Hirsu went into the gardens, and sat down amidst the greenery. He let the calming influence of the place relax him. Silently, he began contemplating the mysteries of life, and what life meant to existence. The garden surrounding him was full of a type of life, but was also representative of so much else. This place flourished in calm conditions, a little water, earth and light providing all that was needed. Yet the divine market, that hustling marketplace, was so full of life and frenetic activity, thousands upon thousands of desires and necessities serviced in every instant, in a whirlwind of small movements taken by hundreds of thousands of different lives.

The two situations were so different, yet fundamentally, both contained the aspect of life within them. It was this duality that he let his mind slowly absorb, disect, amalgamate and attempt to understand by the most minute fragment. It was this fragment that he slowly began shifting into a physical reality.

Anik gave him a drop of divine power from himself. "What is your function?"

Anik

More.. power.. let me.. drink from your well, Anik..

Hirsu

Time passed, and Hirsu went about his work. He felt a wave of exhaustion come over him - from another time and place - and yet, working at his own pace the craft wasn't too difficult. Time passed, and.. the diamond, uncut, was complete.

Hirsu focused on the uncut diamond, slowly focusing on refining it.

It was a risk, but Anik allows the map to absorb his power.

Anik

Anik felt the power be drawn from his body, absorbed and savoured. The map shook in delight. Anik felt himself become slightly devoid of power, but there was no immediate downsides..

I apologise for my demands, Creator. I was too greedy and fear I might have taken too much from your theoelectromagnetic well. Will you forgive me?

Hirsu

More time passed, and darkness fell. Soon Hirsu was holding a Jagged Stone.

Hirsu turned his thoughts onto a new aspect. He focused now on all the things that kept a being alive. Desire for sustenance, avoidance of hazards, detection of predators, thirst, cravings, fear. The various thoughts came together in a shifting pattern in Hirsu's mind, taking a different shape than the last gem he had made.

"It is no trouble. I shall survive." He thought back, But please, would you tell me your purpose? Why you were created? It was said you are a map, is this true?"

Anik

It is true. I am a map. But I am also a living chart. I am a map of every theoelectromagnetic being that has reached crisis point and ascended - or, as H. C. Wyrn terms it, reached Logos. Yggdrasildic ascension transformation rather than evolution and is thus not monitored.

Hirsu

The opal soon formed within Hirsu's hands, small and yet very beautiful. This was becoming easier with practice.

Anik was intrigued, it seems the Systemarch was very interested in divinity indeed... ascension. "Tell me map do you have a name I can call you by? And what exactly is this Logos you speak of?"

Hirsu smiled, and focused on yet another aspect of life, this one less fundamental. He considered loyalty, the ties that bind beings together, that shaky force that is based upon and can supersede the basic drive of survival. What is more beautiful than a parent's love for their child, their willingness to sacrifice to aid another? For some reason, the colour of this aspect was blue.

Anik


You may call me the Speaker. As for the nature of the Logos.. I cannot tell you. Not yet. I have been informed that I am to test you before I can reveal further secrets. I am testing you right now. This is the sacred science.

Hirsu

Slowly it formed, but form it did; time passed in the Gardens, and darkness fell further. Hirsu found himself with the sapphire, glittering even in the night.

Hirsu smiled, and rested for a little bit before starting on the next task. He had at least this one last gem to make, and perhaps one more afterwards.

He concentrated on the aspect of understanding, not instinctual understanding, but rather rational understanding. Symbols, sounds, letters, logic, all these things in a very basic form.

Well speaker is there anything I need to do?

Anik

Perhaps. I understand that you also possess another Attainment, belonging to Balverstus of the Hammer. Could you.. show it to me?

Anik knew that this was a purely curious motive on the part of the Map.

Hirsu

(I really love your brief descriptions, Hirsu)

It slowly formed - slowly but surely. Time passed, dawn approached. The jewel.. was born, held in Hirsu's fitting hands.

(OOC: Thanks.)

Hirsu relaxed for a bit, feeling that he was making good progress. He considered his desired goal, picturing the creature he wished to bring into the world. He had everything he needed, but something was missing. Realizing what it was, he refocused his mind on the task.

He first imagined a set of the rules that govern much of the universe. Once those particular rules were set in his mind, he began imagining how to bend those rules, how special qualities inherrent to a particular being made those rules seem silly, or obsolete. How some beings lived their lives completely unaware of certain rules that affected others, and how such abilities would shape the being, and alter the perspectives of everyone who witnessed it.

Anik nodded and put his backpack down and pulled out the carefully sealed pieces of the hammer. "I was hoping to get some information from your creator on the works of Systemarch attainments. Perhaps you could help me on this puzzle." He speaks out loud as well as in his head.

Anik

Interesting. The Hammer.. a brother. I have not met a sibling yet. And.. it does not speak. I fear it does not like me. Still, Anik.. what are your.. questions?

The pieces of the hammer shined wondrously in the sun.

Hirsu

Hirsu was taken by visions during the creation of this last jewel. He saw majestic butterflies, strange eagles, snakes that slithered in the air and dolphins in flight..

He awoke suddenly. He'd fallen asleep working. The sun was high in the sky.

Hirsu held the finished Lazuli close to his chest.

Hirsu took out the gems, and gazed upon them. Here were things of undefinable beauty. Divine power fused into raw potential. Their combination could bring life in nearly any shape into being. Or it could bring nothing, or failure, or death, or any number of other calamities.

Hirsu slowly allowed himself to enter a meditative state, his mind dwelling on the gems in his hands. Each gem had its own distinct potential, it's own gifts and limits. Each was individually of little value, but together, they could set in motion events to shape worlds. Hirsu wasn't interested in setting such events in motion at this point, but the potential was more than he could follow to its end.

In his mind's eye, he saw each gem as the cluster of ideas they embodied. To each cluster, he tied the ideas that linked them together. Survival tying instinct to life, emotion tying loyalty to thought, motion tying power to survival. More and more ideas linked them. Caring, stomach, understanding, hatred, muscle, hunger, submission, love, fat, speed, hunting, spine, strength, life, thirst, death, feathers, hear, happiness, tail, see, wait, sadness, compassion, play.

Link after link was established, each link bringing the gems a little closer, and defining the overall shape a little more. Hirsu lost himself in the process, in the ecstasy of creation, in the pain and fulfillment of birth.

1. "It does not speak because it is not awake. It has been fractured in a fight with one names Osiris-Ra, it creator had died as well in that fight, but we are determined to bring him back... and the attainment is key in that. This object, does the damage rest only physically? I hesitate to just bring it back together without knowing if there is more to the puzzle." In truth he had been so busy he had give the attainment little thought. But now that he had another, this was quite the interesting study case... he was excited, ecstatic even, there was even a slight... very slight... grin on his face.

2. Anik came by the gardens with his new items in tow and saw himself with the Systemarch artifacts, but he went a little further. He about laughed. It seems someone had beat him to a nice spot to Mythcraft. He didn't speak though, and moved to his own spot. Anik gathered the materials. His plan was something he had designed long ago, but there would be several upgrades, including that of alchemical enhancements.

Anik took a dead tree tree branch and caused a chemical reaction through, which turned it into ash. This ash didn't dissipate into the air thought, instead it condensed and became graphite. This graphite condensed and became diamond. Anik took out the five valved human heart. He touched the two and they became one sinking into each other. He concentrated on diamond heart and gave it code of life. The form of essence of the being laid within.

Anik


1. There was a long moment of silence from the Map. I... believe there is spiritual damage associated with the shards, my friend. They wish to be avenged upon the individual responsible for their shattering - Lictros of the Wild. He must be destroyed before the Attainment can become whole and its Forger reborn.

2. Wood to ash; ash to graphite; graphite to diamond; diamond to life. It was almost Chinese in execution. The diamond hummed with the invisible, silent code of life, ready and willing to be born into something new and alive.

Hirsu

(Very cool, Hirsu.)

The gems seemed to melt slowly, to fuse together, to become something entirely different. The size of a feline, the prismatic energy contained very slowly began to take form according to the will of Hirsu. The energy thinned out, became longer, mottled and blue. Eyes were slowly created, the spark of life not yet in them. A mouth and a forked tongue. Thousands of individual feathers, a perfect tail..

Soon, life came to the eyes - but they did not blink. There was a slight hiss from the thing as the feathered snake examined Hirsu curiously, keeping its distance. It would need a name.

Hirsu smiled without revealing his teeth. He spoke a single word to the creature. "Coatl."

He stood up, and stretched, working the kinks out of his muscles after sitting for so long.

1. "I shall inform those who need to be. Your help has indeed proved valuable." He though on what he had learned in the library. Speaker... the list you have. I am guessing it is perhaps a list of those Logos achieved... or those destined for one. Do you know which one is Wyrn? He dared not say the previous one aloud, but just thought to the Map.

2. Anik rested. He would not be able to preform much more with the power drain form his own realm.
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Anik

1. Wyrn.. is no Logos. He is.. the Herald. A champion, seer, confidante.. he merely borrows the power, but is not changed by it. No, it is his master. The Emperor of the Golden Hand. The Golden Hand is the Logos.. the Emperor its servant. Wyrn, the servant's servant..

2. Sleep, too, came over this Anik..

Hirsu

The snake slithered up to its Father, hissing curiously. There was understanding in those unblinking eyes. Loyalty, too.

Hirsu extended his arm to the serpent, granting it a perch if it wished. "We will wait here, until the moment is right."