Chain of Worlds

The Vault of Eladrius is a Treasure Trove of knowledge. I MUST get back there. Even the tiny amount of information that I was able to glean clarifies and solidifies my existing theories!

Consider the Tecera and the revelation that the gods of Haven are Deified Mortals. Both of these explain so much and allow me to remove one entire magical control source from my seminal treatise on magical origins.

When we originally came to Haven, we were able to displace the original goblinoid inhabitants in part due to the strength of our divine magics. The goblins relied upon deities that were little more than Collective Spontaneous Thaumological Fields. What would the effect on such a field, however, should an active mental force; a force that had experience in the mortal world was applied to it? This would take something that is effectively a semi-conscious collection of belief and apply a will to it. While this would not, inherently, strengthen the being, it would allow it to act with purpose and forethought. Consider the difference between an axe swung with purpose and one falling from a great height. Both are destructive but the second is rather randomly so.

The Tecera even further strengthens the disparity. As an anchor, it allowed the already more purposeful gods to act more directly on the world. Secondly, however, it contained the essences of the gods of our previous world (worlds?). Were these essences available as a power source?

So it now would appear that gods are not a spontaiously stabilized Thaumological Field but rather they are a mortal being that are using such a field as a source of power. It is not yet clear what the exact relation between the two is, however:
1. The mortal being uses the Thaumological Field as a power source but they remain two separate things (the field being a tool)
2. The two merge into a single being with the mortal maintaining control and being dominant.
3. The two merge into a single being with the field being in control. Given events, this would have to be accompanied by a corresponding uplift in the ability of the field to act independently.
4. The two merge into a single being but the resulting being is fundamentally different than either. The resulting merger might, in fact, be unstable. This would fit with legends of gods breaking apart.
Once I can re-enter the Vault of Eladrius, I will endevor to continue my research. In particular, the effect that the destruction of Haven's Tecera has had on the existing gods.

Posted by Savin at 1:21 PM 0 comments  

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Princess Betina! To think that any being let alone an Eladrin of the House of Autumn, would think to destroy knowledge! Not only did she steal the Memory Core of the Library of Anabris, she also attempted to destroy the Vault of Eladrius, doing considerable damage in the process.

Fortunately, I was able to divert and, ultimately, redirect the vault's efforts and saved the vault. Why did Betina appear to have codes that superseded the control codes of the house of Winter? (which Voss has)

Like Olen, Betina has been transformed into a Teifling. Her group claimed to represent the wishes of the Son (the presence of Angels of the Son would lend considerable credence to this claim)

She and I shall be having a discussion in the future.

In the meantime, the motivations of the Barerans remain in question. Are they attempting to suppress the knowledge of the vault in order to prevent Demonic Incursion or to hasten it?

Posted by Savin at 12:22 PM 0 comments  

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A Tecera is, apparently, a divine anchoring point used to facilitate a god's interaction with the mortal world. The Tacera of Haven was constructed of the essences of the previous world's gods (indeed, one might speculate that it is a repository of MANY gods from MANY worlds)

The destruction of the Tecera apparently occurred 98 years ago, triggering the events that destabilized out return from Furlough and temporarily weakened the gods of this world. It seems that they were, however, able to interact with the world to some degree even without a Tecera.

The giant Oak that Baern planted on Mount Ascension is now acting as a new Tecera. Focussed primarily on the Mother, of course, but lending extra stability to all.

The Grotius Cube is a 4th level Planar space that would allow a god to travel between worlds. This is how I believe the deified Peter Kovak returned to Haven.

Posted by Savin at 12:21 PM 0 comments  

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The Vault is everything I hoped it would be and more! While it has been largely cut off from the world for the last 98 years, (other than a handful of visitors) it is a wealth of knowledge.

Indeed, it would appear that a great suppression of information has occurred in our past.

It would appear that the World of Haven is but one of a series of world that we have fled to in the past. Indeed, the Vault has knowledge of a chain of such worlds.

As the Vault says, "The Worlds are failing and will not hold back the demons" The Demon refered to was Kansul.

It showed us a string of worlds. Each before Haven was either Red (Conquered by Kansul) or Black (consumed). Haven was yellow (at risk). Furlough, beyond, was green but trending to yellow. It inferred worlds beyond, but these were all in grey (unknown)

When we last fled, 12 heroes set out on a quest. Only 5 survived. Of those that did not survive, was a member of an insectoid race I am unfamiliar with. 2 Elves, 1 Human, 1 dwarf, and one Halfling were the survivors. This quest was, apparently, to gather the essences of the gods of that world.

According the Vault, 3 of the 5 survivors were deified (mortal deification is brilliant, I shall expound on this further!). The Halfling was Elosius Mark, the author of the Malefarcium was not one of the surviving 12. However, Roywynn Goodfellow, another halfling, was deified and (I believe) became the daughter.

Peter Kovak was the Human survivor and was not deified. Instead he continued down the chain. However, one may speculate that the Son (Haven's human god) who was brought to Haven From Furlough was, in fact, a deified Peter Kovak. Indeed the Furlough name of the god, Petrovich, would lend some credence to this.

Ancillin Eladrius, builder of the Vault was the other who was not deified.

So why the suppression? In part, it would appear that a decision was made that magical and extra planar research was responsible for the acceleration of the incursions of Kansul in the past. Suppression of this information through groups such as the redactionists was designed to prevent the new acquisition of this knowledge. Since I do not, at the moment, know how long each previous world was settled before incursion, I can not speculate as to whether the effort was successful or not.

Posted by Savin at 12:18 PM 0 comments  

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