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The closer this gets to completion, the more worried I get...
You have a knack for this dude.
Nice update.
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Maybe there was an attempt... and the creatures who made said attempt are no longer around.
The more this goes on the more I suspect that the whole "Helianthus is not Celestia" thing is all technically correct claims that make it seem like she is not Celestia, but she is better described as still Celestia, just another body with the same memories and personality and part of a soul or something. A "separate entity" but essentially just an extension of the same person.
There was a line in PTSFFF that hits at this, I think, too.
And at this point it seems pretty related to immortality and the fact that Cadence was confirmed to be immortal strengthens the link.
But we're still waiting on that. Theorizing.
All I can think of is one of my favorite movies of all time...
Breathing also contributed to the downfall of the centaurs. Being capable of adding one plus one and getting two contributed to the downfall of the centaurs.
Other important factoids include the fact that drowning is generally caused by water, fire can burn you, and directed magic blasts can be deadly.
Saying advanced technology contributed to the fall doesn't necessarily mean anything. By itself, technology is just a tool. It's the intention behind the beings that use the technology that matter-for instance, advanced society or not, an evil being is still an evil being.
Well that's not ominous at all.
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To be fair, Tarnish is thinking about the artificial ley lines, something that did in fact, fail.
And in the next chapter, he is going to find out that technology really is a bad idea.
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Then his wagon, all tools, housing, food prepared using fire, almost everything is bad.
Being a bit specific here, but technology covers everything sentients create, not just whatever it is that is likely going to kill them/killed people/will kill again.
However, specific technology such as that used to cause a resonance cascade-yeah, that I can agree is probably a bad idea.
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Oh, I agree, but I wrote from Tarnish's perspective.
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If I was to put this in Dungeons and Dragons terms I would say she is an Avatar of Celestia. An autonomous seperate being infused with her will.
Or possibly a very long live homonculous(sp?)
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It´s just me, or does it seems that Helianthus/Celestia has... let´s say issues with centaurs as a whole, not only Tirek? Is it because she was born as an experiment?
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Oh, she wasn't an experiment. Not exactly. She had parents. I've given it a few story notes, but nothing yet in concrete. The greater alicorns in general though, yes, they could be called an experiment I suppose.
Current Helianthus theories:
-She is Celestia's first born daughter.
-She was a less than ideal but still successful experimental creation by the last of the Centaurs.
-She was a natural reaction to Grogar's taint and emerged from the soil whole and complete in the final days of the previous civilization.
-She was a seed planted by the last Druid as a failsafe should the worst come to pass.
Hope they don't run into more spiders in the city, they're getting hungry here in Oz.
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Hope the read the MESSAGE on the door?
That is the creepiest and most ominous sentence from all of your stories I've read.
My mental images:
WALL-E
C-3PO
(I couldn't get pictures to work.)
Why does my mind give those automatons the voice of Gary from RvB?
Soon Kudz will have one less story to stress over... until he inevitability replaces it with three more.
And will be replaced with a sequel.
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Tarnish: coping methods brought about by experience.
Maud: relatively untroubled life.
7670613 Oh, I wasn't insulting it, or anything. I love this story. I was just stating something I found personally funny. Sorry if it came off that way.
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Oh, I was just trying to be helpful and explain it, not just to you, but to anybody else that might be going "Huh?"
Tarnish, your superstition is showing.
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Actually, it is his intuition as a druid that is showing.
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He is looking at something that he does not understand, and saying that it needs to be destroyed, buried and forgotten. To me, that is the very definition of a superstitious reaction.
He already knows that it was the machinations of Grogar and his "benefactors" that destroyed the Centaurs and poisoned the world's magic. Blaming the technology of the era it took place in is like blaming the existence of airplanes for the 9-11 attacks.
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But it is, in fact, his intuition as a druid that is making him suspicious of technology. It is the beginning of a longstanding suspicion of technology in general as he becomes what he was meant to be.
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So druids are innately suspicious of technology in general? Yeah, I can see that as something of an ideological opposition thing.
I guess what set me off was the implication that he was going to deliberately conceal, or worse, destroy the single greatest archaeological and technological find in recorded history based solely on those suspicions (that line about keeping Vinyl's recordings a secret was particularly egregious).
If they have to bring the place down on Grogar's head to keep him from coming back and ending the world, then that's an acceptable sacrifice. But actively preventing the world from learning of its own history, especially if it involves warnings of past mistakes, is never a good thing in my book. It at the very least invites those mistakes to be repeated, either out of ignorance, or by those who learn the truth and seek to use it for their own ends.
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Thankfully, Tarnish has good friends that will prevent his own biases from causing a dreadful mistake.
I'm not sure how I feel about the whole "technology is evil" approach.