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=*= Origin of Necron =*=
In Bran Bal, the learning of information is done via basking in a crystal’s light.
A single genome cannot bask in the light emitted from every side.
“The fire consumed half the continent.”
“The wind died.”
“The earth began to rot.”
In this way, information exchange is necessary, and encouraged. It prevents atrophy of the vessels.
On Gaia, far more often, there are books.
Compared to a crystal, a book is self contained.
It is a solitary, lonesome process, to read —
much different from gathering, in groups, to bask and share.
‘Complete’ Terran records exist, technically... ...As certain lifeforms.
“Want”—- that is a word unknown to those that live on the underworld.
The conveyance of information is only meant for utilitarian purposes.
And yet—-
Terra was once a living land, wasn’t it?
Its people had to have told stories. Myths.
Was there ever any greater magic than in their manipulations of bone and blood and stone?
Rotten and faded, there it was.
a tome, a tomb:
it was a gallery of Terra’s long forgotten eidolons.
“Necron”— “The Darkness of the Unknown.”
“The eidolon of ice and death.
To stand in its presence is to know the face of oblivion.”