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The Crystal Sphere is Eternal
There is nothing without the Crystal SphereThe Anvil hangs above the Resplendant WorldsThe Sphere of Souls screeches with stellar booms, cracking apart the aether to bring into existence a constellation of stone moonlets, its Firstborn, covered in never blinking, ever staring crystal eyes and mouths and ears with vestigial arms that wave idly in the aether winds. They slowly disperse on the melody currents and spherical fluxes, scattered all over. They screech at each other about logic through their many mouths, speaking in fractured echoes distorting and mutating over time, never creating or pioneering, never new or original, going in endless circles.
[-1 Spherical Alignment]
The Anvil plants within the Firstborn an archival seed, that attempts to record the decrees of the Twelve.Drawing from the source of authority, the Sphere of Throne bends time to decree that the Pink Sun shall be its crown, and the ring-world shall be its throne! When the crown is donned, and they are seated upon the throne, Utugar shall find that many things obey them!
"I DECREE, that all that flourishes does so, for my body shines upon them the planets life, tied to the warm light of my pink sun."
- Levis est geminae, Resplendent World of Light, the First CycleWith great solemnity and grim seriousness, the Sphere of Light declares itself the source and wellspring of all life, cementing their status as the great
pink sun which illuminates all with their glory, eagerly devouring any shadows before they can be cast.
[+1 Spherical Alignment]
With fatalism and joy, the Sphere of Plants utters their moon-daughter into existence, feeding her its own plantflesh to help in growing big and strong.
A small (compared to Eschara) ball of hardwoods that grows ever outwards, eagerly drinking in the pink sunlight as the inner core dies off, fossilizes and compresses inwards. The Wood Moon happily circles around their parent sphere, burbling and chuckling in plant language of leaves, pollen and flowers and the slow flowing of sap.
[+1 Spherical Alignment]
The auspicious light of the Anvil causes a copper tree that bears precious nectarines to sprout on the Wood Moon.The Throne-Sphere attempts to add dyes and toxins to the
Pink Sun to change it to a more pleasing shade but finds that this working has insufficient foundation in character and so reality refuses to co-operate with their efforts.
[Working failed]"For it seems that my siblings will not be peaceful, my decree is to allow the life to move from one world to the next, I decree pillars of land starching[sic] across the ether like a web, centered upon my world, not connected to any other but stand near them."
- Sheroad, Resplendent World of Trade, the First CycleLike a cunning spider, the Sphere of Trade weaves their words in a great web spanning across much of the Crystal Sphere, winding sky-roads that tease and tempt the twelve resplendent worlds but never quite touch them.
[+1 Spheric Alignment]
The well-timed light of the Anvil turns the Sky-Roads into shimmering rainbow bridges that will chase after the worlds as they change, move and are destroyed and created.The Sphere of Beauty declaims reflected, reversed, distorted poetry, which congeals into the most beautiful sphere in creation, his daughter-wife, the Mirror-Moon. Instantly, the Sculptor is jealous of their sculpture's beauty, just as their daughter-wife envies their father-husband's power. Superficially cordial and obedient, the Mirror-Moon orbits her husband, and where they face each other they present an infinite fractal microcosm of reflections. Pink sunlight dances along their surfaces.
The Sculptor pretends to be happy that he has increased the beauty total, and that he can reflect more perfection.
The reflection of the Anvil endows the Mirror-Moon with an enchanting singing voice and mastery of dance.The Mirror-Moon hides her disdain for the Anvil behind graceful gratitude.
[+1 Spherical Alignment]
*static*Fates*static*axe.*static*blind*static*random*static*cruel*static*resplendant*static*will be done!
- Resplendant World[?] of Justice[?]The Sphere of Justice pronounces into being the karmic system of discord and harmony. Those who go out of tune are punished by fate, those who follow the melodic streams prosper. It is known that cruelty is discordant and disruptive of the musical order.
"I Lohrasil, god of luck. I order a decree that none shall be set in place. All power, glory, and wealth shall be able to freely fluctuate between us."
- LOHRASIL, RESPLENDENT WORLD OF LUCKThe Sphere of Luck
stutters incoherently clears their sphere-throat and
goes to sleep begins to
descend, casting off their shell as a giant ivory moon speak into being
the avenging star that is fated to kill them an attack on the stability of the Crystal Sphere. Change and flux
causes the Sphere of Luck to pop out of existence can now raise the low up high and cast the high down low.
[-2 Spherical Alignment] [+2 Discord]
[By Karmic Decree, the Sphere of Luck must descend, pulled down low.]Uttering secret words of forge and hammer, the Sphere of Metal disassembles their own being into great cubits of material, which under its instruction turn into glorious stars radiating with forged heat, and did then adorn the Crystal Sphere with stars of gold and silver and platinum, filling up the skies with dots of metallic splendour.
[+2 Spheric Alignment]
[+1 Decree]
Taking the lead with ambition,
AWE is the first of the resplendant worlds to
descend. With hope, they take up solar knives, cutting themselves into many tiny chunks with surgical precision, each cut letting loose a spray of asbestos blood which joins with the aether. Again and again they cut away at the Sphere of Asbestos, throwing their remnants beyond all the worlds, to circle around them in a great asteroidal belt that slowly takes shape.
At last the work is done, and
AWE emerges as a Radiant Realm, a burning clockwork asbestos organ, that begins to be pulled towards the Sphere of Metal by the material laws of the Crystal Sphere. If no intervention occurs,
AWE will land upon the Resplendant Ferrous at the beginning of the Second Cycle.
[+1 Spherical Alignment]
[
AWE becomes a Radiant Realm]
[Asbestos Asteroid Belt Remnant created]
Reeling from chronal backlash, Utugar is the second to descend, unravelling themselves into a thick bolt of cloth which they tailor into the ring-shaped Throne-World which encircles the Pink Sun-Crown. The outer, less bright side of the Throne-World is encrusted with a thick bounty of gold and gems, its inner face a looping desert of metallic sands.
The Radiant Throne-Realm, a continental asbestos ruler-chair, lands upon the Throne-World with a soft *thump*.
[+1 Spherical Alignment]
[Utugar becomes a Radiant Realm]
[Ringed Throne-World Remnant Created]
Humming a merry tune, the
Pink Sun skips happily across reality oohing and aahing at the sky roads, trying to talk to the Firstborn who just mindlessly repeats whatever she says to them, being gifted a tangerine by the copper tree of the Wood Moon, which her Sun-Dogs jealously guard, and touring the perfect, completely solid and opaque barrier of the Crystal Sphere, beyond which there is nothing.
[+1 Harmony]
The Sphere of Beauty grabs the opportunity when the Pink Crown-Sun wanders closer to him, as with gravitical finesse he mine various gems from the throne-world, fashioning dazzling gem-stars.These he sets loose within the Aether, for the delight of the Resplendant Worlds and their Moon-Daughters.
Refractions of the Anvil blesses the Gem-Stars with pleasing resonances, which adds notes to the spherical harmony as they dance among the Resplendant Worlds.[+2 Spherical Alignment]
[+1 Decree]
[+1 Harmony]
As Abestos meteors sang past it, the Sphere of Soul dragged many into its spectral orbit with ghostly roots. As the Pink Crown-Sun graced with a visit, the Sphere of Souls flirted with one above its station, suggestively pushing asbestos asteroids into the pink corona to be melted. Though it took time, and many risque moves, eventually the asbestos was melted down but Marrow lacked the skill or fortitude of character to weave them into his vision. Instead it ends with a lumpy blob of Asbestos which stubbornly hangs around, ever reminding the Sphere of Soul of its own incompetence.
[Working and Solar Courtship Failed]The Sphere of Slumber slumbers. Do not believe their lies."By the will of the FATES, by the will of my absolute being, I declare MYSELF as the CRYSTAL SPHERE. *static* FALSE SPHERE, a pretender *static*. By this DIVINE DECREE, it is SO."
- Coruxion, Resplendant World of Crystal, the First CycleWith unending generosity, the Sphere of Crystal offers itself up as tribute to the Crystal Sphere. Propelled by the might of its own decree, it is catapulted into the embrace of Holy Infinity. Seeking to hasten the assimilation it attempts to gnaw at the sky, but finds its bite lacking in character. Slowly, it feels its mass being melted into greatness, as it becomes the Crystal Sphere.
Eventually all that remains unsubsumed, an angel of endlessly nested crystal wheels, which constantly sing the glories of the Crystal Sphere. Coruxion the Radiant Realm of Crystal.
By celestial mechanics, Coruxion is drawn to the Sphere of Plants and will touch down among its leafy expanses at the beginning of the second cycle barring intervention.
[+2 Spheric Alignment]
[+1 Decree]
[+2 Harmony]
[Coruxian has descended into a Radiant Realm]
[The Sphere of Crystal Remnant has been subsumed into the Crystal Sphere]
The Sun is Ascendant! Let struggles be won, let the mind overcome fear and illusion. Renewal.The Crystal Sphere conducts the Karmic Harmony. Name: Levis est geminae
[Resplendent World]
0 Decrees
2 Spherical Alignment
1 Harmony
Sphere: Lux- "Light"
Constellation: Corona Australis- "Gemini"
Temperament and Humours: Joyful, full of cheer.
Goals: Fun
Vice: Āhrīkya - Lack of "Shame"
Virtue: Laetitia - "Joy, Gladness"
Name: Eschara
[Resplendent World]
0 Decrees
2 Spherical Alignment
Sphere: Plants
Constellation: A nest filled with eggs hatching into various organisms
Temperament and Humours: Nurturing
Goals: To spread life throughout the Crystal Sphere
Vice: Death
Virtue: Growth
Name: Ferrous
[Resplendent World]
1 Decrees
3 Spherical Alignment
Sphere: Metal
Constellation: The Hammer and the Anvil
Temperament and Humours: Phlegmatic
Goals: Construct
Vice: Pride
Virtue: Noblesse Oblige
Name: Second Precept: Acter Working Entity [AWE]
[Radiant Realm]
2 Decrees
2 Spherical Alignment
Sphere: Asbestos
Constellation: The Sun
Temperament and Humours: Choleric Bile
Goals: To imbue and strengthen
Vice: Blood
Virtue: Hope
Name: Coruxion
[Radiant Realm]
2 Decrees
4 Spherical Alignment
2 Harmony
Sphere: Crystal
Constellation: The Eye
Temperament and Humours: Vicious Blood, Restless Contempt
Goal: Ruin
Vice: Prosperity
Virtue: Despair
Name: Ύπνος
[Resplendent World]
1 Decrees
-3 Spherical Alignment
Sphere: Slumber
Constellation: The Moon
Temperament and Humours: Melancholy
Goal: Awaken
Vice: Sloth
Virtue: Introspection
Name: Sheroad
[Resplendent World]
0 Decrees
-1 Spherical alignment
Sphere: Trade
Constellation: Compass
Temperament and Humours: Assertive
Goals: Connected World
Vice: Overindulgent
Virtue: Charitable
Name: The Sculptor
[Resplendent World]
1 Decrees
2 Spherical Alignment
1 Harmony
Sphere: Beauty
Constellation: The Tower
Temperament and Humours: Joyous
Goals: Pretty Things
Vice: Contempt
Virtue: Creation
Name: Marrow
[Resplendent World]
0 Decrees
-2 Spherical Alignment
Sphere: Soul
Constellation: The Fool
Temperament and Humours: Measured and Calm.
Goals: To Enrich the Souls of Mortals.
Vice: To Twist the Mortals.
Virtue: Honor.
Name:Bakukik
[Resplendent World]
0 Decrees
-1 Spherical Alignment
Sphere: Justice
Constellation: The Axe
Temperament and Humours: Righteous
Goal: Fairness
Vice: Overanalyzing
Virtue: Equality
Name: Utugar
[Radiant Realm]
1 Decrees
1 Spherical Alignment
Sphere: Thrones
Constellation: The Seat
Temperament and Humours: Phlegmatic
Goals: Lording over puny mortals
Vice: Pride
Virtue: More pride
Name: Lohrasil
[Resplendent World]
0 Decrees
-6 Spherical Alignment
2 Discord
Sphere: Luck
Constellation: The Jack
Temperament and Humours: Sanguine
Goals: Gamble to gain power
Vice: Unreliability
Virtue: Miracles