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-Zein and the Dragon-Glaive “Akusande” 21-15 The Glaive Unsheathed Time rebalanced, and Avo’s base ego snapped back in alignment with his subminds. As his cog-feed ceased its flickering, he studied the George Washingon’s central nexus with a projected Skimmer and stared. As did his templates. As did his cadre. There, over Thousandhand’s unmoving corpse was Quail Tavers flicking the blood off her blade. A legend stood over a legend, and surreal though the moment might have been, mortal skill…-
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-Zein Thousandhand 21-14 The Disagreement (II) They stood as pillars amidst the chaos, the misted torrents that once made up totality grasping vainly at their forms. The patterns of reality coursed up into the Ladder and broke in two directions. One to make the ascent. The other to feed a balance. Suspense choked the air. Draus’ mind was narrowing to a spear’s tip, humanity shed to let the weapon take hold. Dice was as if a dog next to her, internal machinery building to a resonant growl. Tavers…
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-Fight between Veylis and Jaus Avandaer, overheard by mother and bondsmate, Zein Thousandhand 21-13 The Disagreement “No?” Avo asked. “No,” Zein repeated, sounding almost regretful this time. Her ontology quivered as if a nest of accelerating strings, and he surmised she was peering into manifested futures. “You have capabilities. That is true. That is true.” With each word, her tone grew tighter. More mournful. “With each second I see you clearer. With each exchange. I see you. I see…
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-Agnos Yue Reason-Bearer to her novitiates 21-12 The Paths of Futures Broken (II) “Would you,” Zein said, her words colder than the kiss of a blade, “like to learn about the Paths? I believe that was something you desired to learn about.” The miracles of her Heaven poured forth from her ontology, building as a golden pool around her being. A weave of rippling chronology slowly encroached, filling the command nexus, and with every inch did tension rise. Now, more than ever before, Avo felt the…
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-Conversation between Jaus and Veylis Avadaer, 4 months before the dissolution of Noloth and banishment of the Hungers 21-11 The Paths of Futures Broken (I) “I must say that among all the Famines of Noloth, you are my–” Zein paused and took a moment to think. “ “Just second?” Chambers said, cringing at the simulated form of Peace. “Every word out of this guy’s mouth is ‘fuck,’ ‘cunt,’ ‘sow,’ ‘mongrel,’ or some other curse or slur. Rust-licking half-strand’s got a mouth…
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-High Agnos Ossam Hariruda on Heavens of Mind and the Nether 21-10 A Betrayal Unremembered *** Ignorance broke like a chain, and consciousness, as if a lifting veil, returned. At the heart of a devastated megablock, ruined beyond even the means of warheads, Avo stood across from Zein, the two of them surrounded by the mangled bodies of his cadre. He was whole again. Nested in a recently constructed sheath, noise and feedback from all his disparate splinters beset the growing ocean that was his…
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-Last words of Huen-Vai, God of War, Sword of Swords, shattered by the once-mortal Zein Thousandhand in single combat 21-9 The Godslayer Zein strode. Calamity followed. She lashed out first not with an umbrella or blade, but with a reaching hand, her fingers clenching around time itself. Before Kae could root her in place using her maelstrom’s directional anchoring; before her flesh was shattered, dissolved, or warped; before Dice could close an exchange, Zein But not any of them. No. She used…
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-Zein Thousandhand to Samir Naeko and Veylis Avandaer during Training (Circa 89934 DIvinity 21-8 Sword and Plague (II) Drawing memories from destroyed echoes was something Zein usually avoided. The danger that Veylis could have cast something back through its flattening threads–or that an infection of the mind would be passed back over to her could not be denied. But in this instance, she simply Many of her memories were partitioned. Divided across her various echoes upon reception. The dilution…
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-Messages Filtered for Content Related to 21-7 Sword and Plague (I) Such was all Akunsande needed to say. If there was a single characteristic that determined the Hungers, it was naked terror. The type befitting a creature, forever knowing itself to be prey. While it pretended to be a god, it lived as a worm, hiding beneath the waters, not even brave enough to embody the life of a carp. Its Low Masters were little more than attendants; nannies for a gaggle of children unworthy of true power. Zein…
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-Mem-Log of Jaus Avandaer to the Gathered Representatives of the Remaining Guilds after the “Trial of the Hungers” 21-6 Blood of Dragons (III) Nine different minds. Nine new Godclads under his sway. Four of Stormtree. Four of Highflame. Not a bad haul for a brief dip across a subvert. Avo wanted more. Indeed, without Avo’s intervention, the Bloodthane and Instrument would have reignited hostilities, and Kare herself would have been drawn in. Not ideal, for her or the city. The best outcome…
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