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How can anything be both all and one, together but separate? It doesn't make sense, does it? But of course it doesn't make sense. You can't make sense of an idea without a word to define it, to give it shape and boundary.
Maybe "isatunoll" is a word we forgot. And then we forgot that isatunoll was possible.
Think about ants. Ants know what they are. They know their purpose, and they must understand, instinctually, how that purpose fits within the whole. But what if it doesn't end there? What if their consciousness isn't just individual? What if the nest itself knew what it was? A collective sentience of some kind.
Nothing says the ants don't have a collective sentience. We just assume they don't, because they're ants.
Ants. Or bees. Or darkspawn. Now, there's a thought.
Love, Dagna.
Inquisition Arcanist