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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashy" data-source="post: 2412937" data-attributes="member: 312">The question I keep asking myself is why?Why, way back in pre-history, were the worms destroying everything?  Perhaps the worms are ***THE*** cosmic agents of destruction?  Perhaps they are the anthesis of creation itself?  Perhaps it was determined that Spira needed to meet its end and they were merely doing what they had always done, moving through the void until, drawn by the metaphysical "scent" of a bloated, dying world, they moved in for the "kill"?  Perhaps that is why they are now so angry and why they have remained bound to Spira for so long - they cannot move on until they have fufilled their purpose, which is to return the entire planet to the void of nothingness from whence it came?If this is the case, then there are many ways to learn more about the worms (many of them have been listed previously), but you have to have, IMHO, a primal, defining reason for why the worms where doing what they were doing to begin with.  Perhaps, deep within the Deep Ethereal Plane (the plane of proto-creation, remember), there is a place where everything that was, is, or will be created initially begins to form as a tiny drop of proto-matter (The Womb of Creation, perhaps?).  If so, maybe this place contains such fundamental secrets of every thing (living, non-living, dead, animate, or inanimate) that merely being there grants one complete knowledge about that thing (in this case, the worms).  However, the only problem is that the closer you come to the Womb, the more your very existence is reduced to its fundamental and primal parts - basilly to begin to dissolve into that which makes you up.  Might be a pretty nifty chanllenge for a group of high-level characters to surmount, eh?  I can just hear it now:Malachite: "Ok, so all we have to go is travel through the Ethereal, to this "Womb", and remain inside long enough to learn everything about the worms, right?"Agar: "Right."Malachite: "Sounds easy enough - what's the catch?"Agar: "Well, we have to figure out a way to keep our bodies and souls from dissolving into nothingness while we are there..."Malachite (clucks tongue): "Uh-huh..."<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I live to serve, O Great Three-legged One!</blockquote>

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