221 - Theogony

[insomn14 (Mike)]

Was rereading this story because of reasons and a couple lines stood out to me that didn’t before.

@garrett

To her surprise, there’s an affective force field here - a barrier against emotion and psychic emanation. The product of a magic ritual? After a short examination, she concludes it’s closer to something Concord could have created.

@garrett

What of the force field? Do the Concordance have an interest in the human afterlife? Does Concord? Charlotte is intensely curious, but there’ll be time for that.

And then I remembered a different section from another story…

@garrett

Carefully, gently, she tugs at the threads of her affective force field. The barriers that masked Jordan’s powers from the rest of the world fall away.

Earth’s “Rainbow Warriors”, the trio of Concordance Agents on the planet, suddenly sense that a member of the Void Shadow Collective is on Earth.

Which got me thinking about this description and how it could also describe how the Concordance Shards work.

@garrett

The laughter subsides. “You could say that souls have sockets, or attachment points, or spike proteins. Pick the metaphor you prefer. Some have only one. Imagine someone knowing they have a soulmate somewhere out there, and you get the idea. Places other souls can make a connection to you. You, Charlotte, and other people like you, have hundreds. Maybe thousands. Divine seedlings, waiting to sprout into new divinities with the right infusion of souls.”

If this is connected, this just raises more questions. Very excited to see if/how/why these all tie together.