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I'd watched Jaren's every move over the past months, mapping his effortless gestures and slight, earned mannerisms. I'd never seen anything like him. He was something I couldn't comprehend, and yet I felt I understood all I needed the moment I'd seen him. He was more than us. Not better. Not superior. Just more. | I'd watched Jaren's every move over the past months, mapping his effortless gestures and slight, earned mannerisms. I'd never seen anything like him. He was something I couldn't comprehend, and yet I felt I understood all I needed the moment I'd seen him. He was more than us. Not better. Not superior. Just more. | ||
I wanted father to stop what was happening. Looking back now, I realize that he didn't want to stop it. No one | I wanted father to stop what was happening. Looking back now, I realize that he didn't want to stop it. No one did. | ||
As Loken belittled Jaren Ward, taunted him, enumerated his crimes and sins, my eyes were stuck on Jaren's pistol, fixed to his hip. His steady hand resting calmly on his belt. | As Loken belittled Jaren Ward, taunted him, enumerated his crimes and sins, my eyes were stuck on Jaren's pistol, fixed to his hip. His steady hand resting calmly on his belt. | ||
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==The City Age== | ==The City Age== | ||
[[File:Grimoire The City Age.jpg|right|150px]] | [[File:Grimoire The City Age.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
When did the City Age begin? Perhaps when the bulk of the world's survivors lived beneath the Traveler, rather than in the wilderness. Or when the Titans raised the first wall. Or at Six Fronts, when the City first faced coordinated, overwhelming attack - and repelled it decisively. | When did the [[City Age]] begin? Perhaps when the bulk of the world's survivors lived beneath the Traveler, rather than in the wilderness. Or when the [[Titan (class)|Titans]] raised the first wall. Or at [[Six Fronts]], when the City first faced coordinated, overwhelming attack - and repelled it decisively. | ||
The City did not rise without struggle. | The City did not rise without struggle. [[Warlord]]s and wilderness fiefdoms clung to power. Starvation, disease, and anarchy menaced. But the Guardians held the frontier, and the children of the Golden Age kept the fire burning through the long climb back. | ||
Legends walk through this history. The Iron Lords. Saint-14's crusade against the Fallen. The mask of the Speaker. The great Ahamkara Hunt. Toland's madness. Terrible Faction Wars - and the horrifying, disastrous effort to retake the Moon. | Legends walk through this history. The [[Iron Lords]]. [[Saint-14]]'s crusade against the [[Fallen]]. The mask of the [[Speaker]]. The [[Great Ahamkara Hunt|great Ahamkara Hunt]]. [[Toland, the Shattered|Toland]]'s madness. Terrible [[Faction Wars]] - and the [[The Great Disaster|horrifying, disastrous effort]] to retake the [[Moon]]. | ||
As the City learned to walk again, it found a world overrun by alien menace. It faced disaster and defeat. Even in recent years, as Guardians begin to venture back to the Moon and the inner planets, the City's territory has withdrawn - outer sections abandoned and converted into fortifications in the wake of the Battle of Twilight Gap. | As the City learned to walk again, it found a world overrun by alien menace. It faced disaster and defeat. Even in recent years, as Guardians begin to venture back to the Moon and the inner planets, the City's territory has withdrawn - outer sections abandoned and converted into fortifications in the wake of the [[Battle of Twilight Gap]]. | ||
But the City's shipwrights and foundries hum with energy. The probability kilns and work cooperatives produce new wonders. The Darkness is rising again. But so is the Light. | But the City's shipwrights and foundries hum with energy. The probability kilns and work cooperatives produce new wonders. The Darkness is rising again. But so is the Light. | ||
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==Ghost Fragment: The City Age== | ==Ghost Fragment: The City Age== | ||
[[File:Grimoire GF The City Age 1.jpg|right|150px]] | [[File:Grimoire GF The City Age 1.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
"And so it is agreed. The Concordat shall no longer be recognized among the Consensus. We'll begin the dismantling right away. But what of those Guardians who have pledged to them? We can't afford any more banishments." | "And so it is agreed. The [[Concordat]] shall no longer be recognized among the [[Consensus]]. We'll begin the dismantling right away. But what of those Guardians who have pledged to them? We can't afford any more banishments." | ||
"I'm sure Zavala can see to their realignment." | "I'm sure [[Zavala]] can see to their realignment." | ||
"We'll do our best. Lysander chose his followers wisely. It may take some time." | "We'll do our best. [[Lysander]] chose his followers wisely. It may take some time." | ||
"Lysander will not back down. He'll continue his crusade from wherever we stuff him." | "Lysander will not back down. He'll continue his crusade from wherever we stuff him." | ||
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"And so we'll need to find some new ideas to replace his." | "And so we'll need to find some new ideas to replace his." | ||
"The Symmetry has been gaining a strong following..." | "The [[Symmetry]] has been gaining a strong following..." | ||
"Ulan-Tan's teachings are too dangerous. Too much fear. Who knew he'd be more trouble dead than alive?" | "[[Ulan-Tan]]'s teachings are too dangerous. Too much fear. Who knew he'd be more trouble dead than alive?" | ||
"We'll need to refocus our collective minds on combat. The Speaker's anxious to regain ground we lost after the Gap." | "We'll need to refocus our collective minds on combat. The Speaker's anxious to regain ground we lost after the Gap." | ||
"There is the War Cult." | "There is the [[Future War Cult|War Cult]]." | ||
"Too secretive. Have you ever tried to talk to one of their 'soldiers'? Like a child. Answering questions with questions." | "Too secretive. Have you ever tried to talk to one of their 'soldiers'? Like a child. Answering questions with questions." | ||
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"Unanimous? Good. We'll grant the Future War Cult access to the Tower and a seat among us. Ghost, please offer the Speaker this proposal." | "Unanimous? Good. We'll grant the Future War Cult access to the Tower and a seat among us. Ghost, please offer the Speaker this proposal." | ||
"Now onto the next order of business...Shaxx is here with another proposal for his Crucible." | "Now onto the next order of business...[[Shaxx]] is here with another proposal for his [[Crucible]]." | ||
{{clear}} | {{clear}} | ||
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/ Except us. Why'd he make us come out here? | / Except us. Why'd he make us come out here? | ||
/ Secrecy. I | / Secrecy. I don't know. He's our man on the inside; so we humor him. It's just the quiet making you jump. Help me get this screen set up? | ||
/ It feels criminal. | / It feels criminal. | ||
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==Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age 3== | ==Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age 3== | ||
[[File:Ghost Fragment The Dark Age 3.jpg|right|150px]] | [[File:Ghost Fragment The Dark Age 3.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
''From the Journals of Lord Colovance'' | ''From the Journals of Lord [[Colovance]]'' | ||
What does one do when | What does one do when one's master has gone mad? | ||
I admired the man for so long, poured years of study into his leads, but now, he has grown incapable of focus. | I admired the man for so long, poured years of study into his leads, but now, he has grown incapable of focus. | ||
I have followed his latest missives on SIVA and it is flooded with mania. Whatever he thinks this Clovis Bray might hold would make you believe that they were the only entity of any technical know-how, that they owned every piece of that tarnished Golden Age. | I have followed his latest missives on [[SIVA]] and it is flooded with mania. Whatever he thinks this [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray]] might hold would make you believe that they were the only entity of any technical know-how, that they owned every piece of that tarnished Golden Age. | ||
I write this because I fear none of the others knows or senses it. He has been so thorough, so right, until now. Something snapped, infected him, turned him against his own sense of logic and reason. | I write this because I fear none of the others knows or senses it. He has been so thorough, so right, until now. Something snapped, infected him, turned him against his own sense of logic and reason. | ||
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But I ask you, Traveler, did you cleanse us from these technological disasters to prove we had gone astray? The Light you raised us with points far away from the trappings of a processed Earth, to a nebulous power far beyond the stars. | But I ask you, Traveler, did you cleanse us from these technological disasters to prove we had gone astray? The Light you raised us with points far away from the trappings of a processed Earth, to a nebulous power far beyond the stars. | ||
Had we done wrong and this is how you hope to correct us; we, the Light to lead the way? It must be, but even your shattered hull seems like a designed system. Lord Timur has notes upon notes on your runes. Perhaps that is where his madness began. | Had we done wrong and this is how you hope to correct us; we, the Light to lead the way? It must be, but even your shattered hull seems like a designed system. Lord [[Timur]] has notes upon notes on your runes. Perhaps that is where his madness began. | ||
I wonder how long it will be until he thinks you were made by Clovis Bray. | I wonder how long it will be until he thinks you were made by Clovis Bray. | ||