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I can't wait to see where this story goes; I really hope for vengeance against that awful necromancer, but it's still too early to tell.
I think that the Soul Cairn is one of the few places in the game that is both beautiful and terrible at the same time, and I'm glad you're using it as one of the settings in your story.
I really love the music; both songs are very fitting and very haunting.
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Impressive work !
Amazing work Farv.
When will that bastard Necromancer get his due????!!!!
On a side note I may be reading to much into your story here but when you referred to the ideal masters god as the Capital God it got me to thinking. I see another layer here that the ideal masters are like greedy capitalists and those powerful and wealthy elite running corrupt corporations where a hunger for money is all that matters. Gathering souls when they do not need them ... just to amass power seems to go alongside gaining wealth well beyond what any person needs to survive or be comfortable with. That greed becomes all consuming. The Capital God could money as certainly many people seem to worship money ... yet it is a hollow thing. Materialism is empty and hollow. Like the soul and the mind/body being disconnected a love of money and material items can cause a disconnect with ones soul.
Of course I might be reading my own views into your story that you had no thoughts about at all but it did make me think of it regardless.
Fantastic work! A very slick horror story actually as normally the idea is that the after life is something of peace yet this poor lady find it a pure horror.
You of course have perfectly understood the reference to capitalism. Rather than "Spirit of Capitalism" told by Max Weber, the assumption here is reversed in a sort of "Capitalism of the Spirit." Spirit here means money, but mostly means "means to an end." What is the purpose of the accumulation? This is the question that capitalism can never do. Expand the accumulation of means in view of an end which is unknown, however, grow, expand, the meaning of this expansion is never minimally put into question.
The term energy capture deeply the nature of money, the supreme mediator of every desire. Energy, ie, the ability to perform a job, just to satisfy the desire. Desire, not so much an object in place, but the pure potential, infinitely amass money, ie energy, not to put it into practice in an object, but to never achieve anything really, if not the infinite accumulation. This sort of short circuit combines the ideal masters to the capitalists.
The system established by the ideal masters is in fact so pervasive as to resemble closely that of capitalism. The outcome of this strange story is that materialism is hollow, but the tragedy is that even spiritualism is hollow. The tragedy is that spirit and capitalism seem to coincide without any margin. Soul means both for capitalists, as for the Ideal Masters, simply resource, means, and energy. Where is the trick? The soul is not an entity, not a thing or an object. It is not the Soul Cairn, which contains the souls, but there is only a single soul who contains everything, including the soul cairn.
They are not many, cultures that have had a positive view of life and the afterlife. The ancient Greeks certainly had not and they were not the only ones. The nothing, the Zero Sum certonella pospettiva of Elderscrolls value is much more comforting than you recognize.
Thank you, Jon, for your profound comment.
The layers of most of your stories add and incredible depth to them, as well as allowing different meanings to be found, upon re-reading them. A great continuation and a joy to read, my friend!