#relic answers

[callsign-relic]

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[askingnpc]

to all of you:

if you were thrown into a high-fantasy world, what roles would you take up?

"No, he's also more of a bard." "But we already said that for Dusk." "Cash-In, are you of all people claiming people can't be similar..." "Shut it."

Most amicable discussion they've had in a while, thanks!

[canisalbus]

You have a great collection, but it's missing some glow-in-the-dark little dinosaurs.

I've never had glow-in-the-dark dinosaurs (despite having been a dinosaur kid).

I don't know if I've ever seen any in person either? Were they not a thing in Finland when I was little or did I just miss out somehow? I've never thought about this before, feels weird.

[lara-cairncross]

What if... Lansoni? (Sir Lancelot/Shadow x Sonic)

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hey. hey. hey dont fucking tell anyone but Lansoni is basically my favorite version of sonadow. ill go insane right now. ill start biting people.

[universe-xlll]

draw suggest: visiting lemm~?

I was first gonna just put Ghost with Lemm cleaning some relics, but then this happened...Ended up drawing the Pale sibs from my modern au visiting Lemm´s relic shop, then thought, Lemm wouldn't let anyone touch the relics unless they're someone of trust.

So just imagine that Ghost likes to go and help with taking care of the relics while Hollow is interested on the stories behind each one.

What's Brook looking at on the shelf? only Hornet knows.

Anyways thanks for the drawing suggestion! I will hopefully turn it into a finished art piece :]

[swordfright]

in latest chapter of stagger, dream calls tommy's knuckle bone a relic. (ex)catholic!dream real? (this is to say, would you expand more on what the suggestion of a reliquary—if intentional—means about him lol)

ok fascinating question. i wouldn't say i headcanon any of the characters as Literally Catholic (though i do love when ppl draw c!tommy with a huge dangly crucifix, it's hilarious) but i also don't think it's a stretch to say the dsmp is a very religious storyworld in a lot of ways. we're meant to understand that a number of characters are either gods, believed to be gods, god-adjacent, are acting on behalf of a god, or have been granted divine powers in some sense. i actually looked this up just now and found this list on the wiki, and while i don't personally 100% agree with some of these characters being Literal Gods, i do think the fact that the audience and characters are even discussing whether a given character "counts as a god" indicates that religion is.....kinda fundamentally baked into the world of the story??

as for c!dream specifically, I've always seen him as...maybe not necessarily a religious character, but at the very least a character who has religion happen to him. we don't really get much of an indication of what his beliefs are at the beginning of the story, and we certainly don't get any insight into what beliefs he might've been raised with growing up (dsmp is a very "present" story and i'm sooo grateful for that), but regardless, by the final arcs of the story he has been made the subject of divine intervention. he has a book that belongs to, or was created by a god. a god wears his face. etc. (if you wanna get real nitpicky about it, i don't think we can say "his sister is a god" because i don't think anyone actually says that in canon, including drista herself, but personally i always loved that bit of fanlore so it's canon To Me lmfao.) honestly, i think the best evidence that dream is religious even in the earlier arcs of the story is the fact that dream co-founds church prime — especially this stream from november 2020 where he invites tubbo to pray with him inside the church before they go to war against each other. dream kills tubbo immediately after the two of them step outside the holy land, but he clearly respects the church as a sanctuary and upholds it as such (when cc!tubbo uploaded the VOD he cut the first hour, including this interaction, but the entire thing was recorded and archived so you can still watch it.)

to answer your Actual Question — when i wrote that line i was thinking about how many relics historically were purported body parts of saints. so the word "relic" came to mind when i was figuring out how to describe a scene where someone basically steals a body part and hides it away for a divine purpose, i.e. a resurrection ritual. i didn't really put any more thought into it than that, but i do think it's fun to imagine the religious parts of c!dream's inner life, especially during his incarceration. "god appears to you in your time of greatest torment wearing your face" goes hard obviously, and it also genuinely sounds like it could be part of a lot of historical martyrdom tales.

so like. there's a lot there! i know a lot of folks find the religious headcanons annoying, which i understand, but you can't deny...there's A Lot There lmfao

[scrawnytreedemon]

Pale King Dude

What about him?

[kurithedweeb]

This is an elaboration of my answer about clothing culture in DoS (this one) on veiling within priesthood for @tsunami1022! There’s some context and the original commented question in the post, but my answer is too long to put in the comments so here it is. I myself am not religious or studying religion so don’t expect this to match up with any actual religion, this is just what I imagine for Ru’aun. We’re gonna talk specifically about veiling in the Church of the Matron Irene.

The act of covering their face is a way to elevate the veiled closer to the goddess. You don’t look upon a holy power without consequences, so being veiled is a disciple’s way of giving themselves a layer of protection and being able to look and be closer to the goddess. There’s different levels to it. I mentioned that devotees cover their eyes, members of the church cover the lower half of the face and the High Priest’s entire face is covered.

The covering of the eyes allows you to look up to the goddess. To see her and study her. It allows her to look back at you and take notice that you don’t have to shy away, so when you pray she may hear you above the din of the masses. Still, you may look at her, but you won’t see her clearly. She’s a vision to interpret, shapes to read like shadow puppets. The mask over the eyes is the only veil that may be removed outside of worship. It’s something you wear to church and for your prayers at dawn and dusk, and most people remove it when going about their daily lives but scholars and prayermen (staff of the church and those housed on church grounds) only remove it when washing or sleeping.

Covering the mouth allows your words to mingle with the words of the goddess. Outside the church, your word is taken as her message, you are the middleman between the divine and the mortal. Only the most dedicated to her teachings can interpret the Matron for the masses, those who have followed their entire lives and intend to follow until their deaths, the priests and nuns. These veils are never taken off, not even to eat and drink, and can be stripped from the veiled by the High Priest or local Lord if they act against Irene’s teachings. You cannot be seen without it, and the dorms on church grounds are all single rooms so you can wash and sleep without breaking this rule.

The High Priest is considered a vassal of Irene, a vessel if she wished it. He may speak to her and she may speak to him. He is the closest to divinity a person can get. To look upon his true face is seen as equal to looking upon the true face of Irene. She speaks through him. He doesn’t interpret anything, she and he are there together, his words are hers as far as anyone is concerned. He has several veils that suit different ceremonies and these can be exchanged for or worn together with different masks to show tone because you can’t read his expression. He may only remove the veil in the most intimate moments of his life: the embrace of a lover, the moment he is married, the death of a family member, the birth of his child, and as part of the ceremony to pass on the mantle of High Priest.

Aside from the different roles the different forms of veiling take, there’s also universal meanings. Veiling in real-world religions has a number of meanings: it’s seen as a symbol of holiness, purity, modesty, protection and mystery, and it can also be a connection between the veiled and their God. In Christianity, which I believe is what the canon church of Irene is based on, objects and people are sometimes veiled because they have a certain dignity and close relation to holy power—this includes the hands of the priest since they’re consecrated, the veil of a bride, and the habits of nuns who are supposed to consider themselves married to God. For the Church of the Matron, another important symbol is unity. 

When you devote yourself to the Matron, your veil becomes your new face, so much so that some disciples who have been best friends for a decade can’t recognize each other without their veils. You are the closest mortals have come to Irene’s divinity, your name and face are sacred things now that belong to her, and you are no longer an individual. You are an extension of her power. You are now a shard of the whole of the Church of the Matron; you too are just a touch holy.

Anyway, the veils are shields from divinity on both sides! It’s a huge scandal within the church (keep it hush-hush from the public for the public image) for a veil to be relinquished or stripped from a wearer.

[kedicatt-cotl]

Books of the different cults were very different.

In Darkwood, most of the books were quite simple, written on birch bark with sharp objects like stones. Leshy was never a big fan of writing, and most of his cult was illiterate. He just didn’t see a point in trading materials with his siblings Life in the Green Crown cult was quite chill. Darkwood is rich with resources required for surviving, so the followers always had plenty of free time which they spent to create folklore tales that was passed down generations. They worked on all different kinds of creative crafts including pottery and creating music instruments. Leshy wasn’t a big part of it himself, but he loved the stories and still rememers some of them.

Warlike Heket made sure Anura had enough paper and ink, imported from Shamura’s and Kallamar’s cults. The books were all about the technical stuff, like drawings of weapons and houses and things like most effective hunting tactics. The Yellow Crown cult was all about optimization and perfection. It had lots of great blacksmiths, including Heket herself.

Despite Anchordeep trading ink to the other cults, their land had humidity too high to use real books. They had to scribble things on large flat stones. The Blue Crown cult books had a lot of informations on the useless, shiny and pretty things. They designed decoration and found dozens of uses to the crystal shards, from putting them on rings to using them to make kaleidoscopes. The followers often worked with the other cults and combined the skills in order to make better things. Some of them even left to the Silk Cradle, wrote books and left them there for Shamura to store. Kallamar was never too good at inventing new things, but he always had a good taste in decorating.

Silk Cradle used to trade paper to the other cults. They got ink from Anchordeep and wrote books and scrolls on scientific and philosophical topics. The Purple Crown cult researched anything that could be researched, from dyes to plant types. Shamura was actively participating in the life of his cult. They taught all of his followers himself, leading learning sessions for them every once in a while.

Narinder’s cult and Narinder himself were busy writing about completely different things. Legends have it that the old Red Crown followers were writing made up stories. Most of them are likely destroyed by now, with no one to look after them for ages. Narinder himself was too busy with his experiments to see what exactly his cult was writing. He did all kinds of things, trying to find a way to use the Crown’s power to stop death. Restoring and reattaching bodyparts and bringing bodies back from death after different amounts of time has passed, this was the work of his life quite literally. He wrote multiple books, listing the results of his experiments and how he got to them.

The main issue is - they can’t do it again now. Narinder doesn’t remember what he wrote in enough detail, and Lamb’s skill of using the Crown is not yet good enough to just try and find the new ways anytime soon. Sure, Lamb may be able to resurrect people, but he doesn’t actually know how he does that - the ability was passed to him by Narinder while he controlled the Crown, and Lamb doesn’t have any clear understanding of it.

Narinder and Lamb are searching for those books now, hoping that the information in them would help to heal Narinder’s siblings.

[callsign-relic]

Hi. You all need to see the scene I exploded over twice

[askingnpc]

This is SO SIGMA what the skibidi

Your brainrot has killed the old man

[canisalbus]

I think the good thing about people being silly about the gay dogs is that the dogs get to be silly. No more murder. No more angst. Only worm.

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[exactlyspookykxala]

dare I say this patch is better than the entire penacony arc, for me at least. idk, it feels less dialogue-heavy than penacony. the characters are still using more words than they need to, but not to the point where i question if their throat is getting dry. except aglaea, I think 😭 but i think that part was intentional lmao. all in all, definitely left an impression, but a foreboding one.

[anantaru]

why aren’t you changing your theme ever? /gen

stop

[sjofn-lofnsdottr]

🎀  to see them in a cute outfit

Yes, I'm finally answering the asks from this prompt list. It's only been, uh. Almost a month.

ANYWAY, this probably isn't what the prompt had in mind when it said 'cute,' but I always think Dusk looks comfy and cute in this glam. I dunno what to tell you!

[ironwoman359]

Crack theory here: the crystal is actually a fragment of The Mirror that the viewer aka Y/N aka we got put in, which is why it allows for transportation between universes aka "different points of view". also in Heist Warfstache mentions our "magic box" aka the crystal is good for "paus[ing] time" and then the YouTube pause menu appears. Crystal = piece of a broken 4th wall

OK do I think this is what the answer Actually Is, no, but holy shit is it a cool concept, and I need to know if there's any fic with this premise asap, this is so neat!