Editing AnglerStudios:Story/Aspects (section)

== Aspects and Sentience ==

Most Trenashian experts maintain the theory that, in essence, Sentience is the ability to comprehend other aspects.  Tied up within this is perhaps the ability to reach other Aspects - Someone with the weak-aspect may train and gain the strong-aspect.  Now, the factor which distinguishes this change from a plant growing up and moving from the short-aspect to the tall-aspect is Will.  A Sentient creature can ''will'' itself to change.

This is a matter largely for philosophy and religion, and it bores me, so I'll cut straight to the relevant bit - Most people notice that the larger portions of sentient races in the known world are more similar than disimilar - usually humanoid, for instance, and employing similar notions of Reason.  This has sparked a controversy over the origins of sentient life between two theories:


1) All life has developed from one initial race, either now non-existant or still current

2) All races, or their progenators at least, were begun indepedently of each other, and the similarities are due either to coincidence or the machinations of a higher guiding force.


Of the two, theory 1 has gained the far greater following.

The issue then is What was the initial race?  The two most commonly presented options were the Trenashi or the Humans.

The Trenashian case rests upon the idea that, due to the Trenashian ability to screw around with their Aspects, they must necessarily be closer to the will-powerless aspects of the natural world.  Other arguments include religious ones, like that since [[AnglerStudios:Story/Religion|The Smith]] was a Trenashi, the Trenashi must be the original race.  Critics invert these arguments and state that the Trenashian kinship with Aspects may be due to a developed superiority, rather than a perfect originality, and further assert that it is therefore possible that the Smith emerged from the most advanced sentient race rather than the underdeveloped original.

The Argument for Man being the original rely on their more considerable population and the belief that they represent a logical 'mid-way point' between all the races.

Other splinter groups have suggested other races, usually their own, particualarly the Angelinas, and even more particularly the reigning Praetoria, [[AnglerStudios:Story/Praetoria|Lady Felina]].