#froar

[reliving-elegy]

Unreal Potential: Abaddon Cry

In a previous post, the three responses have been interpreted as below:

"Belief is warm, like joy or spring. Doubt burns, like hatred or acid. Froar is Cold, like tundra or grief."

While this may seem silly, it is reflected in World in more ways than one. Joy is to embrace what someone is, and doubt is to refute it. Observations of good and evil originate from these basic concepts, regardless of what interpretation they originated from.

But good is not the opposite of evil in this world- not truly. That conflict is what keeps the world ticking, believe it or not.

Without contradiction, the World would cease, and the Absolute End would take its place.

Gowl, one of the savage Mar'ugal, is a creature birthed to wield that terrible power. Froar is a power that seeks only to remove- not destroy, leaving shards for the world to find, but to obliterate in their entirety. To accomplish this, they were created with the Unreal Potential to control this power- to forsake everything.

Abaddon Cry, to the average mortal, seems no more complex than Frost Breath- a magical ability possessed by some of the more fantastic beasts of the world and some scholarly wizards with too much time on their hands. In reality, it is more closely related to the dark of space.

With little more than the desire to remove another, the Mar'ugal breath air so devoid of warmth and purpose that it renders the affected region not frozen, but completely inactive. Deeper than any paralysis or stasis, the afflicted area becomes the origin point for life to be consumed by something less than death.

In minutes, a being without a Ryeas is rendered down into nothingness, all potential consumed by null. Those with a Ryeas are capable of resisting the effects, but only briefly. Enough for the realization of danger to set in, and for a reaction to take place if their will to survive is great enough.

Gowl dislikes using this ability unless necessary. Omen has advised to avoid usage against those protected by Lásame mioré, and Gowl himself cannot consume that which has been taken. It is an ultimate last resort- one that only a sorrowful few will ever witness firsthand.

[reliving-elegy]

Conlang - Empowered Interpretations Part 4

Since the beginning of the Story, there have been the three interpretations of Knowledge, Magic and the Unreal. What parallels these are the three responses: Belief, Doubt and Froar.

Belief gives power to an interpretation, to support one's understanding. Believers are numerous; individually weak, but crucial to gaining and maintaining trust, and thus power.

Belief is warm, like joy or spring.

Doubt refuses an interpretation, reinforcing what one already believes or leaving it open to another option. Doubt is what gives mortals the ability to detect the Unreal; to cast away the mirror-fog of what isn't so.

Doubt burns, like hatred or acid.

Froar is the absence of any response, to abandon the interpretation entirely. Froar will either have no effect on an interpretation's existence... or snuff it out in it's entirety. It is considered the most dangerous of responses.

Froar is Cold, like tundra or grief.