Duane Poncy & Patricia J McLean
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Legends, both local and Convergence-wide.
One of six principle humanoid species/cultures of The Convergence. They are the main inhabitants of nar Anjahr, Laas, and the planets of the Outer Alliance, Laasent, Blan, and Dorf. The term also refers to the primary language and culture of the Anjahri people. Home: Description: Back to Index
Refers to both a tendency and a specific organization: Society of Mutuality, a radical secular group, led by scientists, that seeks to rejuvenate the Convergence by encouraging and facilitating the integration of new cultures. They have a strong ethic of mutualism, and politically align themselves with the weaker outer planets. Willing to use extra-legal means, and violence in its opposition to the Guardians. Sometimes align with Autonomists. A close ally to the religious Temple of Eight Roots, also know as The Temple, also a mutualist group, although there are also reactionary Temple groups, such as the Children of Ertfiil. Back to Index
A disease caused by the technology used to transport humans to Sweetland. Type: Who: Where: When: What:
An ancient, organic, quantum-DNA technology, also known as The Great Forest on Sweetland An ancient organic technology that ‘absorbs’ the worlds it connects, changing and improving the DNA of their inhabitants. It is like a rhizome, producing ‘copulas’ which are gateways between the planets. Few have the skill to navigate the ‘copulas’. The Memories connect the worlds of The Convergence. Type: Who: Where: When: What:
About The Temple of New Life The Temple of New Life is the Temple of the Eight Roots as manifested on Earth. Precepts of the Temple Mythology In New Life mythology Granddaddy Chaos guards the gate between the realms of Chaos and Information. The Creation Myth In the first instant, nothing existed, only the Mist. And from the Mist was born Mother Chaos, and Mother Chaos spoke, and so was created the Word. But the Word was yet an illusion, without substance. Then, in the infinite void, where Time did not yet exist, Mother Chaos slept and she dreamed. And she dreamed all things, and she put them in order, and this order she called the Grid. And the Grid was still but a dream. So upon awakening, Mother Chaos recalled the dream, and she pulled a thread from her gown. And one end of this celestial string she tied…
Connected by the organic technology known as the Memories, the Unities are believed by scientists to be bubble universes within the multiverse. They have garnered a complex religious mythology, as well. Mythology of the Unities According to myth, the ancient race of the Ertfiil are responsible for the creation of the Memories. Technology of the Memories Created by an ancient, forgotten civilization, the Memories are a bio-engineered rhyzomatic organism with roots capable of spreading to alternate dimensions, called Unities. There are eight known Unities, seven of which have been seeded with the mutual descendants of the genus, homo. Peoples of the Eight Unities: homo ysali homo anjahri homo qrei homo tongrari homo skiili homo omi homo humanis The Eight Unities Unity (or Root) Primary Planet/Culture Secondary Planets Outer Planets Unity 1 (Primary Root/Mother Root) Ertfill / Uninhabited Unknown Unknown Unity 2 (2nd Root) Ysal / Ysali Moornal, Yaanaan Vizucan, Kip…
According to myth, the diverse species of the Convergence derives from the dead origin planet, Ertfiil, although it is so far in the past, before the Time of Forgetting, that no one really knows the truth. The mythologies also tell of other diverse origins for many of the outer worlds, although, due to the assimilating technology of the Memories, the actual cultural and DNA origins of these people are shrouded in mystery. The Memories and the paths between the worlds was re-discovered 10,000 years ago after the Time of Forgetting. Type: Who: Where: When: