>>39278815>most of these are non-answers.I shrugged at the interlocutions that did not ask a clear question.
>their personal concept has nothing to do with nationality, and it has a polluted, incomplete connection to heritage on it's own.Their nationality is irrelevant, and doesn't come into play. It's more about the concept of the children and how they relate to the rest of the nation through the web of kinship.
>that would be fine if it didn't end up harming others who were entirely unrelated to any of it. i doubt /hag/anon is so indiscriminate that he would be fine harming innocents just to harm some of us, but who knows, maybe he is. personally, i would see it as cruel to harm innocents for the (supposed) crimes of another.the effects are already moderated even on the intended targets, and would be further weakened on collateral damage, I don't think it's a huge deal.
>how?They have a glyph on them which maintains the spell. If this glyph is broken, so is the spell.
>it's like the opposite of a metaphor. a physical representation of a concept instead of a conceptual representation of something physical. think of it like the blood and body of christ being wine and bread. the wine and bread are standins for the blood and body respectively, but it is said to have power in representing that concept.Right. The ashes are a transubstantiation of the children's personal concepts, then.
>>39278860All those stories can be written outside of the exile period. The exile period is just what, five, seven years? It's pretty inconsequential, in the grand scheme of things.