audio;

[gerechtigkeit]

[Hello Savrou, did you miss vague shitposting about random questions? No? Here, have another! Only this one is with audio, and no odd name other than "Saber." Sadly, the man on the other side is somewhat unused to talking for deep or thought-provoking conversations. Someone help him.]

I have a question.

[...wait, he's supposed to ask everything at once on this thing. Right. This is... definitely not something he's used to. He starts again, trying not to sound too stiff.]

Do you have stories? [Uh. Hm. That still doesn't quite explain what he's looking for. Hang on, let him clarify.] By that I mean your worlds. Your homes. They could be recent, or from the past. Histories, legends. Fairytales. Any of those.

Do you remember any of them? What were they like? [Clearly, this isn't weird to ask anyone, right? It's normal? Siegfried has no idea what "normal" means. He's really bad at this.]

There were many, back in my home. Some faded over time, and others remained. It depended on where you lived or where you were from. [A beat, as if an afterthought:] And if you wanted to believe it or not, I suppose.

[IS THIS HOW YOU HOLD A CONVERSATION he hopes he's doing this right.]

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[tearmeanewone]

Sounds about right, though I don't remember him being faceless... Hooded, yes, comes with the name.

Odin and Asgard-- both from Norse mythology. Odin is known by hundreds of names, is married to the goddess Frigg, and has many, many children-- the most well-known being Thor and Baldr. He's constantly searching for greater understanding and knowledge, and sacrificed one of his eyes to drink from Urd's well at the base of Yggdrasil, the world-tree. The lesson behind that one is sometimes in order to gain something great, something seemingly equally important must be sacrificed. But ultimately, the knowledge is worth the eye.

Asgard is where Odin and the rest of the Aesir live, connected to the 'mortal realm', Midgard, by a rainbow bridge called the Bifrost.

Alright, maybe something a little harder-- [This has somehow turned into a game of who knows more obscure things instead of a compare/contrast session, but Elizabeth's enjoying it.] --The Morrigan. Heard of her?

[gerechtigkeit]

[The fact that she has similar legends grounds him, somewhat, compared to everything else. And while she may think of this as a game, he hasn't quite picked up on it yet. To him, this is still comparing.]

The Morrígan, Celtic Goddess of War. Sometimes seen as one deity, but more often not seen as three- Badb, Macha, and Nemain. She is used as a symbol of death and doom in battle, and is a shapeshifter according to who she wants to see. Her most common form is a crow.

What about Kamsa and Krishna?

[tearmeanewone]

Ah! There's one-- I know Badb, Macha, and Anand or "Annie" sometimes. But the rest is pretty much the same.

[Hrk, he's hit one of her blindspots. Elizabeth is well-read to be sure, and her self-education was thorough, but some things do slip through the cracks. Especially anything that wasn't centered around Europe or the west in general.]

Krishna sounds familiar... though I couldn't tell you anything about them. That's one of the ones I'm not read up on, I'm afraid.

[gerechtigkeit]

I see. That's interesting, to find the slight differences where they are.

[He shakes his head at that, even if she can't see him.]

It's not well known unless you're familiar with Hindu mythology. And it's one of the few that I do know.

Kamsa was a king who ruled the Vrishni kingdom as a tyrant, with absolute rule over everything. He overthrew his father when he did not want to relinquish the throne and retire, allowing Kamsa to coronate himself as the new ruler.

One day, he was told in a prophecy that he would be slain by Devaki's eighth child- Devaki was his sister. Fearing for his life, he imprisoned her and her husband, and killed each child when she gave birth. When the time came for her seventh child, the god Vishnu had her child transferred to her husband's first wife's womb, and spared him. By the time she had her eighth, the gods conspired in favor of them and allowed Devaki's husband to escape with the child, and return with his first wife's own newborn daughter. As Kamsa arrived and went to kill the child, she fell from his hands and revealed herself to be a goddess, telling him that his death was imminent.

There were many other trials left for their eighth son, who was named Krishna. In truth, he was an avatar of Vishnu, therefore he was capable of god-like deeds. When he and his younger brother were older and invited to wrestle against Kamsa's greatest fighters, they both went and defeated them with ease. After doing so, Krishna dragged Kamsa by the hair into the arena and killed him, allowing Kamsa's father to retake the throne.

[Hindu mythology is morbid as anything.]