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	{{creative-work \| title = Through A Glass Darkly \| type = short story \| author = Xorus}}		{{creative-work \| title = Through A Glass Darkly \| type = short story \| author = Xorus \| date = 2018-04-17}}

	There was nothing but a swirling fog in every direction. In all ways imaginable and inconceivable, all the same and all different, across all infinite possibilities. In all the manifold and subtle egresses of illimitable being, there was only nothingness, nothing but grey ethereal mists obscuring the mind. It was concealing not only vision, not merely sense nor sensibility, but the heart of the world itself. The flow of all magic. The fabric and the weave. The universal mind and the mind's eye. [[Eye of the Drake\|The Eye]]. Sleeping the sleep of strange and long forgotten aeons --- the ever watching and eternal eye, the ever troubled [[Koar\|god king]] --- turning and turned ever away from his endless nightmares of the abyss.		There was nothing but a swirling fog in every direction. In all ways imaginable and inconceivable, all the same and all different, across all infinite possibilities. In all the manifold and subtle egresses of illimitable being, there was only nothingness, nothing but grey ethereal mists obscuring the mind. It was concealing not only vision, not merely sense nor sensibility, but the heart of the world itself. The flow of all magic. The fabric and the weave. The universal mind and the mind's eye. [[Eye of the Drake\|The Eye]]. Sleeping the sleep of strange and long forgotten aeons --- the ever watching and eternal eye, the ever troubled [[Koar\|god king]] --- turning and turned ever away from his endless nightmares of the abyss.
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	==Behind the Scenes==		==Behind the Scenes==
	This is a first-person vignette for the player character [[Xorus]], illustrating his "dread seer" methodology of what is essentially astral projection. It shows him "harrowing" the outer planes in a kind of enhanced meditation to reorganize his memories and understanding of historical processes. The details mostly center around things relevant to the [[Wehnimer's Landing Storylines]] between 2010 and 2018. The exact timing is not clear except for it having taken place before the vigilante Rone went into the temporal rift and the [[Chronomage]] teleportation review, while set between the [[Keeping up with the Kestrels]] and [[Witchful Thinking]] storylines. It is set later in history than the [[Daemons of Future Past]] vignette, which may or may not have actually happened, which was set shortly before the death of Dennet Kestrel.		This is a first-person vignette for the player character [[Xorus]], illustrating his "dread seer" methodology of what is essentially astral projection. It shows him "harrowing" the outer planes in a kind of enhanced meditation to reorganize his memories and understanding of historical processes. The details mostly center around things relevant to the [[Wehnimer's Landing Storylines]] between 2010 and 2018. The exact timing is not clear except for it having taken place before the vigilante Rone went into the temporal rift and the [[Chronomage]] teleportation review, while set between the [[Keeping up with the Kestrels]] and [[Witchful Thinking]] storylines. It is set later in history than the [[Daemons of Future Past]] vignette, which may or may not have actually happened, which was set shortly before the death of Dennet Kestrel.

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			{{creative-work \| title = Through A Glass Darkly \| type = short story \| author = Xorus}}

	There was nothing but a swirling fog in every direction. In all ways imaginable and inconceivable, all the same and all different, across all infinite possibilities. In all the manifold and subtle egresses of illimitable being, there was only nothingness, nothing but grey ethereal mists obscuring the mind. It was concealing not only vision, not merely sense nor sensibility, but the heart of the world itself. The flow of all magic. The fabric and the weave. The universal mind and the mind's eye. [[Eye of the Drake\|The Eye]]. Sleeping the sleep of strange and long forgotten aeons --- the ever watching and eternal eye, the ever troubled [[Koar\|god king]] --- turning and turned ever away from his endless nightmares of the abyss.		There was nothing but a swirling fog in every direction. In all ways imaginable and inconceivable, all the same and all different, across all infinite possibilities. In all the manifold and subtle egresses of illimitable being, there was only nothingness, nothing but grey ethereal mists obscuring the mind. It was concealing not only vision, not merely sense nor sensibility, but the heart of the world itself. The flow of all magic. The fabric and the weave. The universal mind and the mind's eye. [[Eye of the Drake\|The Eye]]. Sleeping the sleep of strange and long forgotten aeons --- the ever watching and eternal eye, the ever troubled [[Koar\|god king]] --- turning and turned ever away from his endless nightmares of the abyss.

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	He reaches over and picks up his notes on the philology of the [[Research:Tehir Language\|Tehir language]] and its inconsistent deviations from the Common dialect. He was identifying foreign artifacts in their dead proto-language with the assumption that somehow the Sea of Fire had been influenced by the Ithzir. There were speculative notes suggesting that the "Emerald Sun" was an Ithzir artifact, possibly pertaining to their warding of the Shadows. Its earliest presence in this plane perhaps having been through the Faendryl in the annihilation of the [[Ashrim]], making its way somehow to what later became the Sea of Fire and creating it through devastation. There was a map circling its monoliths labeled with "Ithzir?"		He reaches over and picks up his notes on the philology of the [[Research:Tehir Language\|Tehir language]] and its inconsistent deviations from the Common dialect. He was identifying foreign artifacts in their dead proto-language with the assumption that somehow the Sea of Fire had been influenced by the Ithzir. There were speculative notes suggesting that the "Emerald Sun" was an Ithzir artifact, possibly pertaining to their warding of the Shadows. Its earliest presence in this plane perhaps having been through the Faendryl in the annihilation of the [[Ashrim]], making its way somehow to what later became the Sea of Fire and creating it through devastation. There was a map circling its monoliths labeled with "Ithzir?"

	There were a series of word diagramming charts converting out of the peculiar Tehir dialect. His premise was that Ithzir words were gradually morphed into the pronunciation differences from lack of contact. The terms "[[Bir Mahallah]]" and "[[		There were a series of word diagramming charts converting out of the peculiar Tehir dialect. His premise was that Ithzir words were gradually morphed into the pronunciation differences from lack of contact. The terms "[[Bir Mahallah]]" and "[[Life and Being in the Sea of Fire\|Tosuk'dusalla]]" were singled out as not truly being consonant with the dialect. The extended "ll" sound does not exist in it, nor does the "s" phonetic representation. Tosuk'dusalla is the devourer [[morduska]] of the sands, the so-called "Father of Storms", which properly spoken would be "Vozhib uv Vublz." He circled the "alla" in "Mahallah" and "dusalla", charting over to the Ithzir suffix "-tali", with the note "glottalized k" and the Ithzir word "Maktali."
	Life and Being in the Sea of Fire\|Tosuk'dusalla]]" were singled out as not truly being consonant with the dialect. The extended "ll" sound does not exist in it, nor does the "s" phonetic representation. Tosuk'dusalla is the devourer [[morduska]] of the sands, the so-called "Father of Storms", which properly spoken would be "Vozhib uv Vublz." He circled the "alla" in "Mahallah" and "dusalla", charting over to the Ithzir suffix "-tali", with the note "glottalized k" and the Ithzir word "Maktali."

	The phrase "Tosuk'du" was shifted out of the dialect as "Grak'ea" with a line crossing out the "s", then a line correcting this "ea" to the Tehir "ei" meaning "death", so it reads as "Grak the Death Storm." The Ithzir term "[[Orders of the Turamzzyrian Empire#Disciples of the Shadows\|Grak'na'Den]]" is connected by an arrow to "Vozhib gir mu teur" in Tehir, meaning "Father of the Black Heavens." The word diagram traces these aspects down from "Bir Mahallah" as meaning the "Ring of Storms (Here)". Next to the city on the map is a ring of monoliths called the "[[		The phrase "Tosuk'du" was shifted out of the dialect as "Grak'ea" with a line crossing out the "s", then a line correcting this "ea" to the Tehir "ei" meaning "death", so it reads as "Grak the Death Storm." The Ithzir term "[[Orders of the Turamzzyrian Empire#Disciples of the Shadows\|Grak'na'Den]]" is connected by an arrow to "Vozhib gir mu teur" in Tehir, meaning "Father of the Black Heavens." The word diagram traces these aspects down from "Bir Mahallah" as meaning the "Ring of Storms (Here)". Next to the city on the map is a ring of monoliths called the "[[Life and Being in the Sea of Fire\|Fovgroq]]" which literally means "Vast Claw." Below that he has written "Loq uv zhi Gir" for "Maw of the Void" with a question mark over the arrows between the Tehir "loq" for "maw" and the Ithzir "lok." Elsewhere he has drawn the "rak" in "Grak'na'Den" to the word "Iorak", the archaic term for Melgorehn's Reach, the entry point for Althedeus into this world.
	Life and Being in the Sea of Fire\|Fovgroq]]" which literally means "Vast Claw." Below that he has written "Loq uv zhi Gir" for "Maw of the Void" with a question mark over the arrows between the Tehir "loq" for "maw" and the Ithzir "lok." Elsewhere he has drawn the "rak" in "Grak'na'Den" to the word "Iorak", the archaic term for Melgorehn's Reach, the entry point for Althedeus into this world.

	''"The Sentinels of Kol'Tarsken refer to the [[Star of Khar'ta]] as the 'Emerald Sun'..."'' he murmured quietly to himself, ''"... curious. [[Krentuk]] referred to himself as the Starbringer for it, who in burning death becomes the Lightbringer."'' Would that make the Beast who desires the night, their [[Half-Krolvin Society and Faith\|Czagprozdmordg]] which [[krolgeh\|means]] "bringer of fear of death and night", the primordial we call Althedeus? He paused for a moment. ''"If this artifact of storm and ice --- whose home seems to be the Sea of Fire and may well have been the cause of the Witch Winter several centuries ago --- was also the means by which the Ithzir blinded Althedeus from their worlds, will his corruption of it with blood and shadows ultimately have the opposite effect for bleeding through the veil between our world and the Shadow Realm?"'' Is that how the properties of Kol'Tarsken bled through the mana storm?		''"The Sentinels of Kol'Tarsken refer to the [[Star of Khar'ta]] as the 'Emerald Sun'..."'' he murmured quietly to himself, ''"... curious. [[Krentuk]] referred to himself as the Starbringer for it, who in burning death becomes the Lightbringer."'' Would that make the Beast who desires the night, their [[Half-Krolvin Society and Faith\|Czagprozdmordg]] which [[krolgeh\|means]] "bringer of fear of death and night", the primordial we call Althedeus? He paused for a moment. ''"If this artifact of storm and ice --- whose home seems to be the Sea of Fire and may well have been the cause of the Witch Winter several centuries ago --- was also the means by which the Ithzir blinded Althedeus from their worlds, will his corruption of it with blood and shadows ultimately have the opposite effect for bleeding through the veil between our world and the Shadow Realm?"'' Is that how the properties of Kol'Tarsken bled through the mana storm?

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	He reaches over and picks up his notes on the philology of the [[Research:Tehir Language\|Tehir language]] and its inconsistent deviations from the Common dialect. He was identifying foreign artifacts in their dead proto-language with the assumption that somehow the Sea of Fire had been influenced by the Ithzir. There were speculative notes suggesting that the "Emerald Sun" was an Ithzir artifact, possibly pertaining to their warding of the Shadows. Its earliest presence in this plane perhaps having been through the Faendryl in the annihilation of the [[Ashrim]], making its way somehow to what later became the Sea of Fire and creating it through devastation. There was a map circling its monoliths labeled with "Ithzir?"		He reaches over and picks up his notes on the philology of the [[Research:Tehir Language\|Tehir language]] and its inconsistent deviations from the Common dialect. He was identifying foreign artifacts in their dead proto-language with the assumption that somehow the Sea of Fire had been influenced by the Ithzir. There were speculative notes suggesting that the "Emerald Sun" was an Ithzir artifact, possibly pertaining to their warding of the Shadows. Its earliest presence in this plane perhaps having been through the Faendryl in the annihilation of the [[Ashrim]], making its way somehow to what later became the Sea of Fire and creating it through devastation. There was a map circling its monoliths labeled with "Ithzir?"

	There were a series of word diagramming charts converting out of the peculiar Tehir dialect. His premise was that Ithzir words were gradually morphed into the pronunciation differences from lack of contact. The terms "[[Bir Mahallah]]" and "[[		There were a series of word diagramming charts converting out of the peculiar Tehir dialect. His premise was that Ithzir words were gradually morphed into the pronunciation differences from lack of contact. The terms "[[Bir Mahallah]]" and "[[Life and Being in the Sea of Fire\|Tosuk'dusalla]]" were singled out as not truly being consonant with the dialect. The extended "ll" sound does not exist in it, nor does the "s" phonetic representation. Tosuk'dusalla is the devourer [[morduska]] of the sands, the so-called "Father of Storms", which properly spoken would be "Vozhib uv Vublz." He circled the "alla" in "Mahallah" and "dusalla", charting over to the Ithzir suffix "-tali", with the note "glottalized k" and the Ithzir word "Maktali."
	Life and Being in the Sea of Fire\|Tosuk'dusalla]]" were singled out as not truly being consonant with the dialect. The extended "ll" sound does not exist in it, nor does the "s" phonetic representation. Tosuk'dusalla is the devourer [[morduska]] of the sands, the so-called "Father of Storms", which properly spoken would be "Vozhib uv Vublz." He circled the "alla" in "Mahallah" and "dusalla", charting over to the Ithzir suffix "-tali", with the note "glottalized k" and the Ithzir word "Maktali."

	The phrase "Tosuk'du" was shifted out of the dialect as "Grak'ea" with a line crossing out the "s", then a line correcting this "ea" to the Tehir "ei" meaning "death", so it reads as "Grak the Death Storm." The Ithzir term "[[Orders of the Turamzzyrian Empire#Disciples of the Shadows\|Grak'na'Den]]" is connected by an arrow to "Vozhib gir mu teur" in Tehir, meaning "Father of the Black Heavens." The word diagram traces these aspects down from "Bir Mahallah" as meaning the "Ring of Storms (Here)". Next to the city on the map is a ring of monoliths called the "[[		The phrase "Tosuk'du" was shifted out of the dialect as "Grak'ea" with a line crossing out the "s", then a line correcting this "ea" to the Tehir "ei" meaning "death", so it reads as "Grak the Death Storm." The Ithzir term "[[Orders of the Turamzzyrian Empire#Disciples of the Shadows\|Grak'na'Den]]" is connected by an arrow to "Vozhib gir mu teur" in Tehir, meaning "Father of the Black Heavens." The word diagram traces these aspects down from "Bir Mahallah" as meaning the "Ring of Storms (Here)". Next to the city on the map is a ring of monoliths called the "[[Life and Being in the Sea of Fire\|Fovgroq]]" which literally means "Vast Claw." Below that he has written "Loq uv zhi Gir" for "Maw of the Void" with a question mark over the arrows between the Tehir "loq" for "maw" and the Ithzir "lok." Elsewhere he has drawn the "rak" in "Grak'na'Den" to the word "Iorak", the archaic term for Melgorehn's Reach, the entry point for Althedeus into this world.
	Life and Being in the Sea of Fire\|Fovgroq]]" which literally means "Vast Claw." Below that he has written "Loq uv zhi Gir" for "Maw of the Void" with a question mark over the arrows between the Tehir "loq" for "maw" and the Ithzir "lok." Elsewhere he has drawn the "rak" in "Grak'na'Den" to the word "Iorak", the archaic term for Melgorehn's Reach, the entry point for Althedeus into this world.

	''"The Sentinels of Kol'Tarsken refer to the [[Star of Khar'ta]] as the 'Emerald Sun'..."'' he murmured quietly to himself, ''"... curious. [[Krentuk]] referred to himself as the Starbringer for it, who in burning death becomes the Lightbringer."'' Would that make the Beast who desires the night, their [[Half-Krolvin Society and Faith\|Czagprozdmordg]] which [[krolgeh\|means]] "bringer of fear of death and night", the primordial we call Althedeus? He paused for a moment. ''"If this artifact of storm and ice --- whose home seems to be the Sea of Fire and may well have been the cause of the Witch Winter several centuries ago --- was also the means by which the Ithzir blinded Althedeus from their worlds, will his corruption of it with blood and shadows ultimately have the opposite effect for bleeding through the veil between our world and the Shadow Realm?"'' Is that how the properties of Kol'Tarsken bled through the mana storm?		''"The Sentinels of Kol'Tarsken refer to the [[Star of Khar'ta]] as the 'Emerald Sun'..."'' he murmured quietly to himself, ''"... curious. [[Krentuk]] referred to himself as the Starbringer for it, who in burning death becomes the Lightbringer."'' Would that make the Beast who desires the night, their [[Half-Krolvin Society and Faith\|Czagprozdmordg]] which [[krolgeh\|means]] "bringer of fear of death and night", the primordial we call Althedeus? He paused for a moment. ''"If this artifact of storm and ice --- whose home seems to be the Sea of Fire and may well have been the cause of the Witch Winter several centuries ago --- was also the means by which the Ithzir blinded Althedeus from their worlds, will his corruption of it with blood and shadows ultimately have the opposite effect for bleeding through the veil between our world and the Shadow Realm?"'' Is that how the properties of Kol'Tarsken bled through the mana storm?