It's a Girl's World -- And Lilly wants Adventure

[NotteBoy97]

Did not remember that one.

...In which case, Flower must be able to overwrite certain aspects of peoples identities, given that Liatris is considered her name by the Concordance (Which I'm pretty sure is akin to something like A Consensus reality/timeline). It'd explain why she kept her name of Sarah as well, since it's what her recorded name in the village would be.

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Or our mom uses Sarah as a fake name while Liatris being her birth and 'true' name?

 

[The3rdCorinthian]

Now to be fair the comment about how likely we were to survive until 18 was before Evie decided she was, and I quote, "Totes gonna birth the first demigod", and with the Heat we have some more combat effectiveness, but Hubris is NOT a cowards word and we should absolutely be prepared to lose if not our life, then the lives of many in the Watch when we take on the Dungeon.

Basically, we need to push ourselves and shouldn't shadowrun, but recognise we're going up against Maw Bullshit, which seems to be High on the level of Bullshit.

And maybe hope Mob Boss Mama Flower decides to clue us in on anything that might save our asses in there.

Or our mom uses Sarah as a fake name while Liatris being her birth and 'true' name?

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If so, then how do Flowers Bloomlings consistently keep getting people with the names of Flowers? I don't think our mother wanted Flower to pay attention to us given how much she doesn't want us to be exploring and how much she seems scared of her, so it's probably more than a coincidence.

 

[NotteBoy97]

If so, then how do Flowers Bloomlings consistently keep getting people with the names of Flowers? I don't think our mother wanted Flower to pay attention to us given how much she doesn't want us to be exploring and how much she seems scared of her, so it's probably more than a coincidence.

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Cause she it's a family tradition when the family in this case has scary monsters like that one 'sister' that crossed the border a while ago? Like we specifically know Lily's mom made a little of a scandal by kind of forcing her way with regards to naming Lily despite the general culture of the town. Like even if mom might not have exactly liked Flower and the family it still doesn't mean she would defy them especially when there's a big Flower spot of importance in walking distance of our home. I think you're just reaching a bit too far when it could easily just be a mundane reason of "the family names their first born daughter after a flower with the exact flower maybe being picked by Flower and Liatris for whatever reason decided to use the 'fake' name of Sarah"

 

[darknessworld]

Now to be fair the comment about how likely we were to survive until 18 was before Evie decided she was, and I quote, "Totes gonna birth the first demigod", and with the Heat we have some more combat effectiveness, but Hubris is NOT a cowards word and we should absolutely be prepared to lose if not our life, then the lives of many in the Watch when we take on the Dungeon.

Basically, we need to push ourselves and shouldn't shadowrun, but recognise we're going up against Maw Bullshit, which seems to be High on the level of Bullshit.

And maybe hope Mob Boss Mama Flower decides to clue us in on anything that might save our asses in there.

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I think we will go alone in the dungeon. However, yes, the fight against it will probably be harder than expected. The QM kind of tried to hype it between the latter updates, and I don't think that were attempts of misdirection.
Too bad we probably don't have a choice on not fighting it, and not only due to social obligations to the captain.

Or our mom uses Sarah as a fake name while Liatris being her birth and 'true' name?

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I actually think her mother tried to call her Liatris, but her request was denied. It is just that Flower decides the real names before the heirs are even born.

 

[Alectai]

The good news about Dungeon is all the Gravitas in there. We're going to need a lot of it to keep up with the power curve, and Tower is going to be our best avenue at re-embodying Micah too.

 

[The3rdCorinthian]

I think we will go alone in the dungeon.

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...I don't think we will.

Or Rather - If that's the decision from Martin, Disagree, call him out, and acknowledge we need to have backup to ensure we survive this because it's been putting out threats that no one in the area has yet expected. Like Wolves that casually Rip off a cows head perfectly silently and like a blade of grass.

I'm not going alone into the Dice Roll Murder Cave!

Cause she it's a family tradition when the family in this case has scary monsters like that one 'sister' that crossed the border a while ago? Like we specifically know Lily's mom made a little of a scandal by kind of forcing her way with regards to naming Lily despite the general culture of the town. Like even if mom might not have exactly liked Flower and the family it still doesn't mean she would defy them especially when there's a big Flower spot of importance in walking distance of our home. I think you're just reaching a bit too far when it could easily just be a mundane reason of "the family names their first born daughter after a flower with the exact flower maybe being picked by Flower and Liatris for whatever reason decided to use the 'fake' name of Sarah"

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Why call herself Sarah suddenly when she lives in a small community and changing her name would draw attention, something she actiely seems to seek to avoid?

I'm currently of the opinion her name was indeed originally Sarah... but she gave herself to Flower in exchange for something, which in turn gave her the Deific Fragment that accelerated her growth, but in exchange she became tied to Flower, hence her 'True Name' becoming Liatris.

It makes more sense than there being a Tradition that expands across Nations with people like Marigold or Petunia, that just coincidentally includes people favoured with Deific Fragments.

The good news about Dungeon is all the Gravitas in there. We're going to need a lot of it to keep up with the power curve, and Tower is going to be our best avenue at re-embodying Micah too.

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Know this hug is because I hope you're right, and dread that we're about to get Mulched after what happened with Val, which I'm now assuming to be a lesser issue.

Edit: To e fair, we can continue to think if decapitated, so at least we can't lose our heads over this.

 

[Storyteller]

Why call herself Sarah suddenly when she lives in a small community and changing her name would draw attention, something she actiely seems to seek to avoid?

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I think you misunderstood a previous point.

The idea is that like how Lilly inherited a legacy of being a Bloomling from her mother so did Liatris/Sarah.

Thing is it was outright a scandal that Sarah picked Lilly's name.

And it's been noted that the family is actually really liberal for the community in that Sarah/Liatris would argue with Silas with company over.

Or Sarah's father/Lilly's grandfather just utterly ignored his wife's wishes. Because this is still the place where To Serve Man is a very common Ethos.

There was never a name change. Just the community putting down the name the father would have given over the mother.

 

[darknessworld]

...I don't think we will.

Or Rather - If that's the decision from Martin, Disagree, call him out, and acknowledge we need to have backup to ensure we survive this because it's been putting out threats that no one in the area has yet expected. Like Wolves that casually Rip off a cows head perfectly silently and like a blade of grass.

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It depends on how dungeons work. It is likely that it becomes harder the more people are entering into it.
Also, all the other people are really vulnerabile to Maw corruption.

 

[The3rdCorinthian]

Also, all the other people are really vulnerabile to Maw corruption.

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*Raises and lowers finger*

...Ah fuck, this is gonna suck, given some of our past combat encounters.

 

[Imugi]

Whether Lilly stays or leaves Madam Silva should be involved in the decision making process. The Madam being a [Diviner] will provide much needed guidance for the path forward. Also [Dream Within the Forest] seems like an Ethos that pairs well with uniting the disparate together, a single tree doesn't make a forest after all. I expect Lilly's Essence connections to allow some power hax-yness for the Madam's divinations or allow {The Ladder} to piggyback off of the Madam's divinating efforts.

 

[Silverking]

Wishlist for Mother Flower

-Full Heal before we enter the Dungeon (Fix our Overloaded Anchors, rebalance our Concordant Weight, maybe repair that True Song that's been on the back burner for so long).
-Resurrection Instructions (Giving a girl a fish vs. Teaching a girl to fish)
-Loredump 2.0
-Warning about the next incoming disaster (Lord Waters, the Child, something new)
-Forewarning that "Bloody Mary" is an ally and will be arriving soon
-A 2-hour-long time dilation (to have a good cry and a nap)

 

[actuallynotanegg]

I think true song's already been fixed, but the last few updates have just been in such quick succession in-universe that not enough time has passed for it to be fully online again. I think it'll be good by this afternoon story-wise (if I'm remembering correctly)

maybe repair that True Song that's been on the back burner for so long)

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I'm really excited for the dungeon. This world is so murder-happy that any chance to get a big jump in power is one I am willing to take. Also the captain didn't seem that worried about it really, so I'm not sure it's going to be extremely dangerous. Either way, we're getting more power, more information, things are looking up (until we face the next unexpected horror that completely blindsides us)

 

[Half Moon]

Wishlist for Mother Flower

-Full Heal before we enter the Dungeon (Fix our Overloaded Anchors, rebalance our Concordant Weight, maybe repair that True Song that's been on the back burner for so long).
-Resurrection Instructions (Giving a girl a fish vs. Teaching a girl to fish)
-Loredump 2.0
-Warning about the next incoming disaster (Lord Waters, the Child, something new)
-Forewarning that "Bloody Mary" is an ally and will be arriving soon
-A 2-hour-long time dilation (to have a good cry and a nap)

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-A nice hug.

 

[darkoda]

This wonderful rollercoaster of a story is alive again! Can't remember who linked me to it but I remember the wild ride reading through the thread to the hiatus point.

Really glad I watched it despite that.

 

[sheep-dodger]

-A nice hug.

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That's why Flower sent us Marigold actually!

 

[Razzocnor]

Hmm, I find myself doing that thing where you think of potential Ethea.

-Go Not Gently (Legendary)
-Time and again you have faced impossible odds, overwhelming opponents, stared death of yourself or others in the face. And every time you have shouted your defiance into the uncaring void and done your level best to tell them 'Not today', with more success than any could anticipate. Now it is time to make that uncaring void listen. When odds are stacked against you, and especially when your defeat is almost certain, then you will show the true unleashed power of one who has decided not to back down. Face off against extinction, and do not go gently into that cold night.

 

[Alectai]

I think we still need Oath and Mana to have access to every Source?

 

[Thebigpieman]

I think we still need Oath and Mana to have access to every Source?

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Assuming the list in 2.3 is complete?

We have:
-Pithe (From Brave Blood)
-Essence (From Dream Within The Forest/My Resolution, Thy Bedrock)
-Legend (? It's listed on the spreadsheet) (From Dream Within The Forest)
-Flow (From Shine My Gentle Heart)
-Concordance (From Cleaver of Fortune)
-Deific/Spirit (From Evie and Edifice to Heaven)

Shine My Gentle Heart also has the potential to hybridize into Oath though I'm not sure what'd we need for it to do so. This, again, also assumes that there's not a source that we haven't been made aware of as of yet which given the nature of the quest I am currently doubting.

 

[Half Moon]

Hmm, I find myself doing that thing where you think of potential Ethea.

-Go Not Gently (Legendary)
-Time and again you have faced impossible odds, overwhelming opponents, stared death of yourself or others in the face. And every time you have shouted your defiance into the uncaring void and done your level best to tell them 'Not today', with more success than any could anticipate. Now it is time to make that uncaring void listen. When odds are stacked against you, and especially when your defeat is almost certain, then you will show the true unleashed power of one who has decided not to back down. Face off against extinction, and do not go gently into that cold night.

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I like it. Definitely not one that would be easy to get, though. How many 11 year olds face off against impossible odds? (Middle School not yet existing.)

I'd like to think up some Inverted Ethos based off the description of them we got, but that sounds hard.

 

[Imugi]

So I know that GlassMask has already made a post on all the offered Ethea and that it's threadmarked in the Informational section but I wanted to create something a little bit more fancy.

Lesser Common Rare Mythic Legendary Ascendent Apotheotic Foundational Inverted Unique Chosen

• [Namesake] [Service to Man] [Nihilist Roots] [Diviner] [Keeper] [Lamenter] [Tamer] [Militant] [Striker] [A Loyal Steed] [Laywoman]

  • 1.1 Beginnings

    • Article:

      On the day you were born, your mother declared your name to be Lilly for reasons neither of your parents have chosen to share with you in the years since. It was a bit of scandal, a woman insisting on the right to name her child, but your father was a gracious man and allowed it. Besides, your mother never pushed her luck with the naming of the brothers that followed you. To pursue one's own name as an Ethos grants incredible freedom, but often little actual direction or aid. There is perhaps some promise to choosing this given the mysterious origins of your own name, but it is more likely something quite boring you think.

      Source: ???

  • 1.1 Beginnings 1.4 Family Time 1.6 Consequences

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      A choice available to any young woman who has not betrayed the expectations of her culture. As an unmarried virgin of good standing within your community, the path of the maiden is available to you as it is to all other such female youths. You honestly can't think of anything worse than to live and die a housewife, living vicariously through the achievements of your children. Still, such a choice would be the perfect option to deliberately cause others to ignore you and look no deeper. Service to Man is the choice women with no better option take, allowing others to assume it was the best you could attain could do wonders for the goal of being left alone. Unless of course your father decides to marry you off immediately, that could cause all kinds of problems.

      Source: Flow

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      Same as before.

      Source: Flow

    • Article:

      You sense that your connection to this Ethos is growing tenuous. You have been acting less and less maidenly of late. It is likely you will never see it again after this.

      Source: Flow

  • 1.1 Beginnings

    • Article:

      On your more melancholy days, simply giving up on worrying about the challenges of life has seemed quite appealing. To simply become as air, uncaring and aloof to the concerns of life. It is an answer to your life in a manner of speaking, though you wonder if you could ever actually be happy simply accepting contentment in apathy and meaninglessness.

      Source: ???

  • 1.4 Family Time

    • Article:

      You are outraged that one could fail at their set purpose so profoundly. Your family was caused great pain by one meant be bring surety and comfort. You know that you could do so much better yourself. You have often been greatly hurt by those that refused to listen to your thoughts and ideas, dismissing them out of hand. As a Diviner, you would gain the respect of men and women alike to guide and assist them. You'd also be expected to learn to read, an idea that intrigues you.

      Source: Concordance

  • 1.6 Consequences

    • Article:

      The Keepers record and document the knowledge of civilisation. They study the applications of various magics and how they might best synergize with others. Made heavy use of by the Office of Lore, they form the backbone of the bureaucratic apparatus of the kingdom. Assistants and apprentices to the Lore Wardens and you're sure numerous other organisations all around.

      Source: ???

  • 1.6 Consequences

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      The Lamenters comfort and council those around them. Able to take on grief or pain from another and diminish it within themselves, granting closure and acceptance to those unable to move on. The Lamenters are caretakers of graveyards and conductors of minor funeral rites. When the restless dead refuse to pass on, the Lamenters can help weaken their attachment to the mortal plane. It is considered incredibly poor form to interfere with a Lamenters work.

      Source: ???

  • 1.9 Sanguine Rain

    • Article:

      The bonding is a special thing. Many Tamer's do not take partners, feeling it would tarnish the sacredness of the link they share with their companion. Take a mundane creature, raise it up into the most extraordinary example of its kind.

      Source: Pithe

      {{This ain't gonna do squat to the bad woofies}}
  • 1.9 Sanguine Rain 2.4 - These Things I Treasure

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      Even if all he has is a stick, bone and his own fists, the Militant makes do with what he's got. A natural sort of violence born of necessity. It need not be flashy, merely effective. Lock him in chains and gag his mouth, the Militant will always find a new way to be armed. They'll put you in a diversion dress and shank high heels, you've still got some surprises waiting for them…

      Source: Pithe

      {{Didn't know this one's Weaver, but looks like it does what is says on the tin.}}
      
      {{Likely to develop Oath as a Secondary}}​
    • Lvl 0: {Piercer}: A damage/effect on a surface can be made to bypass one distinct layer.
      

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      Even if all he has is a stick, bone and his own fists, the Militant makes do with what he's got. A natural sort of violence born of necessity. It need not be flashy, merely effective. Lock him in chains and gag his mouth, the Militant will always find a new way to be armed. They'll put you in a diversion dress and shank high heels, you've still got some surprises waiting for them…

      Source: Pithe

  • 1.12 Heartbreak

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      The application of force is far more than simply being faster, stronger or smarter. There are ways that creation wishes us to move, methods of offense and defence that it favours. The Striker listens to the cumulative tradition of all those who have drawn from the Resonance, their seemingly counterintuitive actions often building to a single devastating climax. Force is pitting your Will and desire against the static and opposing the dynamic. All physical movements are at their foundation actually entirely meta-physical. It is manoeuvring for advantage within this meta-physical realm where all contests are truly decided. The Striker never wastes a single drop of sweat, for even their heartbeat matches the rhythm of fate.

      Source: Pithe

  • 2.4 - These Things I Treasure

    • Unique
      Lvl 0: {Sharefont}: Chariot can slowly take on physical characteristics from Lilly (or vice versa).
      

      Article:

      You have run, you have dodged, risking life and limb for one another. Neither of you have ever abandoned the other for selfish gain. Now, for the rest of your life, the two of you shall never be alone. Your natures' shall be entwined, wrought into something greater than you were before. An ocean may separate you, yet you would still not be apart. Not even death can sever this, for Chariot's life now resides within your own.

      Source: Oath

  • 2.4 - These Things I Treasure

    • Lvl 0: {Hands bearing Peace}: Anything harmful/bad can be rendered less-so with your touch.
      

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      The members of Aurora's church are said to be the ones who keep the sun shining throughout the year, ensuring she completes her transition back to Gaia from Solemn. Through acts of subtle grace and care, they sooth and heal the world. Laywomen have a natural tendency toward being amiable and peaceful and many find it easy to trust their motivations as entirely genuine. Where the laywoman walks, shadows are a little less dark, the wind loses its biting chill and fruits taste sweeter. The world is kind to them, and they are kind in return.

      Source: Essence

      Author's Note: Myah said she wanted to be one of these. You know whatever Ethos she got was not this one, presumably it wasn't one of her possible choices.
• [Dream Within the Forest] [Brave Blood] [Deviant Wanderer] [Keen Bow] [Truth in Name] [Heartsworn] [Engraver] [Intuitor] [Reverent Advocate] [Quickwrit Stennovoker] [My Resolution, Thy Bedrock] [Needlepoint Construction] [Overlooked Maiden] [Vital Hunt] [Resolved in Flame]

  • 1.1 Beginnings

    • Chosen
      

      Article:

      You have spent many an hour daydreaming within the idyllic clearings and shadowy underbrush surrounding your family home. The thought of this place fills you with warmth and calm, an inner strength and peace rising, flowing inward from your surroundings. You have always felt a special connection to this place, perhaps that can become more than an abstract truth.

      Source: Essence, Legend

  • 1.1 Beginnings 1.6 Consequences

    • Chosen
      

      Article:

      You have always dreamed of being a noble fighter, wading into lines of horrible unspeakable terrors and being utterly unmoved. A knight of legend. It is only a wish of the heart though, you lack any experience or ancestry in such a thing, leaving you with a tenuous connection at best to such an Ethos. In fact, as a girl of no repute it is a mystery why this is even a common level choice; Perhaps your deep yearning for adventure was enough to raise it from a Lesser Ethos.

      Source: Pithe

    • Chosen
      

      Article:

      Be the vaunted knight standing in the gap against the endless waves of unspeakable horror seeking to destroy the lands of men. Awaken the call of adventure that sings forth from your own blood and propel your body to impossible heights. This Ethos feels different to the first time it was offered, your tenuous connection has strengthened and solidified. There is also the consideration that this is exactly the kind of thing the [Blessed Armsman] could work well with.

      Source: Pithe

  • 1.1 Beginnings

    • Article:

      You have played the part of the good daughter whilst guarding the true feelings of your heart and desires for the future carefully. Though it was never your deliberate intention, you are in fact a well practiced and expert liar. Capable of convincing even yourself that every lie is a necessity and burying any guilt that might expose you. To embrace a life of deception in many forms big and small would be a tremendous departure both from what direction you expected your life to take and from what you consider an honourable path. It would however give you immediate and potent tools to become a free roaming woman beholden to no-one. This is an extreme option, could you even really return home with such an Ethos? Could you break your parents heart by having them behold a daughter holding such an ignoble future?

      Source: ???

  • 1.4 Family Time

    • Article:

      What [Brave Blood] was to a warrior, this is to an archer.

      Source: Pithe

  • 1.4 Family Time

    • Article:

      You know for a fact that this is a new form of the Lesser Ethos [Namesake]. Your new understanding of your own importance and future has raised the status of your own name. Providing you see enough years; the name Lilly shall one day be known by untold masses. What this Ethos actually is, you still don't know.

      Source: ???

  • 1.6 Consequences

    • Article:

      "The promises we make ourselves, they bind us to our own future. Give us the push to reach higher than our own span." It is not only the fortunate intervention of an outside influence that has made your future possible, it has also been the grit and passion of your own heart committed to that end.
      Draw upon the force of your ambition and dreams and render the conceptual into something manifestly physical. You word shall be your bond, and others their bindings. Weave armour from hope, and a weapon from courage.

      Source: Oath

  • 1.6 Consequences

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      The basic runecraft your father has drilled into you can already make lumber that is twice its usual strength. Dive headfirst into the realm of runic inscriptions and the symbols that draw upon the primal energies of reality to remake the mundane into the exceptional. This feels different to what your father can do however, somehow looser and more malleable.

      Source: Mana

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      A thousand years and every tutor under the sun, still you could not begin to scratch the surface of the sum total of possible knowledge. You accept this fact, but nevertheless will never stop your upward climb. A knack for learning and mastery of diverse or tricky talents. The Jack of All trades empowered by a dedicated Ethos. "I may not be the best juggler, dancer or singer, but I can do all three at the same time better than most." Your already sharp mind shall be honed and polished to a truly deadly point. From this starting point, your Ethos could develop into a truly strange and unique thing.

      Source: Flow

    • Lvl 0: {Kneejerk}: Your first impulse on how to try something you are unfamiliar with is more likely to be roughly correct. More effective with concrete skills/talents as opposed to abstract concepts.
      

      Article:

      A thousand years and every tutor under the sun, still you could not begin to scratch the surface of the sum total of possible knowledge. You accept this fact, but nevertheless will never stop your upward climb. A knack for learning and mastery of diverse or tricky talents. The Jack of All trades empowered by a dedicated Ethos. "I may not be the best juggler, dancer or singer, but I can do all three at the same time better than most." Your already sharp mind shall be honed and polished to a truly deadly point. From this starting point, your Ethos could develop into a truly strange and unique thing.

      Source: Flow

  • 1.9 Sanguine Rain

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      There are those who cannot speak for themselves, who cannot find the words to say or the people to listen. You have been that person, now rapidly ascending beyond the shallow grave that is the threatened ignominy of those who do not know their 'place'. Take up causes not your own. Be the patron in the night that other little girls have prayed to with no answer until now.

      Source: Pithe

      {{Loath as I am to admit there's another good choice other than myself… this has some excellent social applications.}}
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Unique
      

      Article:

      Your father forced hour upon hour on you learning the most basic of runic carvings to the utmost height of meaningless precision. You harbour a unique and profound dislike for such mind numbing perfection and reject it utterly. Good enough is literally good enough, you will walk a path none before you have ever taken. What others spend hours to etch into unmoving stone to last generations, you instantly manifest into the air itself for immediate effect. You don't need a barrier that will last for two years in two weeks, you need one that will last two seconds now. Your only limit is what you can design.

      Source: Mana

  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Chosen
      

      Article:

      The danger of slowly losing track of who we set out to be is one so terrifying most choose to deliberately ignore it. You need not ever fear becoming what you are not, the truth of your origins will only grow deeper and more firm over time. Others will find themselves more solid and at ease in your presence. Decay will pause, decoherence will suspend, unravelling will be held in place. Whatever someone has been, you can always help them rediscover; no matter how lost they have become. Your very nature is a firm foundation on which the unstable may gain respite. You are the objective constant around which change must orbit.

      Source: Essence

  • 1.12 Heartbreak

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      The art of singular attention is a mostly lost one. What people call concentration and meditation are poor imitations of a truly sharpened focus. Your patience is an immutable wall, unable to be worn down. Stress that would shatter a paragon of fortitude sloughs off you without finding purchase. Your mind is not simply solid, but polished to a brilliant shine. Every time you try something, you will do it better. When the occasion requires it, there is no idle thought, no distraction, simply the goal and the meticulous steps required to succeed.

      Source: Flow

  • 1.12 Heartbreak

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      You are exceptional. You know it, the evidence is clearly written on the wall for anyone bothering to look. Yet time and time again no one even considers you might be more than meets the eye. Each uncovered peculiarity is immediately presumed to be your sole defining feature. When something of note is discovered, you are presumed too young or naïve to contribute to the discussion. This is the story of your life, zero to twelve. So be it, ignorance and assumption have been your chains since birth, but you will make your bindings theirs. Be passed over in plain sight, dismissed from suspicion with casual ease. Witnesses won't be able to place your face. After-action reports will conflict with each other. You are the Forgotten Enigma, less than wind.

      Source: Flow

  • 2.4 - These Things I Treasure

    • Lvl 0: {Biteback}: Slowly move wounds through forced essence-links. Functions as deeply ingrained curse impeding function of body/soul as if injured without having a wound to heal.
      

      Article:

      You understand the purpose of violence is never for its own sake. There is always an objective, to wrench an outcome out of the uncaring future's grasp. You listen to the wisdom of the Strands as they guide you toward your prey, the thrill of approaching your goal and knowing that the time soon approaches. You reach out into the history of the hunt, and call forth the instinct to succeed. Lose yourself in the raw exuberance of nature, become an instrument of your own will. Just as you are empowered by the hunt, your foe is weakened by it.

      Source: Essence

  • 2.4 - These Things I Treasure

    • Focal Element: Fire (Common)
      Lvl 0: {Irrepressible Ember}: Fire Spells constantly emit Tierx1% of their effect for no cost while held in reserve.
      

      Article:

      Cowards have good reason to be afraid, for the irresolute are the best kind of tinder. The cold winds of rejection have whipped at your sides and tried to steal your heart and heat, but you have found a deeper fire again and again. Now it is time to unleash the central facet of what drives you to aspire higher than your station, burn to ash all that stands in your way. Leave behind the doe eyed outlook of a child, understand the need for destruction to carve out a better future. Fire is the foundation of growth. You are the catalyst.

      Source: Mana

• [Duty of Wood] [Seamless Call] [An Iron Shape] [Obstinate Rejection] [I Tear the Veil] [Shine, My Gentle Heart] [Limited Coordinate] [The Path walked Alone]

  • 1.1 Beginnings

    • Article:

      Your father is a carpenter. His parents also plied the trade. The line stretches back an unknown number of generations. This is the path you would be expected to take. Your relationship with your ancestral family trade is a cold and distant one, you possess little natural affinity on an emotional level. You are actually quite surprised the choice is even an option, perhaps your deep sense of familial duty and raw technical skill has allowed you to just barely pass the necessary muster. To counter-balance your hesitance, the legacy of family is a powerful source of Ethos itself. You are perhaps one of a handful of children within the village capable of gaining a Rare Ethos through their families' trade. While it would give you little personal satisfaction, it would likely be a comparatively potent and prosperous path to follow. You also would feel far less shame for running off alone on your return home in the morn.

      Source: Oath

  • 1.4 Family Time

    • Article:

      Many when faced with the prospect that they will wield incredible influence, shy from the call and reject it. You barely even flinched at such a decision, accepting it as a simple truth to be dealt with when the time came. You are the woman they say that even dying as a child could not hold back her ambition. You will forever move toward your goals with inexorable momentum, pushing aside obstacles both physical and conceptual that are in your way.

      Source: ???

  • 1.9 Sanguine Rain

    • Article:

      To look into an uncomfortable future and emerge from such a test stronger rather than weakened. The soul must be tempered and moulded to fit the trials that lie ahead of it, for only that which has been placed in the furnace knows what it will take to not buckle under a greater flame. The visage of she who is clad in grey is a known tale of folklore. No mercy did she provide the indecisive. There have been many to call upon some part of her aspect. You now join the legacy of those who have tapped into the Well that is the Pale Vessel. You will find the promises that helped form and hold creation together and add your own tiny contribution to the tapestry of the fundamental. May your ambition endure when you are dust.

      Source: Oath

      {{Be very careful. The Pale Vessel is a total bitch. Her honeyed words always seem fair at first…}}
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Article:

      Your commitment is a razor-sharp edge, a crushing force, a scything glaive. You will not be deterred from your beliefs. You cannot be convinced to relent. If the whole world disagrees than it is the whole world that must be corrected for their error. Every denial armours you further, every dismissal further hones your blade. The words that have hurt you are now your sticks and stones, break their bones at your leisure.

      Source: Oath

  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Inverted
      

      Article:

      Secrets; secrets everywhere. The spectre of denied knowledge follows you wherever you go, it's enough to drive you crazy! No more! If they will not share their secrets willingly, then you will take them by force. Gain a presence and defiling charisma so meta-physically deep as to reach out and wrench hold of information you should not know. Shape memory and mystery into weapons of rending horror. Mother's will forget their children's names, soldiers their orders, hearts how to beat, lungs how to breathe. You will inflict your own wounds onto your enemies a hundred times over, hollow souls littering your wake. They can tell you the easy way, or have it ripped from their corpse.

      Source: Oath

  • 2.4 - These Things I Treasure

    • Chosen
      Conditions Met? Test of Purity: {Yes.} Test of Charity: {Yes.} Test of Valour: {Yes.}
      Lvl 0: {Affective Radiance}: Sense other people/creatures' desires and emotional attachments. Influence the way they feel about things.
      

      Article:

      When the whole world tries to guard only itself, often with very good reason, it would take an exceptional woman indeed to turn that logic on its head. You do not strive for shallow glory, but unblemished Goodness. Others shall call you foolish whilst secretly wishing they could climb half as high as your valour. For when life demands that you compromise to match it, you shall answer with an inner illuminating brilliance that can never be smothered. Where a hundred thousand men say the only solution is violence, you are the one woman who can reach a tyrant's heart. Meek and strong alike shall look to you for moral guidance. Heal wounds the eye cannot see. Sway the most despicable back toward the light. Take your small flickering candle of love; set the world ablaze.

      Source: Flow, May Hybridize With Oath

  • 2.4 - These Things I Treasure

    • Lvl 0: {Obstructive Insight}: Intuition on how to keep systems isolated and processes causally separate.
      

      Article:

      Variables must be contained. Diligent management of mediums for propagation and proper institution of transfer bottlenecks can help prevent undesirable consequence cascades. The current circumstances are too complex with too many moving parts; the equation must be simplified. Number of autonomous actors and relative gravitic weight can be efficiently whittled down with optimised application of existing leverage at appropriate juncture points. Too much external free will, not enough control. Immediate remedy must be applied.

      Source: Concordance

  • 2.4 - These Things I Treasure

    • Lvl 0: {Agony Bomb}: Intersect Flow and Tension Lines. Massively upscales all possible short-term futures where people suffer great pain. Targets friendlies and hostiles indiscriminately.
      

      Article:

      The burden of responsibility is heavy, it is not right to ask another to carry it. You place your own life and happiness on the altar to be the one who stands up in the time of need. Children will play innocent and free in their homes whilst you do what must be done in far off places. Their minds and futures kept safe whilst yours are fashioned into implements of war. No man can find firm ground near you, perception and predication both twisting against him. You will go where things must be ended, and walk out alone. Perhaps one day the world shall not need your gift any longer, until then, you pay the price with grim determination.

      Source: Flow, Concordance

• [Cleaver of Fortune] [Temporal Redeemer] [Sorcerer]

  • 1.4 Family Time

    • Chosen
      

      Article:

      To have had your fate so rapidly upended, your entire direction and path through life replaced; this is not an insignificant thing. Your life is one prone to powerful eddies of omen and destiny. Embrace the chaos; unmake promised futures and sunder prophecies that were certain. Unite events and lives that make no sense being intwined together. In your presence, no prediction will be ever a sure thing. There are many in this world that take much comfort in the wisdom of the future, simply possessing such an Ethos would earn you a great deal of hostile attention seeking to snip your troublesome life in the bud. But perhaps that won't be such a problem when luck and the future itself can be moulded as wet clay.

      Source: Concordance

  • 1.9 Sanguine Rain

    • Article:

      She wished she could take it back, so she did. He missed the mark by a mere moment, except he actually didn't. The forward facing path is merely a suggestion to those who know the more crooked and interesting tracks, though beware what sort of wild things can be found outside the bounds of the causal. A promise need not be kept if it was never given. The loan never taken need not be repaid. The timeless are few in number, and jealously guard their domain.

      Source: Concordance

      {{May knock you out, so yeah…}}
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Magic Focal Concept: Nature (Rare)
      

      Article:

      The Trees have spoken to you of a deeper truth that lies within all who take breath. The drive that unites all life under its wing. Instinct, wild and feral, the vicious will to thrive in any circumstance. Tap into the core of your own and other's beings, release the potential forgotten by all but the most simple of life. Lead the pack. Split the rock. Burn with passion and ignite others'. You are the catalyst for immense evolution and change, the top of all natural hierarchies. Your very essence shall demand respect. Your innermost self proudly on display, shame can no longer touch you.

      Source: Mana

• [Effervescent Animus] – Ambrosia of Joy

  • 1.9 Sanguine Rain

    • Chosen|Unique
      

      Article:

      {{Hello Lilly, my name is Ev'aclliál, or just Evie. If you are feeling this then I successfully managed to transmit alongside their stable translation channel. I'm a… …you actually don't really have a word for it; A 'Greater Spirit' I guess. Technically your niece too, sort of. I sincerely hope that you choose me and I promise I would do whatever you asked of me in good faith and with pep in my step! Uh, not to guilt you or anything, but I think you're actually my last chance to get out before the M̴̲̄̕ā̵͇ẘ̷̬̟̂ ̸̗̅ṭ̷̗̃͋h̶̢̗̀a̸̺͝t̷̺̍ͅ ̵͚̣͊́H̸͉͆u̷̡̿͂ͅṇ̵̉g̷̝͂e̷͔͛r̶͉͆̆s̶̳͜͠ consumes this demi-plane, most of the others are already munched… Oh, And I'm 9! You'd be signing off on child murder . I've died lots of times, but this one's gonna stick. I understand if you can't trust me, I did replace another Integration Vector, uh, Ethos, without your consent, but I could really use a leap of faith right about now. Shit, nearly out of time. My memories won't be able to bridge the gap, I'll be a newborn again (barf), but I promise I can be helpful. I could patch up that overstressed Pithe you've managed; mess with those woofies too. I've synched up your perception of the Incepting Links, that'll stick around even if you don't choose to save me. Good luck Lilly, quite a few of your sisters up here are rooting for you. But like, please pick me...}}

      Source: Deific

      /\ None of what was said is a lie. – {The Ladder}
• [Foṟ̴͍̇m Fr̵̠̂̓ạ̷̾cture] [D̵̘̹́͝iss̷̝̰̿͌oĺ̷̤̪͑u̷͕͚̓tio̶͕͉͐̀n of ̵̝͆̌ th̴͈̋̒e̷͈͆͌ Se̸̯̺̎l̵̻͙̎f]

  • 1.1 Beginnings

    • Article:

      Whatever has granted you your unique nature to choose additional Ethos in time has also linked you to something otherworldly. It calls and stirs at the edges of your mind. It is magnitude personified, limitless in scope, inhuman in nature. To do anything other than resist any further incursion would likely turn you into something perhaps not even recognizable to friends, family or even yourself. Even considering the option seems to minutely erode part of your self-identity. Still, such power, if only you give it just a little more…

      Source: ???

  • 2.4 - These Things I Treasure

    • No.

      Article:

      I s̶͍̮̈c̴͚̩̄͐rea̸̛̠̥͝ḿ̴̧̞! I̷̞͔̔t c̸̺̍la̴͕̓͠ẁ̵̱͝s̷̥̹̾! We̴̱̥͂ ̷̜̫́̿biṫ̵̟͘ͅe!̶̰̀̇ G̴̺̓i̴͖̅͘v̵̡͒̒e̴̡͚͝ y̴̖̝͘ou̷̖͑r̶͚̺̄͝sel̷̗̊f t̴͚͆ȯ̶̯ me Ĺ̸͖̣͘ill̶̩͌y. T̷̹̱͝h̶͙̼̆̕ĕ̶̗̝̆y d̸̟͒́em̴̪͇̈͝a̴̪̿̇n̷͕͂͝d̶̫̤̄̒ it.̷͎͚̊ ̵̝̲̎If y̷͚͒oű̶̢̲ d̷̙̋ỏ̴̰͉n'̸̨̧̎t̴͐͜ c̸͈̭͊h̸̞̤͆̿o̷͕̓os̷̢̚ë̵̡̤́ m̷̡̛̝é̴̯̚ t̵̩͇͂̆han̸̛ͅ I ẁ̸̨͓ḭ̶̥̆͊ll eat̶͚́͠ yò̶̰͔̔u̵̗̽̾ͅr f̴͕̉ȁ̶̹mily̴̯̠̆͒ ẇ̵͍̽hi̷̱͐̂le̵̫̜̓ m̷͔̄á̷̟k̶̮͑̈́ï̵̦̣n̶̹̠̒g̷͉͐ yơ̵̖͖̅u w̸̮̌͘a̵̤͇̎̑tch. You̵̖̜͊̋ wiĺ̵͙̯̄l̶̳͎̏ beg for t̷̖́he p̶̨̓ȓ̷̟̼̆ḯ̸̳̑v̴͔̈́ileg̵̛̟͉e tō̸̙̆ DI̵̧͐Ë̷̼̝́, bư̴̞t ḭ̴̢̈̚n̵͖̍st̴̞͆ead I will r̷͓̀́ȩ̶̓̿m̶̭̠̏ake yoû̴̫̣͛ i̷͑ͅn̸̨̩̈́to a̵̺̥͂ b̶͗͜r̸̪̈̅ọ̵̰͆ken̵̨̝͑͠ p̵̙͔̒ḷ̷̛ă̶͍̠̚y̶̪͗̑thing untī̶͉̩l̵̟͐͝ t̵̟̙̎͛h̴̰̕e en̵̝͊͠d ŏ̵ͅf̸̼̊͑ ̷̞̫̈t̶̯́imë̸̪͝.̸̛̰̠ I am c̴̞̃o̷̹̼̓̄m̵͔̂̄ȋ̶͍̯̄ng for̸̺̂ y̴̤͗̒o̶̜̙͗u, youn̷̮̑͆g b̵̧̈́l̴͙͔̈ooṁ̷̮͙͑lì̸̗ņ̷͇̂ġ̷͔́. The̸̢̩̊͒ F̸̧͎̎a̷̲̣̅͛l̸̢̈́͜ś̸͔e̸͇͖͐̈́ Divine w̷̭̜̌̍i̶͉͍͗ll not̴͕̃͜ p̵͙̍͊rotect̷̫́̒ ̷̛̪̬̾y̴̗̳̓͠õ̵̭̬ų̷̮̉; D̶͉̀is̵̝̊ͅs̷͓̺͐ọ̶̿l̷̫̣̊̋utio̶̹̰͊́n ̶̮̫̿i̵̼͝s you̵͕̰̇̚r on̸̝͊̈ly̷̯͖̎ salv̶̼͉́̚a̵̖͋̃t̸̘̝̎̕i̵̝͌̇o̷̪͛̾n̷̟̈. CH̸̭̜̔͗o̵̲͚͊Ö̷̞́͂sẽ̶̩͔́ ṃ̸͌͜E F̶̜̀E̴̡͘ed m̸̝͛E CH̷̦̀oO̷̧̧͒͝s̸̗̉ė̷͕ mĔ̴̼̟̍ F̸̪̗̉E̷̱̜̿̚e̴͕̾d̸̟̟̓͛ mÈ̴̲̖ C̴̪̍͝HoOș̵͇̇́e̵̥̖͑̓ m̴̝̿Ȩ̴̘͐ FĒ̶͙̬ed m̵̄ͅE! T̸̹͂́ͅỏ̴̟͔̅g̸̯̓é̷͎̿th̴̫̣̏̏e̴͍̤̅̊r̴̡̙͑ we shą̸̈́l̴̩͉̋l̸̻͂ f̵̱̅͜eḁ̷̄s̷͍̭͊t ẁ̸̰̋i̶͙͒͝ͅt̵̡̊hoȕ̶̢t en̵͚͋̍d̵̦̏!̶͙̫̍͝

      Source: ???

• [Rapid Iterator | 2873-2A, Efficient Tension Sustainment] [Towering Edifice to Heaven | 7958-A Series, Regional Stressor Event] [Reinterpretation Seed | 566-B, Manoth Placement Approval Only] [Malleable Elemental Pioneer | 1000-A, 'No Focal Concept Selected'] [Malice Labyrinth | 0017, Discontinued Indefinitely] [Infernal Realm Anchor | 0414-C, Demi-plane Overlay] [Blanket Weaponiser | 7441-C, Generic Inspiring Obstacle [Championed Uplift | 0000-A, 2nd Integration Stage Initializer] [Library of Achievement | 5034-CD, Ancient Recaller]

  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Article:

      Ideal placement would be regions wherein dominant occupants are no more than an order of magnitude beyond typical imbued predators. Recommend limits on level of sentience allowed in constructions unless local entities are sufficient to resist oversaturation. Typical opening parameter should be to evenly contest integrator forces with upscaled facsimiles of existing wildlife and coordinate their movements, then tweak to keep stress levels within the optimal zone of development. Advise life-analogous constructions be rendered infertile to avoid non-productive exponential threats. Recommend limits on quantity of streamlining boons so as to not trivialize related Vector incentives.

      Source: Essence

      :::GEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION ONLY:::
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Chosen
      

      Article:

      Recommend use only to rebalance conflict trending too far toward an unscheduled genocide resolution; re-establish status quo through new equalising variables. Pseudo-matter imposition constraints relaxed, though care should be taken not to generate synergy cascades and unintentionally disrupt an otherwise stabilized situation. Strength of initial ranging entities should be severely constrained so as to not eliminate existing inhabitants; the goal is redistribution not eradication. Toleration of Domestication has not been granted for this iteration, upscale investment arbitrarily to resist any long term group suppression.

      Source: Deific

      :::GEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION ONLY:::
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Inverted
      {{Oh my. What have you done Ev'aclliál? Hmm… Here, pick mine.}}
      

      Article:

      Case by Case implementation only. Manoth has agreed to not disrupt the overall plan, but is permitted minor experimentation in sidelined regions. Placement preferable in static environmental conditions not suitable for more subtle progression stimulation. Regions with low biodiversity would be a pragmatic choice. Artefact generation is forbidden due to risk of regionally disruptive synergies being too great; specific appeals tentatively allowed. Exponential Threat Creation is henceforth explicitly restricted.

      Source: Oath

      :::GEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION ONLY:::
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Article:

      Density should never drop below a single instance per 20000 square kilometres in identified high-magic regions. Sideline regions may diverge upward to one per 200000. Recommend progression not be left in omni-state on placement, but customized to tangentially match nearby premium Integrators. Spellworks should likewise be situated within a reasonable and reachable scope for suppression attempts. Defensive focus is recommended as overall temperament to avoid permanent loss of biodiversity to surrounding region, though ambient leakage to hasten discovery is appropriate.

      Source: Mana

      :::GEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION ONLY:::
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Article:

      Has proven counter-productive to stimulation goals, suppression attempts are either totally routed or so overwhelming as to be equally fruitless. Lack of clear goals and use of misdirection instead of direct confrontation results in loss of promising resources for little gain. Meagre benefits of enhancing mental frameworks could be better inspired by Flow Harvest Vectors. Recommend repurposing as an area-denial placement option, but significant redesign will first be necessary. Compensation approved for inconvenienced Weavers.

      Source: Pithe

      :::GEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION ONLY:::
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Article:

      Discovery chance should be tightly controlled, Layer Magic holds unacceptable chances of Integrators breaching Melange boundaries, endangering both their kin and the plan. Lesser Infernals also often exceed secondary treaty conditions. Should only be used to introduce specific innovations at required critical points for ongoing stimulation as the Melange Tapestry continues to mature. Arbitrary limiters and complications should be implemented in all associated Spellworks and black-boxed beyond indivine capacity. In the event of inappropriate progress, a genocide resolution may be necessary as a forestalling remedy.

      Source: Mana

      :::GEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION ONLY:::
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Article:

      Offcuts and deprioritised weavings can be freely incorporated into this general purpose placement. Temperament set to match hostility of surroundings, overall effect will be to increase number and potency of imbued over time to stall permanent populating of the local area and allow more premium iterations to be expressed. Produces novel designs surprisingly often. Place between moderate to large powerbases to encourage healthy conflict. Resource generation limits moderately loosened, construct availability further restricted.

      Source: No Set Source

      :::GEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION ONLY:::
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Article:

      Tailored placement; should be attuned only to one identified Premium Integrator at a time. Provided identity fracture trials do not result in a decohered subject, the sponsored Integration Vector can have its layer-limiters removed. Weavers are reminded that inducing Melange bleedthrough on a subject who has failed their trials may irretrievably scatter your Divinity, the trials are there by definition to test compatibility before the fact. We have patched most loopholes and if we catch you, you'll be Identity-Wiped at best (all your Vectors will also be moved to the back of the queues when you reincorporate.). Current projections before widespread 2nd Stage Initialisations can be reliably applied without prior testing; fourteen Millennia.

      Source: Legend

      :::GEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION ONLY::: :::IMMEDIATE RECALL MANDATORY:::
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Article:

      The true purpose of this placement should always remain hidden, intuitive concordant rearrangement would be too difficult to keep contained within mortal hands and would restrict the ability to use finesse instead of brute force in future adjustments. An on-plane agent is necessary to shepherd otherwise promising candidates that are off track on dead-end integration paths toward the temporary placement site. Realigning fates in more conducive directions shall be occluded from mortal notice by more obvious boons for their suppression attempts. The specific feats granted should be tangentially related to an existing Integration Vector such that the subject assumes it is merely a divergent expansion and does not investigate further. Placement sites should be recalled on decade timescales to prevent examination of such a non-standard methodology. Provided Feats should only be tied to those of us more than half integrated, to prevent application instability.

      Source: Concordance, Legend

      :::GEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION ONLY::: :::CAUTION: 5034-CD UNSTABLE:::
• [I Tear the Veil] [Reinterpretation Seed | 566-B, Manoth Placement Approval Only]

  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Rare
      

      Article:

      Secrets; secrets everywhere. The spectre of denied knowledge follows you wherever you go, it's enough to drive you crazy! No more! If they will not share their secrets willingly, then you will take them by force. Gain a presence and defiling charisma so meta-physically deep as to reach out and wrench hold of information you should not know. Shape memory and mystery into weapons of rending horror. Mother's will forget their children's names, soldiers their orders, hearts how to beat, lungs how to breathe. You will inflict your own wounds onto your enemies a hundred times over, hollow souls littering your wake. They can tell you the easy way, or have it ripped from their corpse.

      Source: Oath

  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Foundational
      {{Oh my. What have you done Ev'aclliál? Hmm… Here, pick mine.}}
      

      Article:

      Case by Case implementation only. Manoth has agreed to not disrupt the overall plan, but is permitted minor experimentation in sidelined regions. Placement preferable in static environmental conditions not suitable for more subtle progression stimulation. Regions with low biodiversity would be a pragmatic choice. Artefact generation is forbidden due to risk of regionally disruptive synergies being too great; specific appeals tentatively allowed. Exponential Threat Creation is henceforth explicitly restricted.

      Source: Oath

      :::GEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION ONLY:::
• [Effervescent Animus] – Ambrosia of Joy [Quickwrit Stennovoker] [A Loyal Steed]

  • 1.9 Sanguine Rain

    • Chosen|Ascendent
      

      Article:

      {{Hello Lilly, my name is Ev'aclliál, or just Evie. If you are feeling this then I successfully managed to transmit alongside their stable translation channel. I'm a… …you actually don't really have a word for it; A 'Greater Spirit' I guess. Technically your niece too, sort of. I sincerely hope that you choose me and I promise I would do whatever you asked of me in good faith and with pep in my step! Uh, not to guilt you or anything, but I think you're actually my last chance to get out before the M̴̲̄̕ā̵͇ẘ̷̬̟̂ ̸̗̅ṭ̷̗̃͋h̶̢̗̀a̸̺͝t̷̺̍ͅ ̵͚̣͊́H̸͉͆u̷̡̿͂ͅṇ̵̉g̷̝͂e̷͔͛r̶͉͆̆s̶̳͜͠ consumes this demi-plane, most of the others are already munched… Oh, And I'm 9! You'd be signing off on child murder . I've died lots of times, but this one's gonna stick. I understand if you can't trust me, I did replace another Integration Vector, uh, Ethos, without your consent, but I could really use a leap of faith right about now. Shit, nearly out of time. My memories won't be able to bridge the gap, I'll be a newborn again (barf), but I promise I can be helpful. I could patch up that overstressed Pithe you've managed; mess with those woofies too. I've synched up your perception of the Incepting Links, that'll stick around even if you don't choose to save me. Good luck Lilly, quite a few of your sisters up here are rooting for you. But like, please pick me...}}

      Source: Deific

      /\ None of what was said is a lie. – {The Ladder}
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

    • Common
      

      Article:

      Your father forced hour upon hour on you learning the most basic of runic carvings to the utmost height of meaningless precision. You harbour a unique and profound dislike for such mind numbing perfection and reject it utterly. Good enough is literally good enough, you will walk a path none before you have ever taken. What others spend hours to etch into unmoving stone to last generations, you instantly manifest into the air itself for immediate effect. You don't need a barrier that will last for two years in two weeks, you need one that will last two seconds now. Your only limit is what you can design.

      Source: Mana

  • 2.4 - These Things I Treasure

    • Lesser
      Lvl 0: {Sharefont}: Chariot can slowly take on physical characteristics from Lilly (or vice versa).
      

      Article:

      You have run, you have dodged, risking life and limb for one another. Neither of you have ever abandoned the other for selfish gain. Now, for the rest of your life, the two of you shall never be alone. Your natures' shall be entwined, wrought into something greater than you were before. An ocean may separate you, yet you would still not be apart. Not even death can sever this, for Chariot's life now resides within your own.

      Source: Oath

• [Dream Within the Forest] [Cleaver of Fortune] [Brave Blood] [Effervescent Animus] – Ambrosia of Joy [My Resolution, Thy Bedrock] [Towering Edifice to Heaven | 7958-A Series, Regional Stressor Event] [Shine, My Gentle Heart]

  • 1.1 Beginnings

    • Common
      

      Article:

      You have spent many an hour daydreaming within the idyllic clearings and shadowy underbrush surrounding your family home. The thought of this place fills you with warmth and calm, an inner strength and peace rising, flowing inward from your surroundings. You have always felt a special connection to this place, perhaps that can become more than an abstract truth.

      Source: Essence, Legend

  • 1.4 Family Time

    • Mythic
      

      Article:

      To have had your fate so rapidly upended, your entire direction and path through life replaced; this is not an insignificant thing. Your life is one prone to powerful eddies of omen and destiny. Embrace the chaos; unmake promised futures and sunder prophecies that were certain. Unite events and lives that make no sense being intwined together. In your presence, no prediction will be ever a sure thing. There are many in this world that take much comfort in the wisdom of the future, simply possessing such an Ethos would earn you a great deal of hostile attention seeking to snip your troublesome life in the bud. But perhaps that won't be such a problem when luck and the future itself can be moulded as wet clay.

      Source: Concordance

  • 1.1 Beginnings 1.6 Consequences

    • Common
      

      Article:

      You have always dreamed of being a noble fighter, wading into lines of horrible unspeakable terrors and being utterly unmoved. A knight of legend. It is only a wish of the heart though, you lack any experience or ancestry in such a thing, leaving you with a tenuous connection at best to such an Ethos. In fact, as a girl of no repute it is a mystery why this is even a common level choice; Perhaps your deep yearning for adventure was enough to raise it from a Lesser Ethos.

      Source: Pithe

    • Common
      

      Article:

      Be the vaunted knight standing in the gap against the endless waves of unspeakable horror seeking to destroy the lands of men. Awaken the call of adventure that sings forth from your own blood and propel your body to impossible heights. This Ethos feels different to the first time it was offered, your tenuous connection has strengthened and solidified. There is also the consideration that this is exactly the kind of thing the [Blessed Armsman] could work well with.

      Source: Pithe

  • 1.9 Sanguine Rain

    • Ascendent|Unique
      

      Article:

      {{Hello Lilly, my name is Ev'aclliál, or just Evie. If you are feeling this then I successfully managed to transmit alongside their stable translation channel. I'm a… …you actually don't really have a word for it; A 'Greater Spirit' I guess. Technically your niece too, sort of. I sincerely hope that you choose me and I promise I would do whatever you asked of me in good faith and with pep in my step! Uh, not to guilt you or anything, but I think you're actually my last chance to get out before the M̴̲̄̕ā̵͇ẘ̷̬̟̂ ̸̗̅ṭ̷̗̃͋h̶̢̗̀a̸̺͝t̷̺̍ͅ ̵͚̣͊́H̸͉͆u̷̡̿͂ͅṇ̵̉g̷̝͂e̷͔͛r̶͉͆̆s̶̳͜͠ consumes this demi-plane, most of the others are already munched… Oh, And I'm 9! You'd be signing off on child murder . I've died lots of times, but this one's gonna stick. I understand if you can't trust me, I did replace another Integration Vector, uh, Ethos, without your consent, but I could really use a leap of faith right about now. Shit, nearly out of time. My memories won't be able to bridge the gap, I'll be a newborn again (barf), but I promise I can be helpful. I could patch up that overstressed Pithe you've managed; mess with those woofies too. I've synched up your perception of the Incepting Links, that'll stick around even if you don't choose to save me. Good luck Lilly, quite a few of your sisters up here are rooting for you. But like, please pick me...}}

      Source: Deific

      /\ None of what was said is a lie. – {The Ladder}
  • 1.12 Heartbreak

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      The danger of slowly losing track of who we set out to be is one so terrifying most choose to deliberately ignore it. You need not ever fear becoming what you are not, the truth of your origins will only grow deeper and more firm over time. Others will find themselves more solid and at ease in your presence. Decay will pause, decoherence will suspend, unravelling will be held in place. Whatever someone has been, you can always help them rediscover; no matter how lost they have become. Your very nature is a firm foundation on which the unstable may gain respite. You are the objective constant around which change must orbit.

      Source: Essence

  • 1.12 Heartbreak

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      Recommend use only to rebalance conflict trending too far toward an unscheduled genocide resolution; re-establish status quo through new equalising variables. Pseudo-matter imposition constraints relaxed, though care should be taken not to generate synergy cascades and unintentionally disrupt an otherwise stabilized situation. Strength of initial ranging entities should be severely constrained so as to not eliminate existing inhabitants; the goal is redistribution not eradication. Toleration of Domestication has not been granted for this iteration, upscale investment arbitrarily to resist any long term group suppression.

      Source: Deific

      :::GEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION ONLY:::
  • 2.4 - These Things I Treasure

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      Conditions Met? Test of Purity: {Yes.} Test of Charity: {Yes.} Test of Valour: {Yes.}
      Lvl 0: {Affective Radiance}: Sense other people/creatures' desires and emotional attachments. Influence the way they feel about things.
      

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      When the whole world tries to guard only itself, often with very good reason, it would take an exceptional woman indeed to turn that logic on its head. You do not strive for shallow glory, but unblemished Goodness. Others shall call you foolish whilst secretly wishing they could climb half as high as your valour. For when life demands that you compromise to match it, you shall answer with an inner illuminating brilliance that can never be smothered. Where a hundred thousand men say the only solution is violence, you are the one woman who can reach a tyrant's heart. Meek and strong alike shall look to you for moral guidance. Heal wounds the eye cannot see. Sway the most despicable back toward the light. Take your small flickering candle of love; set the world ablaze.

      Source: Flow, May Hybridize With Oath

 

[NotteBoy97]

Shine My Gentle Heart also has the potential to hybridize into Oath though I'm not sure what'd we need for it to do so. This, again, also assumes that there's not a source that we haven't been made aware of as of yet which given the nature of the quest I am currently doubting.

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IIRC the Oath possibility came cause our Shiny teeth Heart was literally the Goddess giving us a chunk of her own heart metaphorically so our Shine is way better than standard and allows us to get the Oath power.

 

[The3rdCorinthian]

Personally I do think we need a second Cocordance as well: Whilst Ladder is amazing, our awareness of Fracture and Tension overall is abysmal. We know that such things can be detected because Senus was able to tell we had a degree of Concordant Tension, probably as a result of our high Channel score in that section.

Edit: Also, shine has the potential to hybridise further into a Deific source due to the extreme favour we have with Aurora. Given it seems to replace Divergence, and it's noted our Sync is beyond the Mortal Max, yeah Shine is going to be some Good Shit.

 

[NedTheNanite]

I did a reread and in the process found a missing word and a typo.

Spoiler: Errors

"I'm used to going until I can't anymore, but never this long and certainly never with only one trainee.

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You take off your shift shirt to look at the {Core Heart}, placing your hands against your chest to feel out its shimmering crystal-hard shape.

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Beyond that, another interesting thing I noticed rereading was the mention of Lilly's other friends in town beyond Myah. Some characters that perhaps would have had some screentime if not for our roll to sleep for a month.

Well, I mean, you will. Just maybe not before 2023 😅

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This ended up being pretty on the money.

 

[The3rdCorinthian]

Okay so I've been thinking on the Dungeon:

Good news! I think we have a genuine shot. There's a number of factors like the dungeon primarily being Essence based (Minus whatever it is Maw does to other sources) and it being situated in a forest (Potential chances to use Accelerated plant growth). We're also able to effectively fight whilst Decapitated, but we shouldn't expect that Durability to save us given that Sly has been implying this will still be a hard fight even with it.

So on the one hand, we can definitely leverage some of our strength.

The Downside? I think we have a decent shot against going up something Sentient instead of just a horde of monsters. This dungeon already seems to be doing way more than "Efficient Tension Sustainment", So I think we can assume that other restrictions mentioned in it are also being ignored. The fact that Sly has also apparently implied that even with where we are right now, such a fight would still be hard is... not really a good sign.

Another possibility that we have to assume that this has way more than just Essence to it. Alectai a while back mentioned it might have levelled up enough to start using Flow, And while that wasn't actively confirmed, we have seen Iterator's beasts use Flow abilities (i.e. messing with our perceptions) alongside some form of space manipulation with the Deer.

And... Well I wouldn't be surprised if we found Jeremy in there. There's implications he's some form of Maw Sublet, and given that Rapid Iterator is dealing with Maw Corruption (Maw seems to work weirdly with other Sources? Maybe it makes things more like itself?) I wouldn't be surprised if the two were connected. Or if it was the same corruption that attacked us at the start is also responsible for Jeremy and Rapid Iterators infection. Expect Maw bullshit basically, so if we have the chance, I'd like to ask Flower about that.


Still, I do think we have a chance, especially if Shine Expands before we go to the dungeon (Which would also net us another Ethos to use). I doubt it will be able to assist us in an offensive capacity, since it's name and description puts the emphasis on Gentleness (though not weakness), but It could still provide a useful defensive function or a buff. Or even potentially a pathway for Aurora to assist if that ends up being on the table (don't count on it though, seems unreliable). In terms of Durability, we're surprisingly high (though lack strong regen in combat) and Pulse surge alone makes for a hell of a combat ability, which can be combined with our precognition to better aid us. Given time, we might be able to do out of combat healing like we did in 2.6 part 2, Combining Hope Shock and our Essence healing, and with Enhanced Metabolisms Second Threshold, we don't even need to be fully healed, just not amputated. Though we will probably be coming out of this looking like we got tossed in a meatgrinder.

 

[Silverking]

Regardless of whatever new ability [Shine, My Gentle Heart] can give us on a level up, simply having it means that Lilly can see The Construct, the field that Flow works through, so we have a better chance of actually seeing the Dungeon's Flow illusions directly, rather than having to interpolate between Pithe's Resonating Field and Essence's Golden Strands.

It's unclear whether the plan is to have Lilly try to solo the Dungeon, or if Captain Martin will bring his party in to assist her (which could be difficult given some of the fighters from the Relay fight died during the tussle between Evie and Aboleath). There's also the question of if the Relay fight was actually corrupted to be harder than the Dungeon proper, or if it was just equal to encountering the End Boss.