Talk:Redcap/@comment-29693921-20160925190320/@comment-25035274-20160926051255

It ultimately doesn't matter that there's a lot of hyperbole involved. People think emotionally, and they react emotionally. And the idea of a mushroom that destroys your mind and controls your body leaves a lot of people feeling very uncomfortable; you can in part thank The Last of Us coupled with the real life Cordyceps fungus for that.

"What is" and "what people perceive" are not always the same thing.

With regard to what KC has told us outside of the books versus what the Wandering Scholar tells us: A lot of the reactions you see from people are exactly the reactions you would see coming from someone from that world reading that book, without the benefit of Word of God to clarify things.

In other words, they're immersing themselves in the universe.