Daevinity Worldbuilding Info

[Adelene]

You could probably put it as minds requiring things that are in some sense in motion? Like on a molecular level or something? I'm not sure that's quite true, or that if it was it'd only affect that, but it doesn't seem completely implausible.

[DanielH]

That isn't true with chip minds though. The minds are inactive without bodies.

[pedromvilar]

Not to mention that the bodies of basement-dwellers are otherwise functional, so their hindbrains are presumably working to process breathing and heartbeats and whatnot.

[Adelene]

*shrug*

[atheistcanuck]

recent interaction between Cycle and daeva has made me wonder; do naturally appearing daeva have bellybuttons?

[Alicorn]

They do. It's weird.

[Lambda]

Do they sometimes appear with other very common nongenetic things, like circumcision or pierced ears?

[Timepoof]

How about things like six-fingered hands?

[Alicorn]

No, no, and no.

[pedromvilar]

Throne wanted to know more about Daevinity to properly make Angel Theo and I asked Alicorn lots of questions and they're here:

pedro:
do natural daeva appear knowing anything a priori, and if so, what?

alicorn:
They can move around and use their powers as occurs to them. Otherwise no.

pedro:
do they appear naked or with random clothes?

alicorn:
Naked.

pedro:
no languages either?

alicorn:
Nope

pedro:
nod
how much detail knowledge do angels need to self-alter?

alicorn:
correctly on the first try, you mean?

pedro:
mmhm
like i think it was mentioned that an angel needs to know a lot, technically, to transition someone

alicorn:
yes. however, that's a human patient, it's easier on a daeva because they can heal anything that's not right.

pedro:
nod
what's heaven like? are there relevant features like the tacky plane of gold and stuff?

alicorn:
heaven is natively infinite glowycloudfluff forever in all directions. angels live in what amount to cloudfluff caves, some v large.
and put whatever in those caves.

pedro:
do daeva all heal? how fast if so?

alicorn:
daeva - and limboites - all heal any damage they're not trying to keep
and very fast, within seconds.

pedro:
can they regenerate if they try?

alicorn:
What do you mean?

pedro:
like, suppose cam interpolates his wings off his body; could he then get them back not by creating them but just by "healing" them?

alicorn:
Oh. hm. good question.
yeah, I guess so.

pedro:
nod
what are the limits of healing, then? presumably daeva can't just decide that their "healed self" looks like a frost giant, so is it "to some intact state they previously occupied" or?

alicorn:
hm, intact state they recently occupied and are *injured* relative to
if he lets the lack-of-wings heal he can't heal them back, he has to remake them

pedro:
nodnod
Is there any pattern to where daeva start? And can they start in "private" places like inside houses and stuff, or in terrible places like underground?

alicorn:
They are near other daeva and not embedded in matter.
they can appear in houses.

pedro:
do natural daeva know instinctively what the summon tug means?

alicorn:
No.