There was a long silence from Fer as he took in the import of what his brother was saying - to say the least, he had dramatically underestimated the scope of Xanti's theory, and now that his further explanation had made rather clear what Xanti meant, Fer had to take a few moments to be stunned at the implications.
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Hold on... oh. Oh. You don't mean to say that the Old Gods were human at all, you mean something entirely different."
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That is... deeply concerning."
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The connection with the sea could certainly make some sense considering the theological importance of the sea, as we see with Undine - but this... has several possible consequences for our future, as if we weren't in deep enough."
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To understand more, I suppose I would need to know: what was the basis for the theory that swung you towards it? What does the evidence for this look like? I would want to take a look at it myself, if it were possible."
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And, er, one more thing..." Here Fer looked at Claude as well, briefly, shrugging his shoulders. "
Are you certain about Armageddon? The state of the surviving structures of the pre-Reckoning era, as well of course as the landmass changes, strongly suggest to me a primarily seismic event. My own research of previous Jasso family library organization documentation has suggested that Armageddon is a related to Meteor, likely its precursor. I suppose that Meteor does have some rather unique ability to summon rock, but this would imply Armageddon to not quite as much be a fire spell as its successors, and would imply to me a drastically different sigil structure. And, if the old Jasso family was able to hold onto world-level spells like that, as opposed to something more city or sub-city level in its destruction like I've been expecting... well, that has implications on its own."