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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The803" data-source="post: 2024716" data-attributes="member: 23183">Sysente answers; Bystanders?  You are more than that, my friend.  You and your musical friend are, like myself and your friend Rhys here, world-openers; the prime movers who will bring life and nature and form from the void.  She reaches within the folds of her clothing and produces a turtle shell of her own.  Unlike yours, hers looks ancient, like a fossil or crumbling relic of a lost civilization.  She replaces it reverently before you can get a closer look.It is odd that you should know so little about what has taken place.  We shell-carriers are Prime worlds in the making, simply by virtue of attending a simple party.  I suspect this is an intentional attempt to sow unconsciously-born worlds, a recipe for chaos.  My companions have sailed the stars, dreamed their way across the pearl-bright ocean, and sought for two lifetimes the birth of a new world.  They, along with my parents and grandparents before them, guided by prophecy, left our Creation far behind to be present at the union of Creation we have all just witnessed.  It is our sacred duty to ward against universal anarchy and wickedness by representing Ma'at within.What we know as Ma'at is all but unknown to your great wheel of Creation, just as what you know as Good will be unknown in this new Creation.  Just as every soul is unique, every Creation has a unique soul of four parts.  We believe that Ma'at, our highest virtue, must be offered to every new Creation as one of those parts, as was done at the birth of our own.  The world that will grow within me shall be that offering.The First (which is about the size of a large dog) acknowledges Jurden and Andarin with cat-like affection, but seems fixated on Rhys and the Turtles.Sea addresses Rhys' concerns (in Sylvan);[SBLOCK]You are a man of high honor, Rhys world-spirit.  My descendants will honor and defend your body and the soul of the First with all they have to give.  You share the dragon's fate;  the dragon is to be Magic; you are to be Nature; all comers will seek to covet your bounty, but you will both outlast all injury as long as you refrain from anger and malice.[/SBLOCK]Sun adds:[SBLOCK]And retain your will to fight.[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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