My student, It is my considered opinion that, upon her surrender, some fifty-two centuries ago, the primordial known as She who lives in her name, the principle of hierarchy, known as SWLihN from this point forward in this text, destroyed not at random, but actually aimed to weaken or destroy the metaphysical weapons that had been used to defeat her and the newly named Yozis.
No lesser authorities than the Maidens spoke collectively on this, stating that some concepts had been destroyed, the laws of reality had been changed, and other, mind-bogglingly enormous damage had been perpetrated upon reality, and the various planes that existed from that point on.
This happened five centuries, at least, after the putative death of the first known primordial: Heateater, and the subsequent creation of the Underworld, and so had to affect it, as well, simply by the nature and extent of the damage.
I've attempted to set down some of the suspected destroyed aspects of reality in this document, in the hope that further scholarship help us further the power of the loom of fate.
First, the Crown of Mektia, a superstructure wrought of orichalcum, wrapped around Ignis Divine's Hyperion Station, turning it into the Battlestar, allowing it to deploy what would be known as the Bureau of Season's Storm Hosts at will, carry, support and succor them. A different source claims Luna also could be connected by this immense structure.
Other sources mention the disappearance of Auroral elements. But first, I can tell you, my student, that in the original plan of the Yozis, there were seven sacred elements, each with their own type of jade, and each with a supplemental magical material, usually a metal, but not always.
In order of relationship to SWLihN, the planes of existence are:
Zen-Mu
Malfeas
Creation
Autochton
Yu-Shan
The Underworld
Only four of Zen-Mu's elements remain attested four in my sources, it was the most damaged by SWLihN's anger, ex-aequo with Heaven, split from the blessed isle by the event, and apparently making everyone forget they had ever been the same. The damage to Malfeas is derived from the damage to Zen-Mu, as Malfeas and Theion's fight in that place was still bleeding into reality at the time, and Theion's near-death was most fraught in terms of metaphysical consquences.
Comparatively, Autochtonia was almost untouched, the element of Void being reduced in stature to only be the cancer that affects Autochton, instead of being a fundamental element of that place. Sources suspect this accelerated Autochton's own malady, and the desperation of his people. However, autochtonia has begun leeching out Metal to other realities, due to the damage wrought by the spheres. Autochtonian metal was, for a time at least, an element in Yu-Shan, Malfeas and Zen-Mu. The seal of eight divinities' raising is thought for the reason for the subsequent decline of the element, as it was deprived of its source in Autochton.
The underworld went from seven elements to five, but it is believed two of the prior elements still survived, again in a diminished form. Deathsap and Darkwine are famous, and not all of their elementals were destroyed, protected by the metaphysical protection of the maww of Oblivion.
Creation lost Elemental Amber, and Elemental Northern Lights, and those, unlike others, no longer occur naturally there, but sorcery can simulate them to some degree. Those forms remaining to us are weakened, however, as SWLihN's plan, as they no longer are supported by Yellow Jade and a shade of its former nature can be seen when one employs the Mists of Eventide, but a pale copy it is indeed. Obsidian, which some ancient texts call 'the invisible jade', was also diminished in its magical nature, now only appearing with a simple, basic spell.
Some of this was accidental, but some of this was calculation, SWLihN would hate Mektia especially, after its role to defeat its primary ally, Malfeas, and the damage and diminishment his defeat brought upon him. That the Malfean Element known as Malfean diamonds survived surprises many, but its properties are among the fundamental guarantees of reality, under its more common name:
Transparent seperation, the essence of hierarchy
Had it been diminished, much of the bulwark protecting reality from the Wyld would have been done, missing, and the Incarnae knew better, so they did not destroy SWLihN for her defiance and great crime, but swallowed their distaste, and bound her in chains if humiliation and diminishment. Hoping against hope that they might find a more suitable punishment that wouldn't destroy them or expose them to a fate far worse than non-existence.
By the same token, the Incarnae did not undo the defacement that SWLihN did to herself and her component souls. All of them have three pierced, defaced, rent or otherwise damaged orbs or dots somewhere on their forms, usually, but not always, out of an array of one hundred such dots or orbs.
My student, be very careful with this letter, those of Jupiter will try to make it disappear, and you, should they have the chance, lest it embarass the Incarnae by making their victory appear more hollow than it seems..
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