Conflict
MAXWELL LORD. What he failed to understand, my friend, is that it is human
nature. To find things that are better than us – godly, wondrous divine things
– and drag them down and pull them apart. Until there isn’t very much godly or
divine about them at all.
THE CHRONICLER. But [Parzurem] would not be swayed. He was a god, after all. So
they imprisoned him. Cased his hands in his own metal. Bound him to the heart of
Zurem-Uon with his own chains. But he had seen this outcome, among many others.
For he knew, more than all else, of the inner workings of things. Even a god may
be chained. But a mind? A mind is forever free.
THE CHRONICLER. Having foreseen his imminent capture and inevitable end,
Parzurem had already fractured his mind into two arguments, given shape and
structure by each other’s existence… moder and paeter. The moder pyxis found
itself drawn by the gravitational fallout of the sundering of Urgrund,
eventually falling into the orbit of Galactica, which would later come to be
known as New Genesis. But the paeter pyxis drifted through an eternity, driven
by Parzurem’s search for peace and ponderance, before finding its way to an
infant planet in a far corner of the cosmos where it would be undisturbed for a
brief age.
HIGHFATHER. For long ages I’ve kept my little dream alive. But I have grown
older, and so has New Genesis. Perhaps it was naive of me to believe such a
fragile dream would need no protecting. Or perhaps, I was only a fool holding on
to the dream of being a peaceful god.
On Creation and Life
HIMON. The Source, I theorize, is a product of a self-referential void. The
great darkness could only refer to itself through the presence of another. For
total darkness can only be defined as the absence of light… of life. The
Source is thus pure information. The very first knowledge. Untainted ideas.
Incomprehensible because it is all the many meanings of everything at once. It
is the privilege of gods to touch it, mold it, speak with it – perhaps
understand it – even briefly.
HIMON. Much as the Source manifests in life and death – as creation,
imagination – the darkness that it shattered, though undetected by my studies,
must manifest through similar means. A theoretical antithesis – uncreation, the
absence of an idea. Not in opposition to life, but in opposition to existence.
METRON. From where I am sitting, Lightray, we are all information expressed and
perceived. So in death, we are information transformed. Life may be ephemeral,
but information is immortal.
Characterization
HIMON. Desolation flowered and her unfulfilled dreams drifted out past nebulas
and newborn galaxies full of ancient worlds, where life-forms and civilizations
blinked in and out of existence. In one such dream, she had dreamt that when she
died, her being, her memory, would all eventually return to that from which all
this had begun… to the Source.
He has always thought himself a little more than a scavenger. The moment this
task was set to him… they were, each and every one of them – gods, devils,
heroes, and villains – as good as dead, after all.
METRON. Tell me, Chronicler, have you ever come across earthly mortals and their
attempts at explaining existence with numbers. Rudimentary casualty with a
limited grasp of the truth, but on occassion they come up with interesting
things. I told Himon once about the butterfly effect. It fascinated him to no
end.
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