I enjoyed this! Loved the use of “static” in this setting, and you have some great other concepts too. Some of it was less clear - the gods call themselves Lucid and live in the Realm of Dreams; this suggested to me that most of them aren’t like the narrator, but are asleep. Are the Lucid woken by prayer? There’s a bit of confusion between dream and dreamer here I couldn’t quite untangle. The knights are a fun concept, though it’d be great to get a sense of how many of them there are - and a bit more on their relationship with the Lucid. But it’s all such great ground to build on, and covers so much in a short number of words!
Thanks for reading! I actually meant to note at the end that in your own games you can determine what you wish about any sort of chromatic/shades of Knights. It's meant to be something people can modify add to for their own interpretations. In fact, Dryads being "Green Knights" is something my friends inspired me on for our games. Like if you wanted a Silver Knight, you could have one!
I like the question about Lucid! Maybe we could see it that the narrator was "woken" by the ritual of opening the book? If you wanna be overly meta, maybe it was woken by the ritual of calling for the zines to be made. To me, they're sleeping restlessly since they want to be awake and unsupress their power. They're 'Lucid' since they still have autonomy, it's just solely in their imprisonment and mortals need to reach out to bridge the gap and let them have agency on the waking world.
I gave it more thought. To write something, a Lucid needs a mortal/Knight. They wouldn't write in the perspective of the god though. I mentioned incidents where mortals have their souls tainted or influenced by deities, so maybe the author is possessing a mortal.
You're making want to go back and add things after the event... so many ideas...
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I enjoyed this! Loved the use of “static” in this setting, and you have some great other concepts too. Some of it was less clear - the gods call themselves Lucid and live in the Realm of Dreams; this suggested to me that most of them aren’t like the narrator, but are asleep. Are the Lucid woken by prayer? There’s a bit of confusion between dream and dreamer here I couldn’t quite untangle. The knights are a fun concept, though it’d be great to get a sense of how many of them there are - and a bit more on their relationship with the Lucid. But it’s all such great ground to build on, and covers so much in a short number of words!
Thanks for reading! I actually meant to note at the end that in your own games you can determine what you wish about any sort of chromatic/shades of Knights. It's meant to be something people can modify add to for their own interpretations. In fact, Dryads being "Green Knights" is something my friends inspired me on for our games. Like if you wanted a Silver Knight, you could have one!
I like the question about Lucid! Maybe we could see it that the narrator was "woken" by the ritual of opening the book? If you wanna be overly meta, maybe it was woken by the ritual of calling for the zines to be made. To me, they're sleeping restlessly since they want to be awake and unsupress their power. They're 'Lucid' since they still have autonomy, it's just solely in their imprisonment and mortals need to reach out to bridge the gap and let them have agency on the waking world.
I gave it more thought. To write something, a Lucid needs a mortal/Knight. They wouldn't write in the perspective of the god though. I mentioned incidents where mortals have their souls tainted or influenced by deities, so maybe the author is possessing a mortal.
You're making want to go back and add things after the event... so many ideas...