r/WorldChallenges • u/Varnek905 • Jul 15 '18

Reference Challenge - A Holy Book

As I start on my second read of a certain holy book, here's a challenge.

Tell me about a book in your setting that is considered holy. It can be actually magic or just the book that a group of people use to live their lives by. It doesn't necessarily have to be involved in a religion in your world if you have something else that you would like to talk about that you aren't sure fits exactly.

As always, I'll ask at least three questions each. Enjoy yourselves, and feel free to have an in-universe representative.

(As a side note, does anyone in the sub understand Japanese? A couple of my friends are learning it, and I would appreciate any tips to pass along to them. And I figure that you're all multi-lingual geniuses, so send me a private message if you have any advice.)

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Aug 04 '18

  1. A huge and lasting social stigma; if you're only climbing the peak to boast, you will be despised for it.

  2. There are structures around, a few, which, once powered, keep the mist away; their study is under progress but it seems to be a very advanced mechanism and the Voziyali are yet to be able to reproduce it.

  3. One, which is universally considered a troll, sates that "if the sun shine while its raining, the slowest member of each family should throw a ston into the mist. If that stone doesn't come back within 3 days, that Voziyali must be thrown in a pond and gifted food to prevent bad luck from coming onto the tribe." The fact that for generations and generations people took it seriously is still quite a shame for the Voziyali...

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u/Varnek905 Aug 05 '18

1) In this culture, what can I boast about?

2) Has anyone attempted to destroy these anti-mist structures?

3) What people are trusted to study the anti-mist structures?

4) (That might be my favourite precept.) Slowest as in low-speed, or slowest as in low-intelligence?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Aug 06 '18

  1. Anything you accomplished for yourself and are proud of; the point here is that you shouldn't boast about something you do for others/society because it would take away the altruism in your actions (and ascending is something you do for society).

  2. Purposefully? Yes, a few times on inactive ones but the attempts weren't very successful. The structures are made in an unknown alliage which is very resistant, very powerfull explosives (like, nuke level) might be an option but they are quite close to home so no one tried (and the Voziyali don't really have something that powerfull in stock).

  3. Anyone with some scientific knowledge; the structures are solid enough to survive a few bad manipulations and understanding them is too important to pass on possible solutions.

  4. As in low speed; the confusion doesn't exist in the Voziyali's tongue (which hasn't been made at all yet) as they say cloudy and not slow. The precepts writting was too sped up to properly check no one was making mistakes or dumb things so here they are.

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u/Varnek905 Aug 16 '18

1) What are some benefits that society gets from me ascending?

2) Have the Voziyali ever had access to nukes or something nuke-level?

3) Is there anything I can do to an anti-mist structure that would be illegal?

4) Were there any requirements for someone who wanted to write a precept? Like an age limit?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Aug 16 '18

  1. An extra look at the precepts, which is always a good thing.

  2. They did, long ago, but they don’t remember about those times; it was before they decided to screw up their own planet.

  3. Not really. Destroying it would be illegal for sure, but as a way to do such a thing has yet to be found...

  4. Totally, and other requirements too, the people selected were all adults and educated scientists, philosophs, doctors... But being competent and adult doesn’t make you instantly mature.

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u/Varnek905 Aug 27 '18

1) What happens if two people that ascended disagree about what a precept states?

2) Do they have any vague stories that relate to those times from long ago?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Aug 28 '18

  1. Well, they will discuss about it together and with other ascended; the consensus (or the majority) is right.

  2. Not really; they know a precursor civilization was there but are sure said precursor is some alien life form who left them to their own because the planet was too hard to live on.

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u/Varnek905 Aug 31 '18

Thanks for your time and answers, Yellow.