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posted February 03, 2009 03:53 AM |
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ICTC4: the Dream
The Dream
AKA: the Elementals, the Dreamed
Colors: White, Blue, Black, Red, Green (see below)
Territory: All of the Primal Beyond, also scattered pockets of influence on Ashan
Every night the millions of Ashan experience lives and worlds unheard of in their reality, moving and thinking and talking through the Primal Beyond while their bodies remain still and silent. Naturally, the magical fallout from this mass dreaming is enormous; the waves of dream reverberate through the Primal Beyond and give life and form to its raw essence. The results are elementals: illogical, instinct-driven yet vaguely intelligent, bizarre manifestations of certain common elements of dream. Recently, this sort of effect has been ocurring more and more often, and for the first time, elementals appear outside the Primal Beyond. They bend the laws of the universe, which tries to reject them but succeeds only in heightening their surreality and alienness. Now united by a new, dominating mind, the elementals have purpose and reason for communication and interaction with the other beings of Ashan.
The Five Incarnations:
The five most basic, underlying principles of mortal dreaming are embodied in the five Elemental Incarnations: Purity, Guile, Dread, Hostility, and Vigor. Each corresponds to a certain color: White, Blue, Black, Red, and Green, respectively. It is unclear if the Incarnations formed directly from mortal dreams, and all other elementals flow from these five, or if the Incarnations resulted from the collective energies of the other elementals; regardless, the Five now lead the other Dreamed, subservient only to the Horde of Notions. Nearly every elemental belongs to one of the five Incarnations and embodies a subset of that Incarnation's power; those that do not fit this pattern - those who combine multiple colors - are usually rogues, though they occasionally serve the Five for special purposes.
At any given time, the number of elementals in each color is exactly equal to that of each other color. This serves to balance out the world's constituent parts; any excess or deficiency of a color would have disastrous effects and likely spell doom for life itself. Thus, the 'random' creation and dissippation of elementals in the Primal Beyond may actually serve the purpose of keeping the universe balanced.
The Elementals:
The many varieties of elementals are detailed below.
Purity:
(more pics+text soon)
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