"Yeah? We call it the Autumn World. 'Terran' is a lot less of a mouthful."
So he might start using it too. 'Earth' is just as short, but he's a Faerie. He's contrary.
"I haven't kept any of it a secret in years, so why not? I'm a Faerie. My kind come from a whole other dimension than Terran. Terra? Anyway we sort of got shoved out of the Deep Dreaming and into the mortal world, some of us back when humans weren't even around yet."
So they're cross-dimensional immigrants, basically.
"But when humans happened and they started to really ramp up industry and shit, it started to raise the world's Banality way higher than we could handle, and we started to drop like flies, and our old home slammed its gates shut. At some point, we all started reincarnating into human bodies for protection. Like a radiation suit. The soul stays dormant until the body hits the teen years, typically, and then wham. Hey kid, you're a Faerie and everything is different now. Good luck!
"It doesn't usually work for more than a couple decades before the soul has to fuck off and wait for another reincarnation cycle. I'm ancient by that standard."
Tannusen shrugs, hands still in his pockets.
"The reason this might be useful in a tight spot is I can Enchant people, or even entire areas, and bring the Dreaming in. And then I can do a whole lot more than punch good and look pretty."
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So he might start using it too. 'Earth' is just as short, but he's a Faerie. He's contrary.
"I haven't kept any of it a secret in years, so why not? I'm a Faerie. My kind come from a whole other dimension than Terran. Terra? Anyway we sort of got shoved out of the Deep Dreaming and into the mortal world, some of us back when humans weren't even around yet."
So they're cross-dimensional immigrants, basically.
"But when humans happened and they started to really ramp up industry and shit, it started to raise the world's Banality way higher than we could handle, and we started to drop like flies, and our old home slammed its gates shut. At some point, we all started reincarnating into human bodies for protection. Like a radiation suit. The soul stays dormant until the body hits the teen years, typically, and then wham. Hey kid, you're a Faerie and everything is different now. Good luck!
"It doesn't usually work for more than a couple decades before the soul has to fuck off and wait for another reincarnation cycle. I'm ancient by that standard."
Tannusen shrugs, hands still in his pockets.
"The reason this might be useful in a tight spot is I can Enchant people, or even entire areas, and bring the Dreaming in. And then I can do a whole lot more than punch good and look pretty."