LORE OF DEATH : THREAD Resurrection
Slowly and carefully, you alter your own hands in tools not dissimilar to Curunir's and signal your comrades you wish to examine the shard of power. You plunge your fingers in the Asura's proto-soul and retrieve the pulsating mass before raising it to show it to your colleagues.
The effects on the creature don't wait a second. As soon as you've ripped the shard from his essence, you sense it unravel under your eyes. Radagast try in vain to breathe life in the Asura's flesh but to no avail. It seems that the shard was animating it, or perhaps forced its alien biology to function. Without it, reality retake its rights and the alien flesh crumbles to dust while his mind fly. Pallando fails to catch what passes for its soul but you don't begrudge him, while the Wild One has worked with the Seventh House, he's not an Angel of Death.
The Shard is all that remains on the altar, burning like a green bonfire. Strangely you sense a kinship with it. Its metaphysical pattern looks like a sun, and you suspect it was made to project its rays through its host, fully empowering it. You peer into the depths and with a sigh you try the basic evocation of the Lore of the Celestials on it.
Visions assail you of a great and terrible city beyond all knowledge. Endless walls and parapets of burning brass cowering beneath an emerald sun. This city is alive with a terrible life you couldn't hope to comprehend while the walls and the towers and the sun howl with a terrible sentience. They hate you, they hate you as they hate all that is outside their dominion.
This shard is a ray of the green sun, a drop of the ocean of unreason that wait beyond the universe you crafted. Not only it empowers the Asuras that host it, giving them a reflection of the might of their master, but it's also an host if the current one is killed, giving the Titans an easily replenishable source of captains and commanders.
To your horror you realize you have no idea how to destroy this. Seal it? Yes you could devise a stasis chamber for such thing and the Choir of Daath must be notified to prepare containment units. But to destroy it? To your perceptions it is as indestructible than the Titan that crafted it from its essence. As for using it. Curunir is the first to emit the idea.
"This is useless to our purposes. That thing should not be able to work without deeply weakening the Elder One that created it. We can't destroy it, and we certainly can't reproduce it. Even a Seraph would diminish by giving so much of its potential to an underling."
"It is not what surprise me the most" says Alatar thoughtful "If we have perceived is true, the creature should have been mightier by far. Even at a first glance I can see plans for an exosqueleton in the shard. It seems the goal of all this is to transform the host in a copy of the Titan"
"Which would be useless for them and you know it" you say "Even if an Asura could harness the full potential of the shard and that's not even sure, the Titans would gain nothing but rivals if that was the case"
Curunir make a sign with his multiple arms: "We will notify the Choir of Daath of this development and keep studying the shard. When Olorin Returns, tell him to run a full pattern analysis on it. We must understand what powers it gives to our enemies."
And so it was done…
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