"Consider an iron needle, suspended upon the surface of a bowl of quartz solution. Alone, the pure solution is a blank slate, entropic chaos; but when provided material besides itself to take hold of, the mineral quartz may crystallize to create a precious formation of great beauty."
– On the Nature of Light, and of Living Things: Radamus Ensa, c. 3rd Century A.P.
"...Those Souls within the penumbra, then, veiled from the True Light of the Sun and separate as well from the deeper darknesses, are without Harmony, and are plagued by Suffering...and the Earth within the penumbra is tainted likewise. And when the Sun moves Her position in the Heavens, the order of the World will follow, and so the penumbra must inevitably be destroyed...and all things that lie within it."
– An elven text on magical remedies: unknown author, c. 1st Century B.P.
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Upon the date they were fated to die, the air-mage instead departed the Province, flying across the Great Ocean and voyaging to unknown lands, never to return.
A description.
A Divine Visitation in the Lands of Tamo'te
The storm, so divine its fury, had passed by dawn, but the scars remained.
Even over vast distances, some coral waving in the current can affect the life of the algae, the fish, even the colossal, unseen leviathans of the deep.
"What are you doing up here, Ava?"
She wanted to be anyone, anywhere else. So she ran.
The thing about hitting rock bottom is that when you wake up the next day, and the day after that, you aren’t suddenly no longer there.
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