerful. And sure, let's go with political. It's complicated.

If I ever have an interest, I'll remember the name.

[shadowthief]

Complicated to explain to an outworlder? Or complicated like touchy subject, do not touch?

[Sorry, Mat. Sometimes she's just really, really perceptive.]

She's sweet, you'd like her. I think everyone does.

[a_better_man]

Well every time I've tried to explain it before I've gotten stuck in a circular conversation that goes nowhere. My world, I have learned, is possessed of many unique and perplexing features that others cannot wrap their minds around.

You'll forgive me if I've grown weary of having that conversation. It makes me feel like I'm going mad, that what I know to be true and simple is greeted with disbelief and incomprehension. Which is no one's fault, just gives me a damned headache.

[shadowthief]

I can't say I blame you, I think I would tire rather quickly of finding myself trapped in the same conversation every time I tried to explain something from home. I understand, it's okay.

[a_better_man]

The understanding is appreciated. Perils of all of us coming from different worlds.

I'd share a fun critter from home, but we mostly have what they have here.

[shadowthief]

It does make it harder to keep up.

I hope you get as many as you like from reaching out, and fill your Horizon with as many wonderful new creatures as you want. I'd love to see, once you've got them all sorted.

[She appreciates the idea, even if it isn't something she would necessarily do with her own piece of the Horizon.]

[a_better_man]

I have so very many to work with!

And worry not, you will certainly be invited once I finish it all.

[shadowthief]

I can't wait to see your work.