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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wrahn" data-source="post: 1355748" data-attributes="member: 9191">Coreagen projects a great pride at Delak’s accomplishment, “I commend you, Delak.”“But you are correct, water without food will not sustain you.  There are spirits every where, in everything.  With time and effort, I will show you how to persuade them to help you.” Aesa and Coreagen walk to a nearby bush, which has berries growing from it.  Aesa reaches out plucking one, she looks at it and then pops it into her mouth.  Signaling the rest of the tribe, others come and eat the sweet berries, leaving the bush barren.Coreagen speaks again, “The bush is like the pool.  Too many have drank from it and now it is useless to us.  In time, the berries will regrow, but like the spirits of the water, so the spirits of the plants will aid us, if we know how to ask.”  Coreagen again lifts Aesa’s arm closing her eyes, berries start regrowing on the bush, soon it is as full as it had been before the Sharalik had taken it’s fruit.“This is of course not free, there is a cost to us and a cost to the spirit that is aiding us.  As you felt when you called the water spirits Delak.  It will take time for any of the Sharalik to be able to call the berries forth from such a complex spirit as the bush.” ”Come.”  Aesa leads them into the cave, she reaches down and picks up a sharp rock, and begins scratching pictures into the wall, “There are orders to spirits, starting with the most fundamental, Earth Water, Air and Fire.” Coreagen points to the symbols he drew for them, “The elemental spirits are the easiest to call, for they are the closest to your mother.” Pointing above at the tree they have drawn, “Closest to the elemental spirits are the plants, like the bush or the tree.  These spirits are more complex and are mostly unknown to the Sharalik.  It will take time to befriend them and have them do your bidding.”“Beyond those are the animal spirits, like the fish or the cave stalkers.  These are more complex and less you are able to call upon them to do, as their own purpose is stronger and they are further removed from your mother.” Above the tree is a picture of a fish.“Then there are the Sharalik, you too are of your mother, but it will be a very long time before any of you are ready to attempt a self aware spirit, but when you are able, you will be able to heal wounds and cure disease.” Above the fish is a picture of a man.Above the man is a vague image, but he leaves that unexplained. “There is much to do my children.  Delak, I would like you to help as many people as you can to learn how to call water.  It is the first step along a path.  Gather the fish here, at the fountain home,” they indicate the large pool where the waterfall dumps the trout. “For now it shall sustain us, while we learn how to survive in other ways.” Aesa/Coreagen point at two of the bravest of the Sharalik, “You two need to look around outside of  the Fountain Home.  There is a very large world out there.  There is much to discover and learn.” “Aesa, child, I have a very important job for you.  I want you to draw the story of the Sharalik, to tell those who come after us where we came from and as we continue to know more, you should continue to draw so the whole of the history of the Sharalik is known.”</blockquote>

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