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'''Aspect''' is a [[Lore]] book introduced in the [[Season of the Undying]]. Entries are collected from killing [[Vex]] units across the [[Solar System]]. | [[File:LoreAspect.png|300px|thumb]] | ||
'''Aspect''' is a [[Lore]] book introduced in the [[Season of the Undying]]. Entries are collected from killing [[Vex]] units across the [[Solar System]]. It describes the nature of the Vex generally and its relationship with the [[Black Garden]], the [[Vault of Glass (location)|Vault of Glass]], and the [[Ishtar Collective]]. | |||
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==Realis== | ==Realis== | ||
[[The Undying Mind]] lies in the | [[The Undying Mind]] lies in the Garden, a ruin of metal given over to greenery, a barrow rising out of black soil rich with nitrogen and thought. | ||
Everything in the Garden becomes of the Garden, eventually. Shed leaves decompose and fertilize the soil. So do the bones and unspoken ideas of everyone who couldn't find the end of the maze. | Everything in the Garden becomes of the Garden, eventually. Shed leaves decompose and fertilize the soil. So do the bones and unspoken ideas of everyone who couldn't find the end of the maze. | ||
So do the wordless songs of the | So do the wordless songs of the Vex [[Sol Divisive|gardeners]]. | ||
They walk between the leaves, encouraging growth, laying down their bronze pathways, the only straight lines in all the Garden's tangles. The Vex weave themselves into the Garden, and the Garden returns the favor. | They walk between the leaves, encouraging growth, laying down their bronze pathways, the only straight lines in all the Garden's tangles. The Vex weave themselves into the Garden, and the Garden returns the favor. | ||
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The bronze pathways hum, a counterpoint to the Goblins' song. And the Garden's door vibrates with them. | The bronze pathways hum, a counterpoint to the Goblins' song. And the Garden's door vibrates with them. | ||
==Mirative== | ==Mirative== | ||
He's had this hallucination before. | He's had this hallucination before. | ||
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All he gets back is a wash of static. Whatever signal he was picking up, it's gone. | All he gets back is a wash of static. Whatever signal he was picking up, it's gone. | ||
==Gnomic== | ==Gnomic== | ||
He is he is not he is walking in the Garden. He is talking silent singing. | [[Pujari|He]] is he is not he is walking in the Garden. He is talking silent singing. | ||
^K^KV^V^V^V^V | ^K^KV^V^V^V^V | ||
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(How bad can it be how bad can it be how can we grow grow grow) | (How bad can it be how bad can it be how can we grow grow grow) | ||
A [[Titan]] is a Wall a Shield a Cup filling itself to overflowing. The container changes the shape of its contents but the contents change the nature of the container and the nature is eternity. | A [[Titan (class)|Titan]] is a Wall a Shield a Cup filling itself to overflowing. The container changes the shape of its contents but the contents change the nature of the container and the nature is eternity. | ||
(Who knows what's listening it's listening it's saying grow grow grow) | (Who knows what's listening it's listening it's saying grow grow grow) | ||
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He was named too well he is his own grave and the cut on his left hand will never heal. | He was named too well he is his own grave and the cut on his left hand will never heal. | ||
==Epistemic== | ==Epistemic== | ||
Praedyth has watched from his cell for longer than he knows how to quantify, sitting inside, looking out. | Praedyth has watched from his cell for longer than he knows how to quantify, sitting inside, looking out. | ||
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Once, he sees a vision of himself. Straight-shouldered, warm in the [[Mars|Martian]] sun, standing between Kabr and Pahanin. Kabr's helmet is familiar; it's one Praedyth helped make. He was a defter hand with spinfoil lamination than Kabr ever was. Kabr had worn that helmet barely five years into their life as a fireteam, worn it for six straight months, till he cracked it in half in the [[Crucible]]. That vision makes Praedyth weep—desiccated as he is, he didn't think he had it in him. | Once, he sees a vision of himself. Straight-shouldered, warm in the [[Mars|Martian]] sun, standing between Kabr and Pahanin. Kabr's helmet is familiar; it's one Praedyth helped make. He was a defter hand with spinfoil lamination than Kabr ever was. Kabr had worn that helmet barely five years into their life as a fireteam, worn it for six straight months, till he cracked it in half in the [[Crucible]]. That vision makes Praedyth weep—desiccated as he is, he didn't think he had it in him. | ||
The [[Vault of Glass|Vault]] shows him [[Mercury]] again and again, recognizable only thanks to the scale of the sun in the sky. Sometimes there's rubble hanging in space, a planetary ring still forming. Sometimes there's nothing but rubble, and when he turns, he doesn't see any of the other planets in the system. Gone, somehow, eaten down to the crumbs. | The [[Vault of Glass (location)|Vault]] shows him [[Mercury]] again and again, recognizable only thanks to the scale of the sun in the sky. Sometimes there's rubble hanging in space, a planetary ring still forming. Sometimes there's nothing but rubble, and when he turns, he doesn't see any of the other planets in the system. Gone, somehow, eaten down to the crumbs. | ||
Praedyth wouldn't mind those visions so much if he could only feel the warmth of that colossal sun. His hands are always cold, here in the Vault. | Praedyth wouldn't mind those visions so much if he could only feel the warmth of that colossal sun. His hands are always cold, here in the Vault. | ||
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He sees waves of aliens cross the solar system's threshold, emerging into the light from outside the heliopause. Some of them travel with the air of eager, conquering armies, paint fresh and banners snapping. Some of them move as if they're on the run from something behind them, out in the galactic dark. | He sees waves of aliens cross the solar system's threshold, emerging into the light from outside the heliopause. Some of them travel with the air of eager, conquering armies, paint fresh and banners snapping. Some of them move as if they're on the run from something behind them, out in the galactic dark. | ||
He watches the movements of the Vex. He learns to tell them apart: the shining silver ones, the brass ones with backswept horns, the ones with eyes glowing white. Occasionally, scattered among them are pockets of Vex stained with verdigris, their arms trailing shawls of moss. All the other Vex keep away from those ones. Twice, he's seen other Vex fight the mossy ones. It looks like the other Vex are frightened of them, as much as Vex can be. | He watches the movements of the Vex. He learns to tell them apart: the [[Sol Primeval|shining silver ones]], the [[Vex Sol Collective|brass ones with backswept horns]], the ones with eyes glowing white. Occasionally, scattered among them are pockets of Vex stained with verdigris, their arms trailing shawls of moss. All the other Vex keep away from those ones. Twice, he's seen other Vex fight the mossy ones. It looks like the other Vex are frightened of them, as much as Vex can be. | ||
Some timelines have veils drawn over them, a darkness too thick to see through. They push back against Praedyth's sight, resisting. | Some timelines have veils drawn over them, a darkness too thick to see through. They push back against Praedyth's sight, resisting. | ||
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He's got all the time in the world. | He's got all the time in the world. | ||
==Deontic== | ==Deontic== | ||
The pulses are stabilizing. The voices come often enough now that Praedyth has been introduced to their owners: [[Maya Sundaresh|Sundaresh]], [[Chioma Esi|Esi]], [[Shim]], and [[Duane-McNiadh]]. Not infinite mirrored variations of them from different timelines, but simulations all split off the same base, way back in what must have been the Golden Age. Some have grown far different from their progenitors. | The pulses are stabilizing. The voices come often enough now that Praedyth has been introduced to their owners: [[Maya Sundaresh|Sundaresh]], [[Chioma Esi|Esi]], [[Shim]], and [[Duane-McNiadh]]. Not infinite mirrored variations of them from different timelines, but simulations all split off the same base, way back in what must have been the Golden Age. Some have grown far different from their progenitors. | ||
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They're taking the leap. | They're taking the leap. | ||
==Atelic== | ==Atelic== | ||
Describe time. No, really, give it a go. | Describe time. No, really, give it a go. | ||
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You see? | You see? | ||
==Jussive== | ==Jussive== | ||
The pulses from outside the Vault come quicker now. More copies of the [[Ishtar Collective]] team arrive, using them for a boost, leapfrogging in from the dark. | The pulses from outside the Vault come quicker now. More copies of the [[Ishtar Collective]] team arrive, using them for a boost, leapfrogging in from the dark. | ||
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Soon. | Soon. | ||
==Volitive== | ==Volitive== | ||
227.97 | 227.97 | ||
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You go on. | You go on. | ||
==Irrealis== | ==Irrealis== | ||
The Garden wakes, and the Undying Mind wakes with it. It rises from the barrow that's grown up around it, shedding vines and hanging moss like bedsheets. | The Garden wakes, and the Undying Mind wakes with it. It rises from the barrow that's grown up around it, shedding vines and hanging moss like bedsheets. | ||