V. L. Witt

Ramuer

The living discovered how to exchange time among themselves. They take one soul’s time and give it to another soul to extend their life artificially. The living should not live life this way, and it takes a deep toll on both lives. They have justified it to themselves: it’s not murder so long as the life they take time from is already cut short through disease or famine. However, Ramuer does not agree with this and is most unhappy with the living for how they are valuing certain lives over another. This is not what they intended when they created life. All lives are equal to Ramuer, even if some lives are shorter than others. The value of life is not determined by length amongst the living, or even life experience. The value of life, as Ramuer sees it, is life itself.

Ramuer was nauseated by the frivolous ways that the living deem value to life, and decide who should live longer. Wealth, appearance, education, power. What is so hard for them to understand that living is not a privilege for the select few? The powerful get away with hoarding access to clerics, food, and acceptable shelter. Meanwhile, the lives who have fewer opportunities get sick, starve, and sleep with cold, wet, and worn furs as their only source of shelter from the elements. Ramuer does not understand, though they’ve tried relentlessly to understand. Had they done something wrong? Have they convinced the living that some souls are more valuable than others by accident? When Ramuer created life, souls danced together, came together to share experiences and memories, and loved one another. Now, eons later, they have somehow regressed. Fighting amongst themselves for power and to fulfill their greed, a greed that didn’t exist before. Where had this corruption come from?

Ramuer hoped the living would come to their senses and once again work together as souls used to when first born. The worthless destruction of life would only spell disaster for the future of the living if they continue as they are. Only with community can they hope to save themselves.