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Script
“So, I bet you’ve noticed by now, but the children of Fleyw Bresh (well, everyone, kinda) have this thing with firet. Ever wonder why? Not really? Well, that’s why I’m here. Like everything else that the children of Fleyw Bresh care about, it starts with the Commandments…”
[picture of Orestis] “Somewhere near the beginning, their Creator, Orestis, said something special about the redeeming qualities of fire. Early on it was clear in the Commandments that fire wasn’t about punishment or some untamed disaster like Seothians usually made it out to be; it was about purification.”
[picture of Faidon] “They believe that the person’s sins (or most of them, anyway) were burned away with the flesh. That meant that their afterlife wouldn’t be as bad. Because of it, Faidon’s like the third holiest god after Orestis (for making everything, obviously) and Danai (for being Light).”
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[next page, picture of fire] “So then, what’s some examples of these beliefs? For one, the children of Fleyw Bresh cremate their dead. That practice, like the Lantern Festival, became common in Seothia too during Saint King Lucas’s reign. Second, pretty much anyone in Qizar or Idkor who committed a crime grave enough for death (murder, heresy, that sort of thing) are burned at the stake to help ‘redeem’ them.”
[picture of Selik] “Third is that some people just like taking advantage of the fact that fire is destructive. The most well-known case of this would be what Tyrant-King Selik did. Most historians would say he didn’t just burn the old Hyasari to the ground in order to, you know, burn a capital. He did it to evoke the symbolic meaning behind it. It’s pretty much like he said ‘hey, you, children of Fleyw Bresh! I will redeem you!’ Yeah, that went just as well as you’d expect it to.”
[back to Natheniel from panel 1] “I think that’s almost everything? I might’ve missed something, I don’t know. But, hey, at least you might be able to say you knew more than you did before? See you next time, I guess.”