[open] march catchall

[techmaturgy]

Who: Viktor and special guests and YOU
When: throughout March
Where: Cadens, the Horizon
What: open stuff, closed stuff, general nerdery, horizon visits, whatever I WANT
Warnings: the usual references to terminal illness, will list additional warnings as needed.

[open and closed starters in comments! If you want a custom starter or something specific, just hit me up. full horizon details are here for any and all wildcarding needs. For everything else, I’m on plurk at whitticus and on discord at whitticus#8139.]

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[funbreaker]

Nor could I have, had I not stepped foot in one.

[ There are certain things that one cannot truly comprehend until seeing them with one's own eyes, and even now Thancred only understands the basics of how Eden functioned. He could go into more detail on how it had been discovered that Eden was in fact an Ascian turned into a Sin Eater, but it won't mean much to the likes of Viktor.

It barely means much to him.

At the suggestion that Thancred show Viktor what he means, there's a moment of confusion before meaning clicks into place. ] Ah, right. This is the Horizon.

[ He stands then, taking a moment to glance down at his hands. The act of creation, even in this liminal space, is something he is still not quite used to. It doesn't come to him naturally the way that it does others. He knows he needs to merely will something into being, however, and it should work.

Therefore, he spreads his hands apart from each other in front of him, and after a moment or two of concentration, a semi-translucent miniature model of Eden floats between his hands. Its design is quite unusual, with parts of it that almost look like feathers, contrasted with rings of metal near the back of its "head." Its top-heavy body tapers down into a point. ]

Imagine this, but much, much larger.

[ Nor is he done. The model shifts to hover over one of his hands and then he brings forth another image, this time of leviathan, a double-headed sea serpent. Why Himeka had imagined it this way he could hardly say, but the recreation shifts around in place, its heads darting to and fro, as if it were truly alive. If quite small. ]

On my star there are beings such as this called primals, made of pure aether and generally summoned to enact great destruction. In this case we used them to our advantage, using Eden to bring forth their likeness as concentrated aether. Once they were defeated, it dispersed the elemental energy as I described.

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[He can follow along just fine with general descriptions and talk about the function of such a thing, but it’s something else entirely to be able to see it—one of the greatest advantages of a place like the Horizon. Viktor is always attempting to accumulate more knowledge. Being exposed to information from other worlds and universes is more than he could have ever hoped for.

So this is more than a little fascinating, and he follows along as Thancred starts to conjure the ship and the thing they were, apparently, fighting against. He studies it closely, rubbing his chin. Not applicable to him, or what he’s trying to do, but fascinating nonetheless. At the very least, he can absorb the principles of it all, with the hope that the information might come in handy later.]

And the land was restored?

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[ Thancred drops his hands and steps away from the floating images so that Viktor can inspect them to his liking. He nods in response to the question. ]

Eventually, yes. It took time. And defeating a good number of these primals to account for each element.

[ He'd had to leave the finishing of the job in Himeka, Ryne, and Gaia's hands, but they had pulled it off. Himeka had done her best to describe everything to him in the aftermath, and while it had felt wrong to return home without seeing it through, it's not as if he had much choice. ]

If you end up having further questions about all this, you're welcome to ask me. [ Who knows? Maybe some of this information will somehow help adjust Viktor's theorizing for his own research. ] I'll do my best to answer, in any case.

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I don't want to keep you.

[An implication that, if given the opportunity, Viktor will likely ask dozens of follow-ups. He can see, however, that Thancred doesn't necessarily consider himself the expert in this sort of thing, so perhaps he should give him a reprieve, for now. It's certainly enough for him to consider, for now.]

But, thank you for showing me. It's interesting, to hear about other worlds. You're welcome back here anytime you like.