So, uh. Just wanted to point out that this is our tenth post and it appears that it will be on schedule. So, I'm taking this thing seriously. Yay me. Anyway, enough of my sentimentality and on to the arbiter.
A lowly wizard who is also a known gambler, cheat and all-round scumbag, has recently made a series of great investments and amassed a fortune. The fact that he pulled it off by imprisoning an arbiter and torturing it into revealing bits of the cosmic plan is revealed in quite an unsubtle way, though - a minor army of arbiters are now threatening to erase the city from existence. Even if the city's protectors somehow manage to merely murder their way out of the situation, the Sages warn them that such a course of action is inevitable (pun fucking intended) to bring forth more powerful Aeons.
In the Blessed World Bandallallayah, chaos was entirely exterminated. Three milliseconds after that, all of the world's arbiters went haywire. Apparently, self-preservation is located deep within their machine code. Realizing the truth of the fact that once chaos was exterminated, they no longer had a reason to exist, they correctly deduced that it meant they would need to be destroyed. However, as they are technically still acting according to their (and the universe's) coding, the higher-order aeons cant directly deal with them. Strangers from far flung corners of the multiverse are now summoned forth to deal with this predicament.
The shimmering oracle is an arbiter that takes the ideas of duality too seriously even for an aeon. It has come into possession of an artifact that literally erases it from existence for a while. After it has been "existent" for a while, it will phase into nothingness for a while. Though those who have spoken to it claim it has some sort of internal logic deciding when and where it will disappear or reappear, it seems random from an outsider's perspective.
If one does manage to find it, it is more than willing to share cryptic tidbits of the cosmic plan, but it has been know to disappear mid-sentence on several occasions.
Of course, while its oracular prowess is highly sought out, there are also those who are willing to pay a kings ransom for the procurement of the artifact it is using, with no questions asked.
A lowly wizard who is also a known gambler, cheat and all-round scumbag, has recently made a series of great investments and amassed a fortune. The fact that he pulled it off by imprisoning an arbiter and torturing it into revealing bits of the cosmic plan is revealed in quite an unsubtle way, though - a minor army of arbiters are now threatening to erase the city from existence. Even if the city's protectors somehow manage to merely murder their way out of the situation, the Sages warn them that such a course of action is inevitable (pun fucking intended) to bring forth more powerful Aeons.
In the Blessed World Bandallallayah, chaos was entirely exterminated. Three milliseconds after that, all of the world's arbiters went haywire. Apparently, self-preservation is located deep within their machine code. Realizing the truth of the fact that once chaos was exterminated, they no longer had a reason to exist, they correctly deduced that it meant they would need to be destroyed. However, as they are technically still acting according to their (and the universe's) coding, the higher-order aeons cant directly deal with them. Strangers from far flung corners of the multiverse are now summoned forth to deal with this predicament.
The shimmering oracle is an arbiter that takes the ideas of duality too seriously even for an aeon. It has come into possession of an artifact that literally erases it from existence for a while. After it has been "existent" for a while, it will phase into nothingness for a while. Though those who have spoken to it claim it has some sort of internal logic deciding when and where it will disappear or reappear, it seems random from an outsider's perspective.
If one does manage to find it, it is more than willing to share cryptic tidbits of the cosmic plan, but it has been know to disappear mid-sentence on several occasions.
Of course, while its oracular prowess is highly sought out, there are also those who are willing to pay a kings ransom for the procurement of the artifact it is using, with no questions asked.
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