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==Shuro Chi Quotes== | ==Shuro Chi Quotes== | ||
===Spine of Keres=== | ===Spine of Keres=== | ||
'''Spine of Keres, Ansible Lens''' | |||
*''Awoken communication systems rely upon paracausal realities. We route our communications and transmat networks through other worlds.'' | |||
*''This is an ansible lens. It is capable of relaying and transmitting messages between Awoken cites and ships at faster-than-light speeds.'' | |||
*''We built the Dreaming City with the help of Ahamkara. Their wishes fueled our innovations, but it was our own ingenuity that shaped our evolution as a people. Wishes go only so far with the short-sighted and unimaginative.'' | |||
'''Spine of Keres, Cave''' | |||
*''I don't know who or what that face depicts. All I know is the Awoken did not carve it. Queen Mara has said it's an ugly thing carve your own likeness in stone while you still live.'' | |||
*'' I can name the heroes depicted in every one of our statues... but this face is a mystery. We did not carve it ourselves. It simply manifested overnight.'' | |||
*''The Dreaming City is so-called because the Awoken drive the fate of the Dreaming, and the Dreaming drive the will of the Awoken. The Dreaming have been known to manifest on occasion - strange faces, peering from rocks...'' | |||
*''There are rumors that the Dreaming City was built upon the foundations of a ruined planet, one we found and towed back from beyond. They say we preserved the old structures and built atop them...'' | |||
'''Spine of Keres, Crystal''' | |||
*''This place always reminds me of Illyn and her dusty-old epics… How did it go? Mm, "In anguish, dying, maimed, they keened unheard into the ether's vast and airless reach. A final whisper deep within them stirred and crossed the void. Then voices filled the breach."'' | |||
*''Illyn, the mother of our coven, used to bring us here to remember the old epics. A piece of one used to go, "Speaking us awake – darkness and starlight released our minds and overwhelmed our sight. Their cosmic boon did we at first rejoice, 'til they laid at our feet a fateful choice..."'' | |||
*''Illyn used to gather us here to recite the old epics. She'd say, "I sing of twilight's children, who awoke; when at the edge of darkness, all hope lost, upon the treacherous reef their vessels broke, and untold kin their exodus cost."'' | |||
'''Spine of Keres, Flowers''' | '''Spine of Keres, Flowers''' | ||
*''That's pink asphodelia. Plain, but pretty. We used to grow asphodelia to mark births and deaths. It's taboo to pick the flowers for any other reason.'' | *''That's pink asphodelia. Plain, but pretty. We used to grow asphodelia to mark births and deaths. It's taboo to pick the flowers for any other reason.'' | ||
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*''Generations of techeuns have stood where you stand now, dreaming of a future where they might twin themselves to their own Harbinger.'' | *''Generations of techeuns have stood where you stand now, dreaming of a future where they might twin themselves to their own Harbinger.'' | ||
*''This was once a training ground for Techeuns... Hmm, do you know Petra Venj was once meant to join our order? She denied the call. It's just as well, I suppose.'' | *''This was once a training ground for Techeuns... Hmm, do you know Petra Venj was once meant to join our order? She denied the call. It's just as well, I suppose.'' | ||
'''Spine of Keres, Oracle Engine''' | |||
*''The Oracle Engine is a bridge - and I mean that in two ways. Like the bridge of a ship, its powers can be used the whole of the Dreaming City… and like a bridge across a chasm, it links worlds together.'' | |||
*''We created the Oracle in communion with the Ancients. It was our invention, and ours alone. The Ahamkara had nothing to do with it.'' | |||
*''I'm told that before the Collapse, humans invented mechanical models of this solar system. This is no model. Models are static. They do nothing but mimic an idea. This Oracle - it creates ideas.'' | |||
'''Spine of Keres, Star Map''' | '''Spine of Keres, Star Map''' | ||
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*''The Awoken were born from the Collapse. We have as many legends about our own genesis as there are statues in this City. One story speaks of a planet with two rings...'' | *''The Awoken were born from the Collapse. We have as many legends about our own genesis as there are statues in this City. One story speaks of a planet with two rings...'' | ||
*''Ordinarily, it is not possible for a planet to have more than a single ring. Gravity and the planet’s equator will pull two rings into one. But, where there’s a wish, there’s a way...'' | *''Ordinarily, it is not possible for a planet to have more than a single ring. Gravity and the planet’s equator will pull two rings into one. But, where there’s a wish, there’s a way...'' | ||
'''Spine of Keres, Summoning Pillar''' | '''Spine of Keres, Summoning Pillar''' | ||