= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = When will you people learn these [Chaos and Order] are mearly patterns that our temporal minds have made for us in a desperate attempt to make sense of an unimaginably huge and impersonal universe?
Order, chaos, these are words. Only words for things we don't even understand. Chaos is not something you fight against, order is not something you protect. They have no more power or importance than that which we give them.
And I for one will not perpetuate this asinine paradigm that there is something inherently wrong about chaos.
-Black Mage, Episode #062 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = There are places of power, places of destiny.
Holy places where ley lines cross and the surrounding countryside surges with magikal energy.
Some say that the forces of fate are drawn to these places. That each is a nexus. A point where the tides of history will be turned. Where the world will be forever changed.
A nexus is both blessing and a curse.
They are a powerful resource to whomever claims them. He who possesses a nexus, it is said, holds the power to shape the world.
But they are so hotly contested among mages and kings that merely defending a nexus can be the dismantling of an entire nation.
Ley lines are eternal but they are not unchanging. Indeed, it is their very nature to be in a constant state of flux, to be ever-changing.
This is life. This is magik. Not the mere parlor tricks of circle-sorcery.
Magik is the incarnation of will and its expression upon the face of reality. Not a sad scrawl upon some ancient parchment.
As such, one can never predict when a nexus may fade away or where a new one may be born.
But what would happen if a nexus was not born as a place...
...but as a man?
-Black Mage, Episode #081 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = There are gods, little one. Some are worshipped. Some are feared. Some are worshipped out of fear. Others have been forgotten; sealed away for better or worse.
But make no mistake, little one. To the gods, this is all a game. A simple roll of the dice. But all games must obey rules. And that is where our order comes into play.
Many are content to merely live by the rules. To go through the entirety of their lives without understanding them. Not those such as we. We have begun to uncover the systems, the machinery that works our world. For centuries we have catalogued and researched and crossindexed the rules in order to seek a greater understanding of them so that we too may become as gods. So that we may transcend from mere playthings into the players.
Our understanding is not yet complete. We haven't enough knowledge to fully break the rules, but we may... bend them to our favor from time to time. These are the first steps, little one. The first steps to ascension.
In your travels you will learn much of the world and much of yourself. You will bend the rules, and the rules will bend you. That is the very nature of the game. But remember this. Their dice is our free will.
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