Sean K Reynolds wrote:
I think it's more than that. Erastil knows that not only is Desna "ancient before mankind learned to farm," she's... weird.
As in... well, I don't want to spoil it, but she's an ancient pre-human goddess of stars and dreams. Remind you of anything?
Set wrote:
The black raven wrote:
Smacks of Lovecraftian to me.
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Generic Villain wrote:
It's worth noting that Desna also resides on the Material Plane, though I don't think she's a native like Nyarlathotep or Cthulhu.
Set wrote:
It's only (relatively) recently (as strange aeons go) that Desna has been a *human* goddess, with a humanoid appearance. Whatever shuddersome sky-crawling insectile thing, night black and slick with liquid starlight, singing mad songs and dreaming mad dreams beyond the range of human comprehension in the dark places between the stars, she used to be, has been wrapped up in a friendly butterfly-lady persona, over the recent millenia...
Far-Traveller from beyond the stars, mad-Dreamer of forbidden Dreams, we call upon you, Desna, Ia, Ia.
Kevin Andrew Murphy wrote:
Ah, yes. I'd been thinking too much on her current persona and the relative age thereof, rather than what really lies behind the butterfly-winged mask.
The flumphs probably float down from the stars and say things like "Desna is ancient, unknowable, strange...."
And when the flumphs say that?
Yeah....
Still...
DAT UNFATHOMABLE SYMMETRY