(That Book)
Shouldst thou seek to awaken oneself in the way of feelings heretofore untapped by the waking mind, there exists a magical spell that shall allow one to conquer that of oneself which they can no longer abide by the dominance of.
But reader, be forewarned, for while this spell can allow thou to conquer the feelings thou deem unfit to rule over thee, the means by which thou shalt do so in the feeling of this magic shall be one fraught with peril, for the thing thou shall create shall be as thou art. It shall possess that which thou possesses. It shalt know thee, and thou shalt know it. Thine fate shall be shared with the forme born of this magic, and so long as the creature of this spell yet lives, thou shalt slowly find its use to be worthless.
The longer thou leavest this magical beast undefeated, the more alike thou two shall become. However, thou must not slay it by thine own hoof, for to slay it would be to share in that fate. Furthermore, thou must not allow it to be slain by the hoof of another, lest the spell be broken prematurely.
Thou must defeat it, completely and utterly, for to conquer thy own emotions, thou must use the warfare of the heart to fight, and not the weapons and magics of the body. For it is simple to break apart a pony's flesh and bone, but to break their spirit requires true resolve. Only in their despair shalt the bonds between thou and thine spell be severed, and its purpose fulfilled.
Shouldst thou seek still the fate of the conqueror, then shalt thou see the method of this magic;
Shalt thou take the dream where one saw regret in the eyes of a lover, and it shall be wrapped tightly within the heart of darkness where one once dwelt.
This parcel shall then be pierced by the awakening to a new dawn, and it shall be pierced as well by the sight of a burning home, and the flames that one saw in the reflections of a mirror.
The parcel shall bloom, and must be fed with the memory of new grain, where the grain has been tempered with the first cut one felt as a child, and its shocked silence.
It shall bloom, and in that bloom one must look to the stars, and remember then the time when it was wondered what orb lay beyond them.
What upon that orb is so crucial, so fleeting, that the dream of that distant sphere yet appears in the mind, where no meeting has yet been had. What imaginings could be born, then, without a reason to imagine them?
Indeed, then, shall the caster feel what curious feelings would be felt by the fleeting, crucial things upon that distant orb? Shall the caster be imagined by what lay upon it?
Yes. The confidence of this be true, that what imagines is then imagined. What is reasoned thus reasons. That if there should be that distant orb among the stars or beyond, that it should house what could be, what could have been.
This which could have been, thou reader, shall be thy trial. Thou shalt thus, upon feeling this spell as one does, bear witness to a star in the night, cast upon the land where no pony has trod. Thou must not interfere, for fate is cruel and petty towards those unwilling to play upon its board.
The thing thou hast created, then, will possess thine talent, without knowing why, for the talent of a pony is their fate. In turn, then shalt thou know the imaginings of thine creation, and the spirit claimed to inhibit it, for in the imagination lay the fate of that distant sphere, for in that dream of far off places, one only finds places of dreams.
Thou shalt face a being with the mind of a distant land, one who draws upon naught but a pale shadow of thine talents given freely to them. And to defeat them, ye foal, thou must learn what they would teach.
And they shalt teach much indeed.
"Is this what you wanted to show me, Weiss? It's interesting, to say the least."
"God, I hate how shitty these books are at explaining spells. They really should use plain English for them, there's a hundred words for a hundred emotions, and instead the morons writing these books feel like jerking off their own literary superiority with incomprehensible prose."
"Distant orbs? Imagination? I don't even know what this spell is supposed to do, beyond apparently making some kind of creature piloted by some kind of spirit, and that's if this whole thing isn't just some metaphor."
"It..."
"It would draw upon a pale shadow of the caster's talents..."
"You would know the imaginings of the creation, and the spirit that inhabits it."
"To imagine is to be imagined..."
"...This can't be right... It can't be."
"Is that why I'm here? This spell?"
"The longer the caster goes without 'defeating' their creation, the more alike they become. Is that why I've gotten so good at Dark Magic? Why all of this empire-building shit came so easy? God, Dark Magic always was so simple to me, so trivial. I thought I just had a talent for it, but if this damn spell is right, then.. Then it's just his talent! Do I even have one of my own? God Damn it!"
"He knows, he knows all the stupid quotes from all the stupid cartoons I've ever watched. He knew the perfect things to say to break me down, he was trying to break me down this entire time."
"Why did he try to kill me? Did he not know? Why would he have tried to pull that migrant iron shit if it would just have gotten him killed too? Did he not care? Did he not believe that the spell would actually kill him if I died? Did he know something I didn't?"
"I don't understand, am I really going to become more and more like that bastard? Share his fate?"
"I..."
"I'm scared, Luna."
"I know, Weiss. This isn't the first time we've spoken of this tome."
"...I know. I didn't want to remember, did I?"
"You did not. But know this, Weiss, no matter what happens, you are my friend. Even fate is helpless in the face of friendship."
"Right. I think I'm ready to remember this. I can face this, if I have my friends by my side."
"Even if I am scared of what comes next."
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Sombra is either a god damn moron, or the greatest genius to have ever lived... Nah, he's a moron.
So humans, as creatures free of fate are capable to act, think, reason and imagine without relying upon fate. Therefore they can fully discover all the depths of the ember of fate given to them upon their summoning into a vessel created by this Advesary spell.
Does the spell actually provide some kind of mental link between caster and summon?
Or is the summoner meant to observe and learn?
Considering that the summon has a part of the summoners fate, it would probaly return this ember of fate to the summoner upon being properly "predigested"/broken down. And if the summoner was right next to their summon while it is slain while not predigested there might be some serious mental corruption from the summon's unbroken will. Once the summoner reabsorbs the ember of their fate, which most likely contains all this new information/lessons/imaginations, such an unbroken will might quite literal rip into their mind.
And if there is a link between summoner and summon using the fact both are using the same fate, then this might mean whoever expresses this fate more will get the rest of it. So if the summon - while disadvantaged by only having an ember of the shared fate while the summoner has several times the amount of fate - lives out more of the fate than the summoner, then the summon might become the new owner of the fate and siphon it from the summoner explaining what is meant with peril.
This is a rather intersting concept.
Holy shit dude...
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God, I love this comment. Very good comment.
I won't spoil certain things, but the spell as written essentially does the following, for those who don't want to try to parse shitty ancient lore;
The summoner goes through a bunch of meditations on the stars, and the idea of aliens, as well as meditating on the idea of regrets, loved ones, betrayal, and willpower.
The summoner "realizes" that they can't imagine something if there isn't a reason to imagine it.
If aliens exist, then they also imagine things. The caster must "realize" that any beings from beyond their world they imagine must contain a member who is also imagining them.
The spell uses this bond of co-visualization to bring into being an adversary containing emotions the caster wishes to overcome, the vessel falling from the sky like a shooting star to land somewhere in the general area.
The Summon shares their imagination with their Summoner, and the Summoner shares their fate (Destiny, Cutie Mark, Special Talent, Ect.) with the Summoned.
Only by defeating the summon emotionally can the spell be concluded properly. It's a metaphorical battle at its core, one of ideals and social warfare. If killed physically by the caster, then their shared fate dooms them, if killed by another individual, the spell is aborted prematurely.
"Only in their despair shalt the bonds between thou and thine spell be severed, and its purpose fulfilled."
The longer the spell is left unfulfilled, the less useful it becomes, as they regain the emotions they poured into the vessel to conquer as the two become more alike.
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Essentially the caster brings fourth a being that can "challenge" him and help him grow and evolve, is preety much what I got out of "ye olde English".
And only by proving casters "superiority" can the spell be broken, once everything can be gained from it.
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It's why I stated that Sombrero is a moron. In his endless ego manic idiocy, he has never considered that some is actually superior to him.
Not to say that we humans are some sort of god like beings, when it comes to complexities for the universe, but compared to ponies our understanding of it, and our sheer adaptability may as well make us seem overwhelming.
I wonder which emotion Sombra was trying to overcome when he summoned Weiss?
Oh sweet fuck no wonder weiss was sealed and luna does not want him to fulfill his revenge.
........oh shit
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Pity... Sombra once said that Weiss helped the Crystal Ponies out of Pity.
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Imagine Weiss with Sombras raw power. Even with his sanctum shattered Sombra is host to an Earth shattering amount of Mana.
In the modern day, Weiss is consumed by hate, much as Sombra is. Their bond pulling them together. And even in the past, Weiss's presence was already begining to stoke the fires of innovation in Sombra as he began to create golems of his own. Interesting to have the parallels highlighted like this. Also interesting to have a justification for Weiss's presence here.
I am quite curious how this confrontation is going to go, Sombra having found a way to shield himself from the kingdom hearts fury, but one contingent on a shell of love that would likewise cripple his own dark magic. To use his dark powers would mean to crack the shield of love protecting him. Will he use regular magic, rely mostly on his changeling allies, unleash some bioweapon on Weiss who has been forced out of his clone bodies and is now severely weakened and right in front of him? Fun stuff.
On a side note I also wonder if Weiss ever ends up integrating any more magical creatures into his body, albeit in a more subtle way, to increase the depth and range of his emotions yet further as he did with the dragon.
So I guess the spell just generates a mind from a possible world that would have imagined you to be your adversary.
It doesn't sound like it actually fetches people from existing worlds, though that might be equivalent depending on cosmology.
Cause otherwise the chances of finding a world whith someone that just happens to be imagining you in detail is either really unlikely or basically equivalent to generating one if universe is big enough , in the sense that picking a book from a library that containing all the books is the same as generating one.
I like that cause this kind of summoning is my favorite explanation for why somebody would be isekai'd to a world that happened to coincide whith some fictional work.
Cause it actually explains it, whithout needing to have the fictional world be the result of said fiction.
Even though that would make more sense, but it's much more common and thus boring.
Although I'd it's the same thing but in reverse(some process that searches for a world that happens to be similar to some fiction) it's still wayy better than if it's just a vague unexplained connection.
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if sombra is uncaring and weis has some and is better then mabey that is the answer
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Ye, This is actually why I never actually EXPLAINED why Weiss got Isekaed years ago when I STARTED the fic, I wanted to build up to this, this right here.
One thing I've said before about my other "OC/SI" fics is, quite frankly, I hate the idea of a ROB being the cause of a displacement, it's NEVER done well, and as such, I always make an effort to give (or plan to give) an ACTUAL, IN UNIVERSE reason to justify shit like this, Even if, and I'd like to stress this, the reason I give is worse than leaving it unexplained, or just saying "A Random Omnipotent Being did it for shits and giggles".
Plus, you have to admit, "Weiss appeared in the ancient past in the frozen north because Sombra 'Needed Worthy Opponents™'." is a hell of a twist.
does celestia know this?
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i mean twilight and cadence had to go through some challage to accend to alicorns so it could be that sombra is doing such a thing aswell and has coverd it up as a want of challange. probs not but an interesting thought
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Ah, but here is the failure of Sombra's plan: Cadence and Twilight weren't looking for challenges outside the scope of their universe. The universe provided the challenge, and they took it upon themselves to fix/win/succeed it.
Sombra, didn't. He took something outside of it, something foreign and utterly unknown. The poor, stupid sod Is lucky enough that Weiss is a good human. He could have pulled out a monsterous psychopath that would break his mind like a twig.
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And things like this is why I like this story so much~
God the anticipation and revalation is good. To prepare for its return, I reread the thing idly. I'm finally here, ma. And it's beautiful and sad.
“I always make an effort to give (or plan to give) an ACTUAL, IN UNIVERSE reason to justify shit like this, Even if, and I'd like to stress this, the reason I give is worse than leaving it unexplained, or just saying "A Random Omnipotent Being did it for shits and giggles".
I share this same gripe, and the way you’ve explained the premise is excellent.