Wind to Wings
So dark. So very dark.
And cold.
I could hear my own breathing. I wasn't sure why it frightened me at first.
But then I realized, as I had always realized, I was myself, and yet I was not.
Those hooves were mine, and yet they were not.
Everything was energy; everything was borrowed. The circle was a line and the line was a circle.
When I started to understand it, I began to shiver less.
But that didn't stop everything from feeling so cold.
When I first heard the voice, it was like a whisper. I had it confused with my own heartbeat. I heard it rising in volume, high-pitched, teetering on the edge of a tender breath.
"Nmmbiuliseth restul mellusuthien kuln meseludrusul innavedr rezolluth."
I fumbled in the darkness. I craned my neck, and realized that the voice was ahead of me. Nopony could be here unless they wanted to be here. And what they want was what they thought and what they thought was what they lived.
I thrust my hooves forward. I felt nothing.
I took a deep breath. I meditated.
I thrust my hooves forward again. I felt a matchbox.
Exhaling with relief, I took a match out and lit it. An amber blanket settled across the room, falling dimly across the plain white floor and walls.
I saw a colt sitting before me, his little body squatting in the middle of a glade of green grass spread around his side of the room. With gently glowing telekinesis, he plucked emerald blades out from the ground and tied them around each other like the fibers of ropes. At last, he set them ablaze, and layed the charred bits down in the shape of hauntingly familiar symbols.
He did not stop talking, not for one second.
"Hasuulun membraat li nulsun austraeoh rezzun thriesiul eljunbyro sajaalsun miul."
I blinked at him. I spoke aloud, "Austraeoh..."
The colt froze. Slowly, his head tilted up to meet my gaze. His face was covered in an intricate web of interconnected tattoos. Cold blue eyes reflected a golden mare with an intact horn. In a blink, she was replaced with stars.
I gulped and said, "I am Eljunbyro..."
He stared at me. Slowly, he shook his head. "No. You are not."
I felt my heart falling.
But then he said, "Not on your own, you're not."
I felt a lump forming in my throat as I said, "I am alone."
"The children are all lonely... for they are not whole." He continued manipulating blades of grass between us in the darkness. "Messul jaazaat diul mennoressu kun. Without wings, they spread. Messul drun diul harazzahm siel. Without a sea, they drifted. Messul carranar diul kuhleema drae. Without purpose, they died."
"Please..." I struggled to breathe. The air was growing colder, thinner. I felt like he might drift away from me at any second. "I don't have much time. I need to understand what this mana bank is here to discover. What is the purpose of the sequencing?"
"The dying is the knowing is the winning is the losing," the colt said. "That which was shattered remains broken in order to desire that which was whole. Without desire, there is no wind. Without wind, there is no energy. Without energy, there is no spark..."
"But there is a spark!" I heard myself exclaim. I leaned forward, slapping my hooves across the ground. "Austraeoh! She exists! She flies east with the power of the wind!"
The air rattled. With a wave of my own breath, the grass in front of him morphed into hundreds of matchsticks. The colt lowered his tattooed face. He glanced at the many wooden firestarters, then over at my matchstick box. At last, his eyes returned to me, twice as starry in the amber light.
"Eljunbyro..." he murmured.
I nodded, gulping. "Rebirthing endurance... that is my purpose..."
He stared at me. His intricately stenciled brow furrowed as he said, "Your purpose is to die, and to make whole that which was shattered. That is the purpose of all."
I narrowed my gaze at him. "What is it?" I leaned forward even more. "What was it that was whole?"
"The question... and the answer..." He stood up slowly. "The answer... and the question..."
I watched as he rose above me in the blackness. "Do you know what either of them is?"
"I only know one thing," the colt said. "The beauty and magnificence of the ring. It must be assembled."
I shook my head slowly. "The... ring... wh-what?" My face grimaced. "Who's assembling what?"
"It assembles itself. It is we who do not see. She tasks us with the seeing. She is neither concerned with the dying or the knowing. All must be seeing, or else we will have no other purpose for our eyes."
"Who is she?" I asked.
"The only one whom we can afford to fear in this place." His eyes became hard daggers. "What is it that you fear?"
I gazed at him. I felt my jaw quivering as a tear rolled down my cheek. "That I-I might somehow forget him by the time I join him..."
"Then you are no longer eljunbyro," he said, pivoting towards a pale wall that was suddenly there. "You have evolved beyond the pulpit of the spark and have become one of its many vessels."
"But... But I don't understand?" I stood up and marched over dissolving matchsticks to approach him. "What am I now becoming?"
"It is not you alone." He tilted his muzzle down towards his shoulder. With tiny teeth, he bit onto his coat, then started peeling the tattoo off his skin. "You are part of the whole, the whole that becomes one." With the grace of a maid tossing laundry to the wind, he pulled the tattoos completely off his face and flung it forward like a spider's web until it clung to the pale wall before him. "You and many like you are bringing wind to the spark's wings."
I stared at him, dumbfounded. I jolted upon hearing the sound of ice cracking.
The tattoos on the wall had formed into deep fissures. He raised a hoof and looked over his shoulder at me. "Innavedr," he explained.
Then his hoof struck the wall.
The black world exploded, and a wave of water flew past him, engulfing me. I gasped and gargled for breath as I found myself spinning weightlessly through the fathoms. I heard the muffled sounds of giggling foals beyond the frigid depths.
Then, as my lungs felt like bursting, I saw a patch of lavender light, brimming with stars. In desperation, I kicked at the currents and swam towards it. The laughter became deafenning, and to my starved mind it sounded like sobs. At last, I saw buzzing dragonflies and waving cattails layering a halo of glistening sky above. Like a torpedo, I shot myself directly up and burst through the rippling surface of a shallow pond.
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The wind of accomplishment, it seems.
I don't care to analyze this empty metaphorical dialogue, but... Stuff! It's happening! Woo!
Aaand... that was the most confusing sequencing ever. I think I followed that.
Either way, no Stratopolis.
Go toward the light, Belle!
This is Australia...
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
There is no spoon...
Easily my favorite chapter thus far in Innavedr for the sheer amounts of foreshadowing/first person/wut factor.
So Belle is no longer Eljunbyro, which means that Pilate is also not Eljunbyro anymore. It also seems as though Nightshade (presumably "she") knows of Austraeoh and is attempting to make sure either Dash fails or Dash ultimately succeeds (hence the "ring" being put together). The ponies Dash will meet along her journey will eventually help guide her to the Midnight Armory by taking on certain roles (Eljunbyro, etc.) Belle is also shown with an undamaged horn, which means that sequencing is essentially a dream state I probably just forgot this..., and I believe the colt to be Nightshade's comatose brother, Novus.
Either way, we're most likely going to see Dash flying east again soon, maybe without Belle.
Soo...is Belle now Innavedr? Or are she and the foals collectively Innavedr?
And just when I thought this story couldn't get any more confusing...
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That's what i mean, though i thought the dragon WAS Axan. its a doozy trying to remember something that happened a couple hundred chapters ago.
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I don't get where you got accomplishment from, but I definitely see the "wind" portion. Also, it seems Madame Nightshade is doing something WAY more important and intense and world-changing than we can possibly hope to understand...
Frikken' different languages.
At any rate, it seems that Eljunbyro was said to be a way to restore Austraeoh's purpose, and that Innavedr is much the same, "bringing wind to the spark's wings." 'Cept since the colt said "many others," it seems that all the new party members are a part of Innavedr, rather than just Belle and Pilate. Perhaps Eljunbyro was supposed to bring the wind, and Innavedr is supposed to be the wind? At any rate, I don't doubt that Roarke's plane will make travels faster after all is said and done with this story.
I get the feeling that these symbols indeed have something to do with the Elements of Harmony. 12 stories divided by 2 sides of the world might just equal 6 elements, after all. I kinda want to know where the symbols originated from. We know Austraeoh has something to do with the machine world, and might just have come bundled with the world when the Alicorns alighted on it. The only other symbol seen not pony-made was Eljunbyro, with the leaves. Or possibly all of them, when Belle fainted ever so long ago. But that doesn't count. It seems like there's a language hidden in there, too, what with the colt in this chapter speaking something that contained the word "Innavedr," and the fact that all the symbols have names. Who developed that language? Was it the pegasi? Or did ponies in general develop it, influenced by the world, in the same manner as humans on earth in the Hitch-hiker's Guide? I seem to remember Pilate saying something about Xonans having something to do with the script he was analyzing that gave him all the knowledge of Eljunbyro and Austraeoh and all that. Is it still a living language? If so, will we ever stumble upon a society that speaks it? Oh, imagine the horror of finding ponies that don't speak a common language but know everything about Austraeoh and her journey from myths and whatnot! Alas, I have no idea.
A throwback to the more esoteric language and storytelling of Austraeoh's more mysterious chapters. It's been a long time since I read a chapter twice in a row simply for pleasure of reading it. It was chapters like this, where clearly greater powers were revealing tantalizingly small bits of information, that really piqued my interest way back when I first picked up Austraeoh. I'm glad to see progress being made on the overarching goal of getting Dash east, even if it doesn't involve her yet. This mini-arc has a lot of potential in my book. I didn't realize how much I missed chapters like this until today.
The language has me stymied, though. I was hoping there would be a hidden connection that would reveal itself if I put all of the phrases together, but all I can puzzle out is that "messul" probably means "without" and "diul" probably means "they". The first two phrases resist translation with the information I can glean. Maybe someone else has a little more luck!
Damn, this chapter was like seeing an old friend again. Mystery and analysis and strange, powerful beings. Feels like last fall again!
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you and me, brother.
I can't tell whether this is a memory (like all the other sequences) or Belle actually conversing with this guy. Mainly because suddenly she (Speaker) knows that Eljunbyro's purpose is to "Rebirthing Endurance." It also appears that Eljunbyros and other vessels are only temporary speed boosts. RD only needed her to break her out and give her support. RD may not need her, but now needs Innavedr for the next gravity slingshot.
Or once she re-finds Pilate, Eljunbyro gets rebooted or something.
A good o'l throwback to the chapters that we all know and love. Also, the way that I see it,Belle isn't Eljunbryo anymore because her and Pilate are "seperated" but she will become Innavedr due to her new party of Pheonix and Kera.There could also be a new character we have yet to be introduced to.Only time will tell.
Oh, and I'm gonna guess the heck out of the weird language. Let's start here:
It seems that "Messul" means without, "diul" means they, "jaazaat" is wings, "drun" sea, and "carranar" purpose. That leaves "mennoressu kun" to mean "spread" as a past tense verb, "harazzahm siel" drifted, and "kuhleema drae" died. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that it's a kind of past perfect, and that the shorter words are helper verbs. This all assumes that the word order looks similar to the English samples, which might be a deadly mistake. Or, the little colt might be a terrible translator and reversed the English order on us, which would explain the lack of commas in the foreign sentences. "Messul jaazaat diul mennoressu kun" might be closer in order to "they spread without wings." Or it might be closer in order to "They wings without had spread." I'm too lazy to deal with all that, though.
Innavedr! That sounds familiar!
Kuln looks suspiciously similar to kun above, but alas, I already guessed that kun was a helper verb, and that isn't much help, oddly enough. Meseludrusul might be a compound word of Messul and something else, but I can't really say.
Ooooh, both Austraeoh and Eljunbyro in the same sentence!
Miul looks like diul. That's about all I can gather from this one.
Mind you, the only thing even close to authority I can claim on this is that I know a bit of Chinese via living with Chinese people, that I know English via being born and raised in the USA, and I know a bit of German via taking a few classes in high school. So, take all that with a grain of salt. Or maybe a lot of grains of salt. Perhaps even a salt shaker's worth. Probably even more. Yeah.
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I'm confused...
What.
Not sure if this is Belle, or part of the sequence.
But either way.
Daaaaaaaaaamn.
Austraeoh - Dashie
Eljunbyroh - Belle and Pilate, the spark relighting Dash's fire when she broke down. Matchsticks
Innavedr - The wind beneath her wings. "one of it's many vessels" i.e. her friends, allies, and all those who keep her going. The spiderweb, probably signifying their connections...
That which was shattered...
Could be many things. Most obvious would be the Elements, though that feels like a red herring.
The whole line and circle thing makes me think of a closed time loop for some reason. Maybe Dash restores the elements, thereby creating them in the first place? That might contradict the explanation from the alicorns though.... Probably way off there.
"She" could be many things as well... Dash? A personification of the Elements? Twilight? Maybe the machine world?
Not a shared word in the lot, apart from "messul" and "diul", either one could be "without" or "they"...
A bunch of them seem like different forms of the same word, or the same form of different words ("rezzoluth/rezzun", the -sul words...) but there really isn't enough info to be anywhere near sure.
The sentences mentioning Austraeoh, Eljunbyroh and Innavedr probably have something to do with their purposes in regards to Austraeoh, but again, insufficient data...
2699876 Rainbow Dash as Austraeoh starts in.....The Maretrix.
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
Stream Of Conciousness - Dream Theater
So, I'm taking it Innavedr is a group (i.e. the party of friends and allies assembling around our polychromatic heroine). Cool beans.
There's not a lot I can say that hasn't already been said, and far more eloquently so, but far more punctual people than I. Nor will I dig too deeply into the language here (though my inner linguist itches to do so just a little). I do wonder about this other pony, though. This whole sequence doesn't seem like a true sequence at all, but rather, more like the scenes where Whitemane stepped into play and interacted with Belle directly. The only question, then, is: who is it this time? Floydien suggested it might be Novus, and that does make sense (though I would wonder how he knows this much). Now we just have to see what's the deal with the pond. Maybe now we'll get to the sequencing proper.
Also: It's good to see this side of the story rear its intriguing and maddeningly cryptic head again.
Gonna look through some Nordic crap and see if I can't figure this out. Details as events warrant.
Well that was...eerie. Children can be damn creepy, sometimes. That tattoo peeling scene conjured up some pretty supernatural imagery, too. Heck, the whole chapter did.
I'm hoping that Belle/Pilate's possible demotion doesn't mean that we won't get to read about them/the other characters anymore. I mean, I know Dash is supposed to keep moving East and all that, but after so many chapters its hard to not become a bit attached to the supporting cast (as the repeated references to Gold Petals in the comments hundreds of thousands of words after her last appearance clearly attest to
)
Well, one more to go - onward!
Hmmm, I'd say this passage has multiple readings that are relevant to different layers of the story, but the most dominant one is that it is about Dash and the elements. In order to give Dash the impetus to leave Ponyville and begin her journey East, she had to lose everything that held her there: her friends. So the elements shattered; Dash desires to have them back and knows (I think) that the elements can be re-forged.
Why did the elements shatter? Perhaps it is the desire of the machine to be whole which kicked it into action? I dunno.
Well, it was good knowing you Belle.
But on a more serious note, this may be pointing to a "noble sacrifice" kind of ending, where Austraeoh, Eljunbyro etc. all die to return life to the machine and/or re-forge the elements. I really can't say for sure right now.
I always did think Innavedr did look like a terracotta pot.
All in all, awesome chapter, Colon. It's great to see the mysterious meta-plot rear its surreal head again.
I'm feeling that I'm on the brink of understanding it. Knowing that I probably am not doesn't make the feeling go away. It's horrible. Like you have nothing, but are this close to having it all. Pilate just told me that it will get worse in the next chapter.
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Does Searo even really need to be destroyed?
P.S.: That colt reminds me of Paarthurnaax. Good times.
What if she falls asleep... while dreaming...
Bloody called it. Metaphorical language up the wazzo, multitudes of frickin' potential meanings and, to add insult to injury, it's not all in English. Lovely jovely.
"That which was shattered remains broken in order to desire that which was whole. Without desire, there is no wind. Without wind, there is no energy. Without energy, there is no spark..."
Huh. So this seems to have a fair few connotations. Possibly implies that the destruction of the Elements was a necessary step to ensure the continued existence of the machine world, which would certainly be interesting. There is all the possibility of this referencing the breaking up of the group of friends at the hands of Shell, once more a necessity to spur events into motion. Yet all of this sounds awfully predestined - whether it be a string of cause and effect throughout the ages initiated by a Prime Mover (the machine world itself?) or that events are being actively influenced by some omniscient being. Meh.
Anywho, what was once Eljunbyro has evolved into Innavedr - the group who must be the wind to her with. Mysterious foal could possibly be Nightshade's brother, however unlikely? The 'she' that the foal references could possibly be Nightshade, or another figure shoulder-deep in this stuff. As ominous as the 'she' sounds, not yet sure whether she intends to aid or hinder Austraeoh. Also, some bollocks about a mysterious ring... meh.
Onwards!
There's our title drop, and a little more knowlege gained, once again.
IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
Oh.Â
Oh...
Oh my God...
Um...wow. Â
I will give you that, Imploding. Â I certainly didn't see this one coming. Â Now, first off, whatever language that the Xonans speak (as evidenced by Kera knowing the symbol of Innavedr and the dream foal speaking a language with the sacred symbols) is the language that the sacred symbols come from. Â This means that the connection between Xona and Austraeoh is far, far greater than we first realized. Â Also, who exactly is this dream foal? Â Is she the one that the children are attempting to sequence with? Â Nightshade would have wanted to know what this filly apparently knows about the sacred symbols. Â However, I think that she is probably a physical manifestation of something far greater that the children are sequencing with - something that, while it does have a mind to sequence with, may not necessarily have a body. Â Now, here's the next part - Eljunbyro has been accepted to refer to Belle alone. Â Pilate was there too, but Belle was supposed to be the real deal. Â Now, we've learned otherwise. Â I deciphered all of that foreign mumbo jumbo and the gist was that, together with something else, (Pilate) Belle was Eljunbyro with that thing. Â The one who would resurrect Austraeoh. Â But alone, she is something else entirely. Â Innavedr. Â The one who will bring wind to the wings of the awakened Austraeoh and speed her forward on her eastward journey. Â Surprisingly, Kera, the mysterious new character who knew the symbol, is not Innavedr. Â It's Belle, of all ponies. Â And I must say - that is some beautiful thinking and writing you've got there to come up with that. Â I didn't see this coming from a mile away. Â Bravo, Imploding. Â You've still got it! Â These are my thoughts so far.Â
-MASH
P.S. Â Why is sleep such a big issue now?! Â Ugh...
P.S.S. Â Look for Marathon 11 in the near future!
Time for some rampant theorizing. The group-ness of Innavedr referring to a 'class' of entity aside, which these comments seem to have well and truly dissected, the chapter seems to have some very interesting implications with regard to the Alicorns' plans of all things.
The alicorns migrated from their home plane (the whatever whatever of Harmony that I can't remember) to find other worlds to colonize and bring harmony to. As far as I can figure, the eventual long term goal of all this is to create further bastions of harmony from which additional harmonic leaning races can spread or whatever. Coat the universe in harmony and all that. The Machine Plane (or this fragment of it at least, Axan having referenced a 'Sundering' at one point which seems to imply that this plane is a smaller fragment of a greater whole that drifted away from the main part into the local chaos nebula, but I digress) seems to have been a nonideal choice for this purpose.
This flow seems to indicate, in brief, the way the machine plane conducts itself. A bit difficult to put in words without additional data points, but given at the very least the semi-suicidal nature of Austraeoh's task combined with the above and other bits of the kid's long rant; in some sense the machine seems to derive energy from sacrifice or at the very least from leaving at least some portion of the entities dwelling broken, or something to that effect. (hard to put this in words) Since this sort of energy is required to keep the Machine running, where a Machine failure would result in the death of the plane somehow (still want to know what the external events of that would be. Physical breakdown? Leaching of energy from the surface? Sudden absence of background energy that supports the leylines required for the world to function properly thus causing it to break apart into the chaos nebula?), in the very strictest ideal sense that would seem to prevent it from being an ideally harmonic bastion.
"But," you say, "that is only one specific instance. Barring that the rest of the plane could easily have fully harmonic inhabitants." Doesn't seem likely. the countries on the continent containing the Equestrian heartland were certainly exhibiting harmonic behavior with regards to their view of the world, by which I mean the ultimate power that they appealed to was the goddesses, the alicornic bastions of harmony (with the noted exception of Darkstine, who were in some weird intermediate state courtesy of the exposed obelisk combined with an absurd fanatic). Beyond that, the supreme power is the Spark, indicating, at least on the large collective level, the power of the Machine plane is the most significant, trumping that of the harmonic alicorns. (Note that this analysis isn't confirmed until we hit a third continent and see whether they stay machine-oriented or go back to alicorn-oriented, barring oddities in local cultural development.) The tentative hypothesis for this result is that while those cultures in close proximity to the bastion of harmony that is Equestria do indeed follow suit in displaying harmonic tendencies, those cultures further out inadvertently develop an affinity to the machine plane that they dwell on. Since the machine is not harmonic shifted, but instead appears to be either a balance of harmonic and chaotic energies, or potentially an additional third energy type (whatever the dragons are aligned with, as they appear to be the major native inhabitants of the plane), this would result in the cultures far out from the heartland, while being harmonic-shifted as ponies are an inherently harmonic-aligned race due to alicorn descent and whatever, not being purely and ideally harmonic like inhabitants of the Plains of Harmony would be (Ha! I remembered it!). At the very least, the harmonic-shifted energies in the heartland are likely responsible for the utter lack of attunement with the machine, as the diarchs (who are basically harmony given form in their ideal state) have absolutely no sense of machine whatsoever. Of course this is dependent on a small web of theories and models in my head with regards to how harmonic and chaotic energies interact being at least approximately correct. (So far I haven't been very far off yet where the world is concerned. Surprised myself actually. Still need more data points.)
As for two other points of *relative* minutiae, if the Machine energies are indeed a balance point of harmonic and chaotic energies and not a third independent type (and currently I think there's a decently strong case can be made for the former based on the wording of some things), then I remain convinced that Luna's earlier explanation is utter bull and there does exist a metastable equilibrium state within RD with regards to the internal harmonic/chaotic forces and their toxicity thereof. Especially considering that as Celestia and Luna seem to be in the dark about a surprising number of things, they do not have a super refined grasp of the theory behind harmonic and chaotic energies (at least relative to, say, the alicorns that set up the harmonic shield separating the plane from the nebula) and that the knowledge they do have is quite heavily slanted towards application as they do have to run the whole place between the two of them. And that furthermore, the pendant, while most certainly preventing her death while the forces are unbalanced, is also preventing the formation of such a state by heavily favoring harmony (for obvious reasons). (Although I am unfortunately aware the implications of this could be sketchy as far as shaping the narrative goes unless it happens really late. RD is OP enough as it is. V:) Secondly, I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say that the master control room for the Machine Plane (which I am calling as being buried underneath the Midnight Armory because where else would it be) consists of a ring of some sort given all the ring symbolism here. Initial guess was said ring would have 12 control points. Looking unlikely as the 12 ... (labels? What should they be called when not referring to the glyph but the existence of the thing the glyph is referring to?) do not map 1-1 to individuals but I have no idea on that front.
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Its a shame fimfic's spoiler tags just blackout and can't be used to compress this mess of 4AM rambling
Unless the seed falls to the ground and dies, the plant cannot grow.
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So Belle is Innavedr, Belle and Pilate are Eljunbyro.
So much new stuffs.
So much confusion.
-Spirit
whoah...
So the whole purpose isn't to restore harmony. It's to rebuild the rings from Halo and eradicate all life in the universe.
That's dark, Skirts. Very dark. I like. XP
Damnit, I feel like I am nearly on the edge of compreshension and understanding everything. Almost like all the pieces of the jigsaw are there, its just none of them show part the same image. My brain is hurting from trying to work it out.
Jesus, that's a lot to take in...
Alright, so, everyone's comments helped me explain this more. However, I can't help but wonder: what did Discord have to do with this? We know that all of Dashie's friends died fighting him, and they were trapped as essence in The Element of Loyalty. Luna is having Rainbow Dash go east to the midnight armory, which we still don't know what's contained within. On top of that, Rainbow seems to have been highly exposed to doses of chaos magic, causing her to fly into that Discordian mode when not contained by the essence of her friends and the element of loyalty. She's Austraeoh, which means she's connected to the spark somehow...
I think Discord might have a direct connection to the spark, and this machine world.
Being late, I think everyone already said everything that was to say about this chapter and it's implications. However I'd like to point out something
12 stories divided by 2. Six for bright side and six for dark side. Now, how about this. On the bright plane Dash "accumulates" a buffer of friends to help her get to the Midnight Armory and then, on the dark side, she will start losing her friends. The "dark forces of the dark side of plane" whatever they may be will be too much for them and finally Dash will reach the Midnight Armory alone.
4283605 I think, They are ALL innavedr. The whole group. Bell and pilate were eljunbyro, But the Wind has been restored, so now as more join the group they become Innavedr, Vessels of the spark, those who propel and carry it as opposed to merely those who restore it.
And the metaplot develops
This got deep fast.
Well, I think one of them might be "forty-two". Or maybe the other one is "Doctor Who?"
I forgot that Belle still thinks Pilate is dead.
So we hear the title for the first time
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We actually hear it a bit earlier than that.
Still in the same chapter though.
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Actually, we've heard it way earlier than this. Kera read it from the ancient book thingy Rainbow found with the dead pegasus at the cave, though Kera didn't know the meaning of Innaveder.
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I doubt knowing a bit of Chinese will help with any Western languages...
Sincerely, a fellow native speaker.