Karl's assertion that "without proper mental shields that would have been a terribly bad place for one such as you" ("there" being through the rift/gate that Vapnoople went through) supports the notion that *if* Lucrezia has been playing with unsafe power sources, she's likely to've taken some mental damage. (Possibly also true of various Heterodynes over the years? Agatha's had raw Dyne water, but only the once ...)
On the other hand, Zeetha says Luheia was the first queen of Skifander, and that the loss of one of the Brek'kah stones predates Luheia's birth, so the speculation about Tekvari as a Queen of Skifander is wrong. Albia talks about Luheia as a Queen she knew personally, so if Tekvari or someone else from Skifander took one of the Brek'kah stones to use to contain the cursed waters ... she wasn't a ruler of Skifander, but she might have been a spark who became one of Skifander's pantheon of gods? Or perhaps Skifander's pantheon is (some of) the set of people who were involved in creating the containment system? Zeetha said Skifander's patron goddess is Ashtara, so if their pantheon is the first set of second-ascension sparks before the "Queens" convention became a thing, perhaps Ashtara was from Skifander -- or created Skifander? -- and Tekvari is from somewhere else?
Grah. I'm not actually expecting much coherent history from before Albia's time, but I really hope we get at least a basic description from the perspective of Skifander. When the story eventually gets there ...
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Karl's assertion that "without proper mental shields that would have been a terribly bad place for one such as you" ("there" being through the rift/gate that Vapnoople went through) supports the notion that *if* Lucrezia has been playing with unsafe power sources, she's likely to've taken some mental damage. (Possibly also true of various Heterodynes over the years? Agatha's had raw Dyne water, but only the once ...)
On the other hand, Zeetha says Luheia was the first queen of Skifander, and that the loss of one of the Brek'kah stones predates Luheia's birth, so the speculation about Tekvari as a Queen of Skifander is wrong. Albia talks about Luheia as a Queen she knew personally, so if Tekvari or someone else from Skifander took one of the Brek'kah stones to use to contain the cursed waters ... she wasn't a ruler of Skifander, but she might have been a spark who became one of Skifander's pantheon of gods? Or perhaps Skifander's pantheon is (some of) the set of people who were involved in creating the containment system? Zeetha said Skifander's patron goddess is Ashtara, so if their pantheon is the first set of second-ascension sparks before the "Queens" convention became a thing, perhaps Ashtara was from Skifander -- or created Skifander? -- and Tekvari is from somewhere else?
Grah. I'm not actually expecting much coherent history from before Albia's time, but I really hope we get at least a basic description from the perspective of Skifander. When the story eventually gets there ...