Tales of Odd Realm

These are the tales told by the folk of Odd Realm. The plans are to add a new story spotlight each month, but allow for submissions to be made here as well as in Discord's #OddRealm-Tales channel

These stories are written as Blog Posts, which means they can only be edited by the original creator, and by moderators of the Odd Realm Wiki.

This month's story was written by the Odd Realm Discord user kd8lvt. It can be found as a link to the story in the #Oddrealm-Tales channel in Discord.

## Odd Realm Tales Highlight

### 758 Human Reckoning - 5th of Spring

Controversial Decisions

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   My peers think me a fool, believing we could learn anything from the children races, but they don’t see the potential in studying their mortality. We spend so long studying our own immortality, refining and safeguarding the secret to cheating death, improving our summoning magic, and ultimately ignoring or even shunning them that we forget they have a unique perspective on life. My peers are blind to the fact that Human mortality is something that should be studied too - lest we forget we were once mortal ourselves.

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   I’ve decided to accept some… understudy… from a friendly Human settlement nearby. Mostly simple clerical work and number crunching that the Void Woken can’t be trusted to do with any efficiency, though the lucky few may learn from me directly, if they work hard enough.

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   Of course, the main purpose of this is to study what makes them so fragile and how it affects their culture, relationships, and psyche. I will not be interfering with their day-to-day beyond simply giving instruction and guidance where needed. They will be free to do whatever research they wish in their own free time, so long as it does not interfere with that of my own, or with Ancient laws.

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### 758 Human Reckoning - 12th of Spring

Quick Response

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   If there’s one thing the Humans do correctly, it is expediency. I was not expecting such a fast response - if I had reached out to an Ancient settlement, they’d take several Human years just to read it, let alone draft a response.

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   In a few days, a convoy of Human settlers will arrive in a predetermined location a short distance from my home. Far enough that the noise of livestock and children won’t bother me, but not so far that it would deter me from traveling there every couple days, or prevent me sending Void Woken and Imps to do menial labor that would otherwise distract from their duties.

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### 759 Human Reckoning - 17th of Spring

Illness

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   It has been one Human year since the settlers first arrived. They seem to have very quickly adjusted to their new surroundings, and made quick work of dealing with their basic needs. They are now almost fully focused on the tasks I give them, with the occasional redirection needed to steer them in the right direction.

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   As for the progress of my own research, I was surprised to learn how common illness and chronic afflictions are in Humans, especially as they age. You’d think with how fragile they are they would learn to take better care of their bodies. However, it seems they are unable, or perhaps unwilling, to understand the true reality of their own mortality. About 6 weeks after the settlers first arrived, the oldest among them died of an, apparently, fully preventable disease. The settlers then took a full day off, which is uncharacteristically slow for them, moping around generally being depressed. When asked why they weren’t doing tasks, they responded that they were “grieving.”

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   I was then absolutely appalled to learn they had moved the remains of their fallen to a different location, though I was quickly reassured that it was to a much more respectful location than the bed they had fallen ill in. I was taken to where the fallen human was entombed within the mountainside, and shown their stone sarcophagus - Interestingly, it is visually not unlike the ones we Ancients use to rest.

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   The sarcophagus was engraved with tales of their life, and had a crudely-chiseled artwork of (supposedly) their immediate family, chiseled by the fallen human’s child’s child. (They called it a “grand-child”. What makes this child so grand, the humans have, frustratingly, refused to tell me, instead giggling to themselves when I ask.)

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### 759 Human Reckoning - 17th of Fall

Stationery

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   The Humans have been busy preparing something all week, and have been, yet again, cryptically refusing to tell me what it is. They say things like “you’ll see” and “just wait, it won’t be long”. Comically, they couldn’t even attempt to make me wait long. Their lives are a drop in the bucket to me.

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   It is now the 18th of Fall. The Humans have sent me a letter on the best paper they could produce, which has been embellished with gold foil and art of autumn leaves. They called it “stationery.” I must say, it is very visually appealing. The letter invited me to their “Harvest Festival” the night after next. The naming scheme is odd, as they’ve been harvesting their crop all summer and fall, but I’m intrigued nonetheless, as it seems to pertain to their culture - and therefore directly with my research. Interestingly, they did not do this last year. Perhaps it’s a biennial event?

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### 759 Human Reckoning - 21st of Fall

Culture Shock

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   Well, I did say I wished to learn Human culture - a feast where the Humans engorge themselves on more food they should phesably be able to fit within their bodies is certainly an… interesting… yearly event. If a bit nauseating. According to the Humans’ liaison, they did not have a Harvest Festival last year, as they weren’t confident they’d have enough food to last the winter.

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   A feast was not all that happened at the Harvest Festival, however. Participants were also encouraged to play various games of memory, dexterity, strength, and luck to potentially win prizes. I should report that I won a small, impressively well-carved, wooden trinket in the shape of a Chirpen, in a game where one must toss a small bag full of dried corn kernels into a hole some distance away. They called it “Cornhole,” which while unimaginative, is certainly an apt name. I additionally saw games including an “Apple Bob” where one (while blindfolded) must retrieve an apple contained in a barrel of water using only their mouth, a “Strongman Contest” where one must hit a button with a large hammer to fling a weight up a vertical rail to attempt to ring a bell, and one called “Darts” where one throws sharp darts towards a board with various point values assigned to colored zones.

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   Overall, the event was just as elaborate as anything you’d see in Ancient society, with a uniquely Human twist. I will certainly be attending the games portion next year. Not the feast, though. I’m still nauseous after that.

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