[X] [BELEGAR] Daemon and weakening
[X] [COLLEGE] Everchosen and Greater Daemon
Given what we've heard from Deathfang,
The great machines begin to fail and the energies they were supposed to harness began to pour into the world, and the Ruinous Powers began to mould those energies - but the machines were more clever than they expected, as most of the energies were transformed by their passage into the world into forms that followed their own natures, rather than the orders of the Ruinous Powers.
and the example of the guiding intelligence of the Waystone network, one of the natural possibilities for this
So for the Vitae to become Winds and then for the Winds to become reality means that reality is being imposed upon the Winds by something other than reality.
You remember Cython theorizing about the similarity in nature between Gods and Winds, and wonder if it was more correct than it knew. Is this a product of divinity? Do the Gods collectively impose a sort of combined pastiche of their domains onto the world, creating forms of energy not connected with any of them individually but that does uphold the form of life that, in turn, sustains the Gods? Or is there some sort of hidden pantheon of God-Winds that are omnipresent throughout this world, so that the energies of the Aethyr that enter it are as under their command, just as the energies of the Aethyr around the conventional Gods becomes the divine energy with which miracles are worked? Or some other, stranger possibility?
is the operators of the polar gates, either Old Ones or machine intelligences, who underwent involuntary apotheosis when the gates blew up and now and all this time impose their will on the aethyr pouring into the world, aligning it with reality and turning it into winds.
Don't see any reasonable way for Mathilde to check this though, direct checking would entail traveling into and through the Warp or trekking up north and again entering the Warp. Unless we'll get lucky enough and happen upon invading Malekith during elfcation and he would be gracious enough to indulge our curiosity on his warp travels and tell us if he'd seen anything like that?
Joking aside, that the winds are results of intentional willful directed imposition of reality upon the aethyr tracks with the notion we've encountered during Waystone research, that the dhar naturally tends to flow towards the aethyr; as soon as any two winds mix, wills imposing reality on them come into conflict, like pulling an item into two different directions at once, and the wind stuff stops being aligned with reality, becoming more hostile to it, and starts being aligned more with aethyr and attracted back to it.
