Thus Spake Zaranephilpal/HearthstonesInUnderworld

> sesshomaru > If I recall, the logic behind heartstones and the underworld is as follows: Things from the underworld are shadows of creation. They only function while in their shadow-world (the Underworld). They cannot function in Creation because they don't really exist. Things from Creation, including hearthstones, are real - they have substance, thus they work normally in the underworld. I forget who said this though. Maybe it was Neph?

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Nephilpal - 01/19/2004 00:55:37

That was my explanation, yes.

The Underworld is the shadow of the world. Life flows into death, energies spiraling toward Oblivion through the inchoate nightmare of the Labyrinth.

Think about grave goods. If you bring a real object into the Underworld, it stays real and functional. But if you bury of destroy it, then you get a copy in the Underworld that can't bear the light of day outside a shadowland.

The symmetry is one way. The Underworld is less real because it is only an echo of Creation. It stands to reason that the same would hold true of Hearthstones barring any direct evidence to the contrary.

--Neph