Extracts from various pages of Sav’s notebooks, decrypted and translated from her shorthand
Roughly 6th month, 920 onward
fake sun god (pelor?) = sun = brought back undead
stars = suns
angels <-> sun (ray, light, night weakens)
but pelor sun = undead
now night = undead? check with Ash
Xerastul’n illithid home magic stone to counter pelor
where’s the stone now?? why was it necessary? (if stone at all?)
is that what they’re looking for? If still anti-sun does still works on them?
shard = stone? no, build make pattern def skyfolk
why here particular, otherwise? Rhun story says they spread wide normally, aught here they’re looking for in specific?
or gathering weapons against Paradox?
or just because Citadel was called an Al came along for the ride to find source of call and figured, eh, this place is good enough?
parasitic repro he said - when accepted folk leave with painted eye - symbolic? actually just psychic grub in brain?
oh shit grub
oh shit inoculation! prisoner??
How to remake here? [this is underlined several times]
maybe that’s why so many here when only saw Al? brought grubs in citadel/tower? or those in Fade Beast egg sac actually baby angels? if lived long enough soldiers would change into angels? (river serpent angels?) maybe diff creatures just similar repro because same kintype
If angels = illithid, king = elder brain? but not just illithid, def diff, dangerous assump to make
still, if needed target Al first, most dangerous
but paradox = greatest danger, nonexistence
can’t be complete chaos of everything everywhere all at once, must have some recognizable separate forms; Sal said harbinger and serpent exist as separate bodies, opened a door to other plane with things like water and space/time and saw serpent existing there
confluence + paradox are what E’s spoken of, at diff times but with such few words must have had to choose carefully
confluence related to P? draws on or counters chaos of no-time? converts unreality to reality? weaken P if so?
if weave = time = wall, opening doors in stuff to other realities = opening doors in time to some degree, not just place
relation between time and space again, like seen before??
time magic said forbidden where PSE grew up bc mucked with reality, presumably weakened said wall
but not transport magic?
memento = machine that kept immortal (=immune to time) queen alive = factor in fabric of reality tearing
tower = factor in reality tearing = mucks with time as well? could part explain geological records vs City age and all historical records mismatching
E mucked w time and opened Doors w other object = factor/trigger in reality tearing
maybe translocation only a risk when stuff is already weak
wait if weave = time but P lives in/is no time - might mean can’t do magic there?
fuck
if P = no magic (speculation), =ethan?? how’d he gain anti-detect anyway
after Talith taken first time right? exposure to sufferin trigger something?
not anti-magic though, tested enough to be sure, just being perceived. also can teleport. at least wi items. not sure ever tried me teleportin he
wonder if time magic would work on him. maybe risky to muck wi
elf queen still immortal? immune to magic??
every way every time
every space/direction/technique every time/magic/weave
place outside of time/magic/space. whiteness where blink out Sal described? in P home itself? hate idea of bracing predator in its lair, but may be necessary
not the first time after all
though this one makes tyr look like a wee puffy kitten
wish I knew what the angels were telling people, wonder if it’s worth going to talk to em
might just get a grub in the head for the trouble though
Ashen = diff
Hark = diff
less diff than some other worlds
if so, how to know if the people known are the same people known? What if diffs can be tiny? maybe one bug got crushed and that’s enough of a change to spin off a different place.
what if Ethan and Bax and Talith are all from diff realities and just close enough canny be told?
what if I am? sure certain memories can be made up, can do just wi enough haverin and torture, let alone magic.
didnae Gwin say E wasnae the original one born on her world but some time-snatched foundling (but does diff time = diff world? might still have been home for him)
but he still grew up there an didnae travel after appearing there as a wean so doesnae matter
wait
during that time of B. when nothing existed for however long. technically P won then aye?
anything coming after it - anything in the now or future or the past the angels built - still P winning, aint it? cause that’s common to everything now as far as I know. no visible other realities. (but there are other times, other Es. how getting around? also just cause canny see doesnae mean no there, obv) and past and present prob hardly matters to timeless chaos?
solution = collapse all, go back before B? or before P? canny no be possible can it? if it existed before even time etc
but existence of possibility of everything implies existence of nonexistence too dont it. “everything” has to include “nothing.” set of all numbers includes 0 (and negatives)
of course P including its own opposite in itself also seems paradoxical, which would mean P is still present, which would mean its opposite canny be truly opposite? running into problem of omnipotence.
what’s opposite of P? extreme, rigid order? no possibility of change? (Ashen?)
an “everything” doesnae necessarily mean “everythin that could possibly exist”, could just be “everythin that currently exists,” since it seems time or “walls” isnae included in this “everythin” P holds
what causes P? how does it manifest? just shady beings? must ask Sal, said there were/he saw “leaks” preB
if “paradox” not just cool-sounding name but also reflects on what tis related to means has aught to do wi two hings bein true that by logical premise cannot be true, like - someone existing when they already existed an died, supposin there’s only one
like Sal.
takin P harbinger as shadowy taint mentioned in between encounter an if sal went through that maybe that’s why he had that taint Sylas sniffed?
or lookin at time, takin E an my research f.e., if he’s from the future an brings back aught I made then to past me that means I never needed t make those hings an so where did they come from t be brought? or does that make it stable bc it at least still exists even if its origin is now sourceless? But if I do new things based on that brought-back research does no change progress of events?
solvable by multiple-reality thesis, each change splittin into new realities - if we trust memories (dangerous, but all we got), we know that existed before B anyway. May still, just too stable to go between? If time = walls between realities then yeah, forward progress of time meaning can’t break time/walls/visit other realities
must diff from Feywild an Pale Lands an all, less we’re no supposed to visit those either an those have their own versions of diff realities
int there sth about Feywild leaking into here these days? Alb seemed to think so. lots of the monsters seeming similar anyway an a big thin space not far from here. would that explain summit too? if there’s “leaks” though then that means some walls ent fully up, there’s holes, or the patch job the angels or whoever did wasnae too good (well, known). but argues for Feywild not bein a separate reality/time in that same sense even if time does work weird there
if time is weird there an time = magic = wall, is feywild closer to P? is that how P got into our world? (is this all ultimately Roux an Athelia’s fault??)
if P is lit just chaos an all hings existing at once that means when Time didn’t exist we existed in it too. all of us, every one, all jumbled together. but consciousness didnae because how can ye have thought wo time to separate them, even a wee bit (light is fast but still travels and needs time to spread, thought probly ent faster)
wait is that why we all carry bits of D now and her name be written in the patterns, because we were all one at one point and got mixt up all together?
ah shit
I hope I wasnae lyin before when I said she wast still alive
an part-human too right, accounta her das? they had some part to do wi
oh
wait what if Eth also carries piece of D that canny be seen/detected accounta his gonny-no-look-at-me shit, but angels can low-sense because kintype? but then he doesnae vanish I hink, nor dream, nor link with any of the rest of us; only thing shared is returnt
but sylas showed multiple souls can rest in one body
didnae seem stable though, but blank bx maybe prob special case an I reckon sylas crushed previous souls inty his one on manifesting
are Rs just folk who were alive at the time of B an non-Rs are souls that died afore us an got sucked away where’er they go? or ones that died tween the tower’s fall an the B?
what’s population numbers like now
… where do new souls come from anyway
wish I could talk to Syl about this, bet they’d know aught
wonder if could be D had aught to do with B. happened right when she wast attackin angels an right furied Eth’d die. would she break world to keep him from them? don’t see how though, never saw her do magic on that scale even if she did come back from the dead. maybe right time right pressure? (or wrong time wrong pressure, we)
speaking of people who’re supposed to be dead but ent, that alone canny be the only thing that determines P taint can it? Syl never mentioned aught on Roux nor D afterward. by Peach acct Sal had gone back way further an did a bunch a stuff before dying heroically or whatnot, an then later in Des auld tower some other version of him pre-heroic life was brought back. an when he went back all the memories they had of him as weans all disappeared because… well that bit makes no sense to me, unless they all shifted to other people/realities wo realizin, because the actions he’d already took shoulda remaint even if he went back and did mair stuff in deep past that then had a knock-on effect. unless those changes he made then meant he wis never born, so never met the others of his village, an then never went back in
head hurts
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