David Gaider wrote...
Satyricon331 wrote...
The Codex entry was by Enchanter Mirdromel, so apparently he's just not speaking carefully/literally. Or perhaps he's never been in an inside area in the Fade.
I think you're trying to read something into it that isn't there.
If someone was writing about our world to someone who had never been there, could you not describe this amazing yellow orb in the sky? Visible and stationary no matter where you traveled? Yes, you could specify that if you were inside a building or if anything else blocked your view of the sky then that yellow orb would in fact not be visible... but just what kind of pedantic audience would you be writing for, exactly? If you could, in fact, see the Black City through walls and fog and even when you closed your eyes, that would probably be worthy of specific note... not the opposite.
I was thinking something similar. How would you tell somebody who literally lived under a rock (cue images of that Geico ad) what life above-ground was like without mentioning the sun and moon in the sky. Further, how else are you going to describe those things other than something along the lines of, "orbs high in the sky you can see from wherever you are during the day/night." Maybe you would think to add something about "on a clear day," but generally, I think it would be assumed by all involved in the conversation that you were not talking about instances where you were, say, shut up inside a refrigerator box.
It does have me thinking something else though... Are we really sure the Black City is a city at all? It is described in much the same way the sun, moon, or some other celestial body would be, andthe depictions we have of it are generally of something that looks somewhat like a tower or castle inside a dark sphere.
What if the city isn't a city, but some kind of moon-like object within the fade with surface features that resemble buildings? Ancient cultures looked at the Earth's mon and saw human and animal faces reflected in its craters, maybe the same is true for the Black City?
Fade creatures are only suppoed to be abel to mimic things from the physical world, and the more powerful the creature, the larger space they can control and bend to their will. Maybe a particularly powerful spirit took a look at Thedas itself or it's moon, and created a nice big piece of real estate. And if that was, sasy, a spirit of lonelyness/reclusiveness or something, why not slap this moon-thing down someplace far away from everyone? Then some mage wandering around the fade takes note of this body in the 'sky', starts imagining patterns in its random surfaces, and the next thing you know, there's the Black City.
Just wild speculation here.
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