Today I talked to the Origin again. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that I listened as it spoke. Although spoke isn’t accurate either, but I talked about that earlier.

I listened as it talked about other Origin it considered to be friends and family, I listened as it talked about other creatures it helped design and create, I listened as it talked about the rise and fall of schools of thought around creation, I even learned the general idea of many of them.

What was without a doubt the most impressive achievement was the fact that it helped design the Trolls. Although it didn’t technically create them, it did play a pivotal role in figuring out how to make them that magic resistant. Unfortunately, it seems that there is too much ambient mana to replicate the process, so any truly magic immune creature will be a Troll or Troll Variant.

If you think about it Trolls are actually cousins of mine. Well, I mean I could theoretically evolve into a Troll, both Nymphs and Trolls are monsters after all, but that's like saying I could evolve into a goblin, possible, but realistically impossible.

Another thing It told me was that Tiddol was close to evolving. Under normal circumstances she would need several years more, but due to the number of creature around here that have evolved recently it is much easier to do so, and as it belongs to the species that helped create the laws of the world, like the evolution system, i’m pretty sure he’s right.

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See, how it works is for every creature that evolves in a small area the bar for evolving is lowered, with a couple stipulations. When multiple creatures of the same species evolve into the same species it simply resets the duration of the effect, and evolving into a variant of a species that would otherwise follow the previous rule makes your evolution have a much smaller effect. There is also a pretty restrictive range limitation. In the end, the effect is equivalent to 5 and a half evolutions, all making it easier to evolve. There are the goblins evolving into greater goblins and hobgoblins, plus variants, that amounts for two and a half. Then there are the kobolds evolving into greater kobolds, me, and apparently an insect nearby managed to achieve an evolution without anyone of us noticing, possible because of us. Thes was too far away to count.

The end result is that it will be super easy for Tiddol to evolve in the next little while, she was already relatively close so all she needs to do is a demonstration of her abilities. Technically Par is pretty close as well, though he isn’t as close and he is a warrior, so he would need to hunt something powerful to demonstrate his abilities. That would force him to leave the range of the effect making it pointless. If a decently powerful creature attacks us and Par fights it off on his own in the next little while he will evolve, but that's not likely. On the other hand, Tiddol’s power lies mostly in preparation for conflict, she just has to prepare something particularly useful or powerful and she will evolve, which would make it easier for Par, but still not enough.

I’m going to tell her tomorrow, I got too caught up listening to the Origin that she went to sleep before I had a chance to tell her.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.