There are people in the fantasy world that defines natural phenomena as intelligence. In our world, we might call them gods or deities. But in the legendary, some people could control the elements of the physical world. They use their minds and hidden devices to manipulate the weather and change the shape of physical objects. These people had nothing to do with magic, but they had a rapport with deities. Still, these people couldn’t control them, only partially, because the deities had their minds ultimately. They were more powerful; remember, there was nothing religious or unique about these people. The deities seemed to see something in these people they wished to use. Thus the deities allied with them, but remember, the people who wielded these special powers had to answer to the deities; it wasn’t something they retained permanently; it could be taken away at any time, the result of abuse.
The people commonly believed in the mythical world that natural phenomena were life forms, an example, the weather because it was unpredictable despite scholarly analysis and study. The light was another thing considered a living thing with great intelligence. Some of this might sound superstitious, but many of the inhabitants of the imaginary lands of the mythical world had seen people commune with the elements of nature.
Most people in the fabled world believed that things were considered intelligent; what does intelligence mean? People believed that things have thoughts. And that is what they are called the forces of nature, but the powers they acquired from the deities were not always permanent; the strange gods gave the powers to them. They are not the same as the scholars or Aura-Laei-I who possess permanent powers, which they were born with. What might be asked, are people who get such powers, do they have to do something in return for the energy given to them by the deities? Some deities don’t expect anything in return, but others do, and if they don’t repay the god, they become their slaves. The things of nature could protect some people from a deity’s promise, and sometimes there is a battle between the two natural forces. An indication of a fight is a rumbling in the earth and a storm. They are the voices that resonate in the sky from the deity and things of nature.
The deity has no human form; at times, they might take the human condition, and they look something like an abstract painting, with manifestations of light and colors; the deities could form into trees, rocks, or maybe a bird.
The only evidence that the deities exist is in the minds of those who can talk with them. People who claim this is considered crazy. These people try to find the gods and speak with them, and if they are honest with themselves, they hear nothing.
Some individuals never seek out the deities, but thoughts and feelings come to them, and they find and realize they can speak with natural things. How do they know that someone it’s talking to them? Because the thoughts they were receiving were not something, they considered or thought about. They learned to observe the things of nature and understand it and talk with it through their individual beliefs.
People in the fantasy world learned to talk with nature; not all them succeeded, but they knew that character speaks to people through their hearts and mind in their ways.
Robert J. Matsunaga
