Meanwhile on FEI where some people are being paranoid about daimons all the way on BT...
Southern logic once more comes up with an amazing rational explanation for the events happening on BT.
Let me explain to you why this is important.
BM is low fantasy, and it's more or less like our real world. Sure there are monsters, but we have real world "monsters" too. Ever take a look at deep sea fish? And I'm sure if you've ever been in southeast Asian jungles you'd call tigers monsters too. Point is, those aren't that farfetched. They're just normal animals that people haven't yet identified, since Linnaeus wouldn't be born in BM until a few centuries later to bring forth his nomenclature. Modern interpretations also believe that some ancient depictions of stuff like dragons and griffons and the such were actually artists' interpretations of reports from explorers of non-native species.
What about undead? Well, actually...There are real world voodoo rituals that create "zombies". And, well, premature burials weren't exactly uncommon back then either. So it's not that strange to think that some people you thought were dead really weren't, and just came back a while later (human body is actually pretty resilient and can survive for a while without food or water. It's exposure generally that kills fastest when a body is outside, and since the body is buried, it's certainly not being exposed too much...) There's also a modern interpretation of one aspect of the "walking dead". Shortly after death, as rigor sets in, the body twitches, making the corpse, in fact, move. While this does not occur long after death, injecting the muscles with ATP would delay the onset of rigor by preventing the muscles from clamping up. That might alter the timeline whereby someone sees a walking corpse.
Daimons? Now there's the thing. Modern interpretations of demonic possessions pin it on medical conditions (seizures) or drugs. What about seeing daimons? ...Drugs. Anyone played Uncharted 3 where Nate has to fight those fire demons that came from the "smokeless fire"? Yeah, those were illusions caused by drinking the water that inspired immense fear and scary hallucinations. But in the end, there were no actual demons. Just...demonic water...filled with drugs.
And that's Fred's explanation for the daimons in BT. And the Blight. The Blight's the huge area where the initial experiments to create a drug that would control the continent took place. The clouds? Obviously toxic fumes of who knows what weird chemicals were in those experiments. The land being mutilated? Yeah, pouring toxic waste into the soil does that. The strange creatures? Uh...you know those REAL WORLD reports about frogs living near polluted water that have strange mutations? Yeah....The daimons? Hallucinations since the entire continent's been exposed to the airborne hallucinogens. Though why do the daimons actually do damage? Two explanations. First, they do have actual forms, but not as daimons. In reality they may just be the drug creaters/experimenters. So Overlord would therefore be a druglord, and have a fitting name. And Nightfall, Midnight, etc, have to do with the progression of symptoms (Fading vision, blindness, death). Another explanation is that it doesn't matter whether it's real so long as the brain thinks it is. For all they know, people could be killing each other, thinking the other side was the daimons. Or it could be a combination. Fact is, this theory fits really well. And if it weren't for the fact that you're probably all too close-minded due to the fact that you think Mr. Tom guy says "This is the fact: There are daimons", you'd actually wonder whether what I said makes sense. But probably not...since, you know...Tom says those are real daimons or something.
So there you go. Y'all are Moulder, and I'm the Scully.
Scully's explanations are generally a bit more plausible then this. Other then trying to explain how if the entire continent is suffering from hallucinogens yet still manage to go about the daily requirements of tending the fields, operating the cities etc, exactly what process of medieval technology do you think is producing a toxic waste that would mutate the land so quickly?
