Asch nods. "There's some cultural difference between Kimlasca and Malkuth, but not usually enough to impair communication. Auldrant's society is composed of the distant descendants of a group of Dawn Age survivors - " By distant, he means several millennia. " - And has long been mostly united by the Order of Lorelei. Yulia City has been isolated and there's some cultural conflict there, but that's in large part due to their 'role in the world' completely breaking down."
Though how they were supposed to observe the world from deep beneath it, never actually seeing the way people live is something that Asch has never been able to figure out. He has a fairly low opinion of most of Yulia City's residents, except Tear (and she was of Hod blood, anyway).
"The only fonon sentience concerned with humans is Lorelei," he says with a little bit of a shrug. "And even I'm not entirely sure what form that concern takes. It appears to be benevolent, for some value of it, but Lorelei could also be considered the consciousness of the Score, and the Score is..." Not benevolent, at least not in the view of those who know the ending in full.
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Though how they were supposed to observe the world from deep beneath it, never actually seeing the way people live is something that Asch has never been able to figure out. He has a fairly low opinion of most of Yulia City's residents, except Tear (and she was of Hod blood, anyway).
"The only fonon sentience concerned with humans is Lorelei," he says with a little bit of a shrug. "And even I'm not entirely sure what form that concern takes. It appears to be benevolent, for some value of it, but Lorelei could also be considered the consciousness of the Score, and the Score is..." Not benevolent, at least not in the view of those who know the ending in full.