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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 6143253" data-attributes="member: 63"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Welcome to the Convocation</strong></span></p><p>[align=right]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=57761&d=1371016944[/align]Lights dim, and the crowd murmur fades out. Two incandescent calcium oxide spotlights shine down on a stage podium, slicing out a single bright oval in the dark theater. A man with salt-and-pepper hair stands behind the podium, though you never saw him walk out. </p><p></p><p>“We have gathered for this convocation because we share a purpose.” As he speaks, he draws a cigarette from a case and lights it with a match. He takes a casual drag and continues, speaking through the smoke.</p><p></p><p>“That purpose is to fix the unsteady course of a flawed world. Some of us have worked to kindle industry, thinking progress and invention will defend nations from war and suffering. Others have ingratiated themselves with the callous and corrupt, ready to unmask their true faces and replace them with more honest and just leaders. You’ve unearthed ancient relics that revealed the forgotten origins of today’s woes, and have with regrettable necessity silenced those who would have revealed and thwarted grand design.</p><p></p><p>“Few of you have been trusted with the full extent of our agenda. You know simply that I or one of our other officers asked you to cloak yourselves, and then to strive and correct some flaw of society that the common people and their complacently powerful masters have chosen as ‘the way things are.’ Unlike them, we have not been content with an imperfect world, because we rebel against the conceit that the inertia of the world cannot change, that its course is set, that there is fate, or destiny.</p><p></p><p>“But the truth is, at their basest physical level, life, our planet, and everything we know is swayed by forces beyond us. If I may move from broad strokes to scientific particulars, our world is connected by ancient magic to eight planes – elemental realms of fire and earth and air and water, and inscrutable lands where time and space, life and death are corporeal and manifest. Look skyward and you can see these distant discs tracing their orbits through the night.</p><p></p><p>“These eight are but a handful in an infinite starscape of planes, and some of our agents have peered into the night sky to learn their nature. One airy world they spied through a powerful lens reveals itself to generate calmer and more predictable storms than we have here. Another planet, a dappled purple and yellow orb, is possessed of warm clouds and a strong cheerful emotion, while countless miles away a hazy nebula is wracked by eternal lightning – destructive but swift and powerful.</p><p></p><p>“Now, we have a world of our own full of elemental air energy, but its skies are thin, and the winds are erratic. Imagine if, instead of that plane, our world was infused with the energy from one of those others. It would change our climate. It would change, on subtle level, the emotions you feel looking at the sky. More than that, it would change the very fate of civilization.</p><p></p><p>“There is an ancient ritual seal, crafted and hidden by our distant ancestors, who chose which worlds our own would be linked to. But we have learned how to open that seal, and we are ready to change which planes dance in orbit with us. And that, ladies and gentleman, is the true purpose of our convocation. My name is Nicodemus, and though it was I who initiated our grand design, it is the right of you, the agents and officers of the Obscurati, to fix the unsteady course of a flawed world.</p><p></p><p>“For centuries prophets have sought visions in the night sky, and why? Because those eight worlds have power over us. The motion of the stars allows different ideals to gain ascendance: war, decay, chaos, exploration, order, creation. But no longer shall the procession of heaven obey the whims of an ancient, absent clockmaker. Now the hand that moves the stars shall be ours!”</p><p></p><p><img src="http://zeitgeistadventurepath.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/image33.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Current Planes</strong></span></p><p>Feel free to skip to the next post if you don't care about the technobabble-esque details.</p><p></p><p>There are eight planes tied to the world we live on, and each has aspects that distinguish from any old plane with an elemental trait. While the Plane of Air is vast, and there are many worlds that are carved from slivers of it, some of those slivers have storms, others are filled with birds, and some are smoky and concealing. The nature of each plane determines what traits it lends to our world.</p><p></p><p>It seems when the Ancients decided what worlds ours would be connected to, they did not care much for traits. Indeed, many of these planes are fairly mundane, and the Obscurati has access to many more impressive options.</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Jiese, Plane of Fire.</strong> Its trait is Cunningness. The fire from this plane is less destructive than a typical elemental world, and its flames can be used intelligently, like a tool. Obscurati scholars suspect most worlds never achieve the industrial revolution ours has because they lack this trait. Changing this plane might stymie technological progress.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Avilona, Plane of Air.</strong> This world appears to have been damaged since it was originally tied to this world, so now its trait is Calm. Changing this plane might lead to stronger storms, and could make the world in general more energetic and changing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Av, Plane of Life.</strong> This glassy hollow world is our moon and has the traits of Reflection and Dream. It allows our world to have the two parallel planes of fey and darkness, known as The Dreaming and The Bleak Gate. Changing this world would remove those parallel planes and might have consequences involving dreams and fears.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Mavisha, Plane of Water.</strong> Its trait is Mystery, and it is responsible for the many islands that dot the world with their various secrets. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Urim, Plane of Earth.</strong> This golden world has fractured into many pieces, but its trait -Barrier - causes gold in our world to block teleportation.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Apet, Plane of Space.</strong> The Distant Plane is responsible for keeping our world and its bonded planes far from the rest of the multiverse and less likely to attract extraplanar attention.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Reida, Plane of Time.</strong> Most scholars don't even realize that the incomplete silvery ring that surrounds Apet is another plane altogether. Its traits of Limited Fate allow for prophecy, but enforce that after a given time the world must change. Most Obscurati factions are wary of tampering with this plane.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Nem, Plane of Death.</strong> Its trait is Annihilation, and it destroys any who try to travel from our star system of planes to the outer multiverse, and vice versa.</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 6143253, member: 63"] [size=3][b]Welcome to the Convocation[/b][/size] [align=right]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=57761&d=1371016944[/align]Lights dim, and the crowd murmur fades out. Two incandescent calcium oxide spotlights shine down on a stage podium, slicing out a single bright oval in the dark theater. A man with salt-and-pepper hair stands behind the podium, though you never saw him walk out. “We have gathered for this convocation because we share a purpose.” As he speaks, he draws a cigarette from a case and lights it with a match. He takes a casual drag and continues, speaking through the smoke. “That purpose is to fix the unsteady course of a flawed world. Some of us have worked to kindle industry, thinking progress and invention will defend nations from war and suffering. Others have ingratiated themselves with the callous and corrupt, ready to unmask their true faces and replace them with more honest and just leaders. You’ve unearthed ancient relics that revealed the forgotten origins of today’s woes, and have with regrettable necessity silenced those who would have revealed and thwarted grand design. “Few of you have been trusted with the full extent of our agenda. You know simply that I or one of our other officers asked you to cloak yourselves, and then to strive and correct some flaw of society that the common people and their complacently powerful masters have chosen as ‘the way things are.’ Unlike them, we have not been content with an imperfect world, because we rebel against the conceit that the inertia of the world cannot change, that its course is set, that there is fate, or destiny. “But the truth is, at their basest physical level, life, our planet, and everything we know is swayed by forces beyond us. If I may move from broad strokes to scientific particulars, our world is connected by ancient magic to eight planes – elemental realms of fire and earth and air and water, and inscrutable lands where time and space, life and death are corporeal and manifest. Look skyward and you can see these distant discs tracing their orbits through the night. “These eight are but a handful in an infinite starscape of planes, and some of our agents have peered into the night sky to learn their nature. One airy world they spied through a powerful lens reveals itself to generate calmer and more predictable storms than we have here. Another planet, a dappled purple and yellow orb, is possessed of warm clouds and a strong cheerful emotion, while countless miles away a hazy nebula is wracked by eternal lightning – destructive but swift and powerful. “Now, we have a world of our own full of elemental air energy, but its skies are thin, and the winds are erratic. Imagine if, instead of that plane, our world was infused with the energy from one of those others. It would change our climate. It would change, on subtle level, the emotions you feel looking at the sky. More than that, it would change the very fate of civilization. “There is an ancient ritual seal, crafted and hidden by our distant ancestors, who chose which worlds our own would be linked to. But we have learned how to open that seal, and we are ready to change which planes dance in orbit with us. And that, ladies and gentleman, is the true purpose of our convocation. My name is Nicodemus, and though it was I who initiated our grand design, it is the right of you, the agents and officers of the Obscurati, to fix the unsteady course of a flawed world. “For centuries prophets have sought visions in the night sky, and why? Because those eight worlds have power over us. The motion of the stars allows different ideals to gain ascendance: war, decay, chaos, exploration, order, creation. But no longer shall the procession of heaven obey the whims of an ancient, absent clockmaker. Now the hand that moves the stars shall be ours!” [img]http://zeitgeistadventurepath.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/image33.jpg[/img] [size=3][b]Current Planes[/b][/size] Feel free to skip to the next post if you don't care about the technobabble-esque details. There are eight planes tied to the world we live on, and each has aspects that distinguish from any old plane with an elemental trait. While the Plane of Air is vast, and there are many worlds that are carved from slivers of it, some of those slivers have storms, others are filled with birds, and some are smoky and concealing. The nature of each plane determines what traits it lends to our world. It seems when the Ancients decided what worlds ours would be connected to, they did not care much for traits. Indeed, many of these planes are fairly mundane, and the Obscurati has access to many more impressive options. [list=1][*][b]Jiese, Plane of Fire.[/b] Its trait is Cunningness. The fire from this plane is less destructive than a typical elemental world, and its flames can be used intelligently, like a tool. Obscurati scholars suspect most worlds never achieve the industrial revolution ours has because they lack this trait. Changing this plane might stymie technological progress. [*][b]Avilona, Plane of Air.[/b] This world appears to have been damaged since it was originally tied to this world, so now its trait is Calm. Changing this plane might lead to stronger storms, and could make the world in general more energetic and changing. [*][b]Av, Plane of Life.[/b] This glassy hollow world is our moon and has the traits of Reflection and Dream. It allows our world to have the two parallel planes of fey and darkness, known as The Dreaming and The Bleak Gate. Changing this world would remove those parallel planes and might have consequences involving dreams and fears. [*][b]Mavisha, Plane of Water.[/b] Its trait is Mystery, and it is responsible for the many islands that dot the world with their various secrets. [*][b]Urim, Plane of Earth.[/b] This golden world has fractured into many pieces, but its trait -Barrier - causes gold in our world to block teleportation. [*][b]Apet, Plane of Space.[/b] The Distant Plane is responsible for keeping our world and its bonded planes far from the rest of the multiverse and less likely to attract extraplanar attention. [*][b]Reida, Plane of Time.[/b] Most scholars don't even realize that the incomplete silvery ring that surrounds Apet is another plane altogether. Its traits of Limited Fate allow for prophecy, but enforce that after a given time the world must change. Most Obscurati factions are wary of tampering with this plane. [*][b]Nem, Plane of Death.[/b] Its trait is Annihilation, and it destroys any who try to travel from our star system of planes to the outer multiverse, and vice versa.[/list] [/QUOTE]
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