Date: Twenty-Fifth of Autumn Year 1
With the creation of the gems for these... lets call them Sirens because of how they use music. Anyway, with the creation of the gems for the Sirens I have been made aware of something that I can only assume I have been ignoring until now.
How, precisely, does magic work? Yes I understand that it is magic and therefor not something I should be capable of completely understanding, but I feel as if I should already know this.
Thankfully I was capable of trading a few items to a traveler in exchange for his literacy. So while I -for whatever reason- was capable of speaking the local language and several others that I am confident I had never heard before, I am now also capable of reading and writing in a few of these languages as well. I will continue to write this journal in the Hebrew Alef-Bet however.
I like the runic look it gives, and it will be far better encrypted as well. I have met very few others that were capable of reading Hebrew in my time, the fact I know it myself is simply from high school boredom.
I am getting off track however.
With my new found ability to read the local language I have procured several books on magic, unfortunately they were less then useful as none of there authors seemed to be Scholars researching magic itself and were filled with mostly useless, for me anyway, spells.
There was one however that mentioned Ley Lines and The World Weave. With something to focus on now I procured more books, well, scrolls to be precise.
A note for the future; most proper Scholars seem to use scrolls rather then books. And no, I will not say how I got them.
With my new material I was capable of doing a proper study... And felt as though I was reviewing something that I knew by heart. Curious.
Ley Lines are, to put it in a way any clever decoder might understand, the Veins and Arteries of the world. Only instead of blood they transfer magic in a constant cycle through the world and will not move unless impossibly powerful magic is involved. Most Unicorn and Abyssinian city's are built on top of them, usually on any cross sections they can find. Nothing I haven't heard of in my home world. Mostly in mythology, but still, nothing new to me.
The World Weave, however, is something that should be new to me and yet it is not. The World Weave is the bleed off of Ley Lines. It is similar to the ocean or high altitude wind, moving in currents and tides but changing at the slightest provocation. It is where most living beings pull their natural magic from, and those extremely sensitive to or pulling large amounts of magic from it can even feel an aethereal wind. A wind that will most oftenly make hair move in a direction the wind is not blowing, possibly even the opposite direction, or in a windless environment.
And with the... review done I began to search any studies on Primordial Void Magic, or Chaos Arcana as Master Sura would put it. But the only thing I found was a warning.
Beware the cold unpredictable grip of The Void.
A warning worth warrant? Or the mad ramblings of Grogar? The only being that was willing or insane enough to study the void for the creation of his monsters.
Only one way to find out. Studying the Void Gems that the Sirens bring me should prove of use.
Farewell til I write again,
Nox The Unfortunate
Freezing Sun and Burning Moon,
The world moves for you.
Delusional and Terrified,
The God fearing Crusade.
Rise and Fall,
Collapse it all.
The End?
Or New Beginning?
Triumph and Doom,
I̴̼͆ ̵̈̚͜w̷̮̭͐̿i̴̺͛l̷̲̆l̴͍̻̿ ̸̠͎̌́s̵̻̽͋ẽ̷̳͍e̷̲̓ ̶̗͍̓ÿ̴̫̇o̷͎͉̊u̷̩̿ ̴͙̄͜ŝ̴̲ǒ̵͈̓ͅó̶̜̉n̴̼̭̓....
-does.
Great chapter as always, Advocate. I can't wait to find out what the little green text bit at the end means.
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Thank you for the typo correction. But I'm afraid that I don't know what "little green bit" you're talking about, cause I don't see it.
well, I really didn't expect to find such a good fic, I really like it, all I would ask for would be longer chapters.
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I would prefer to have the chapters I write be closer to 1500 words long, the problem with that is I tend to stop where it feels natural to so I'm not forcing anything out. I've done that with another story before and I haven't had the motivation to start it up again.
Oh? If so, then I await our (next?) meeting. For all things that begin will end.....or perhaps they will loop? From our limited mortal perspective we perceive beginnings, and ends to things, events, and people....but our memories are faulty even at their best. If reincarnation is a truth, which supernatural origin has a scientific parallel: "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but can change form" then the Rise and Fall of nations, Birth and Death, Building and Destroying- is merely the same tired act playing out over and over endlessly in infinite (and repeating) variations. The "how" of it matters not so much as the fact that "It Will Be" at some point. How many new cities and towns are built on the bones of one that came before it? All of them. How much water do we drink each day that was at some point in unwritten history a living creature's blood? All of it. One day tens of thousands of people will drink what was once my own blood, and never know or care that it was. How many genetic variations can we mix-and-match before one of our descendants will carry the same exact face that we wear now? Does it matter? Of course not. What once was, will be again. From the grandest invention to the most horrific war crime. The people of that age will call it new. The people of that age will decree that never in human (if we're still human as we see it at that point. We may be something.....else by then.) history has something so horrible or amazing ever happened before....but they will be lying. They just won't know it. And so The Cycle will continue. Is this all Madness, or True Sanity?
I̴̼͆ ̵̈̚͜w̷̮̭͐̿i̴̺͛l̷̲̆l̴͍̻̿ ̸̠͎̌́s̵̻̽͋ẽ̷̳͍e̷̲̓ ̶̗͍̓ÿ̴̫̇o̷͎͉̊u̷̩̿ ̴͙̄͜ŝ̴̲ǒ̵͈̓ͅó̶̜̉n̴̼̭̓....
I will wait. I will watch. We will meet. We will part. And one day we will meet again. This forgetful and limited-perspective short-lived mortal can only pray that such encounters will be pleasant.
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Don't ask where that all came from. I wax mildly philosophical/crazy from time to time.
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You just made my night a hundred times better.
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*bows*
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This is kind of out of nowhere, but does anyone know where I can find a new job? I've worked for Amazon for a little over 5 years, and I am more than ready for something new (I'm shocked I'm not an alcoholic yet. All the bad rumors are true, or close to all. no joke). I live in Delaware. Someone please help a fool who's terrible at finding new work due to not knowing the names of possible occupations. I've done the cliche janitor, fast food, retail, and warehouse jobs, and I never want to do them again if it can be avoided. High school grad, no college. Please, even website suggestions would help.
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Afraid I'm not much help with finding a job, 'specially in Delaware. I've never been there. Best I could tell you would be Walmart or to do what I hope to do but will likely not succeed at and try to start writing books
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You could probably make a decent living as an Uber or Lyft driver. A friend of mine does that job a few hours a week on the side and gets around $100 or so. I don't know how many people use that as a full time job, but it might work.
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Appreciate the suggestion, but I've already worked at Walmart, lol. Some good times, some annoying-as-vomiting-and-diarrhea-at-the-same-time times.
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Don't have a SMART phone, but thanks for the suggestion.
I would love to see more soon.
Is this story dead?
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No. I'm just being a lazy procrastinator.
That's understandable
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Yeah, I have the next six or so chapters planned out but only about 300 words between all of them.
Edit: I counted and it is closer to 3000 words total, but that also includes the first cross over and that chapter is just waiting for me to get to the right point to post it.
any idea when we can expect an update and new chapter?
That last bit reminds me of Bill Cipher.