Gathering of Minds [K'Hara]

[FallenKnight]

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~Rays from past stepping in the present~

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Planet New Berlin, 30 cycles ago

Thirty cycles ago in the heart of our Nest of Illumination - "New Berlin" - we whole had many incubi envoys tangling webs from within. One managed to deliver a minor fragment of interest, which was shared within the Mindshare. The fragment was a memory of an encounter there in the metal structures of the darklings. There the envoy of Our Whole observed a darkling connecting with one of ours...through a mere piece resembling a crystal shape...the envoy did not sense another of our own deep within this darkling...sacrilege...he was not "illuminated" and yet he was capable of sharing thoughts as we do within the Whole with the assistance of this crystalline object. This memory was forgotten by most but we decided to explore it further dozen cycles ago...we think someone betrayed us long ago and assisted the darklings during the "Great Dark War" by sending them information and knowledge this way. The more we dived within this memory the more we knew this mystery will never be unveiled. Then we decided...to squeeze this memory and transfuse it to a plan of ours to assist us in illuminating darklings through the Light by melting their minds slowly like a flesh decay...until they crumble to our will...to be our puppets, to be looking for us, to be better than the envoys and most of all untraceable...

We decided to test this idea so over these cycles we prepared the plan and all memories shared so far reveal to you, advisers, we were ready but we needed a suitable "host" to welcome us. Should the dakrling proved afraid to dive deep within our mind or afraid to do so - our plan would be compromised. We were wandering deep within the Nest of "Bretonia" looking for the one yet...many enemies...far too many unsuitable hosts were encountered. Until the day when the Light sent this monstrous piece of rock set to impact with "Bretonia's heart - New London". All of them - desperate - panicked and hopeless - yet some darklings proved to not give up - they desecrated, excavated and ruined the Lights gift - the asteroid - in to small pieces and saved themselves from utter destruction. But the Light knows no bound for this act was a trap - deep within the rock pieces the bretonian darklings found our Azurite...and they were so eager to explore it...so eager to dive in the unknown depths without knowing some of them could never be able to surface back.

At that time, some of the excavators were already in bliss from "Our World" and tasked to execute our plan. They were prepared from within Chester, in the "Ravine Shrine" - there we infused their body with minor portions of the Azurite- to ease resistance of their mind - there we also completed their ascension to a puppet of light none seen before - we named them "Threaders". The only weakness they had was their own...their internal dark husks could not last for long, so we had to act swiftly. The Threaders were instructed to be captured and to reveal some information and location within Chester to our new Host the Seeker- we chose him carefully after examining his qualities - position, desires, goals, strengths and weaknesses - those that dwell deep in the shadows can find themselves lost easily...and we made sure to be there to save them...to guide them...to illuminate their husk with knowledge, promises and as their dark husk decays, their mind melts within us...and until they realize the truth - it would be too late..

Jarrow's Seer Stone

Advisers, We were able to harvest memories from our Host - the Seeker, he was unaware of this act for it was too late for him to realize the truth - he is "Mine" now. Allow us to deliver them as fast as possible to the Whole. To ease understanding We are sharing some of them:
- memory cycles past - this will reveal how our Seeker were assisted by those calling themselves "Oracles of the Light"- they were helpful to him but we can not sense them now, perhaps they are gone. They were able to find more crystalline objects like the one we shared details early, objects for mind-trasfer - the Seer Stones. This allowed our Seeker and Us to be able to understand easily without none knowing. Over the cycles ahead of this memory we illuminated his mind and washed it away by leaving small fragments of the darkling he once was - just to keep him "unchanged" to an extend so others would not sense the illumination within.
- memory cycles present - this will reveal why we lost connection with our Seeker. For several cycles ahead of this memory we were unable to sense him and feared the worst. We decided to turn our gaze away of Nest "Bretonia" for we thought our plan failed and the efforts in rebuilding it would take more cycles in vain. We returned to our primal task - to wander, to observe, to gather more knoweldge...and so we found ourselves lost in our path.

...but the LIGHT Shines for us Whole...as a glimpse - faster than a memory transfer within the Mindshare...a vision was revealed to us one day...we saw him - our Seeker - we felt him. He was trying to communicate with us, via the crystalline object - the Seer's Stone. But we were so far away - unable to send a thought he would understand from that distance. We turned our gaze back to our field of experiments - we dived deep in the void with swift sure - to return to our Seeker and to continue with our plan from the past, set in motion in the present with unknown conclusion for the future...

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~Goes through thoughts of the unknown future before continuing~

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