He listens, marvelling at the differences between them, but also still the similarities. He had not really expected to encounter anyone that had anything resembling a similar experience. Funny, how even across worlds there are these connections. Are there others to be found with other people here? Time will answer that.
"Grisha. I don't know that word. What does it mean?" he asks. It could be a race of people, but the context seems to imply otherwise.
He almost laughs at the idea that his world is kind. He thinks of his own unbidden cruelty, the rage and grief that spun him out of control and caused untold devastation. Bahamut himself is not kind, he thinks. He has never thought so.
"I don’t know about kindness. To be chosen by an Eikon…well. It's complicated. It depends which Eikon and where you end up. Shiva's Dominant was forced into battles against her will. We thought Phoenix to be dead for many years, destroyed in a battle that killed his father when he was but a boy." Dion had known about that for years, but only when he met Phoenix alive again did he know all of the truth.
"It also saps away our lives. Not one of us shall live to old age, I think. Each time you call on an Eikon's power, it drains your own." He's quiet for a moment before continuing, "I think that such power always comes at a high cost. For us, our lives. For you, the amplifiers' lives. Perhaps mortals are not meant to hold such things at all, in the end, though I daresay I would not have refused Bahamut if I had had a choice."
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"Grisha. I don't know that word. What does it mean?" he asks. It could be a race of people, but the context seems to imply otherwise.
He almost laughs at the idea that his world is kind. He thinks of his own unbidden cruelty, the rage and grief that spun him out of control and caused untold devastation. Bahamut himself is not kind, he thinks. He has never thought so.
"I don’t know about kindness. To be chosen by an Eikon…well. It's complicated. It depends which Eikon and where you end up. Shiva's Dominant was forced into battles against her will. We thought Phoenix to be dead for many years, destroyed in a battle that killed his father when he was but a boy." Dion had known about that for years, but only when he met Phoenix alive again did he know all of the truth.
"It also saps away our lives. Not one of us shall live to old age, I think. Each time you call on an Eikon's power, it drains your own." He's quiet for a moment before continuing, "I think that such power always comes at a high cost. For us, our lives. For you, the amplifiers' lives. Perhaps mortals are not meant to hold such things at all, in the end, though I daresay I would not have refused Bahamut if I had had a choice."