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- | **Threadwielders** (a/k/a **Threadweavers**) are a mostly acorporeal, quasi-immortal species that are technically immigrants to the universe from a different one - while simultaneously being the makers of the universe as a whole. They have a mostly tacit understanding of how the whole thing works - and how to tweak it so it does something else. | ||
- | ===== Biology ===== | ||
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- | Threadwielders are chiefly invisibly encoded as information into the universe when they move through it. Much like a fungus and its fruiting body, Threadwielders are much larger entities than their avatars might suggest, and the more they age, the more ' | ||
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- | To kill a Threadwielder, | ||
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- | A complete destruction of a Threadwielder' | ||
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- | In the most abstract sort of sense, they reproduce sexually; it's something that happens between acorporeal avatars, though mediated through the physical world, which is to say, physical avatars have to have some proximity to each other (or the aformentioned 'blind swimming' | ||
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- | (It's quite independent of what physical avatars do, too. Two Threadwielders could take a liking to sex as we humans understand it and nothing would come of it. As such, it's // | ||
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- | ===== Culture ===== | ||
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- | The attitude of Threadwielders tends to be fairly //meh// for a culture of de-facto deities. They have no rules about what's ethical to do to their pet universe, short of respecting their kin and accountability for one's actions. The lack of strong societal values, however, is in part what makes them good Guardians of other sapient species: They can adopt their pet culture' | ||
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- | Actively causing the death of another Threadwielder is immediate grounds for complete ostracism (and running danger of being similarly destroyed) and, if it can be arranged, the removal of all Thread in the Threadwielder' | ||
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- | Their culture has an age-based hierarchy; the older you are, the more respected you are and the more influence you have, unless you've done something to earn contempt or derision. | ||
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- | Failing to correctly assess the consequences of one's Thread-based tampering is practically considered a heinous crime, since anyone who dares use Thread (= a lot of Threadwielders, | ||
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- | Generally, despite perceiving time no different than a human being might, Threadwielders ignore short-term changes, where ' | ||
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