Talk:Nightblood/@comment-75.72.106.125-20170407051228

also to answer the question about how Beca was so quickly transformed into a religious figure rather than being remembered as a scientist who helped them survive radiation think about this ... If the internet and all electirical devices ceased to function today and roughly (lets be extremely generous and say) 90% of the population died TODAY how much of the technology and knowledge do you think those who survived would be able to preserve and/or recreate? IF the survivors were also almost all city dwellers they would have been far more concerned with preserving knowledge of farming techniques and food gathering than they would have been with proper scientific method and the preservation of History as a science. Without a computer how much of History could you personally recount. Even things that occurred in your own life time would be difficult for you to recount since we depend so heavily on computers to 'remember' for us. History would cease to be something you ever actually learned. Food and clothing and protection of one's group would have been of primary importance. How many of that first generation would have even been able to even give a good account of history without Computers? Even if we assume that a few actual historians did survive (or teachers or simlar professions or maybe just amateur history buffs) how much energy would they have had at the end of the day to pass on that knowledge. The Campfire story would have become one of the only forms of entertainment that existed and noone is going to remember a dry accounting of how Becca made Nightblood and had a computer inside her head that stored information that could only be passed on to foks who had been given a treatment that turned their blood black, but if you turn it into a story about The first Commander and tell that certain people are born with Blood the color of Night and that only they are capable or worthy of recieving the Spirit of Becca,.. well then you have ensured that some day down the road when things have settled down enough to do more than survive that that computer chip will most likely still be around and have all that information that can then be used to bring back the days before the bombs. The loss of knowledge and the transformation of history into quasi-religious mythology could probably have been all but complete before the last pre-war adult died.