Jan 25, 2019
Content Warnings: Descriptions of death, descriptions of medical care
His presence can be felt by those who do not even lay eyes on the dragon’s body. Samol has arrived at the last university. And why should it not be felt? All presence, after all, is Samol, Hieron Himself, the first god, the one-who-spoke-words-alive, the universal origin, breathing. And as he breathes life into this too-quiet campus, the others hurriedly look for solutions to a variation on a problem they’ve known they had for a long time: How do you save a dying god?
This week on Spring in Hieron: The Breath of Hieron
”GODS” are not what you imagine. Despite the fables, these
are not beings of infinite POWER or unshakable WILL, nor are they
models of noble VIRTUE. Those preaching sermons in churches and
scribbling songs in hymnals would have you believe that the world
is a laboratory and the “gods” are its alchemists. Yet in fact, on
the chemist’s table of Hieron, they, like us are simply glass
beakers filled with the physical STUFF of life. Perhaps their
content shimmers more when stirred--and to that end, we ought
understand their sheen and thus duplicate it--but remember, in the
end, all glass shatters.
-An Excerpt from the Crystalized Lectures of the Wizard
Fantasmo