currently slowly massaging a theory that part of whats fucked with the river is a metaphor/similarity to the few times on earth when rivers have changed their flow to run in reverse to do some big change in geography; and what that means for all that has happened and will happen.
life <–> death, hell <- (purgatory) -> heaven, that kind of deal.
abigail also talks a bit about shores, but shores are not the start nor end of a river, they run along side, rivers start from their feed (glaciers, rain, etc) and end in the large bodies, but even there (ignoring cyclical nature) its more up/down (sky;oceanic depths) than point a to b… But the idea of shores seemed semi-destination based so like… what are the shores. There was kinda an implicatiin theres like. The shore that you can touch and cross from the life the necromancers live to get into bubbles, theres the river itself which contains lost souls, theres wherever the demoney things come from (river depths? stoma?), wherever the awful teens went, and then theres wherever the stoma definitely goes.
And given that like. the teens seem predisposed to focusing more on thalergy than thanergy based necromancy im curious about that.
about what inverting the flow from life to soul-planes means, is that flow like sucking up corrupted souls from the depths and spitting them into the living world like a water table inverting? why does the corrupted body of a murdered melange of thalergy naturally get magnetized to the stoma, is the stoma instead a magnet towards life? why is it tongues, why do we eat? why would it be hell/morally negative yet a mouth and hunting thalergy eating planets?
Also why stoma? like it seems like a natural stoma, which just is an opening in the body, but like they coulda just called it a mouth or something too (less cool is reasonable) but also makes me wonder if given the more common usage of stoma as a medical intervention… like can u make a necromantic stoma to wherever the stoma goes.
anyway. this isnt really a theory or anything just… musing.