The inhabitants below live in a city called Shaarnath. Unlike the people up in here in Verens, they've mastered being able to basically internalize their emotions and turn them into a kind of strength that we Otherworlders are only just now learning and getting used to the thought of. It's called dunamis.
[A pause.]
The people here have become used to and probably expect a extent of sincerity in emotions, since they're put on display whether we really want them to or not, and since the people of Shaarnath have been able to keep those under wraps Verens is pretty wary of them. Then there's the anti-Arehtei sentiment with Thras -- the Arehtei of courage and fear, he's the big dragon you might've seen around with a cool top hat -- hiding the city in the first place.
But um, back to dunamis. It's basically magic fueled by your emotions. Master it and even someone as powerless as me can shoot lighting from her hands or pinpoint an explosion wherever I please, and you'd never know it was coming.
[So it boils down to distrust. Piphron is gonna have a field day with this.]
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[A pause.]
The people here have become used to and probably expect a extent of sincerity in emotions, since they're put on display whether we really want them to or not, and since the people of Shaarnath have been able to keep those under wraps Verens is pretty wary of them. Then there's the anti-Arehtei sentiment with Thras -- the Arehtei of courage and fear, he's the big dragon you might've seen around with a cool top hat -- hiding the city in the first place.
But um, back to dunamis. It's basically magic fueled by your emotions. Master it and even someone as powerless as me can shoot lighting from her hands or pinpoint an explosion wherever I please, and you'd never know it was coming.
[So it boils down to distrust. Piphron is gonna have a field day with this.]