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- dath ilan's most popular swear words (or at least, strong intensifiers) seem to be "flaming" and "superheated". (Both are inserted into sentences the same way we'd insert the F-word, e.g. "right superheated now".) Why are their most popular swear words both related to heat? It makes sense in light of their extreme commitment to preventing True Death* — a nail for which their only real hammer is cryopreservation. It's such a universal practice, that True Deaths are almost always accidental; even suicidal people leave the world by cryopreservation rather than True Death, in the hopes of awakening to a better world. The cryopreservation process obviously involves freezing, which means that Civilization's entire approach to impending death revolves around saving the head and keeping it cold. In at least two versions of the plane crash that isekai'd Keltham ("but hurting people is wrong" and "be swallowed up by the sun"), the passengers' main concern is whether someone can get to the predicted crash site fast enough to preserve their heads before True Death occurs, because they know the site won't be cold enough to preserve them naturally. In a very real way, the cold is humanity's bulwark against the specter of True Death. So what could be more anathema to their collective psyche than extreme heat, which will instead destroy a brain for good?
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the reason that "Die in a fire" is a much stronger imprecation in dath ilan than it is in either our world or Golarion. (The latter has afterlives and resurrection, the former lacks cryopreservation and so views all deaths as equally irreversible.)
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