After Halley consumed the pellet of divine energy, she grew silent for a moment before the mists around her suddenly began to churn with the strength of a hurricane as her divine aura surged outward. For a moment, the other mega-spirits had to stop as their horizon-sized auras were repelled by Halley's. Here, in this misty void, she had enough power to damage even the tree itself if she wanted to, but also to make new parts of it. The pellet she consumed merged its divine essence with hers, and the origin of said essence was an old and extremely powerful divine force.
Her base form now emanated mist even when she wasn't emanating cometfire (see her profile I updated it with pics), and she was unlike anything she had ever been before before. She'd be much weaker outside the divine valley, but within it she had the power to truly be a warden of the core of the tree.
And after an indeterminate amount of time being surrounded by hurricane strength howling mist, things suddenly grew silent and still as the mist was all drawn inside of Halley's person. She then erupted with cometfire energy, but that too was drawn inside of herself and apparently snuffed out, but in reality the energy was coalescing and condensing, for her eyes began to glow brilliantly as bright as the sun itself in a mixture of colors: teal, blue, pearlescent, sometimes prismatic. And then streams of yellow light began emanating from the giant feathered serpent and flowing into Halley as she actively funneled and leeched pure creative power from Myriad itself: a prerogative she had as the tree's aegis. And she drank deep and greedily of the tree's power, but she was gestating her power to create something free of entropy from misty nothingness.
And after the tree's power mingled with her own archon power, Halley erupted in a supernova of energy as her aura surged outward exponentially, momentarily eclipsing those of the other great spirits there except Myriad's and those of the primordials themselves who were surely watching. And over time, the supernova began to solidify and coalesce into a solid material core. And gradually, the light began to recede as Halley's aura shrank down to its normal levels. The light faded, and the streamers of energy drawing off myriad also vanished. Halley gasped for air as she was winded after her exertion, although her body and spirit both were as healthy as ever thanks to drawing off myriad to supplement her efforts.
After the dust settled, the misty void was gone.
And in it's place, The Divine Valley stood. Both Halley's and Myriad's personal realm, it was the metaphysical center around which the tree itself would grow and branch out from. From the perspective of a primordial, it was a sapling with some dangling roots and a few flowering buds. But over time, it would sprout into a large universe-tree with a proper trunk and branches and twisting root system all of its own as both new godrealms and normal realms and universes came into being all around this nascent metaphysical core.
THE DIVINE VALLEY
The Divine Valley was literally and figuratively a velly. A huge, expanse of a valley the size of a small country. It was bounded on all sides by steep, sometimes even perfectly vertical mountains with often rounded or somewhat rounded peaks as far as the eye can see and beyond. Many of them are sources of ever-flowing water generated by the power of the Valley itself. As a result, the divine Valley is filled with rivers, lakes, waterfalls, ponds, and fountains and springs although there also is plenty of dry land interspersed throughout as well. There are various Torii Gates interspersed all throughout the Divine Valley, usually directly over leylines that branch out from the
Sakura Sacrarium, otherwise known as the literal and metaphysical center of the divine valley itself. All mana originates from the Sacrarium, and is the source of all Essence Nodes that will ever exist in the cores of realms and dimensions that arise upon the tree now and into the future.
The Valley has very distinctive and conspicuous elements of Halley's domains. There are celestial bodies here despite there not being a universe and galaxy proper within the zone of the Divine Valley: A sun, moon, and stars (with frequent comets and shooting stars all visible at night each and every night). The Valley currently is on a 24 hour day-night cycle although it always maintains a warm balmy 70 degrees Fahrenheit Temperature and summertime weather conditions, although the Valley has a mysterious property of always being personally habitable to any being regardless of their need for temperature and air as long as neither Halley or Myriad are actively deeming otherwise. The Valley also is always covered in Mist and fog to some degree - on some days it's drenched in mist and visibility is severely reduced, and on other days it's only slightly misty as the mist thins out and is only heavy over the mountains of the Valley.
Within the Divine Valley, close-ish but not directly next to the Sakura Sacrarium, is the city of
Bolide, which is detailed below.
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BOLIDE
This city of Bolide initially starts off with several large and grand aesthetic dome-like buildings and infrastructure that's way beyond the current technology level of mortals currently inhabiting the place (think roughly middle ages) thanks to Halley's influence. However the overall size of the place is currently less of a city and more of a town or really large village, and it contains more simple dwellings interspersed throughout that belong to the locals who live there. There is one building there that is always super hyper advanced and distinct from the rest:
The Grand Planetarium, whose inner space is larger than its outer space and whose records, orreries, and such evolve to reflect and map that of the Tree's realms. This place also - along with the Sakura Sacrarium, serves as a Haunt for Halley so normally is sealed from the public. Bolide will grow and evolve over time as the multiverse does, and may also grow and change if gods or high-tier mortal races establish a presence there and add their own embassies and dwellings, councils, and so on. But for now, it's made of elegant smoothed marble buildings with open aesthetic concepts but otherwise is relatively simple.
It is inhabited by race of mortal beings called the
Bolidians, who appear essentially to be close to humans except theiy have pointed elfen style ears, pale skin, but hair that ranges from light blue and aqua colors to periwinkle and purple. The Bolidians still have a powerful mystical culture, but typically the shamanic core aspects of it's tradition are being replaced gradually over time with more esoteric, structured magical practices but shamanism still exists. The creative arts have boomed: the beginnings of a solid culture of literature, art, philosophy and performance have been established. A system of magistrates and ministers have been loosely established, bringing law to land, though the people know their place and know that they are allowed to live there only due to the sufferance of Halley and Myriad. Some of the land has been explored, but only so that a fully-fleshed mining/agricultural campaign can be attempted: there is now enough food for everyone, and the arts of smithing, forging and jewelry-crafting have begun. Technology level is roughly bronze age going into medieval times.
NOTE: BOLIDE IS THIS GAME'S CENTRAL HUB FOR GODS AND OTHER BEINGS WHO COME TO THE DIVINE VALLEY. ANYONE WHO PARADOXES INTO THE DIVINE VALLEY APPEARS IN A LARGE OPEN PLAZA IN CENTRAL BOLID THAT HAS AN ORNATE FOUNTAAIN OF IT DEPICTING SUNS, MOONS, AND STARS. ANY ATTEMPTS TO PARADOX INTO THE PLANETARIUM OR THE SAKURA SACRARIUM WILL RESULT IN YOU APPEARING IN BOLIDE INSTEAD.
THE SAKURA SACRARIUM
The Sakura Sacrarium is a HUGE Sakura tree that glows with a pearlescent light at all times of the day, and that appears to be in eternal bloom. This is the physical and metaphysical center of the Divine Valley. It is also, like the Sacred Sacrariums of other Theogenesis games, the seat of the consciousness of the World Tree Myriad itself. This normally a restricted area, and the Tree will (usually) block all attempts by any beings besides its vassal great spirits, Primordials, or The Archon Halley to enter its confines. Forces of Madness or the Abyss that enter the Sacrarium are instantly destroyed if the tree as a whole still stands in the Eternal Forest. The tree always appears taller than any other tree in the Divine Valley, although its size is otherwise subjective to all onlookers but is universally grand and majestic. As the Tree Grows, the Sacrarium tree will eventually get so large that it's entrance will fade from sight and become its own sub-dimension itself but for now it is still visible as the tree is young.
THE SAKURA SACRARIUM IS CURRENTLY BEING ACTIVELY WARDED BY BOTH HALLEY (AS A HAUNT) AND THE PRIMORDIAL BEING KNOWN AS THE HIEROPHANT, GIVEN ITS YOUNGNESS. AS SUCH, PETITIONS FOR ARCH-DIVINITY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AT THIS TIME AS THAT MUCH STRAIN COULD HARM THE TREE. THE SACRARIUM IS MEANT TO BE A LOOK-BUT-DON'T-TOUCH LOCATION NORMALLY.