Daevinity Worldbuilding Info

[Tamien]

If you ask for the complete works of a given author, do you get all their published works? What about unpublished manuscripts? Personal communication? Fanfic posted anonymously? Tweets? Basically, is it literally everything they've ever written, or is it some subset of that, and if it's a subset, what's the boundary line?

[Alicorn]

Published works is the standard case, and you can limit it by format if somebody has done both, say, webcomics and electronica music. You could probably use many of the listed parameters if so inclined.

[Bluelantern]

I just realized that the Daeva version of all authors in existence are in whatever afterlife they end up and might very likely continue working with their art. So you could totally have ALL of Shakespeare Works. I like this information very much, but I am curious... can you especify works by "after/before" the person died? I guess you can especify by date if you have one...

[Alicorn]

By date, yes, by when they died probably not.

[DanielH]

If you have a machine that can draw on the floor, you can of course program it to draw a summoning circle. You can even do this on a delay, such that the machine will draw a summoning circle in ten hours. I believe that if you do so, the circle will be valid and you count as the summoner. Is this correct?

Is there some way to set this up so that you summon yourself? If I set up a machine to draw my three potential summoning circles in ten hours, and then I die in five hours, would I get the summons? I’m guessing not, but since the summoner died before the circle was completed there would be no dismissal triggered by them dying, so I could see it potentially working.

On an unrelated note, what happens if two daeva are trying to do different things? One fairy moving something north and another east, one angel trying to turn lead into gold and another trying to turn it into steel, etc.? I think this was discussed elsewhere but I don’t know where.

[Alicorn]

You can program a machine to draw a summoning circle and this counts unless there's a lot of intervening obstacles involved with you as summoner.

You cannot summon yourself; you have to be a human at the time you or your instruments complete the circle.

I also think this was discussed before but I don't remember what was concluded. Daeva all have equal "strength" at their tasks, although in the angels case skill might come into play (the fairies will basically just be at a standstill unless one of them is trying to move the object more forcefully than the other).

[Lambda]

In the specific case of fairies trying to move something respectively north and east, would the thing stay still, or would it move northeast?

[Alicorn]

I was assuming maximally uncooperative fairies who wanted it to move exactly and only in their chosen cardinal direction. Cooperative fairies could each contribute one direction worth of motion and get northeast out of it if they wanted.

[Bluelantern]

When you become a Daeva what is "healed" automatically? Lost limbs? scars? blindness? short-height from weak bones? Does it take account what the person would like to keep?

[Alicorn]

I think I'm going to rule that it works like a version of the thing where daeva may define for themselves what is and is not part of them. So it does sort of take into account, not what they "want" to keep/fix, but what they would expect and accept to be kept/fixed.