fun fact there’s an antique chinese/southeast asian fairytale about it
the original human, the buddha, was lonely and thus wrote faces on rocks. the rocks became “alive”, at least they looked alive. They were automatons. That is the explanation why today, there are people who are more or less machines (very superficial, only useful for work, no deeper soul), and people who have a much deeper soul (the buddhas).
If you squeeze enough runes it and write the correct spells it can mimic humans. Now we can’t tell who’s human and who’s a pile of rocks.
fun fact there’s an antique chinese/southeast asian fairytale about it
the original human, the buddha, was lonely and thus wrote faces on rocks. the rocks became “alive”, at least they looked alive. They were automatons. That is the explanation why today, there are people who are more or less machines (very superficial, only useful for work, no deeper soul), and people who have a much deeper soul (the buddhas).
Guess calling people NPCs is a timeless tradition, even if the terminology has changed.
Well, I’m not superficial, and my crippled ass sure isn’t useful for work… so that must mean I’m a buddha! Woohoo?
Not me, I’m definitely a pile of rocks, oh ah, uh… I-I-I mean human, yeah totally that’s what I meant.