"Of course this is a story. Our entire world runs on stories. I should think that spending time with Anansi would have taught you that by now."
She eyed the group.
"Mind you, it looks like this is becoming much more of an ensemble piece."
She opened her book, flipping through the pages.
"I reached out to some of my contacts and found some of the myths that are in hiding that understand the nature of our world better than others. They think there's a 95% chance the newcomers were indeed pulled from their worlds and converted into what we are and a 5% chance they're newly made Tulpas - thoughtforms - like Frosty the Snowman was. There's extensive damage to the Horizon - the barrier that separates our world from other realities and the Umbra -"
She glanced at Jack.
"- which, for the uninitiated and inexperienced, is the field of belief that powers the myths of this world - it's overactive. It's been growing thinner for centuries, as humanity's moved away from their animistic beliefs and belief in individual spirits, but it's swelled in power since Kuk started invading. It's now dangerously overactive, in fact. If it keeps on this way, humans are going to start being able to shape reality with mere thought. An alarming prospect when there are seven billion individual people that will be affecting reality around them. The mix of a thin barrier between worlds and over-active field of reality-altering belief made it possible for our new friends here to be pulled through from realities where they're real - or created whole-cloth."
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She eyed the group.
"Mind you, it looks like this is becoming much more of an ensemble piece."
She opened her book, flipping through the pages.
"I reached out to some of my contacts and found some of the myths that are in hiding that understand the nature of our world better than others. They think there's a 95% chance the newcomers were indeed pulled from their worlds and converted into what we are and a 5% chance they're newly made Tulpas - thoughtforms - like Frosty the Snowman was. There's extensive damage to the Horizon - the barrier that separates our world from other realities and the Umbra -"
She glanced at Jack.
"- which, for the uninitiated and inexperienced, is the field of belief that powers the myths of this world - it's overactive. It's been growing thinner for centuries, as humanity's moved away from their animistic beliefs and belief in individual spirits, but it's swelled in power since Kuk started invading. It's now dangerously overactive, in fact. If it keeps on this way, humans are going to start being able to shape reality with mere thought. An alarming prospect when there are seven billion individual people that will be affecting reality around them. The mix of a thin barrier between worlds and over-active field of reality-altering belief made it possible for our new friends here to be pulled through from realities where they're real - or created whole-cloth."