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Functional Sorcery [Mage: The Awakening / Naruto]
- Thread starter Spector29
- Start date
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
Switching to
[x] Sakura Haruno
She's the closest fit to us, plus let's interact with the boy with symbols on his freaking stomach!
[x] Sakura Haruno
She's the closest fit to us, plus let's interact with the boy with symbols on his freaking stomach!
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
Either us, or he'll actually notice hinata. Let's hope for the latter, but prepare for the former.
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- Location
- Nowhere
I have a quite morbid curiosity to know how is the QM going to fit WoD's generally wonky combat and "brittle as tissue-paper" health systems in a shonen setting, where combat is the norm and diplomacy tends to be the dump stat. Nevertheless, I'm curious how this is going to end.
[jk] All of them
[jk2] Sasuke Uchiha. And his brother. And all of his thrice-damned clan.
Oh wait, that's not allowed, no? Shame.
[X] Sakura Haruno
I'll take this one instead then.
[jk] All of them
[jk2] Sasuke Uchiha. And his brother. And all of his thrice-damned clan.
Oh wait, that's not allowed, no? Shame.
[X] Sakura Haruno
I'll take this one instead then.
AkatsukiL13
An Enlightened Mind
- Location
- New Copernicus Station
[X] Kiba Inuzuka
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
Alternatively, he'l just like the fake person Sakura got replaced with.
IIRC he had a crush on Sakura more or less because she's one of the few who'd talk to him? Most likely because her parents are civilians and she hadn't been warned off him.
Also, funny thing about shipping.
Fate magic is almost as good as Mind for it. More subtle.
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
You mean us? Because that's who would be replacing the missing person.
Spector29
It Only Gets Worse From Here
Vote Tally : Functional Sorcery [Mage: The Awakening / Naruto] | Page 4 | Sufficient Velocity
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[x] Sakura Haruno
No. of Votes: 7
Markala
Archeo Lumiere
HeavyBane
Prospalz
Seventeen
tricholysis
Wwind
[X] Hinata Hyuga.
No. of Votes: 3
Xalgeon
DiceOfStupidity
King Arthur
[X] Kiba Inuzuka
No. of Votes: 6
wingstrike96
AkatsukiL13
Nicklance
cmwatford
Skelm
veekie
[X] Ino Yamanaka
No. of Votes: 2
Logos
Nor
I'm a little late because my internet's been out for most of the day, but it seems as though Sakura actually just barely overtook Kiba.
Huh. Poor girl.
At any rate, votes are locked. Update could come tomorrow night, but if internet problems persist then it might get pushed back to Friday.
##### NetTally 1.7.4
[x] Sakura Haruno
No. of Votes: 7
Markala
Archeo Lumiere
HeavyBane
Prospalz
Seventeen
tricholysis
Wwind
[X] Hinata Hyuga.
No. of Votes: 3
Xalgeon
DiceOfStupidity
King Arthur
[X] Kiba Inuzuka
No. of Votes: 6
wingstrike96
AkatsukiL13
Nicklance
cmwatford
Skelm
veekie
[X] Ino Yamanaka
No. of Votes: 2
Logos
Nor
I'm a little late because my internet's been out for most of the day, but it seems as though Sakura actually just barely overtook Kiba.
Huh. Poor girl.
At any rate, votes are locked. Update could come tomorrow night, but if internet problems persist then it might get pushed back to Friday.
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
0.3 - Stand and Watch Them Fall
Spector29
It Only Gets Worse From Here
After a little over 40 hours of no internet, I finally coax my modem to enough life to let me post.
[X] Sakura Haruno
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You wrinkle your nose as you leave class.
HAHHAHAHAHA, JEALOUS OF HER ATTENTION, OR AN ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE? DOESN'T MATTER TO ME! THANKS!
Who even has pink hair? That's not a thing real people have.
---
You walk outside, and just take some time to feel the afternoon sun on your face. You've admittedly been spending a lot of time in your dreams lately, and while that might work for your friend Shikamaru, you're not sure you're comfortable just sleeping the days away.
Speak of the devil, Shikamaru and his friend Chouji, who was also in your class, weren't that far from the Academy grounds. There was a small hill just up the road that occasionally bloomed with some nice flowers, and today it seemed blooming with a 'resting' Shikamaru and docile Chouji. You start up the path nonchalantly; You weren't the greatest friends with either of them, but if they went out of their way to talk to you then you wouldn't mind. As you make your way to the top of the hill, you realize that most of your classmates haven't left yet. It would seem that the Academy 'yard' has become a decent hangout spot after school if you had nothing to do.
Hm, good to know. Why do you suddenly know this...?
"Oh, hey, Sayaka!" The brown-haired boy waved over to you from the patch of soft-looking grass he was sitting on. The dozy boy lying on the grass beside him turns his head over to where you were walking, cracking open a single eye. It didn't seem like he took issue to your presence, so you casually diverted off your path and walked over to them. Chouji enthusiastically moved over to make room for you to not have to sit on the slope, and Shikamaru...seemed to go back to sleep.
Eh, good enough.
"Hello Chouji, Shikamaru." You smile and greet them politely. It would be hard to tell right away, but after reading and learning about the history of the village, you remember that these two have seriously powerful and respected families. Best to afford them some measure of respect.
Chouji flashes a bright smile as he pops open a bag of chips from...somewhere, "You can siddown ya know, we don't bite!" Chouji says, before popping the first of his snack into his mouth. Shikamaru sighs, still not making any attempt to move any time soon.
"Maa...too much effort." At Chouji's bark of laughter, you see a small smirk form on the sleepy boy's face.
You smirk, "Sitting down, or biting me?" You say, before plopping down cross-legged on the grass. Without missing a beat, Shikamaru cracks open one eye to look at you.
"Yes."
Peals of laughter erupt from the other boy, as you can only smile and roll your eyes. While the Nara practically embodies laziness wholecloth, you give him a lot of credit for how smart he is. The difference between Naruto and Shikamaru sleeping in class is that when Nara gets woken up, he at least has the right answer over whatever ridiculousness Naruto thinks would pass as an answer. Speaking of answers...
"So, Sayaka, how'd you do on the midterm? Iruka-sensei says that it was supposed to be super telling of our progress so far. I think I did pretty good!" Chouji beams. His friend merely huffs in responses.
"Hardly. Tests like that aren't good indicators of being a Ninja. Although as such as I hate taking tests, it'd be less troublesome if that's what being a Ninja really was like." Shikamaru sighs.
"Maybe you're cut out to be a teacher, then~! Easier to make and grade tests than take them!" Chouji smiles, lightly jabbing his friend in the side. Shikamaru just grunts at the hit and gives a heavy sigh.
"...The future is just troublesome. I'd rather go back to sleep." Shikamaru says, before turning over and putting his back to the both of you.
Chouji just laughs, and as the back and forth continues you tune out a bit to think about what the two clan-ninja boys said. This Midterm was really that big of a test?
You pretty much aced the written exam, but did pretty poor on the physical portion. If being a Ninja is a lot more like the latter than the former...you might be in some trouble. On the bright side, you still have about three months to try and catch up to where you probably should be.
Also on the bright side, the amount of symbols appearing in your life seems to be slowing down. You were ready to do something to take care of them, but it would appear that it's something that will take care of itself? Maybe?
You shrug to yourself. It's not like the symbols have actually hurt anything yet.
Anyway.
After a little bit more friendly chatter, you decide it's getting a little late and you've got to get back home soon. Father closes up shop a little before dusk, and while it's hardly orange outside yet you know that waiting until the last second is probably a bad idea. So, with that, you bid goodbye to Shikamaru and Chouji and return to the path you take home.
Once you get back into the part of Konoha that could be classified as 'the city', you spot Ino Yamanaka and a group of her civilian friends chatting near one of the more popular hangout spots, a small inner-city park. When you meet her gaze, she smiles and waves pleasantly. That was new, as you'd never really interacted with any of your classmates. At least not enough to get a friendly wave from one of the most popular girls in The Academy, anyway. You briefly contemplated going over to talk to them; after all, what good would studying or training do when you could make friends that could help you out, or maybe just hang out with. That sounds...nice.
---
Eventually, night would fall and your dreams would come once more. As your head hits the pillow and you close your eyes, you brace yourself for the monsters straight out of a bad Genjutsu...
...
...but nobody came.
That's not to say it was a dreamless sleep. After passing through the normal phases of sleep, including some oddly colored flowers and situations half-remembered, you feel yourself wrenched from hazy sleep to the stark state of lucid dreaming. At least, with only a single path forward made of light and being surrounded by an inky darkness, you're hopefully dreaming. A reaction sparks within you to try and break these images as if they were Genjutsu, but with your abysmal skill with Chakra you doubt it's even worth the effort even if this was a Ninja technique.
As you took your first steps down the glowing path, you saw streamers of color flow beside you. white and Green mixed together, pulsing to a drum beat you don't hear. Yellow and Red tear back and forth like lightning, just above your head. Greys and Black slough along the path behind you, moving at a steady but slow pace. Now that you're looking, a brown and purple also trail behind you in sheets of light rather than the pulsing streams of the other colors.
While it's all very bizarre, there's still something...comforting about the presences.
Just as you think that, a wind kicks up. From ahead of you, light and dark blue flow towards you. If the lights were streams and sheets before, these colors are positively gaseous. As they slowly reach you and begin to encompass you, a feeling rises from you that is very unfamiliar from within your dreams. You feel...calm.
Which all goes away as a feeling of WRONG comes sharply from the left of you, blasting away every color as well as your feeling of security.
Another PULSE comes from the right, and suddenly the light behind you and in front of you shatters. You're alone until-
IT explodes into existence on your left side. You scream reflexively and fall to your knees as a force crushes down upon you.
HAHAHAHA, IT COMES TO US AFTER ALL! AND IT'S NOT EVEN SPARKED INTO ITS FULL POWER, DELICIOUS!
Its voice sounds so much worse than nails on a chalkboard, and the pressure is so heavy-
Enough.
That second PULSE heralds the existence of another...but you feel the pressure lifting...as you find the strength to stand you see it-
Just as you see his face it's like your eyes skip over oh god what is his face-
I understand why you're here, but don't you think you're a bit early?
HAHAHAHA, NEVER! IMAGINE IF WE TAP INTO ONE BEING THAT WILL AWAKEN IN THE MOST POWERFUL VILLAGE?
Every time The Left speaks, the pressure builds and it hurts-
I don't care. She'll come to us if she wants to. You remember just as well when you came to me, A̵̡̛ͦ̎ͯ̊̇͌̓͌̅ͧ͌ͭ͘͝s̡̢ͣ̋̈́̽͒͋ͮ̐ͣͥ̍ͮ́̊̾ͤ̿̚̚̕͘͝m̵̧̛̎͂̈́ͧ̌ͤ̑̃̒͑̓͡e̷ͨ̅̓̐͌͑ͮ̉̆ͦ̒̉ͭͦ́͘͟͡u̵ͥͧ̌̈́͒̀ͪ̋ͬ̚҉̵͠s̴̢͋͛̆ͧͬ̈ͧ̐̑ͬ̚̚͡r͂̓͌ͦ̕r̴̢͛ͮ̌̃ͤ͌̃̀ͭ̎͊ͦͣ̿r̵̵ͭͮ͋͂ͮ̓̉̒̌̿̑̓͆̏̽̽ͪr̡̨̨̃̒̏̀ͦͬ̑̀̃ͬ̒ͨ̿͂͌ͯ̚. I never ask for your kind to join this path, you do it of your own will.
YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN SOFT OLD MAN, I WILL MAKE THIS ONE KNEEL BEFORE I LET HER SLIP AWAY WITHOUT ULTIMATE POWER!
Ultimate...? But the pressure hurts and it's so heavy
Then I'll have her Stand.
Just like that, the pressure...well, it's not gone, but you can Stand.
He would give you power with no discipline. I would as well, of course, but you should approach me on your own. That being said...
You feel the pressure encroaching around your throat...
Why do you Stand? What Virtue keeps you from falling to your knees in deference to True Power?
I...can't...
You can't...understand...why is this happening?
WHAT KEEPS YOU STANDING AGAINST THE DARK? GIVES YOU POWER AS THE WORLD PUSHES YOU DOWN?
I understand that this is all confusing and new to you, and I'm sorry you have to make such difficult choices. But us...friendly spirits...try to keep our cards on the table.
YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU KNEEL. YOU WANT TO BE A NINJA? YOU WANT POWER? YOU WANT TO WIN? KNEEL!
Stand. Find us later if you must, and I promise it won't be that hard, but Stand.
You're...choking now. The pressure is forcing your knees to buckle, but...something inside...you see flashes of friends, flashes of good people doing good work, people standing in the face of tragedy, and...
--
Why do you Stand?
[x] For Charity
[x] For Hope
[x] For Justice
[x] For Temperance
[x] For Prudence
[x] For Fortitude
[x] For Faith
[x] KNEEL
While we're here, what did you spend your time on?
[x] Training your body
[x] Studying for the last of the tests
[x] Cultivating some real friends.
[X] Sakura Haruno
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You wrinkle your nose as you leave class.
HAHHAHAHAHA, JEALOUS OF HER ATTENTION, OR AN ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE? DOESN'T MATTER TO ME! THANKS!
Who even has pink hair? That's not a thing real people have.
---
You walk outside, and just take some time to feel the afternoon sun on your face. You've admittedly been spending a lot of time in your dreams lately, and while that might work for your friend Shikamaru, you're not sure you're comfortable just sleeping the days away.
Speak of the devil, Shikamaru and his friend Chouji, who was also in your class, weren't that far from the Academy grounds. There was a small hill just up the road that occasionally bloomed with some nice flowers, and today it seemed blooming with a 'resting' Shikamaru and docile Chouji. You start up the path nonchalantly; You weren't the greatest friends with either of them, but if they went out of their way to talk to you then you wouldn't mind. As you make your way to the top of the hill, you realize that most of your classmates haven't left yet. It would seem that the Academy 'yard' has become a decent hangout spot after school if you had nothing to do.
Hm, good to know. Why do you suddenly know this...?
"Oh, hey, Sayaka!" The brown-haired boy waved over to you from the patch of soft-looking grass he was sitting on. The dozy boy lying on the grass beside him turns his head over to where you were walking, cracking open a single eye. It didn't seem like he took issue to your presence, so you casually diverted off your path and walked over to them. Chouji enthusiastically moved over to make room for you to not have to sit on the slope, and Shikamaru...seemed to go back to sleep.
Eh, good enough.
"Hello Chouji, Shikamaru." You smile and greet them politely. It would be hard to tell right away, but after reading and learning about the history of the village, you remember that these two have seriously powerful and respected families. Best to afford them some measure of respect.
Chouji flashes a bright smile as he pops open a bag of chips from...somewhere, "You can siddown ya know, we don't bite!" Chouji says, before popping the first of his snack into his mouth. Shikamaru sighs, still not making any attempt to move any time soon.
"Maa...too much effort." At Chouji's bark of laughter, you see a small smirk form on the sleepy boy's face.
You smirk, "Sitting down, or biting me?" You say, before plopping down cross-legged on the grass. Without missing a beat, Shikamaru cracks open one eye to look at you.
"Yes."
Peals of laughter erupt from the other boy, as you can only smile and roll your eyes. While the Nara practically embodies laziness wholecloth, you give him a lot of credit for how smart he is. The difference between Naruto and Shikamaru sleeping in class is that when Nara gets woken up, he at least has the right answer over whatever ridiculousness Naruto thinks would pass as an answer. Speaking of answers...
"So, Sayaka, how'd you do on the midterm? Iruka-sensei says that it was supposed to be super telling of our progress so far. I think I did pretty good!" Chouji beams. His friend merely huffs in responses.
"Hardly. Tests like that aren't good indicators of being a Ninja. Although as such as I hate taking tests, it'd be less troublesome if that's what being a Ninja really was like." Shikamaru sighs.
"Maybe you're cut out to be a teacher, then~! Easier to make and grade tests than take them!" Chouji smiles, lightly jabbing his friend in the side. Shikamaru just grunts at the hit and gives a heavy sigh.
"...The future is just troublesome. I'd rather go back to sleep." Shikamaru says, before turning over and putting his back to the both of you.
Chouji just laughs, and as the back and forth continues you tune out a bit to think about what the two clan-ninja boys said. This Midterm was really that big of a test?
You pretty much aced the written exam, but did pretty poor on the physical portion. If being a Ninja is a lot more like the latter than the former...you might be in some trouble. On the bright side, you still have about three months to try and catch up to where you probably should be.
Also on the bright side, the amount of symbols appearing in your life seems to be slowing down. You were ready to do something to take care of them, but it would appear that it's something that will take care of itself? Maybe?
You shrug to yourself. It's not like the symbols have actually hurt anything yet.
Anyway.
After a little bit more friendly chatter, you decide it's getting a little late and you've got to get back home soon. Father closes up shop a little before dusk, and while it's hardly orange outside yet you know that waiting until the last second is probably a bad idea. So, with that, you bid goodbye to Shikamaru and Chouji and return to the path you take home.
Once you get back into the part of Konoha that could be classified as 'the city', you spot Ino Yamanaka and a group of her civilian friends chatting near one of the more popular hangout spots, a small inner-city park. When you meet her gaze, she smiles and waves pleasantly. That was new, as you'd never really interacted with any of your classmates. At least not enough to get a friendly wave from one of the most popular girls in The Academy, anyway. You briefly contemplated going over to talk to them; after all, what good would studying or training do when you could make friends that could help you out, or maybe just hang out with. That sounds...nice.
---
Eventually, night would fall and your dreams would come once more. As your head hits the pillow and you close your eyes, you brace yourself for the monsters straight out of a bad Genjutsu...
...
...but nobody came.
That's not to say it was a dreamless sleep. After passing through the normal phases of sleep, including some oddly colored flowers and situations half-remembered, you feel yourself wrenched from hazy sleep to the stark state of lucid dreaming. At least, with only a single path forward made of light and being surrounded by an inky darkness, you're hopefully dreaming. A reaction sparks within you to try and break these images as if they were Genjutsu, but with your abysmal skill with Chakra you doubt it's even worth the effort even if this was a Ninja technique.
As you took your first steps down the glowing path, you saw streamers of color flow beside you. white and Green mixed together, pulsing to a drum beat you don't hear. Yellow and Red tear back and forth like lightning, just above your head. Greys and Black slough along the path behind you, moving at a steady but slow pace. Now that you're looking, a brown and purple also trail behind you in sheets of light rather than the pulsing streams of the other colors.
While it's all very bizarre, there's still something...comforting about the presences.
Just as you think that, a wind kicks up. From ahead of you, light and dark blue flow towards you. If the lights were streams and sheets before, these colors are positively gaseous. As they slowly reach you and begin to encompass you, a feeling rises from you that is very unfamiliar from within your dreams. You feel...calm.
Which all goes away as a feeling of WRONG comes sharply from the left of you, blasting away every color as well as your feeling of security.
Another PULSE comes from the right, and suddenly the light behind you and in front of you shatters. You're alone until-
IT explodes into existence on your left side. You scream reflexively and fall to your knees as a force crushes down upon you.
Its voice sounds so much worse than nails on a chalkboard, and the pressure is so heavy-
Enough.
That second PULSE heralds the existence of another...but you feel the pressure lifting...as you find the strength to stand you see it-
Just as you see his face it's like your eyes skip over oh god what is his face-
I understand why you're here, but don't you think you're a bit early?
Every time The Left speaks, the pressure builds and it hurts-
I don't care. She'll come to us if she wants to. You remember just as well when you came to me, A̵̡̛ͦ̎ͯ̊̇͌̓͌̅ͧ͌ͭ͘͝s̡̢ͣ̋̈́̽͒͋ͮ̐ͣͥ̍ͮ́̊̾ͤ̿̚̚̕͘͝m̵̧̛̎͂̈́ͧ̌ͤ̑̃̒͑̓͡e̷ͨ̅̓̐͌͑ͮ̉̆ͦ̒̉ͭͦ́͘͟͡u̵ͥͧ̌̈́͒̀ͪ̋ͬ̚҉̵͠s̴̢͋͛̆ͧͬ̈ͧ̐̑ͬ̚̚͡r͂̓͌ͦ̕r̴̢͛ͮ̌̃ͤ͌̃̀ͭ̎͊ͦͣ̿r̵̵ͭͮ͋͂ͮ̓̉̒̌̿̑̓͆̏̽̽ͪr̡̨̨̃̒̏̀ͦͬ̑̀̃ͬ̒ͨ̿͂͌ͯ̚. I never ask for your kind to join this path, you do it of your own will.
Ultimate...? But the pressure hurts and it's so heavy
Then I'll have her Stand.
Just like that, the pressure...well, it's not gone, but you can Stand.
He would give you power with no discipline. I would as well, of course, but you should approach me on your own. That being said...
You feel the pressure encroaching around your throat...
Why do you Stand? What Virtue keeps you from falling to your knees in deference to True Power?
I...can't...
You can't...understand...why is this happening?
I understand that this is all confusing and new to you, and I'm sorry you have to make such difficult choices. But us...friendly spirits...try to keep our cards on the table.
Stand. Find us later if you must, and I promise it won't be that hard, but Stand.
You're...choking now. The pressure is forcing your knees to buckle, but...something inside...you see flashes of friends, flashes of good people doing good work, people standing in the face of tragedy, and...
--
Why do you Stand?
[x] For Charity
[x] For Hope
[x] For Justice
[x] For Temperance
[x] For Prudence
[x] For Fortitude
[x] For Faith
[x] KNEEL
While we're here, what did you spend your time on?
[x] Training your body
[x] Studying for the last of the tests
[x] Cultivating some real friends.
Abyssal path spotted.
[x] For Hope
[x] Cultivating some real friends.
I wonder, is this a choice we made in character on some level, or can the abyss see through the fourth wall?
This is marked as white, so it's not visible on bright styles.
Consequences of replacing Sakura? Did we actually exist before that point, or did we get retconned in place? Did that happen in the first place because we choose to Take What You Need i.e. existence?
I suspect the question of where we came from and what we actually are is going to be one of the long term mysteries in this quest.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
[x] For Hope
[x] Cultivating some real friends.
[x] Cultivating some real friends.
- Location
- Nowhere
Ah, evil paths. As subtle as WoD tends to be (that is, not at all). Does it include hammy lines and great voice-acting to compensate the painfully obvious EEEVIL and possible mutations?
[x] Cultivating some real friends.
I wonder what kind of friends might be referring to. Anyway, the classical WoD/Christian Virtues are here. It would have been awkward if we were a Roman vampire from before said religion was a thing, but thankfully this is not the case.
[x] For Faith
I'm not sure how it would apply here in this setting, so I'll vote it for sheer curiosity.
With here, you meant this dreamscape thing, right?
[x] Cultivating some real friends.
I wonder what kind of friends might be referring to. Anyway, the classical WoD/Christian Virtues are here. It would have been awkward if we were a Roman vampire from before said religion was a thing, but thankfully this is not the case.
[x] For Faith
I'm not sure how it would apply here in this setting, so I'll vote it for sheer curiosity.
[x] For Hope
[x] Cultivating some real friends.
[x] Cultivating some real friends.
Unlikely. More likely to be a Seer if its commanding to kneel. Or, frankly, any fucking archmaster since its interfering with an Awakening and they can be (justifiably) very arrogant and prideful
Or it could be a Mastigos/Pandemonium representative playing up the whole "I force you to grow by causing you adversity" thing they do.
Or they could just be archetypes in Fate's grand story
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And this is part of why I love mage/Cofd. Any one scenario could have any number of possible causes and sometimes multiple contradictory ones.
[X] For Justice
[X] Cultivating some real friends
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Seer's aren't the only group that demand submission, you know? The entities showed up while we were on a shining path in the darkness (our Watchtowers connection across the Abyss) and blew away (suggesting an opposition to) the ten streams of colors (the ten Arcana) and gave us a deep sense of wrongness very characteristic of the Abyss.
They could be something other then an Abyssal entities, but if so it's someone trying very hard to look like one.