Thread:ElsaRules!!!/@comment-3270170-20190714015652/@comment-24588058-20190722191633

Hmmmmmm. . . . Perhaps this AEZ was created during the earliest days of Egyptian civilization? Per, you are probably a lot more familiar with timing on when the stories of the Egyptian Gods first appeared, but we could feasibly time it here so that these Gods were inside or created a civilization in here. Once they had created their civilization, upon exiting, they seemed like Gods. They had histories and stories, which were passed to civilizations. Depending on when Ra comes into the picture, he could feasibly originally be an early Egyptian who came in and out in order to find the correct artifact to defeat Apophis.

One thing I hadn't considered, and perhaps this might lie more in Draco's explanatory realm, is how the time skip/unskip works to those who created a civilization in here. After all, if you live in here for 40 years, then exit the cave and only 12 hours have passed, that could cause a few issues in regards to the passage of years, unless all of these myths take place in the span of "days", or in Ra's case, a couple of years. So perhaps there is some sort of long-term consequence to those living their entire lives in the cave and then exiting?


 * One idea that could feasibly occur, though I'd love to hear different opinions, since there's technically no way to test the theory without some willing test subjects, is that children born in the cave age at a "normal rate" compared to the outside world; a one-to-one aging, if you will. Once they step outside the cave and re-enter, that's when the aging begins; for example, if a child grew up in the cave and exited at the age of 25, then that's the number of years that have passed since their parents entered (whereas if their parents exited, then it's only been 12 hours since they entered). When the child re-enters, they go through the same effects as their parents. This path of effects allows for "multiple generations" of myths to build up, and since few would have been truly privy to the Gods' real appearances, discrepancies are much easier to pass off as the miswritings of the original writers.

The above, of course, allows a tribe of dwellers to become Ra and co., as you'd like, plus explains their presence in Egyptian culture so heavily.

Now, as for the Ur-Nes and the Watercourse of the Only God, I have an idea. Originally, as a tribe who became "Gods", they used the Book of Thoth to create several artifacts that make their world more mystical and give them power. Among these artifacts, we have the Scales of Ma'at.

The Scales reside in the Watercourse of the Only God, a special room with a throne. The artifact is able to take the "heart" of a person out and compare it to a feather. If the heart is the same weight as the feather (or fairly unburdened and mostly pure), then the user is free. If the heart is heavier than the feather, then a beast appears which eats the user as punishment (feasibly, the "beast" could be Ammit). Now, that being said, this artifact affects the living. But in the real world, perhaps the Gods had a say in some punishments, and the people would be placed directly before the "Gods" to determine their punishment. Since the difference of time is only twelve hours, then if a person was wrongly judged, you could have them age a few years before exiting, making them seem like a different person from the one sent for punishment.

As for the Ur-Nes, it does appear like a fancy, gated community, though it looks somewhat worn now. Perhaps this part of the cave was designed to give the appearance of this being where the Gods lived, and might originally have been their homes. Over time, it was told that the spirits of the deceased who had passed and were unpunished were allowed to live here among the Gods for eternity. This would explain the lack of spiritual presence, although as Aiden put it, "I'm a Space guy, not a Heart." This one is more mostly myth with an ounce of truth, as opposed to the truth injected with myth.