The Nomad Lore

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In The Downfall after However There Were Others: advisor is spelled with an e but elsewhere with an o...minor spelling nazi note;)

Very, very, very good job. Hyung Soong's diagrams make basic sense but are confusing in that the diagram subjects are vaguely related, i.e., "body", "soul", "mind"...etc.
I'd suggest perhaps either a more broken down example set of specific categories or a more graphically refined presentation. Its difficult to follow (though symmetrical). I work with relational charts and graphs in my business but these just weren't fully intuitive to me. Other than that, wonderful and I haven't done them justice yet with a thorough read--will be doing that today.

I had created a description for my Wild story that I thought was good for describing the interest in the human artifact trade by Nomads and Wild and ask you might consider including it--you may freely modify or discard the idea entirely as you desire. it would make a good "narration" before a chapter for example. Here it is:


Imagine the world's largest jigsaw puzzle. Now imagine all the world's jigsaw puzzles. Put them in a massive box (say several dry ocean beds on several deserted planets) and shake them up thoroughly. Afterward blow the planets up with such force that the pieces of all these puzzles are scattered across multiple star systems. This is the "gift" that the Dom-K'vash left the Slomon-K'Hara...the "Nomads". Near infinite numbers of artifact combinations exist. Like human dna, many artifacts are redundant--safeguards against losing too much information--yet some are more rare and difficult to access than others. It pains the Slomon-K'Hara to see any of them lost or destroyed--these are the gifts left behind to guarantee the future evolution and ascension of the Nomad species. Not even they know the full number or purpose of all the artifacts but within them lie technological and biological knowledge and devices that can in time enable them to subjugate and control the entire known universe. The trade by humans in them as "collectibles" especially disturbs the Slomon-K'Hara. Some artifacts are activated by light or warmth, sound or motion and if their activation is not finalized or completed, the information contained within them is irretrievable lost. Many an artifact has been handled by a human collector who had no idea that it was awaiting a final activation sequence or response. Very few have been successfully accessed by humans and those that have created technological breakthroughs on a scale not seen before in human history.

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