just a note about sprinkling Inuktitut words here and there - I purposely did not italicize them - does everyone agree with this convention?
Yes, I'm fine with that.
But its actions could just be similar to natural forces—neither good nor evil. They just are
I agree. Its actions being morally similar to a forest fire or a person eating a tomato makes the most sense to me. Of course, humans don't like being absorbed(?) by the creature, but the creature doesn't see anything wrong with it.
We need to find a common line across the characters and then connect that to the resolution of the conflict.
I think circle of life and connection with the natural world could work. There's probably a better term than 'circle of life' but it's late and that's what I mean in the end. Humanities spiritual link to nature is pretty big in Inuit beliefs, from what I remember. Probably a little basic of a suggestion, but we could try to push it to unnatural limits.
Grass is eaten by deer. Deer is eaten by man. Man dies and gets eaten by grass. But sometimes the Ijiraq shows up and eats mans soul. And around and around it goes. For its sin of eating and killing, does the Ijiraq die and become a meal too? Who eats it? Something higher or something lower? What powers will something gain if it eats a creature that gluts itself on human souls? What power must something have to kill a soul eater?
Maybe the Ijiraq doesn't really kill and it's outside of the food web. Maybe it just joins everything in a blissful union. No more violence, no more deadly circles of life. Just the ultimate connection between man, animal and nature. Harmony. All it wants is love.
Or maybe it's just doing it for the "te-he haha ur dead now, mortal. Get wrecked. Lolllll."
Lotta fun things to think about. My proposition is probably pretty vague and baked into the roleplay already, but I thought I'd at least mention it. I guess being vague isn't necessarily a bad thing there. Connections to the current or previous environment, people, etc. It can be spread around pretty far.
My character Jericho has some thoughts on the circle of life, so I'm biased towards it.
Wondering if you had any thoughts about the themes of fear and memories?
I'll go beef up the backstory a little more, haha. If history and knowledge (collective information: ie. books and studies) count as 'memory' then it should be fine?
We need to find a common line across the characters
Would it help if we all started yammering about our characters?
