#Inktober Day 5 - Chicken / Poison

Chicken and Poison

The subconscious is a strange thing, to communicate with the conscious mind it takes the concepts it needs, and finds the nearest archetypal forms, then it combines those conceptual archetypes with the aim of conveying a hybrid idea. Sometimes the conscious mind understands the deeper meaning... and sometimes it misreads the combined archetype.

In the spirit world, if an archetypal combination manifests enough times, it starts to gain a substantive solidity. In the physical world, there is talk of mythos and logos... the thought and the word. The concepts form, and when they gain power of their own they become named. If they become powerful enough they gain enough substantiality that they become capable of manifesting in the real world. Monsters are "born" or "found" on the edges of civilisation, new stories are "told", new machines are "invented" at the cutting edge of technology... some call this magic.

The cockatrice, and other creatures like it, were once hybrid archetypes, but with enough people giving them power they gained a degree of physicality in the spirit realms. Even though the "educated" people of the modern world don't believe the superstitions and myths that once gave these creatures strength, their names still exist and they are remembered in the folklore and deeper culture. Names give strength, and in the spirit realms these creatures are still dangerous to those who linger in their territory.

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