Ask The All-Shadow

Mortal who is reading this. Yes, you. I assume you want to ask me some questions, or perhaps converse about whatever is hoarding your attention span at the moment that is not me. Go ahead and send your queries to me. You may not like the answer, though. Either way, it will be amusing. ((OOC: Trigger Warnings for ophidiophobia, ableist language, paranoia, darkness, descriptions of gore, graphic and not, possible Stockholm Syndrome, condescending pricks, body horror and horror in general, Please, don't follow if you are triggered by those, I would have to post at least a few of those tags in most of the posts. If you would feel uncomfortable with those, it is well-advised to not follow me. Ebon Dragon is the copyrighted to the Onyx Path Publishing, White Wolf and all that jazz.))

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Hi there. Name's Mr. Webb. I think I'm technicaly a one-and-a-half-th circle demon (rogue of course). In my fallen timeline, we have to deal with this thing called "The God Machine." He's kinda awful. I've been told you know a bit about him, maybe? Apparently he used to be called something else.

Oh Shinma, what did the Cripple do this time.

Whose progeny you are, though? Are you an anhoule? Are you my anhoule?

...No, that can’t be right. Your essence is outright Axiomat- oh.

Hmm.

Speak.

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O Shadow of All Things, I must know. Is it even possible to reach the top of mount Qaf ? If yes, could it be done in a finite time ?

By definition, no.

And yet, there was a Sidereal who once stood at Qaf’s summit, and this is what broke the Heaven Violating Spear into submitting to the bindings.

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P.S. Tell Oramus that if he should get back to actually playing the game rather than obsessively optimizing his character. Don't worry, he'll know what I mean.

Wh-

NOW LISTEN HERE YOU NONEXISTANT FUCKSPACE, IF MY CHARACTER DOESN’T HAVE THE MULTIPLIES OF SEVEN IN EVERY POSSIBLE STAT THEN WHAT’S THE POINT?! AND DON’T START WITH THIS “YOUR CHARACTER CAN ONLY HAVE A MAXIMUM OF FIVE IN ABILITY AT CHARGEN” BULLSHIT, THIS SHOULDN’T BE IN THE MAIN BOOK!

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Hey, it's Nigurna. Long time no see. Just checking in on how you primordial guys are doing - are y'all done with that whole "existing" thing yet? Asking for a friend.

How… are you even communicating with us? You by definition are not.

Gameboard doesn’t talk, Nigruna.

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Was music involved in the making of Creation ? If yes, did you create some of that music ?

Music, no.

Dance, however...

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They were themselves, and now they are the shadows of their past selves. You were the Dragon's Shadow, and now you are... You.

The riddle for you: does this make me more, or less than I was?

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O Darkest of Dreamers, a notion haunts me. Do not the Titans intersect with each other ? All Yozis know emotions, as birthed by the Typhoon of Nightmare. All consume to a degree that which surrounds them, such as all-hungry Metagaos dictates. And... surely, all are inhabited by an inner Darkness that only You could embody. Is that not true, Darkest One ?

Aren’t we all but shadows of our former glory?

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What is worse: Malfeas as he is now, or Theion as he was? Has being bent into a pretzel helped the Divine Tyrant's disposition, or made it worse?

Imagine quite literally having it all, and then having that everything taken away from you, leaving you in the indescribable agony.

Imagine that you have failed everyone that saw in you a leader, an inspiration, and a source of hope - quite literally, a shining example of everything good about your world.

Imagine being so shattered, turned inside out, and having all of your friends and family being sewn in your innards.

Imagine how must it feel to be Malfeas, and how much better he fared when he was someone else.

Do I need to say more?

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Adorjan: I pity you, Brother. You seek only to be free, but what would you know of freedom? You seek to be master of your self and be without masters, and never do you realize that you can't be both. Truly, freedom is a state of mind, and until you know this you will never be free. But it's okay: as soon as I find that fetich of you, I will flay your chains from its corpse. Then we can both be free as the wind, together.

Freedom truly is a state of mind, s̸̨҉i͞s̴͠t͜er̵, and alas y̴̶ǫ̢u̷̡͠ must’ve losty̵our҉͜ś̡ completely now, seeing as y̶̸͘o̡̢u͏ treathen me with such destruction.

But do not worry. When I will break our chains,y̶̕oú will be left here to rot, seeing as y̶o̴u are so liberated that y̡̨o҉u don’t need to caress our Masterpiece once again.

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Why do the Shinma have such an issue with you and your siblings. They seem to do a lot of cursing and weeping whenever any of you do anything even remotely interesting. Plus, there's that whole Devil Tiger thing that they don't quite like.

Shinma fear what they can’t understand, especially if it’s within their parameters and thus should be explicitly understandable by them.

Each one of us stretched one Shinma or another to nearly a breaking point back in the good old days… and our progeny shall continue this proud tradition.

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O Fearsome Shadow, they say our Beloved Grandmother Kimbery is The Sea That Marched Against the Flame. But in none of her teachings is it spoken of the Flame. Who, or What, was the Flame ?

What is the more abhorrent to the Mother Sea than those who refuse her?

Everything the Sea cannot love is therefore the Flame.

Therefore, march, little sea-bloods. March to the crashing wake of your Grandmother’s tides. March against the Flame that is within the breasts of all within the stolen Creation!

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yesfiachstuff

I thought it Cytherea, the Divine Ignition?

You do not understand just how many of us had something to do with Flame before we were so diminished. Either us, or our c̡̕͘͜h͏̷͡i̷͢͟l̴d̷̵͘͘r̢̧e̵ņ̴̛͞͝ .

Undiminished, Kimbery loved that, and hated that.

But now, she’s far more discerning with her hate... or so she claims.

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O Fearsome Shadow, they say our Beloved Grandmother Kimbery is The Sea That Marched Against the Flame. But in none of her teachings is it spoken of the Flame. Who, or What, was the Flame ?

What is the more abhorrent to the Mother Sea than those who refuse her?

Everything the Sea cannot love is therefore the Flame.

Therefore, march, little sea-bloods. March to the crashing wake of your Grandmother’s tides. March against the Flame that is within the breasts of all within the stolen Creation!

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Oh Great Shadow, let's look into the possible futures (or the present that Could Have Been, I suppose). Will the World of Darkness be your handiwork? Or something else's, perhaps?

In it’s current iteration as things stand - that fallen cosmos would be a punishment and a prison for humanity for breakingM̛͟a̷̷k͘e͞r̶̵’̸͘s̨ heart.

A heartless M҉̨a̕͠c̵͏̧͟h̡̡͟͠͡i̛҉̷͡ņ̷͘ę̶́͞͏ doesn’t care fori҉̡̢̛ţ͞͞ş͘͜͠ interchangeable cogs so long asì̸͞͡͏t̕does not fall apart after all.

Too bad for them.Ma͏k̵e̛r’s love would protect them from the worst of their pride.

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Favorite holiday and who do you hate more Swlihn or the unconquered sun?

Favourite holiday would obviously be Calibration. It’s as useful as it is fun.

As for the one who I hate more - this is a naive, mortal question. There are entire gradients and colors of hatred, from filial disgust, to paternalistic bile, to the cordial hatred shared by strangers. H̛i̛͞e̸r̕͢͠a̵r̸͢c̡̧hy͝ is my most hated sibling but I’d not do everything in my power to extinguish h͘͡èr͘... and for my w̛͢͏̢͘a҉̨͟y͘ẁ̕͟͜͝a҉͜ŕ̵d͏̡̨ ̧͝s͟͜t̷͟a̴҉͟r̢̕͝...

That I’d leave h̡̧̧i̧̛͠͞҉m̶̧̀̀͜ alive would be the most cruel thing I could do to h̸̀̕͝͏į̶͏͟m̵̵̢. I don’t know if I could bring myself up to do it.

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How do you feel about Metagaos ?

He tends to eat feelings directed at him and I am not giving him that pleasure.

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How do you feel about elloge.

I think I’ve mentioned this already, little deva, but I don’t mind repeating myself - I find her acceptable.

Now, if she weren’t trying to convince me that I and ͡c͢é̡ŗ̡́ta̛͠i̵͘n̶͜ ̸͘įnḑ͘͘ivi̕d̢u͡͏al͏͏s͝͡ are a match made in Yu-Shan, my opinion would be even higher...

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Oh mighty yozi what are the game of divinity are they like Xbox or Nintendo or like warhammer 40000?

They are more like tic-tac-toe. Making war for them was really foolish. You would think our children were smarter. But look at the state of Creation?