Mystery
Thank you very much for your constructive input, Sonaak Kroinlah! It's much appreciated! I did check out your suggestions, however, they are still very physical, very fleshy and meaty. Zii and Sil are indeed pointing towards something deeper, within, but the former stands rather for spirit, living soul, and the latter for souls in the afterlife, though it can also mean character or nature. Seeing as feeling and living with the heart is not a 'quality' of a Dragon's nature (at least in our Skyrim lore), this does not quite fit either. Eventually, I was looking for something deeper. Like speaking out what's happening in our hearts, or how one feels in one's heart - a very well known 'quality' of man(kind). To elaborate my previous example of a "new" kind of lineage of Dragons, leaving their evil nature behind and understanding their own heart as part of their being better, imagine the following scenario: A Dragon from said "new" lineage - seeing other Dragons, who did not yet evolve towards leaving their evil nature behind, torturing mortal beings yet again (story repeating) - speaking out from their heart: »My heart feels nothing but remorse«, for various reasons, like the injustice happening to the mortals and feeling compassion for them, as well as the fact that "they" managed to grow within, to even be capable of feeling compassion so deeply, while their "brothers" still remain in that old "state of mind", and appear to be lost in it (not even understanding what compassion (espacially for mortals and non-dragons) means). Eventually, I'm trying to find a word for THAT "human heart"-like thing, which is not the physical thing, but the inner thing that hurts, for example when we see bad things happening to others, espacially friends or families. Or here's another idea: Like the Dragonrend Shout, which gives Dragons a taste of mortality and which a Dragon's mind can't even understand, let's assume the human Tongues would create a Shout to give Dragons a taste of the enourmous Heart ache they created onto men (Emblem III, cited above), so you'd need to adress THAT (the deeper sense of heart). Not the spirit, not the soul, nor the character or nature - no, exactly THAT. It's not supposed to hurt the soul or the spirit, not adress the character or the nature, but their Heart, deep within, so that they would get a taste of the pain they inflicted on humankind by breaking their hearts. I'd be very thankful and would appreciate it a lot if this discussion could go on, and more constructive ideas and inputs could follow.
Mystery
March 7, 2019 |
Thank you very much for your constructive input, Sonaak Kroinlah! It's much appreciated! I did check out your suggestions, however, they are still very physical, very fleshy and meaty. Zii and Sil are indeed pointing towards something deeper, within, but the former stands rather for spirit, living soul, and the latter for souls in the afterlife, though it can also mean character or nature. Seeing as feeling and living with the heart is not a 'quality' of a Dragon's nature (at least in our Skyrim lore), this does not quite fit either. Eventually, I was looking for something deeper. Like speaking out what's happening in our hearts, or how one feels in one's heart - a very well known 'quality' of man(kind). To elaborate my previous example of a "new" kind of lineage of Dragons, leaving their evil nature behind and understanding their own heart as part of their being better, imagine the following scenario: A Dragon from said "new" lineage - seeing other Dragons, who did not yet evolve towards leaving their evil nature behind, torturing mortal beings yet again (story repeating) - speaking out from their heart: »My heart feels nothing but remorse«, for various reasons, like the injustice happening to the mortals and feeling compassion for them, as well as the fact that "they" managed to grow within, to even be capable of feeling compassion so deeply, while their "brothers" still remain in that old "state of mind", and appear to be lost in it (not even understanding what compassion (espacially for mortals and non-dragons) means). Eventually, I'm trying to find a word for THAT "human heart"-like thing, which is not the physical thing, but the inner thing that hurts, for example when we see bad things happening to others, espacially friends or families. Or here's another idea: Like the Dragonrend Shout, which gives Dragons a taste of mortality and which a Dragon's mind can't even understand, let's assume the human Tongues would create a Shout to give Dragons a taste of the enourmous Heart ache they created onto men (Emblem III, cited above), so you'd need to adress THAT (the deeper sense of heart). Not the spirit, not the soul, nor the character or nature - no, exactly THAT. It's not supposed to hurt the soul or the spirit, not adress the character or the nature, but their Heart, deep within, so that they would get a taste of the pain they inflicted on humankind by breaking their hearts. I'd be very thankful and would appreciate it a lot if this discussion could go on, and more constructive ideas and inputs could follow. |