Going on some major brainstorming, all souls regardless of whether they are denizens or not have the capacity to 'flare their divine spark' (ascend to demigod).
However, the world is dangerous and all. Passing through the Portal of Fate (becoming player characters) enables souls to overcome these dangers, "do greater things", and thus allows them to ascend to demigodhood.
So while it may be possible for denizens to become demigods, in practice, it's highly improbable without passing through the Portal.
So, bards here in Lusternia play the mandolin, lute, lyre, viola, or violin (did I miss any?) that I've seen. And the songs have spread the usage of those instruments throughout the basin.
But instruments can have very complicated histories! Look at the Wikipedia page for the mandolin, for example, and of course the violin.
Is there lore for each instrument's history in Lusternia? Does the viola, say, trace back to pre-Taint Magnagora, or was the lute originally derived from the fae? Just curious if there's anything here in this vein.
No, but it's honestly the sort of thing you could write a scholarly book about and get canonized, assuming that it was consistent with the rest of the game's history. For example, various Elder Gods (Lyreth, Rhapsody, etc.) had instruments, as did various historical figures mentioned in lore books.
E: I've been informed by various people that you should definitely NOT use scholarly books to get bits of lore you like canonized, so stick to inferences based on already-existing lore. Stuff like "Well, record X attests to the Merry Minstrel playing song Y on instrument Z, so that gives us a clear minimum date for the invention of the Z. Cultures existing around that time include A, B and C, of which B seems to be the most plausible creator, given..." and so forth is great, but "The ancient Viscanti city of Organothrace raised the majority of the Vernal Gods involved in the defeat of the lesser soulless known as Ultrathon the Tremendous." would get you yelled at by the divine scholars for making things up.
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Okay. So, according to the histories, Estarra and humans only came to Lusternia after the Taint Wars. However, it states in the dwarf file HELP DWARF that the race was initially called the clangoru; it was the humans who popularized the term dwarf.
With that in mind, why do the Taint Wars histories refer to them as dwarves, particularly with the designation of the Dwarven Mountain Kingdom?
@Uzriel at one point you could calculate it based off Cririck and Scuchidira's ages but they're frozen from the look of it.
Looks like it would be somewhere between 340-390 years (later is if their ages were static on release of the cities, the former is from another mathing it out a few years back.)
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However, the world is dangerous and all. Passing through the Portal of Fate (becoming player characters) enables souls to overcome these dangers, "do greater things", and thus allows them to ascend to demigodhood.
So while it may be possible for denizens to become demigods, in practice, it's highly improbable without passing through the Portal.
Accountability is necessary.
E: I've been informed by various people that you should definitely NOT use scholarly books to get bits of lore you like canonized, so stick to inferences based on already-existing lore. Stuff like "Well, record X attests to the Merry Minstrel playing song Y on instrument Z, so that gives us a clear minimum date for the invention of the Z. Cultures existing around that time include A, B and C, of which B seems to be the most plausible creator, given..." and so forth is great, but "The ancient Viscanti city of Organothrace raised the majority of the Vernal Gods involved in the defeat of the lesser soulless known as Ultrathon the Tremendous." would get you yelled at by the divine scholars for making things up.
With that in mind, why do the Taint Wars histories refer to them as dwarves, particularly with the designation of the Dwarven Mountain Kingdom?
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Meanwhile something I have always wondered, how many years was it between Project Cosmic Hope and the coming of Estarra?
Looks like it would be somewhere between 340-390 years (later is if their ages were static on release of the cities, the former is from another mathing it out a few years back.)