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In order to achieve their goal, the civilization determined that they needed to bring the Traveler and the Veil into close proximity, strengthening their connection and in so doing granting them the ability to alter reality itself. And so, they brought it back to their homeworld so that they could form a link between it and the Traveler. | In order to achieve their goal, the civilization determined that they needed to bring the Traveler and the Veil into close proximity, strengthening their connection and in so doing granting them the ability to alter reality itself. And so, they brought it back to their homeworld so that they could form a link between it and the Traveler. | ||
However, the Traveler was apparently unwilling to allow this outcome, and responded by leaving the planet and fleeing into the distant reaches of space. Unwilling to abandon their quest, the Consensus (now dominated by the Penitent faction, having eliminated the Solipsists and Nihilists) voted to use the Veil and its Darkness to bind their consciousnesses together, resulting in the creation of an unfathomably powerful paracausal entity: The Witness.<ref>'''[[Entelechy]]''', ''32-35''</ref> According to a vision imparted by Ahsa to the Guardian, this process involved what resembled a ritualistic mass sacrifice, in which the participants dismembered themselves and piled their bodies and body parts on an altar. | However, the Traveler was apparently unwilling to allow this outcome, and responded by leaving the planet and fleeing into the distant reaches of space. Unwilling to abandon their quest, the Consensus (now dominated by the Penitent faction, having eliminated the Solipsists and Nihilists) voted to use the Veil and its Darkness to bind their whole species' collective consciousnesses together, resulting in the creation of an unfathomably powerful paracausal entity: The Witness.<ref>'''[[Entelechy]]''', ''32-35''</ref> According to a vision imparted by Ahsa to the Guardian, this process involved what resembled a ritualistic mass sacrifice, in which the participants dismembered themselves and piled their bodies and body parts on an altar. | ||
Having become one with the Darkness and commanding a paracausal armada of pyramidal ships, the Witness left its world behind and began a crusade to locate the Traveler and link it with the Veil, and in doing so bring about the Final Shape.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN7QkdWMV18&t=626s</ref> | Having become one with the Darkness and commanding a paracausal armada of pyramidal ships, the Witness left its world behind and began a crusade to locate the Traveler and link it with the Veil, and in doing so bring about the Final Shape.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN7QkdWMV18&t=626s</ref> | ||