It's sad to think about, but I do imagine this is hard world in which to have a language-related disability.
That's probably true of all high- or highish-fantasy settings. They're fun to write about, but I wouldn't want to live in nearly any of them, even if I were a royal with magic at my disposal. That said, I imagine it would have been logical for a compensatory ritual to have developed over time.
Fuck that's also really sad. Fuck.
Me with the cheerful questions today. (I wonder if academics who have studied the nature of webworks in Eloa would be another interesting plotbunny…? Epistolary fic full of jargon. So hawt.)
So it would be not so much restoration of something innate to him, as fixing him into a webwork again. It would definitely have some effect on the way he relates to other people in that web, at least over time (a kind of sensory adjustment I imagine - like how the brains of people who have been blind for a very long time need to learn to see again?)
Do you see filaments as akin at all to mirror neurons, with some people having naturally more and others fewer? Maybe that analogy is off, given that Samaren would still lack empathy for most people even with his roots restored.
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That's probably true of all high- or highish-fantasy settings. They're fun to write about, but I wouldn't want to live in nearly any of them, even if I were a royal with magic at my disposal. That said, I imagine it would have been logical for a compensatory ritual to have developed over time.
Fuck that's also really sad. Fuck.
Me with the cheerful questions today. (I wonder if academics who have studied the nature of webworks in Eloa would be another interesting plotbunny…? Epistolary fic full of jargon. So hawt.)
So it would be not so much restoration of something innate to him, as fixing him into a webwork again. It would definitely have some effect on the way he relates to other people in that web, at least over time (a kind of sensory adjustment I imagine - like how the brains of people who have been blind for a very long time need to learn to see again?)
Do you see filaments as akin at all to mirror neurons, with some people having naturally more and others fewer? Maybe that analogy is off, given that Samaren would still lack empathy for most people even with his roots restored.
Looking forward to more Detrich and Samaren!