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"I suppose," he started as he scratched his neck. "But where did we come from? Did we evolve with humans or were we created from them?" Another hit of both pens. "Are we tulpas? Made in the image of our people?"
He sighed through his nose. He was not going to get to enjoy this equestrian magazine, was he? He carefully closed it and set it aside on the patio table.
"We are clearly much more than imagined beings, if that's what you mean by 'tulpa.' As to your first question, however, well, I do not think we evolved beside humans, or really at all. While they come from humble primate origins, and must necessarily trace their lineage back through other humans to animals and so forth, we have different origins. How we come about varies. Or at least the claims do. I do not pretend to have a special birth out of dirt or seafoam. I came from a woman. So did Liliane and her unfortunate brother. And yet, here we are, immortals. But I also know that immortality is not passed along to our offspring. I have had numerous children, and only the last two have turned out to be representatives. So it seems we are granted our divinity when it is needed.
Seeing as there isn't a representative of the earth or animals or plants, it would be reasonable to assume we must come from the humans in some fashion. We exist when we are needed. Like the ancient gods, we are their ideals. But unlike the ancient gods, we exist in tangible reality. We rely on them to need and want us. They must be devoted to us for us to exist. Yet we are placed above them in a way as well. We live on, well past them, yet ever shaped by them. Our divinity is a curse as well as a blessing. We remain here, forever their clay to shape as they please, yet looked upon in awe all the same."
He sipped some water from a glass. "Does that answer your question?"
