>I am also
>wondering to what extent these are/should be conscious, aware that
>sort of thing.
Deities and spirits have awareness or self consciousness, though they are
not generally intelligent or free willed.
That is, they know that they exist as entities, they have the ability to
respond to certain stimuli (though not necessarily the same stimuli as a
human would respond to), they often find pleasure, and exhibit other
emotions at varying times.
They generally do not have a full range of actions available to them.
Intelligence above means the ability to think like humans, whatever that
may mean to you. But they can think like air daimones, or water daimones or
tree spirits or thatever. As for free willed, they are not able to act
outside of their nature (whatever that means to you.) A tree can act as a
tree, but that is all.
Essences in general are extremely rare in the middle world and the above
does not apply. They are without awareness, intelligence or will.
Exceptiosn exist to all the above.
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