#except Serot barely begins the first step before having to back out

[deathbind]

I wonder what the explanation is for the Spellplague in Zakhara . . . Obviously it still affected them. Use of the Weave is extremely rare on Zakhara. The majority draw directly from the elemental + energy planes and always have. However, the Weave exists just about everywhere, even when it isn't being used. Furthermore, all of the elemental + energy planes collapsed into the Elemental Chaos as a consequence of the Spellplague. Loss of the Weave wasn't an issue for them and the Spellplague itself was likely less terrible on that continent, but the reordering of the cosmos would've brought its own set of problems.

Which brings us back to their explanation for it. The death of Mystra means nothing to them. She is unknown to them. Perhaps an aspect of Her is worshiped as some obscure deity in a remote corner, but again the Weave is almost inconsequential to them and almost no one uses arcane magic. If they do, they're probably from elsewhere. I'd have to say there isn't a consensus then? As in, everywhere you go, people have a different theory.

I'm trynna think on what the Soshist explanation would be, but I gotta chew on it a bit more. It's definitely taken negatively at first. I think with the collapse of the Planes of Death + Life, the priesthood [Anactaci + other half I need to name] can't perform their rites as usual. Then of course the Cities of Eternity go out of whack, and Neheb is sacrificed to seal them. End result is people are convinced it's the end of fucking days. To the point that they believed the after life was closed and no souls could move on. They were all being weighed and measured by the One Above.

But when the situation evens out and the Cities of Eternity are unsealed . . . do they spin it as a positive or negative outcome . . . I have to think more deeply on what the consequences are for casters drawing on the Elemental Chaos, I think, before I can answer that. I can see there being an argument that it's harder to cast by drawing on the elemental + energy planes because none of them exist in pure form anymore. They're all blended together now. Conversely, I could see an argument that these casters can more easily draw from multiple planes and/or some of worse of effects of drawing from these planes are mitigated because they've all been condensed into one soup.

Idk, I'll chew on it.