Quanil's always wanted to know. To learn. They've always enjoyed the discovery of something new, and they've felt that learning about Caido was the best way to survive it, despite their parents' time-tested "run and hide" strategy.
They were perhaps pushing things into a whole new kind of danger now.
While talking with Miss Valair, they'd discussed Ludo, with whom she had a... a bond, of sorts. She'd denied it being anything akin to "friendship," but the way she'd discussed Ludo had sounded, to Quanil's ears, very... person-y. Non-god-ly.
Maybe that was just how your brain - or her brain - processed dealing with the divine. Perhaps Quanil had misunderstood; that happened very, very often. But it had sparked a question in them, which wasn't unusual. Lots of things sparked questions in them, but usually the questions faded away into the background or were lost entirely as new subjects and topics of conversation came up, and new questions arose, etc.
This one had stuck with them, and it was purely and simply this: Had the Old Gods, once upon a very, very, very long time ago, been human themselves?
And since they were here in Torchline, and they'd been talking about Ludo specifically, and there was this great shrine to Ludo right here, Quanil had decided to... explore a little.
They weren't stupid enough to ask. That seemed like a good way to get...smote? smitten? smoten? - to make the gods angry. They weren't sure why it would anger the gods to find out they'd once been human - if anything, it would make Quanil feel better about them, personally - but given that the New Gods' ascension to divinity had pissed the Old Gods off to unprecedented levels of... of pissiness, Quanil decided to be careful about this. So, no asking directly, but they wanted to see if there was anything, perhaps in the construction of the shrine itself, that might point to such a thing.
They would have liked an old shrine, more ancient than any written sources. They didn't know much about Torchline yet, so they weren't sure how old this particular shrine was. For now, they walked in and just...wandered, looking at the walls and windows, the structure of the place, peering around for anything that might catch their eye.
They were perhaps pushing things into a whole new kind of danger now.
While talking with Miss Valair, they'd discussed Ludo, with whom she had a... a bond, of sorts. She'd denied it being anything akin to "friendship," but the way she'd discussed Ludo had sounded, to Quanil's ears, very... person-y. Non-god-ly.
Maybe that was just how your brain - or her brain - processed dealing with the divine. Perhaps Quanil had misunderstood; that happened very, very often. But it had sparked a question in them, which wasn't unusual. Lots of things sparked questions in them, but usually the questions faded away into the background or were lost entirely as new subjects and topics of conversation came up, and new questions arose, etc.
This one had stuck with them, and it was purely and simply this: Had the Old Gods, once upon a very, very, very long time ago, been human themselves?
And since they were here in Torchline, and they'd been talking about Ludo specifically, and there was this great shrine to Ludo right here, Quanil had decided to... explore a little.
They weren't stupid enough to ask. That seemed like a good way to get...smote? smitten? smoten? - to make the gods angry. They weren't sure why it would anger the gods to find out they'd once been human - if anything, it would make Quanil feel better about them, personally - but given that the New Gods' ascension to divinity had pissed the Old Gods off to unprecedented levels of... of pissiness, Quanil decided to be careful about this. So, no asking directly, but they wanted to see if there was anything, perhaps in the construction of the shrine itself, that might point to such a thing.
They would have liked an old shrine, more ancient than any written sources. They didn't know much about Torchline yet, so they weren't sure how old this particular shrine was. For now, they walked in and just...wandered, looking at the walls and windows, the structure of the place, peering around for anything that might catch their eye.
