...Thancred, this is-- it's beautiful. Is this really your home?
[a little awed, there. he honestly didn't anticipate this-- yes, he's said he was well educated, told ryn how he earned his tattoos, but rynlan wouldn't have guessed that the place where that happened would also be home to him. he assumed he came from somewhere else, left for somewhere else afterward.
he's staying still right where he is, just... taking it all in.]
[He's smiling softly when the biome shifts to accommodate his memories like this — fond, but not quite surprised. This isn't the first time he's seen the home biome do this particular trick, after all. Not that it ever stops being magical to live it again.]
As much as any place could be. Nostalgia is a funny thing, isn't it?
[Silly as it is given their height difference, he walks around behind Ryn anyway, wrapping his arms around him as he presses up close against his back, and just kind of leans to the side to see around him by way of accommodating for how tall Ryn is otherwise.]
Shall I give you the tour? Of what we can see from here, at least; I doubt the biome will accommodate to properly fit all of it.
[oh- that's cute, honestly, the way thancred just holds him from behind despite being shorter. he can't help a fond little laugh at it, his hands folding easily over thancred's arms-- falling right into place.]
Please. But I don't think you can guide me very well from back there.
As though I couldn't navigate this place blindfolded. And have, as a matter of fact; one gets up to all sorts of interesting endeavors when training in the ways of espionage.
[As if to prove his point, he bumps his forehead against the middle of Ryn's back, between the shoulderblades, before turning them to pivot to face the harbor.]
Our patron deity, Thaliak. Also the upstanding gent from whom I take my name — not that I was much eager to embrace it at the time.
A scholar. That Sharlayan chose him as their patron was no coincidence; he's held as the god of wisdom, associated with water to quench man's thirst for knowledge.
[The faint smile is evident in his tone, even if his face is harder to see.]
We have twelve major deities. Also some...other unusual specimens.
[IT IS A DANGEROUS THING TO DOUBLE ENTENDRE A MAN WHEN HE'S GOT YOU AROUND THE MIDDLE, RYNLAN DAWNSLIGHT anyway enjoy that tickle attack, he is merciless.]
[Cute. He lets Ryn wiggle and suffer a little bit, but relents before he can get too breathless or escalate to thrashing that might actually make him stumble or hurt himself.]
I most certainly can — come here, you.
[But he is, in fact, taking pity on Ryn and just kind of gathering him up again, holding steady so he can slump against him and catch his breath if he needs to.]
Now, then, where were we? Ah, yes, the Twelve. Just as there are six elements, there are six heavens and six hells, with a seventh heaven and hell to hold the others. Two each of the Twelve are aspected to one of the elements, and are said to reside in that corresponding heaven. Thaliak, for example, shares the Heaven of Water with Nymeia the Weaver, our goddess of fate.
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[a little awed, there. he honestly didn't anticipate this-- yes, he's said he was well educated, told ryn how he earned his tattoos, but rynlan wouldn't have guessed that the place where that happened would also be home to him. he assumed he came from somewhere else, left for somewhere else afterward.
he's staying still right where he is, just... taking it all in.]
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As much as any place could be. Nostalgia is a funny thing, isn't it?
[Silly as it is given their height difference, he walks around behind Ryn anyway, wrapping his arms around him as he presses up close against his back, and just kind of leans to the side to see around him by way of accommodating for how tall Ryn is otherwise.]
Shall I give you the tour? Of what we can see from here, at least; I doubt the biome will accommodate to properly fit all of it.
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Please. But I don't think you can guide me very well from back there.
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[As if to prove his point, he bumps his forehead against the middle of Ryn's back, between the shoulderblades, before turning them to pivot to face the harbor.]
Our patron deity, Thaliak. Also the upstanding gent from whom I take my name — not that I was much eager to embrace it at the time.
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[his ears flick, as he leans to look back at thancred curiously.]
What sort of deity is he?
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[The faint smile is evident in his tone, even if his face is harder to see.]
We have twelve major deities. Also some...other unusual specimens.
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[RYNLAN DAWNSLIGHT SHUT THE FUCK UP CHALLENGE.]
Tell me about your gods.
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[IT IS A DANGEROUS THING TO DOUBLE ENTENDRE A MAN WHEN HE'S GOT YOU AROUND THE MIDDLE, RYNLAN DAWNSLIGHT anyway enjoy that tickle attack, he is merciless.]
Cry mercy!
[The gods will simply have to wait a minute.]
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rynlan gasps and squirms in his grip-- he is still kind of injured but i trust in thancred to be doing this gently.]
S-stop-- stop it, Thancred, you can't-- you can't tickle an injured man!
[thancred is also injured,]
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I most certainly can — come here, you.
[But he is, in fact, taking pity on Ryn and just kind of gathering him up again, holding steady so he can slump against him and catch his breath if he needs to.]
Going to behave yourself?
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[he says, once he can breathe again, slumped comfortably back against thancred. there. much better.]
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[Hello.]
Now, then, where were we? Ah, yes, the Twelve. Just as there are six elements, there are six heavens and six hells, with a seventh heaven and hell to hold the others. Two each of the Twelve are aspected to one of the elements, and are said to reside in that corresponding heaven. Thaliak, for example, shares the Heaven of Water with Nymeia the Weaver, our goddess of fate.