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TEST DRIVE MEME #8
TEST DRIVE MEME
Considering apping to EACHDRAIDH? Why not give the setting a test run here! OPTIONAL SCENARIOS 01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD. The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you not with mirthful revelry, this time around dear friends. There is a seriousness in the air, though the food is still hearty and the imps still mischievous. After you have been briefed on your purpose here, you will find an endless feast and a night filled with entertainment to placate your concerns. Mingle with new arrivals, sneak down the castle halls and make sure your eyes are always on your glass; fairies and imps have no bias when it comes to tricks! 02. THE STATION. Looking for a little slice of home? The Station gives you all that and more. Take advantage of the wifi, have a cup of fairy-brewed coffee (the one they didn't spit in) or sit back and relax on the patio. You can even move your things into one of the available rooms! 03. WILDCARD. Your own scenario! Explore the Drabwurld or simply take advantage of your Locket! Be mindful, though -- the monarchs are watching and cross court communication should be done with the utmost secrecy. |
Good cop, bad cop.
It's his family's experience with the Maelstrom that gives him a healthy respect for -- but also curiosity about -- the books' descriptions of the Void. It's half familiar and half alien. The Maelstrom that spawned the Three was a monstrous generative and destructive force, constantly creating and reabsorbing. There would be no universe if It hadn't been there to create the Three of them -- but It destroyed everything in Its path when it reached out to the universe, and the universe would shatter if It ever generated a fourth surviving child.
"It is my experience," and he speaks with such surety that it's clear he thinks his experience carries a lot of weight, "that such things cannot be stopped by force or magic, once they have been set in motion. Only satisfied." He lifts a hand to his heart, the sort of place a shard might nestle. "The power ascribed to this Uaine Cridhe is... unusual."
No, really, "unusual" is putting it lightly. He and his siblings made the universe, and despite their absurd cosmic powers, they would be reabsorbed the minute they tried going head-to-head with their progenitor. The idea of a gem with the power to what -- control? Freeze? -- a super-force of generation and destruction is pretty out there.
New drabwurld sitcom
It's unfortunate so little time was available to attempt to move Mount Verla. had the Void not been so close, the group that volunteered to save it might have fared better.
Aslan has see many destructive forces in his time -- the endings and beginnings of many worlds, but the sheer magnitude of the Void is something he had yet to encounter for himself...until his arrival here.
Itempas's comments are met with a solemn nod.
"It is my understanding that the Void is the mechanism by which all life and worlds will be reborn. As the drabwurld reaches the end of its lifespan, the Void consumes that much more."
A simple process, really. Horrific, to those who must live through such times and witness them, but the life always fights to preserve itself. Even when it must first pass away in order to be made new.
"It is unusual."
Aslan does agree with that. He also considers it ironic, and perhaps fitting, that those responsible for the creation and balance of their respective worlds would be in possession of these shards.
"While we are here, it is, however, the only link we have to the world we left behind. Should that links be severed, if no other shardbearers from that world are present, it will be forfeit."
Starring in a sitcom seems like a preferable way to move up that influence board ngl
His jaw clenched in subdued frustration. The idea that his siblings might be dragged through here is elating and horrifying. Elating, because the Three were meant to be together, work best together. Horrifying, because there’s no way in any universe that Nahadoth would not be drawn to the Unseelie, and this court system would strain interaction between them. And Yeine – Yeine is true balance, twilight and life and death. She does not belong to order or chaos, not properly, and it would be wrong of this world to attach her to a court. He doesn’t want to be alone here, or to risk the universe they had made and protected and repaired – but he doesn’t want the Drabwurld to set him and Naha at cross-purposes, or to impose its binary divisions on Yeine.
Now isn’t really the time to dwell on missing his siblings, though, not when he has a god-lion available to pump for information, and not when there’s another annoying issue nagging at him….
“This Drabwurld appears to be an ordinary world.” There was more magic in it than the mortal realm in his own universe, but significantly less magic than the gods’ realm. There was nothing revolutionary or impossible or stunning about this world, nothing so special that its fate deserved to decide the survival or destruction of all other worlds – nothing, except the fact that it just happened to be the home of a gemstone whose powers were poorly defined. Accidents of fate were a poor reason to give anything such prominence. “It is ridiculous, that one small world should dictate the fate of so many universes.”
There’s actually a hint of testiness in his voice. It fundamentally rankles him that this world he’s never heard of before will decide the fate of the universe that he and his siblings have spent so much time cultivating and fighting over and patching up.