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[K172.40] somewhen, in Wanderhold
Oct. 13th, 2009 10:24 pmLeaving Vosh was wrenching, as it was when we left Tussef. We were all feeling bereft when we arrived back in the teleport room. 1827 was there; he hadn't been with us up above.
We debated seeing the stories of our other selves, though I knew I wouldn't; that glyph I'd seen was not one I'd like to learn more about (and it doesn't seem like such a good thing to have more of myself together, anyway).
So I thought about purifiers instead. There were many symbols left, but then I thought about home, and there were only three. I thought about Elix, and only one remained. I dropped into that memory.
I saw memories of an Elix who lived in Krayzen about 20,000 years ago, when the Elix were greater in the world than we are now, when the cities were much larger, and the stone-tree structures were in other lands in addition to our own. This one had a life of humility and healing, though also some violence when dealing with humans. There was a long time of peace other than that. But a war came, and the Healer's purifier gifts in this one included battling rot and decay as well as poison. She sent out streams of energy to people to drive out spirits or defend from spirits. There
There was much struggle in the world, and murmurs that those high up had been given visions of the end of time. Despite peace negotiations all over, there was vivid spirit visitation. This one went up to a stone place of the Healer, and saw a kafke of golden light, threads of light streaming out, a spirit from the Healer with the ability to speak in words. The spirit said that it was time to go away to the war. Where, here? No, beyond. Did it mean for her to die? No, not this world, but beyond it, going to serve by defending all Creation. She remembered how naive she was then, how much less all of Creation seemed to be to her then, and regretted her lost innocence. Not that she would have chosen otherwise, even so. She went.
The first was was with what seemed to be great kafke, but were kathel. It was a place beyond the fiery land. Just beyond: the fiery band was just behind. The warriors of the gods, from all the roots, had an encampment there, and just beyond was a beautiful blue place, from which the kathel would emerge, six to eight at a time. The warriors were tiny in comparison to the kathel. The kathel glowed with rainbow essence. When the kathel fell, rainbow crept out and put out the fires. She and the other purifiers put the fire essence of life into them, which made them regularly mortal, and therefore, assailable.
When the kathel were driven from the veil of fire to the place near the storm, the kathel emerged encased in crystal, and the warriors fought them from flying stations. These crystal kathel, and the rainbow kathel, were not like regular kathel, but bad ones taking the path against the roots, creation, and their parent creators.
The rainbow kathel took on 'blessings' of the rainbows. She used bolts to purify them into crystals that would crack. She pushed the essence of life into the rainbows/kathel (as Thymelixsen had done with Tek Tek Turka), and they became knowable, normal, and therefore able to be destroyed.
Beyond, there was a land created for the kathel, which had rings within rings within rings. When she arrived, there were bones first, then rooted, tentacled trees in the second ring, which broke kathel bones, shattering them to dust, spiraling them into the storm, and from there to the roots, feeding the soil. The kathel that fell into the roots became part of the roots, which she thought might be a way the gods had given the kathel a way to return. This way all had tiny fragments of the first creation, and yet still could be in the roots. Most didn't understand thigs, or didn't want to give up their wholeness for the roots, but to have it all. So the trees digested them, and sent the dust to the roots. (Kathel who chose to give up their weapons could be whole in the roots, however.)
After the desert, there was forest, which they passed through easily because they were many and armed. They went to the cities because the war was mostly over, just some small raids left. They were going to try to engage the non-rainbow kathel, who were agreeable, but she noted that they had lost much of themselves in the fighting, losing the sense of vast possibilities that they previous had, due to their injuries.
They went to Feshamist, which is quadruple the size of Wanderhold, ruled by Dest, who wasn't injured in the same way as the others. There was glory in seeing her memoriy of Dest, making me cry again. Dest was holding the line against the All, fighting to hold, hoping the roots would succeed, despite feeling that it would be for naught, that the roots would fail.
Many had come and settled, but there is a problem with settling here and being from the roots. Edgewalkers make themselves whole, gathering themselves together, thereby withdrawing themselves from the roots, which is tragic for the roots. They can't kill them, since that would give them to the All, and since they'd pulled themselves out of the roots, that would also give a connection to that root to the All, which could then consume that root, pulling it into the All.
So they have to capture the people who come, putting them into stasis, and take them back, cleansed of their notions, back into the roots. They lose a lot that way, but stay in the root.
Interestingly, the recorded memory went past the time when Vosh asked her to record the memory, to the end of her life. That end came when a ray from a crystal kathel hit. Her threads were gathered when her physical body was disintegrated, and they were cleaned and injected back into her root. It made me think that somehow Vosh sees things we can't yet see. But that doesn't include how things might branch later. It makes me confused.
When I came out of the memory, Jack was missing. I asked 1827 about him, and he said that Jack had been taken into the ring and might not come out; he'd done something that got Bove, who is responsible for the security of the city, involved.
Thymelixsen seemed sad from what he'd seen, and hugged me; I petted him.
There was a swell of blue, and a shimmer, and Jack fell out.
Cor mentioned fighting things, having looked at this self, and May said she'd looked at another her. Jack had looked at the not-Jack hole in the All, which is when Bove rescued him, after the triangles scanned him. He talked with Bove, who also watches over the troublesome parts of the city, and apparently Jack tends towards troublesomeness...
He also asked about Ult things. Others travels the roots, and are pirates, who attack Ults. So if we had had Ult things with us when we arrived, the Ult might have assumed we were pirates, until they'd questioned us. It's valuable stuff in the troublesome area. Still, the Ult are focused on working for and strengthening the roots.
Thymelixsen was sad because of the stuff he'd learned, but said it was very complicated, and didn't give more detail.
May said she saw a me who got Thymelixsen killed.
Jack said Bove was pleased when Jack said he needed to see all of his self at the edge. Theymlixsen said that we need to look at all of ourselves to get to the edge. We also talked about going through the ghost lands. Jack said that if we went to the ghost lands soon, we'd likely die; we need to learn more first.
We debated seeing the stories of our other selves, though I knew I wouldn't; that glyph I'd seen was not one I'd like to learn more about (and it doesn't seem like such a good thing to have more of myself together, anyway).
So I thought about purifiers instead. There were many symbols left, but then I thought about home, and there were only three. I thought about Elix, and only one remained. I dropped into that memory.
I saw memories of an Elix who lived in Krayzen about 20,000 years ago, when the Elix were greater in the world than we are now, when the cities were much larger, and the stone-tree structures were in other lands in addition to our own. This one had a life of humility and healing, though also some violence when dealing with humans. There was a long time of peace other than that. But a war came, and the Healer's purifier gifts in this one included battling rot and decay as well as poison. She sent out streams of energy to people to drive out spirits or defend from spirits. There
There was much struggle in the world, and murmurs that those high up had been given visions of the end of time. Despite peace negotiations all over, there was vivid spirit visitation. This one went up to a stone place of the Healer, and saw a kafke of golden light, threads of light streaming out, a spirit from the Healer with the ability to speak in words. The spirit said that it was time to go away to the war. Where, here? No, beyond. Did it mean for her to die? No, not this world, but beyond it, going to serve by defending all Creation. She remembered how naive she was then, how much less all of Creation seemed to be to her then, and regretted her lost innocence. Not that she would have chosen otherwise, even so. She went.
The first was was with what seemed to be great kafke, but were kathel. It was a place beyond the fiery land. Just beyond: the fiery band was just behind. The warriors of the gods, from all the roots, had an encampment there, and just beyond was a beautiful blue place, from which the kathel would emerge, six to eight at a time. The warriors were tiny in comparison to the kathel. The kathel glowed with rainbow essence. When the kathel fell, rainbow crept out and put out the fires. She and the other purifiers put the fire essence of life into them, which made them regularly mortal, and therefore, assailable.
When the kathel were driven from the veil of fire to the place near the storm, the kathel emerged encased in crystal, and the warriors fought them from flying stations. These crystal kathel, and the rainbow kathel, were not like regular kathel, but bad ones taking the path against the roots, creation, and their parent creators.
The rainbow kathel took on 'blessings' of the rainbows. She used bolts to purify them into crystals that would crack. She pushed the essence of life into the rainbows/kathel (as Thymelixsen had done with Tek Tek Turka), and they became knowable, normal, and therefore able to be destroyed.
Beyond, there was a land created for the kathel, which had rings within rings within rings. When she arrived, there were bones first, then rooted, tentacled trees in the second ring, which broke kathel bones, shattering them to dust, spiraling them into the storm, and from there to the roots, feeding the soil. The kathel that fell into the roots became part of the roots, which she thought might be a way the gods had given the kathel a way to return. This way all had tiny fragments of the first creation, and yet still could be in the roots. Most didn't understand thigs, or didn't want to give up their wholeness for the roots, but to have it all. So the trees digested them, and sent the dust to the roots. (Kathel who chose to give up their weapons could be whole in the roots, however.)
After the desert, there was forest, which they passed through easily because they were many and armed. They went to the cities because the war was mostly over, just some small raids left. They were going to try to engage the non-rainbow kathel, who were agreeable, but she noted that they had lost much of themselves in the fighting, losing the sense of vast possibilities that they previous had, due to their injuries.
They went to Feshamist, which is quadruple the size of Wanderhold, ruled by Dest, who wasn't injured in the same way as the others. There was glory in seeing her memoriy of Dest, making me cry again. Dest was holding the line against the All, fighting to hold, hoping the roots would succeed, despite feeling that it would be for naught, that the roots would fail.
Many had come and settled, but there is a problem with settling here and being from the roots. Edgewalkers make themselves whole, gathering themselves together, thereby withdrawing themselves from the roots, which is tragic for the roots. They can't kill them, since that would give them to the All, and since they'd pulled themselves out of the roots, that would also give a connection to that root to the All, which could then consume that root, pulling it into the All.
So they have to capture the people who come, putting them into stasis, and take them back, cleansed of their notions, back into the roots. They lose a lot that way, but stay in the root.
Interestingly, the recorded memory went past the time when Vosh asked her to record the memory, to the end of her life. That end came when a ray from a crystal kathel hit. Her threads were gathered when her physical body was disintegrated, and they were cleaned and injected back into her root. It made me think that somehow Vosh sees things we can't yet see. But that doesn't include how things might branch later. It makes me confused.
When I came out of the memory, Jack was missing. I asked 1827 about him, and he said that Jack had been taken into the ring and might not come out; he'd done something that got Bove, who is responsible for the security of the city, involved.
Thymelixsen seemed sad from what he'd seen, and hugged me; I petted him.
There was a swell of blue, and a shimmer, and Jack fell out.
Cor mentioned fighting things, having looked at this self, and May said she'd looked at another her. Jack had looked at the not-Jack hole in the All, which is when Bove rescued him, after the triangles scanned him. He talked with Bove, who also watches over the troublesome parts of the city, and apparently Jack tends towards troublesomeness...
He also asked about Ult things. Others travels the roots, and are pirates, who attack Ults. So if we had had Ult things with us when we arrived, the Ult might have assumed we were pirates, until they'd questioned us. It's valuable stuff in the troublesome area. Still, the Ult are focused on working for and strengthening the roots.
Thymelixsen was sad because of the stuff he'd learned, but said it was very complicated, and didn't give more detail.
May said she saw a me who got Thymelixsen killed.
Jack said Bove was pleased when Jack said he needed to see all of his self at the edge. Theymlixsen said that we need to look at all of ourselves to get to the edge. We also talked about going through the ghost lands. Jack said that if we went to the ghost lands soon, we'd likely die; we need to learn more first.
