Post by Amandus on Jan 5, 2016 21:00:28 GMT -5
What do the Outcasts believe in?
This is a subject that I feel needs to be addressed in order to give this RP more depth and possibilities for the plot and characters themselves.
This is a subject that I feel needs to be addressed in order to give this RP more depth and possibilities for the plot and characters themselves.
Although most of them accept the concept of SpiritClan as the afterlife, other theological opinions vary between the Outcasts. Some Outcasts believe in a deistic god who created the universe initially, but personally has nothing to do with SpiritClan or the Moonstone; others think that there is a sort of god who is deliberately involved in their belief system. Finally, a few Outcasts don't believe in a god at all, though they wouldn't be able to explain the Moonstone's origin of power. Well, nobody can explain how or why it is magical.
Regardless, many Clan members model their beliefs from the nurse's point of view, believing her to be the most reliable source in spirituality.
What do the Outcasts know about SpiritClan?
Even after over a dozen years since its discovery, SpiritClan stills remains rather cryptic and otherworldly. Whenever the nurses connect the Spirits through the Moonstone, their messages can be anywhere from straightforward and blunt to just puzzling. These messages usually foretell possible events in the future (though the Spirits are still not entirely omniscient), or tell the nurse how they feel about a certain Outcast.
It is unknown where exactly the Spirits are located. Some Outcasts believe that they wander the universe itself, hence the galaxy-like location during connections to the Moonstone, but others think that SpiritClan lives in a dimension similar to Yosemite, and the starry versions of them are a kind of substitution for that.
Wherever they are, all Outcasts know that they'll one day join SpiritClan have all their questions answered. Unless they never fulfilled their place as an Outcast, in that case, their fate lies in the Place of No Stars.
Does SpiritClan even exist?
The existence of StarClan was never really questioned in the Warriors series. What if the Moonstone's powers are just from the Outcasts' overactive imaginations? Or even worse, lies and propaganda created by the nurses to control the masses?
Evidence that can fit either one of those:
When the nurses visit the Moonstone and perform the rituals to connect with the Spirits, there aren't any outer signs shown to the warrior escorts that the rock actually does anything. They just assume that it works, and the nurses have explained to the warriors that the powers of the Moonstone during the connection are all in their heads.
All in their heads.
The nurses say that when they connect to the Moonstone that they are sent into a galaxy-like dimension, and the Spirits of past Outcasts who speak to them physically appear as celestial beings made of stardust. Like a dream, though, all of this is happening within their own minds- they aren't physically going anywhere. There's no evidence to other Outcasts at all that the Moonstone is magical. The nurses could either be passive-aggressively hinting the fact that SpiritClan is made up, or the images of SpiritClan are hallucinations. After all, living in the wilderness for years can take a toll on your mental state.
What's even stranger, though, is that only the nurses are allowed to use the Moonstone. Even if an almighty leader tried to connect to the Spirits, the nurses would most likely aggressively prevent her from doing so. They could be saying they are chosen by SpiritClan just so that they wouldn't be exposed to everyone else.
The supposed origin of the Moonstone's power and the dimension the Spirits live in has puzzled all Outcasts for years, including the nurses, if what they say is true. If the nurses were lying the entire time, it would give greater complexity to those characters as well as make the story and society much more dark altogether. If it all is true, like most people in this RP would probably assume, there is a deep, interesting secret magic hidden within an otherwise realistic world.
In the end, though, the existence of SpiritClan and the credibility of the Moonstone are up to the reader's (or Outcast's) interpretation. I will never confirm whether or not the theories explained here are actually true. Just food for thought.
Regardless, many Clan members model their beliefs from the nurse's point of view, believing her to be the most reliable source in spirituality.
What do the Outcasts know about SpiritClan?
Even after over a dozen years since its discovery, SpiritClan stills remains rather cryptic and otherworldly. Whenever the nurses connect the Spirits through the Moonstone, their messages can be anywhere from straightforward and blunt to just puzzling. These messages usually foretell possible events in the future (though the Spirits are still not entirely omniscient), or tell the nurse how they feel about a certain Outcast.
It is unknown where exactly the Spirits are located. Some Outcasts believe that they wander the universe itself, hence the galaxy-like location during connections to the Moonstone, but others think that SpiritClan lives in a dimension similar to Yosemite, and the starry versions of them are a kind of substitution for that.
Wherever they are, all Outcasts know that they'll one day join SpiritClan have all their questions answered. Unless they never fulfilled their place as an Outcast, in that case, their fate lies in the Place of No Stars.
Does SpiritClan even exist?
The existence of StarClan was never really questioned in the Warriors series. What if the Moonstone's powers are just from the Outcasts' overactive imaginations? Or even worse, lies and propaganda created by the nurses to control the masses?
Evidence that can fit either one of those:
When the nurses visit the Moonstone and perform the rituals to connect with the Spirits, there aren't any outer signs shown to the warrior escorts that the rock actually does anything. They just assume that it works, and the nurses have explained to the warriors that the powers of the Moonstone during the connection are all in their heads.
All in their heads.
The nurses say that when they connect to the Moonstone that they are sent into a galaxy-like dimension, and the Spirits of past Outcasts who speak to them physically appear as celestial beings made of stardust. Like a dream, though, all of this is happening within their own minds- they aren't physically going anywhere. There's no evidence to other Outcasts at all that the Moonstone is magical. The nurses could either be passive-aggressively hinting the fact that SpiritClan is made up, or the images of SpiritClan are hallucinations. After all, living in the wilderness for years can take a toll on your mental state.
What's even stranger, though, is that only the nurses are allowed to use the Moonstone. Even if an almighty leader tried to connect to the Spirits, the nurses would most likely aggressively prevent her from doing so. They could be saying they are chosen by SpiritClan just so that they wouldn't be exposed to everyone else.
The supposed origin of the Moonstone's power and the dimension the Spirits live in has puzzled all Outcasts for years, including the nurses, if what they say is true. If the nurses were lying the entire time, it would give greater complexity to those characters as well as make the story and society much more dark altogether. If it all is true, like most people in this RP would probably assume, there is a deep, interesting secret magic hidden within an otherwise realistic world.
In the end, though, the existence of SpiritClan and the credibility of the Moonstone are up to the reader's (or Outcast's) interpretation. I will never confirm whether or not the theories explained here are actually true. Just food for thought.
