A Glimpse into Void//Triumvirate’s End, Mac’Aree
<As with the last recording, M is speaking in Gnomish.>
September eighteenth, at our temporary base in Mac'Aree. I prefer being here on the land, especially now that the Vindicaar has become too uncomfortable to spend extended time on. The upgrades the draenei put in place involve a large amount of Light.
As ever, the Lighties do not think outside themselves to the impacts their actions may have. Unintentional, likely, which means nothing. It shows more clearly that the Lighties may pretend to care but in the end will cease to consider us where it matters.
Us and everyone else who, through discrimination or violence, have come to see them as they are and are uncomfortable with them as a result. They are all imperfect, but seem to hold themselves up as if they are not. Prone to zealotry. Prone to acting without forethought. To conveniently forgetting their actions may have damaging consequences on others.
If the war against the Legion is won, a new enemy will be looked for. The Ebon Blade has done questionable things, from what I have heard, and the Forsaken continually do. Easy targets. The dogs will push for war against Windrunner. I will not be caught off guard.
Jo also heard about the naaru incident on the Vindicaar. That means it is likely true. To try and remake someone against their will...
They wonder why I am uncomfortable around them. Look at what they follow.
<A longer pause. Faint rustling.>
This evening's mission went in an unexpected direction. We met a krokul, Olu, who took us into the void.
He used us. Zibby is disgruntled by this. I am less so. While I do not wholly appreciate being used, I would not have seen what I did without Olu. When he took us through the abyssal void from one rift to the other, I felt and knew things that are of interest. It was cold and very quiet. The void exists to consume and to keep the Light in balance. Without shadows, Light cannot exist. That is the rule of things.
The rifts themselves were... Jo calls them incredible, and I would agree. I saw an abyss, somewhere in the Beyond I would imagine. There were no Nether energies, only lights from stars and other things being pulled in. It was unchanging and unmoving, it just continued to consume all things. I am uncertain if those rifts show reality, the same reality or different black abysses, but the vision was of great interest.
Olu said, and Z confirmed, that there is a dark naaru here on Argus, and that it is responsible for the heavy void presence near it. I have not heard of naaru darkening before. I have questions on this.
Olu showed a final thing, uncertain if it was intentional however. We killed a void revenant, which left behind what I would call its heart. A dark core of shadow. Olu opened this and consumed the void energies without much external strain or any visible negative impacts. I have never seen this happen previously and I am very interested in how it might work.
If there is a way I could regain, in this body, the abilities with shadow I had in my own...
Jo gave me a void crystal to test. The results were...interesting, short term. For roughly a one minute period, I could unskillfully manipulate shadow energies before it faded. I believe the reasons for this are multiple.
Firstly, this body, from what I can tell, never used shadow in life and has no muscle memory in relation to it. That can be improved upon with practice.
Secondly, the void crystal only had a few second use in shielding me from the Light as was its original design. It does not have much power. Other sources of void are numerous, it seems, in the area of Mac'Aree we visited, so a gradual increase in power is something within reach.
Thirdly, I may be missing a vital component that I am unaware of at present. There is only one way I can conclude to rectify this.
I must seek Olu and request his teaching. This is not information I will be sharing, especially with Zibby, but I do not see another effective way forward. Continued experimentation with void sources could cause distortion as with the krokul we saw unless I have a knowledgeable source for a guide. No one in the unit has skill enough with this to provide teaching.
When time and duties allow, I believe I will take a bit of time to try and track him down. Although I cannot enter the void realm, I think he must exit it at some point. We saw him outside of it first.
Mm. I have much to consider.
((mentions: @vindicatorz, @josilverwright))
