Talk:Senna/@comment-7709681-20191016163712/@comment-4091261-20191021160659

I've been writing about The Ruined King for quite some time now so I wouldn't be surprised if the Ruined King was coming. I've even had my own explanation for that strange schrodinger state years ago when I strived to explain what The Black Mist is.

So this section will be non-canonical, but I will be using it to give insight into what the official canon means. In my version, death is tied to. in its purest form becomes white: which I call ether.

The reason why The Black Mist gave rise to the undead was because originally The Sacred Tree was meant to be something like the Sun Disc to manifest another class of godlike beings: angels. However, The Ruined King clearly fucked with that ritual. Since the queen was deceased, the tree was incapable of ascending her to ether on its own. Realizing this the Ruined King realized his mistake and made the selfish to decision to take everyone down with him.

"Ghosts are merely angels in disguise," is a quote the Ruined King uses in my story to explain the existence of the undead. What it means is that The Black Mist is technically the ritual to create angels. However, it is a slip-shod form of the White Mist, which can initially be seen as the fog that covered the Blessed Isles, that uses unrefined rather than ether. So anyone who is transformed by The Black Mist becomes a twisted undead rather than an angel. If their was refined to ether, they would become angelic souls.

So this is where this official Senna bio comes in. Every single time life is referred to in this bio, it's referring to a structure much like ether in my version. This concept isn't actually new and it connects even with in Shadow and Fortune: Chapter Four. The Light of Nagakabourous is also ether that has the ability to ascend undead beings.

Senna has some innate connection with ether that makes her desirable to the undead, like an oasis for the parched. She didn't need to fear the undead, because she was already in tune with her ether. She had a sense of freedom that other undead did not have. In my canon, Senna would be considered an angel.