Themes

The major themes upheld communicated by and upheld throughout the fiction of Ailhaotnůṙ and its story are collected here on this page, for the purpose of maintaining thematic consistency as the work expands over now several years of real time.

• Cosmic indifference, of a kind:
  • The world is governed by forces, not by beings. Though the Aspects are given some characterization and are somewhat anthropomorphized, they are not what we in western society know as gods. Their true role in Ailhaotnůṙ is that of forces of nature. To the extent to which they are conscious, their minds are too large and too inhuman to have a conversation with.
  • The world was not built for people, but it was built to support life. The Aspects do not care about the troubles of individuals, but they are concerned with the aggregate troubles of all individuals at once. For this reason, miracles and blessings can occur, but they are not discrete actions; rather they are the result of forces responding to conditions, which interact in complex ways.
  • No chosen ones. Prophesies are okay, but usually aren't about individual people, and when they are, are never specific enough to be pinned on a single child at birth. Rather, they shall specify deeds and characteristics, creating a role that a person grows into, rather than a path that guides a person's life.
  • Some truly alien things exist in Ailhaotnůṙ, which are not bound to human morality. Some influences may be drawn from sources like the Cthulhu Mythos. However, there are no universe-ending threats. A civilization might get wiped out by a godlike force, but not *all* civilization.
• There has been no great tragedy, nor is one foreseeable.
  • Unlike Exalted or The Lord of the Rings, the history of Ailhaotnůṙ is not broken down into ages punctuated by great events, each one diminished from the last. There is no world-spanning force of decay in Ailhaotnůṙ.
• All people are fallible. No religion is completely correct. No history perfectly accurate.