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text; @The Seventh Crown of the Seventh Demon King;
[ Four lines of text. ]
This is written in Victorian.
Kore wa Laterano-ji Higashi-go de kakareteimasu.
This is written in Higashinese.
This written by in Yanese. (Might be bad. Sorry.)
Please do let me know how many of these sentences you understand.
[ The first is in what would be considered Earth English, the second is what would be known as Japanese written in Romaji, but he's called it "Laterano-ji Higashinese". The third was written in Japanese, the fourth was written in some rather poor Chinese. He's called the languages themselves clearly incorrect names. What's more important, though, is that only the second one should parse as phonetic, and should only be understandable to fellow Japanese speakers. The rest are in whatever language is most understandable to whoever reads it. Funny, huh? This city sure is strange! ]
This is written in Victorian.
Kore wa Laterano-ji Higashi-go de kakareteimasu.
This is written in Higashinese.
This written by in Yanese. (Might be bad. Sorry.)
Please do let me know how many of these sentences you understand.
[ The first is in what would be considered Earth English, the second is what would be known as Japanese written in Romaji, but he's called it "Laterano-ji Higashinese". The third was written in Japanese, the fourth was written in some rather poor Chinese. He's called the languages themselves clearly incorrect names. What's more important, though, is that only the second one should parse as phonetic, and should only be understandable to fellow Japanese speakers. The rest are in whatever language is most understandable to whoever reads it. Funny, huh? This city sure is strange! ]
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[ He's aware that he might be making more questions, but that's about as clear as he can make it. (Yes, he did just casually mention that his parents are at least a century old.)
Midnight's going to keep that mention of "cultivation" in mind later, along with the absolutely puzzling idea of trying to discriminate against a people just for being on the move. (Now, discrimination for being nation-less... That's another issue entirely.) For now, there are direct questions to answer! ]
Originium is the source of the "magic" of Terra: the Originium Arts, or Arts for short. It's a black mineral, very unstable and prone to reactive behavior when exposed to oxygen, but once it's processed, the stable form is used for power and various sorts of technology in Arts research. To answer your previous question about the conquests, Sarkaz tend to have a higher affinity with Originium and the related arts, so the Nightzmora had an edge on their neighbors via their witchcraft. As for their connection to the Catastrophes... I think that's more of a question that reaches back into antiquity. It's a fact of life for anyone who isn't a Catastrophe Messenger or a professor of meteorology or the Arts. Catastrophes carry Originium like the spectrum of light has several colors, like the two moons in the sky, like the unpredictable movement of the stars.
[ Terra is different, man. On the other hand, though, Midnight's very curious about this Earth. In the absence of Originium, is all power on Earth nuclear? Wind based or solar, maybe? ]
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Multiple species of human??
His parents are HOW old???
TWO MOONS??]
Wow...your Terra is much more different than my Earth than was apparent at first glance, my friend. I'm actually a little more surprised now, that we shared so many languages and cultural touchstones! You'd think that with such different histories, everything would be different, but apparently not...
[Actually...it kinds of reminds him of some fantasy novels he's read, where the authors will go wild flights of fancy about the magic and wars and other exciting stuff but just a regular world map with slightly different place names, so they don't have to come up with new names themselves. But of course that's silly, his friend Luo Binghe may be from a book but Shen Yuan can't assume that anyone else! If nothing else it would probably be rude.]
May I ask you a slightly personal question, though? Of course you don't have to answer if you'd rather not, I'm just curious.
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We'd have to sit here and go through history point by point, I think, in order to catch all the differences... and I can't say history was my best subject. Still, I'd be willing to help with the endeavor where I can.
[ At this point, who's the say which is real and which is fiction? Midnight wouldn't mind either way, honestly. ]
Well, there's know way of knowing unless you ask, right? Please, by all means.
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But I was wondering, friend, how old you actually are? It's just that on my Earth, a single century is really pushing it for humans...most people tap out around 70 or 80, depending on how good their country's health care might be. So if your parents emigrated a couple centuries ago, I wonder what that means for their lifespan and for yours?
But if that's not something you're comfortable discussing, you can just forget I asked.
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Just to get any potential questions out of the way, Earth is one of those worlds with only one human species variant, correct? No species or subspecies? My world has several dozen different types of humans with different maturation rates, so we tend to refer to age by relative maturation, not years, unless we're in a conversation with our own kind.