ontotechnology
Perhaps foremost among the unfound oddities of the universe is the one charmingly named the Omphalocelic Scab. Known about from the legends of those who are themselves legends - and bearing in mind that all translations from the Precursor are, at best, deeply approximate - we are told that there
the Gloaming
By dreaming dragons – the world was carved To dreaming dragons – the world yet bends Those dreaming dragons – all lie dead Yet dreaming dragons – carve it still. “Lay of the Dead Dragons”, fragment, circa -3,500 the light breathes the shadows move and the objects don’t are you real? am
worldbuilding
So, some worldbuilding notes on the nature of greenlife… It’s easy to make the assumption that it’s just Earth-life in every way, especially since I tend to use the Earth-parallel names for things to create a sense of familiarity. But a thing worth bearing in mind is that
Iniscail
Among the artifacts first discovered in the lower levels of the Iniscail excavation were the sophotechnological artifacts now known as purity-of-heart switches. These devices resemble the hexagonal touch-plate switch used by the Precursors in several of their sites, but are in actuality complex systems capable of remote neural scanning and
Precursors
Precursor artifact Spirel-1,147: “The Rolkifier” Recovered from a vault in the Spirel Precursor site (located on Spiridon (Dexlilal Convergence)), the Rolkifier is a 3″ x 3″ x 5″ teardrop-shaped artifact constructed from an unidentified green-bronze substance. Attempts to examine the interior reveal it to be solid and apparently homogeneous
worldbuilding
Specialist290 asks: So what do the eldrae make of the idea of “useless machines”? The most famous example, of course, being the machine whose sole purpose, once turned on, is to turn itself back off. (Like so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4 ) Insert usual disclaimer about the
Precursors
Exhibit 137: The Empty Box There are lots of empty boxes in the galaxy, but only one is the Empty Box. This simple, small cube of tarnished silver and lead, recovered from a Precursor site on Omane (First Expanses), is unique because it is exactly that: empty. It contains no
trope-a-day
Benevolent Precursors: Not the historical examples so much, mostly because within delta of none of them actually expected to become Precursors, belike, putting them firmly in the Neglectful box by default. But, y’know, who plans on their own extinction? (While also not planning on achieving the vanishment part of
trope-a-day
Archaeological Arms Race: Not nearly as common as it might be, given the amount of stuff various Precursors have left lying around, inasmuch as most of it isn’t weapons technology, most of it isn’t working, and not all of it is super-high-tech, such that a lot of time
blogging from a to z
(Alternate words: Devil, Delta, Defiled, and Dalliance, all of which have been placed on the later-consideration list. Also “Drink Order”, which will be today’s trope-a-day.) Calencail 14th Summer breakfast parlor With all respect to my illustrious cousin, the most frustrating aspect of the translocation problem is having an answer