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May 24, 2026 Salme marginalia I think it is better that the Mask exists than it would be if it did not. I am grateful Zosimos carved it. I also feel ... something about the fact that he didn't deign to wear his own creation.
May 23, 2026 Wolf marginalia Understandable. I would like to have words with the creator, myself. Alas that I shall not be able to.
May 23, 2026 Wolf marginalia Perhaps. I think it is sufficient, however, to say that "there is knowledge of the world unsundered left for those who have eyes to see it." That, we have much proof of.
May 23, 2026 Jorule marginalia More like a thought, or an idea, not yet manifested...? a sleeping soul, which hasn't caught the Spark of life yet.
May 23, 2026 The Awoken marginalia ~~is a sleeping grasshopper any less of a grasshopper than an awakened grasshopper?~~
May 23, 2026 Salme marginalia It just seems typical that someone would carve the Mask but make no attempt to bear the weight of it. That, however, could be my own frustration with concept of the Sword-Saint more generally.
May 23, 2026 Salme marginalia Yes. Though the reset is built in. Crops are no good without being able to re-seed them. I say that with no small amount of ... some negative emotion.
May 23, 2026 Salme marginalia Once you're done (rotating) that let me know? Also thank you for the explanation. It's helpful. ~~Does this mean there was a time where you were not fully yourself?~~
May 23, 2026 Jorule marginalia yes asterisk but we'd still need to go there and give a device to someone (probably tsem, maybe badri if you want) before they'll be connected.
May 23, 2026 Jorule marginalia Hmm... Good Question? It's both spontaneous but also... deliberate? Maybe it is the whims of the Goddess, I'd never actually thought too hard about it before. Though I will note that the way it was used in Oberon was a bit different from how it's being used here(?). More meta awareness, that you're important and now a key player in the world's narrative, rather than simply being more, uh, human? Unless it IS being used the same way, which would be... HMM... gotta think on this one a bit.
May 23, 2026 Wolf marginalia No apologies needed. Though I would question the "of course" in that statement. Why would the creator not be the first to test its capacities?
May 23, 2026 Wolf marginalia Just not by design as I had assumed. "Designed to reset" is a distinctly different thing from "Designed to be repeatedly eaten."
May 23, 2026 Wolf marginalia Noted, and likely wise. Though...when you put it that way, I somehow find myself not much less disconcerted...
May 23, 2026 Salme marginalia Apologies, Wolf. I don't mean to be snippy at you, I just. Of course the man who carved the Mask wouldn't have worn it.
May 23, 2026 Salme marginalia Yes.
May 23, 2026 Salme marginalia I know Caion and Jorule and Aurelius are working on ... something, but I don't know if it'll enable us to speak to those back on Almachadta. I am sorry, though, Wolf. This must be a frustrating thing to not have an answer to. I do think we might *try* to look in the Mask together? It's easier to dive with another, and the Mask does carry memories of the yeresh.
May 23, 2026 Salme marginalia I would caution against reading too much into this Zosimos and how much he was representative of the people of the unsundered world? Though I understand your feeling disconcerted. I think, for the moment, that all we know is that you can access the old magic in a way few have been able to do since the world was whole?
May 23, 2026 Salme marginalia Is the ability to Awaken someone (something?) an ability granted to your deities? Your sages? Something else?
May 23, 2026 Salme marginalia I thought it knew that *something* would happen, just not what; just as Zosimos knew *something* would happen, though not what. Which, I think, further supports your hypothesis that the destruction of the planes comes not from an accident or an instability but through some kind of design.
May 23, 2026 Salme marginalia Whelp when you're right I'll be appropriately impressed.
May 23, 2026 Salme marginalia That's a good thought. Also possibly Solei or Synthesis, if we're able to speak with either of them again.
May 22, 2026 Aurelius marginalia heh
May 22, 2026 Jorule marginalia yeah, of course.
May 22, 2026 Jorule marginalia Hmm how to explain... it's *very, incredibly* specific wording from Old Ritual Language from the world I was, myself, Awoken on. It seemed funny that I could make a connection like that, but now I'm wondering if there really is something to it...
May 22, 2026 Jorule marginalia Born brightly under the Beating Heart... hmm... well, you're definitely Special with a capital S.
May 22, 2026 Wolf marginalia Indeed. The connection is speculative, but there seems to be *some* connection there. And, I would posit, some connection between the loss/hiding of the Sun and the sundering of the worlds. Heh. Sun-dering.
May 22, 2026 Wolf marginalia Or...simply large, coherent quantities of that particular type of gnosis. It could be as simple as being eaten for energy, much like one might eat a particular fruit for its nutritive qualities. The more horrifying question is the second, to me--anything capable of devouring *worlds* might be beyond our comprehension.
May 22, 2026 Wolf marginalia I see. Then I suppose we must assume that Zosimos never wore his own creation. Which...would make a certain sort of sense. He was clearly obscuring some degree of his own knowledge from Bahamut.
May 22, 2026 Wolf marginalia Agreed, though one may survive a thing a-purpose without being *responsible* for it.
May 22, 2026 Wolf marginalia It might be fruitful to ask Archie or Silver-Throat if there is a Zosimos in Samudra's history...
May 22, 2026 Wolf marginalia I would now very much like to ask another *yeresh,* but I do not think we shall get an opportunity for quite a while. I do not believe my own mentor ever mentioned that, but...at the same time, I do not trust my own memory anymore. The Iros are a clear equivalent, to me. We fill similar roles in our worlds and communities--and seem to have similar powers.
May 22, 2026 Wolf marginalia Would someone care to explain the significance? Because I see a...pun, nothing more.
May 22, 2026 Wolf marginalia For myself, I find it...disconcerting?...that my ability with the Song may simply have been *normal* in the unsundered world. And I wonder what it means that I have that ability innately.
May 22, 2026 Wolf marginalia Concurred. I will be very interested to learn what those from the Beast know of him.
May 22, 2026 Wolf marginalia Everything it said indicated that both the Canker-Gall and the ending of the world in flame were surprises to it, to put it mildly. Nothing suggests that *it* expected what happened, though it seemed to think that *Zosimos* might have.
May 22, 2026 Jorule marginalia yeah, need all the help you can get
May 22, 2026 Aurelius marginalia Yup that's the wild claim I'm betting on, given how not-at-all-recorded Beast history is, and SQ does feel vaguely eternal.
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia Zosimos would have died on Almachadta of old age over two million years ago and also had time to have been the rule of the Beast then. Does that add up to you? If it does that's fine, but the timespans seem mismatched?
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia Then do you think that most things on our planes don't sing, Awa?
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia Oh, well, if Jorule and Sininen are *agreeing* on something then it's likely significant.
May 22, 2026 Aurelius marginalia nope. betting on literal same person tho, just capable of travel between planes (maybe one way trips tho)
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia I am not sure if it relates to the True Sun or not. When I tried to look, there was an implication that the True Sun may have had some fondness for the Empty Space, or what was once *in* the Empty Space, but it was not clear. Awoken may know more---or may be able to discover more. He also very much may not.
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia Yes, though I think. If Almachadta is about hunger and satisfaction, *what* is being farmed from Samudra? Stomach (Almachadta), Brain (Samudra), Heart? (Beast)? Something else? And what would be large enough to be doing such a thing?
May 22, 2026 The Awoken marginalia hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm what if... you aren't misunderstanding it what if that is precisely what it means i think that puts the following lines in much more understood context
May 22, 2026 The Awoken marginalia this is an astounding catch, in the right context
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia Yes, though not by Bahamut. There is no greater depth within the Mask that I could sense, despite all my attempts.
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia Do you have any idea how *long* the Scorpion Queen has ruled the Beast? And do we think ... each plane might have had their own Zosimos? Since we're talking about sundered planes and also maybe sundered people?
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia Do other yeresh carry such memories? The songs, certainly, but the memories? The dreams? And is this something like what the Iros of Samudra do in their way?
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia This is something I don't yet have an answer to. I think the answer may lie in the second Sword-Saint's memories if I can recover them, but I haven't yet tried.
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia I don't think we can know with the information we have available to us, but Bahamut said Zosimos was not sure *what* it would have to contend with at the end of all things. I am not sure how much I trust Bahamut's Zosimos. That Bahamut loved him is clear, and that he had good intentions is also clear, but if those intentions were to cover up guilt or greater harm I remain uncertain.
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia I'm not sure if that or if it's that Bahamut thought it would persist through the destruction of the cycles? I don't think it ever planned to die, though I'm not certain why it thought it was strong enough to persist.
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia I think I read "most people did not remember how to do *that*" with "that" being "sing," but I may have misunderstood "that" as the ability to sing trees and beasts and rocks awake?
May 22, 2026 Salme marginalia I wasn't particularly quibbling over the terminology, so much as the idea of ... well, I'll leave a comment concerning my point of confusion.
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia We have...reinvented an ability of Eld?
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia Speculation: the Empty Space is related to--or the result of--the Sundering of the Worlds. We also know it relates to the True Sun, yes?
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia They all seem to die at the *same time*...
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia This is, perhaps, the most disturbing revelation we have received so far. The idea that the worlds are not *failing* but *being eaten*...only to be *replanted*...I do not have words.
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia This also implies that those from the unsundered world were not immortal--though likely much longer-lived than us.
May 21, 2026 Jorule marginalia abso-fucking-lutely, you probably don't survive that by chance.
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia ...Salme, was this answered?
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia This seems to imply that those of the unsundered world were in some way...what, more? Greater? Than those of us from the sundered worlds.
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia I fear we must consider the possibility that Zosimos *was* in some way responsible, or involved in, the Sundering of the world.
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia Supposedly, the former King of the Beast, before SQ replaced him. There's a lot of different versions of the how/why tho. Horrible, shitty ruler who SQ saved us from? Beloved ruler who's time simply ran out before handing over the torch? No one my age knows, at least. Honestly odd there's no records from that time left behind now that I think about it.
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia It seems like there is a deeper meaning to the term that I was not able to perceive. "Carrying the fire" appears to be far more than kindling simple flame.
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia I would welcome what you *do* know, given that they appear to have been the first *yeresh.*
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia I *think* this was the implication as well, yes.
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia Its name and tale shall be sung. I shall ensure it.
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia I would guess, from my conversation with Bahamut, that it is the knowledge and memory of the World Unsundered--things like the songs and languages from the distant past, the memory of the sea, and such.
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia I would concur this. Bahamut at one point mentions remembering being alive, but not "awake," yes?
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia Would this make Zosimos the ultimate creator of the Spoken Wood? And the Lightdrinkers? If so...how did they continue after the first Burning?
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia This raises fascinating and disturbing questions, given the (later) revelation of Zosimos likely being from the un...split? No. Divided? Hm. Unsundered. The unsundered world, prior to ours. Did he lie to Bahamut, that he would not be the only Saint?
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia Stands to reason, the Architect did not seem to think they were really working out, either.
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia This would seem to suggest that the cycles are not an intended function of the worlds--at least not to Bahamut's knowledge.
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia You have met us, yes?
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia Sapient? whichever one implies humanoid-level thought processing and understanding. A bear's not a person in the same way a metahuman or lightdrinker is.
May 21, 2026 Jorule marginalia It's *sufficient*, certainly, but also messy and destructive.
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia I'll be interested to see if there's something like shrine in the Septentrione in the north of Samudra?
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia Right, it was wordplaying at you. Hm. Honestly, good question? Hard to tell, but. I know if I were possessed of ancient dictionaries and was making a dumb pun with a dual sanctuary/grove meaning, the person on almachadta with a fallout shelter seems like a good target for it, at least. Could be more stuff like that on other planes? Or maybe it *did* mean the Sanctuary...?
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia Yes, that makes sense. It having to do with a place makes the most sense. I do wonder ... the Duelist's Mask referred to me as "Salme of the Alsos," and "Alsos" is also a kind of "sanctuary." Maybe ... hm. There are other sanctuaries? And that's why the song appears multiple places?
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia also I don't know a lot about them and Unua might know better.
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia That is one possible option, yes. Personally, I feel like the song title lends itself more towards being a place ie "Sanctuary" (a place the Architect... built? But did he built it an not take it over from someone else...? hm) rather than a collective name for a group of weirdos from different planes that didn't know each other. But. That's just my impression, at least, and I could be wrong.
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia Is there a Zosimos on the Beast? I'm guessing this is a thing you'd want to explain in person? Light, why does everyone seem to wind up on the Beast? It's like the dumping ground of people.
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia Okay, not incidental but. Playing for a specific reason that *doesn't* have to do with the Architect. Synthesis said the song belongs to all of us, right?
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia Yes, though I have to wonder if it's the same one. Though. Hard to imagine multiple people on multiple worlds having a name so..... *that*.
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia Every single song we've heard has played for a very specific reason with a very specific context surrounding it. No chance it was incidental.
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia Do you think it necessarily has anything to do with the Architect, or if maybe we just heard it playing incidentally? I really don't think the Song belongs to him.
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia Uh. Do *you* know about Zosimos?
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia But that does seem like the implication is then that there are people who are *not* sentient?
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia A ... portal? Is my hole in the ground not sufficient?
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia ...Interesting. I wonder if the Architect stole or inherited it...?
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia Why in the hell does the first Sword Saint of Almachadta know about Zosimos???
May 21, 2026 Jorule marginalia lol, lmao, On This Day, Bahamut Awoke, And Has Awoken Since Then
May 21, 2026 Aurelius marginalia In this context it seems to pretty clearly be sentience.
May 21, 2026 Jorule marginalia consider using a portal in the future
May 21, 2026 Salme, The Sword-Saint entries edited note: "--- Per Wolf, what if something is *farming* us? Almachadta "
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May 21, 2026 Salme, The Sword-Saint entries added: post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (presses her finger to the Mask's right cheek with a greeting.), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (lets his fingers hover over the Mask for just a moment--then places two fingerti), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ And when Wolf puts his hand to the mask, you feel yourself falling in, well fa), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ Someone's punched a hole in the ground quite nearby; it's got blocky, chunky e), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "Oops," she says, chagrined. "I didn't ... think it stayed like that."), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (looks at the hole, over to Salme, and then back to the hole again. "I see."), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "Badri did it once before and the hole didn't persist!"), post by the duelist's mask in On The New Island, Continued (thought that it would be easier this way the path once opened could stay open fo), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (twitches, just a little, as he perceives that. "Ah." He looks around the space. ), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "I don't think you needed to anticipate anything at all." She reaches out take), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (chuckles. "No need to apologize. I am getting quite used to encountering the unu), post by the duelist's mask in On The New Island, Continued (is learning perhaps to not conceal itself to understand to observe the bearer's ), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ Wolf: Pitch-black depths and the scent of ancient ashes.), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (inhales slowly and deeply, nostrils flaring a bit at that familiar-yet-not scent), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "You can also ask anything you'd like to know, brother," she says, giving his ), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (laughs. "I suspect the vast majority of my questions are reserved for what waits), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "In we go." And then she jumps.), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (jumps as well--because he's going to get pulled in if he doesn't, and he might a), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ You fall into the ancient darkness, and there is a point at which the falling ), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ Wolf, something impossibly large is directly behind you, and it's snoofling at), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (goes very still for a moment--generally the correct instinct when one is being s), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ (It is also, somehow, directly behind Salme, even if they are facing in differ), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ A low, deep, warm rumble, cracked by unthinkable age and unforgettable fire:), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (: "...Zosimos?"), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (can't not turn at that, eyes searching for the source of that voice. "I am afrai), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ The source of the voice is an absolutely immense beast, ravaged by fire and th), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (: "You came back. And you brought someone with you." And a nod, then, at Wolf's ), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "Yes. I came back. And you remembered," she beams at it, even if it cannot see), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (is arrested, utterly, by the sight of Bahamut, eyes going wide, something like m), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (: "He is a (person who carries the fire)." It's a statement, not a question, and), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ It's like when Lightdrinkers said a word that wasn't a word, but you understoo), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (collects himself with a visible effort, though his voice betrays some of the emo), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "Was ... Zosimos also one who held the fire, Bahamut?"), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (takes another slow, deep breath of a new-old scent in the forgotten air, its own), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (: "He who carved the Mask? Was a yeresh?" The naked shock in Wolf's voice is not), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (Heard the shock in Wolf's voice, but wonders---"what did it mean to you to carry), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (: "He was a (person who carried the fire)- hrrrf." Bahamut paws at the darkness), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (frowns, gently, hand lifting again, but he hesitates, again.), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "(It welcomed my touch, Wolf. I am certain it would welcome yours.)"), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (addresses Wolf, as if to answer Salme's question. "There are things which you Kn), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (makes a soft sound deep in his throat, something like a cough, but wetter, and t), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (: "I do not know what they mean, Eldest, but I see them."), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (lets out a very slow, very deep, rumble, in lieu of trusting itself to speak.), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (: "Before he died, he..."), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ It takes a deliberate, slow, deep breath.), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (: "He spoke truth into the fire. He taught people how to carry it. He said that ), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (: "What happened, Eldest?" Wolf says his voice a ragged plea. "We don't understa), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (had dropped Wolf's hand, but now reaches out to take it again, to squeeze it. "W), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (rumbles, again, softly, and presses its enormous snoot against Wolf's other hand), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (trembles, a vicious shudder that goes through him from head to toe--his fingers ), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "Can you ... tell us more about him? What did he look like? What---did he ment), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (rumbles, thoughtfully. "I remember... he looked like a human, but... more. Brigh), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "That is an answer," she says, firmly. "We met. We've met at least two men who), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (: "You have done more than enough, great Elder," Wolf adds, gently. "I am sorry.), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (rumbles, and paws at the darkness, and the rumbling turns into a low hum you can), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (cannot help the way immediately everything falls away, and a haunting certainty ), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (picks up the melody--even the baritone thrum of his voice is a good octave highe), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (looks, briefly, overcome, when Wolf's voice cuts in, but it keeps singing, until), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (softly, his voice thick with tears: "His song is known, Eldest. His song is stil), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "How," she begins, a little roughly, and then, more firmly. "Can you tell us h), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (: "I am glad." And then, to Salme, and gently, and very very softly: "Curled up ), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (looks at Wolf, sidelong, asking him, silently, to stop her if she pushes too far), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (sighs softly, and simply says it. "Was there a hunger? A hunger that needed to b), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (does not flinch. But its tail lashes, somewhere, invisible, doing profound viole), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (: "I remember the -sound- I heard inside the Mask Shrine. Like Almachadta was be), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (: "But I did... I did survive. I lasted long enough to pass the Mask on." It gla), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "Do you know from whence the fire came? That is what I keep trying to figure o), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (growls, low in his throat, jaw set--but he caresses that ashen nose with the bac), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "I am not afraid of knowing," she says firmly, certainly. "Do you know where t), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (: "No, I do not." He smiles grimly. "But we may now know how not to need it, at ), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "I still want to know, if I can."), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (paws at the not-ground. "Fire is fire. It can warm and it can burn. Zosimos said), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (shudders, at that description. "A...ripe fruit to be consumed. Oh." He blinks, t), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "And a well-cooked one," she says, and it's something of a joke, but there's n), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued ('s throat works, and it looks like he's trying to suppress nausea and horror all), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "Then there's another function that begins the cycle anew. The thing that devo), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (rumbles, presses its snoot against Wolf, again.), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (: "...which you plant again, to grow new fruit..." His fingers curl in, just a l), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued ('s voice is a ragged, horrified whisper. "If they're not unstable, but...being f), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "Oh." She sounds ill. "Oh, Light."), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (growls at a frequency one feels as distinct pulses.), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (: "That...that would explain why they all...at the same time..."), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "But what would be eating them? And what ..." she shakes her head and grasps o), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (looks up at Salme sharply. "Did Zosimos speak of...a sun? Was that a truth he ga), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (rumbles, and then rumbles! "Yes, and yes. Zosimos-- when he spoke of the world h), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (softly, gently: "Bahamut, Elder and Eldest. For the knowledge you have given us,), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (smiles gratefully at Wolf. "Are you going to share the memory of ...? And if you), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (squeezes her hand, nods--and, perhaps surprisingly, does not give her a tone...b), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (matches the rhythm, and closes the circle by touching Bahamut as well, tapping g), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (tilts its head to the side, curiously. "A gift is not owed, but if a gift is off), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (waits until Salme finds the rhythm and only then adds a tone--a bit of Zosimos' ), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (exhales, very soft but very forcefully- you do not feel it experiencing the warm), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ You both experience an awareness of two things, in this moment.), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ One: You know, vividly, because Bahamut was intentionally recalling a memory, ), post by The Dragon in On The New Island, Continued (ꙮ Two: You know that what you are doing was once called 'methexis', that Zosimos), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (holds the memory of sunlight as long as he can, burning as long as he can--but n), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (chuffs, almost playfully, at Wolf, in delight.), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (catches Wolf even though she's a foot shorter than him. She's small, but strong,), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (straightens, albeit with an effort. "I'm fine, I'm fine." He smiles wearily at B), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (: "And," she adds, "I too want to know everything. So your spirit lives on in th), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (rumbles, pleasantly dangerously. "Good." The corner of its mouth wrinkles, smile), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in On The New Island, Continued (nods. "Is there anything else you'd like to do here, Wolf? We can always come ba), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (shakes his head. "I think...I think that I am tired." And he must be, to admit i), post by Bahamut in On The New Island, Continued (rumbles, once more. "It was. Very, very good to meet you." A pause. "You remind ), post by The Wolf-Priest in On The New Island, Continued (: "You honor me," Wolf says, and his voice is thick. "And I am honored. To be sp) · edited note: "Did you know, that if you punch a hole through the floor of ", edited note: "Later, on Samudra, when we were at Cloudset, Wolf and I dove" · reordered entries
May 21, 2026 Salme, The Sword-Saint entries added: post by The Dragon in In the Liminal Library, V (ꙮ and in that moment where the fall feels like flying, and it is very very dark,), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "It wasn't supposed to be like this."), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "What was it supposed to be like?"), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "It was supposed to be me. It was only ever supposed to be me."), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "To bear the Mask? Or to carve it?"), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "To bear the Mask. I was the first. I should have been the only. But then ther), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I am the sum of all of them," she says. She feels its breath on the back of h), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "You remind me of her. The second one to bear the Mask." It inhales. "I was su), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "But I died. The world burnt, and I was dying. And later -- somehow -- when th), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "And then she found me. And she told me, let me take away your burdens, great ), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "ꙮYou had suffered enoughꙮ," she says, and she does not know, but she knows. A), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I am not its Maker. He..." The voice goes soft, gentle. "He knew. I don't kno), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Did you know him then?"), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I knew him always. Until his last day."), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I told him I would carry what the fire couldn't. And then I... died." It exha), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Before she passed the Mask on, she told it-- she wished to tell me-- that she), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "So that I would feel, a little less, that I had failed her." Its voice is gen), post by The Dragon in In the Liminal Library, V (ꙮ Its voice might just always be gentle, as gentle as the fire left it able to b), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "There is no shame in dying," she tells it. "All things die. There is no shame), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (hrrfs.), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I do not feel shame. I feel..."), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (hrrfs, again, stubbornly.), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I am dead. I am a memory. I do not -feel- any thing. I just wish it could hav), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Hm."), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Does a memory not feel anything? I don't know. I am not yet a memory, though ), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Hrrrrrfffff." That's a yes.), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I would like answers. I would like to know you. But I recognize I am in a pla), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I don't know. Nobody's ever tried before."), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I think the Mask might want me to know. I also want to know. And if you disap), post by The Dragon in In the Liminal Library, V (ꙮ Once, it was a towering beast, with huge soft (sharp. also sharp.) paws. Once,), post by The Dragon in In the Liminal Library, V (ꙮ Fire and time have left it little. Singed as it is, it retains its gentle maje), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Hello," she says. "You're beautiful still, even having borne so very much." S), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (reaches out a paw. (The pads of its paws are cracked, and rough, and charred but), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (uses both of her hands to hold the paw. Her touch is also gentle, because she is), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (strokes one side of its paw with her thumb.), post by ??? in In the Liminal Library, V (lets out a slow rumble. There's a long pause before it responds. "He gave me the), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "And do you like the name Bahamut? Is that how you wish to be called, to be re), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (nods, slowly. "It was a gift. I treasured it while I lived."), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Then I will remember you as Bahamut, First Sword-Saint of Almachadta, high-le), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "May I ask my questions of you? Of the Carver, and of the Mask itself?"), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (🙧), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (rumbles, very slowly, and had the fire left it more, it might shed tears. "You m), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "You knew the Carver. What can you tell me about him?"), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (: "He was..." It tilts its head up. "I think he could do anything." It sounds wi), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (: "He said that most people did not remember how to do that. That it was somethi), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Had you slept before, then?" She thinks of---she tries not to think. She trie), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I... moved, I breathed, I hunted. But I was not awake. I did not yet sing."), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Can you tell ... do I sing? Or have I forgotten too?"), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (gently exhales. "Yes, you sing. You are singing right now."), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (breathes in, and exhales as well. "Okay." She strokes his paw more. "You said yo), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (looks immediately concerned. "Has the world lost those who carry fire?"), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Oh. No. I don't think so? The ... ember priests?" She suddenly wishes Wolf wa), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "The yeresh? They still exist."), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (relaxes, and gently wiggles its paw, comfortingly. It can't read her mind, but i), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "And I could never leap through the clouds. We all have our strengths," she sa), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Can you tell me what the Mask's Will is? I. Am doing something other than wha), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (looks, briefly, confused, and just as briefly, distraught, and then it pauses, a), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (: "The Mask's Will, as its Maker made it. To permit its bearer to be that which ), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (: "And then after I burnt, and died."), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (: "Somewhere along the line."), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (exhales, painfully, pronouncing the passive voice carefully, "It was decided tha), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (: "But not from you."), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "It was decided. And it was the right decision. For centuries it was the right), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I doubted, Bahamut. I doubted at first. But I have to try. Because we have be), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "I thought my only future was dying with Almachadta. I thought I would carve m), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (would look directly at Salme, with clear bright crystal eyes that once comforted), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (: "ꙮBeing that which the world requires, in order to survive, and liveꙮ." She ta), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (stretches up as far as she can, on her tiptoes, to kiss the bridge of its nose. ), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (shivers softly, and presses its enormous nose very gently against Salme, and for), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V ('s laughter is gentle and warm. "Of course. I was going to do that anyway." She ), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (exhales very softly in reminiscence. "Her name was Daina."), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V (draws in a shaky, shaky breath. "Daina, then. I'll look for her next. Anything e), post by Bahamut in In the Liminal Library, V (shakes its head, from side to side. Churrs, very gently.), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in In the Liminal Library, V ("Then I will remember you, Bahamut. And I will see you again one day." And then,), post by The Dragon in In the Liminal Library, V (ꙮ It turns its head to follow her as she rises, even though it cannot see her go) · added note: "Did you know, that if you punch a hole through the floor of ", added note: "And then the second time, when Wolf and I dove into the dept"