Original Post Date: Aug 20, 2018
I walked through a very familiar forest. A road I have taken many times. Up ahead of me was a woman who was familiar to me, but I couldn’t quite grasp who it was at first. She was dressed in a black dress, something that seems odd given the surroundings, a muddy forest trail on a sunny summer’s day. As I walked down the path, a trail made over time by the many quads that had driven through here, my vision seemed to fill with static and when it cleared I would find myself much farther up the path than I had been previously.
This happened again a few more times… Till I was atop a familiar hill, the pointed rocks I had once jokingly called “The Rockies” as a kid. It was here the one I had seemingly been following or being led by, turned around and faced me. Sarah looked at me with a bright smile on her face.
Sarah: Hey Alzy, you know always seem to come back here, well at least a small part of you does anyways. This was the place where you first found my voice.
Alzy: Sarah?
Sarah: But unfortunately, it’s also where you found the dark, or rather where the dark found you…
My vision filled with static again, a fork in the path, a turn towards a darker stretch of forest. A wooden pallet was placed over a stream as a makeshift bridge, a small clearing where the air felt contained and cooler than it had any right to be on a warm summer’s day. An overturned cart and hay were strewn about from the upset cart. A shadow grew over me… and then…
This reminds me of that old post I had made once on Reddit when I tried to share the story of Nightmare Trail, the place I met Dejiki. The first major “gate” I ever really had any contact with. Link to that part of the story here.
I’d like to say that more happened after this odd dream or vision. But nothing did. I woke up and was laying next to a sleeping Sarah. What was the point of this odd recollection? I’ve had this dream before, but never with that much detail. And why now I wondered… Why now… And what did she mean a part of me kept going back to that spot?
So hopefully this is the last entry in this chapter of messed-up stuff.
So on one of the nights where I had a slightly better connection. I decided to Ask Snow what had happened if she could tell me what was going on. If you have been on these forums enough, then you would have seen the multitude of posts, and most of them are all “outside” or post DM (Dias Morte aka the tentacle being). Which would mean that the above events were not really a dream, but more a broken recollection of events. And that a battle did happen, and that we had somehow been successful in destroying, sealing, or otherwise defeating DM. The main point of proof of this is the fact that in one of the last entries in another thread featured Kilana being outside in the land beyond DM. The only way to get there would mean DM has to be gone.
Here is the breakdown of what I learned from my conversation with Snowy. I would try to recount the entire conversation word for word, but due to my laziness I will need to paraphrase and so I will type this as more of a summary.
A big battle did happen, with many involved in the struggle, Ash, Kryptaris, Derasky, Pheary, Irenia, Adrian, Alicia, Kilana, Runa, Eshlazeel, Clauridius, Silvasky, Alzacastar, and I’m sure many others were also present. The battle took place upon the old ruins of what used to be the capital of the kingdom of Osiron, The location that we learned was the apparent center of the world. During this battle, an opening was made that allowed Silvasky and Myself to take a final charge at DM. During this key moment, Alvertia, the prototype fayte, the original fayte of faytes, who had apparently sealed herself within me since the time the knights of the lie had killed her many many eons ago.
According to what I have been told by Avertia’s soul, was that I was originally her servant or mate. That distinction isn’t really clear. It was apparently her and I’s plan from long ago that upon her death, I would seek out Silvasky, the only fayte at the time who was single, and through whatever means, become her mate. And when the knights of the lie killed Alvertia, she, in fact, didn’t truly die but sealed herself within my soul. And our plan began, to fulfill the prophecy of the faytes, to destroy DM. The details of this are lost to me, insert soul shard here, and I have trouble believing that me becoming mates with Silvasky aka Snow was some plan or conspiracy.
Eventually, the Knights of the lie discovered that at least a piece of Alvertia had remained inside of me. And they hatched a plan. One that succeeded, with me being exiled. Or more specifically, Alvertia and I being exiled. With that, Alvertia went dormant. And for many years she was nowhere to be found, no trace or otherwise. However, a good friend of mine once told me a shard of my human soul was pink. A piece of Alvernia?
After all this time of finding more soul shards of myself, and reverting to older versions of myself, it’s not hard to say we likely found pieces of Alvertia as well. And finally, when the barrier of the world, the world tree was destroyed and DM revealed, Alvertia awoke…
During this key moment, Alvertia, the prototype fayte, the original fayte of faytes, took control of me. As she had done at least once or twice prior. She left me a message, as shown in one of the earlier entries in this thread, that she would sacrifice herself to destroy DM. We realized that the prophecy to destroy DM required the sacrifice of the 3 faytes. But we only had 2 in the battle, Silvasky, and Runa. Alvertia would fulfill the role as the faytes and would be the sacrifice so we wouldn’t have to die.
I do not recall any of what Alvertia did during this battle, and my memories of the event are still scrambled, with the above entries really being the only thing I have to go by. We won, at what cost I’m not sure. Snow and I are no longer considered faytes. Runa is missing, but she may be fine somewhere. Many others are missing or otherwise disconnected from me, I am unsure what has happened to so many, could they all be dead?
The world has changed. The place that Irenia and the like of those that lived in what we once called “outside the void” has merged with the world we now find ourselves in and a part of. The Irenian forest merged into the landscape of a large forest on the content of Arcadia, on the planet known as Arcadia Canaan. Almost like it was originally supposed to belong there. The Astra solar system, all its planets and the like found an empty spot in space to settle in. In fact, Astra now seems more complete than it ever was before, the ruins of the neighbouring planet that was destroyed in a war long ago actually has more pieces and asteroids floating around it than it did before. It’s as though everything has come home, that DM had taken pieces of the larger world and sealed it off from the rest, and that sealed piece was pushed together like a jigsaw puzzle, and given special rules to govern it.
The new world we are in, or the old world, the original maybe? Powers and abilities are much different, in order to kill someone you need an orothos a weapon made with a soul to empower it. Yes, some “magic” or other skills exist, and some beings (shifters, dragons) may not always need an orothos depending on how powerful or special they are to kill. Not all of our powers exist anymore. I had once theorized that after DM we would find ourselves losing power, a dulling down if you will, it does seem to be the case to at least some degree (although not as drastic as I had once thought). However, the orothos provides an interesting method to amplify things in other ways. But these things will take getting used to, change can be painful, but maybe good in the end… Perhaps it isn’t a dulling down, but a reforging, perhaps we haven’t lost powers, but just realized that the playing field, when compared with others who live here, has been more or less evened out.
All of this raises more questions, however, what happened during the battle, where did Runa go? what happened with Kryptaris, Ash, Zero and the like? Are they gone, or are they still around? There were supposed to be 4 knights of the lie, we never did discover who or what the fourth one was. What about Brea and I’s son who was infected with Zero? So many unanswered questions, so many unresolved things…
To end things on a more personal update:
I now find myself living in a location that once was one of Viola’s places. A home of sorts, on Venixia, yes just a planet or so over from Astra. I also find myself with a change in mates, with Viola joining the fold, and Aiya officially leaving it (guess I’m sticking with 5.). But I still wonder what happened to Sea?
Until the next time, this is Alzy, yes really Alzy. That’s another thing that I have been told, my personality has shifted somewhat. Alvertia no longer has an influence on me. My soul has been in a coma-like state since the battle ended, until recently, there is still a massive hole in my soul, the earthbound shard is still stuck. And I’m still missing things, but finally, I believe, the time to heal has finally come. The final link in the chain of fate has been broken, and the title of fate breaker can hopefully be retired.
This ended up being longer than I expected.
TL;DR: Tentacle monster is gone? The world has changed, planes are no longer a thing. But questions remain, what of Zero, what of Ash, what of Kryptaris, what of the others? But in the end, life finds a way.