To: All Summoned

[shadowthief]

Hello. My name is Inej, and I currently reside in Solvunn. I have been attempting to research information on the Gods and religious practices here. I have been told some wive's tales by the locals about not going out at night if you do not know the way, and the way a single person's fault can affect the lives of many if the Gods take offense.

My research in the library has not given me much more in way of specifics, just vague tales of them, theories of how they might have looked, but one thing does keep coming up: The Singularity came before them. I do not know if that means that the ones the locals see as Gods here were once people like us, pulled into this place... or if it means that the Singularity somehow created them. All the books hold the same theory: Prayer and dedication will wake them from their sleep.

I found something hidden in one of the volumes I was looking at today:

Ever searching
Ever longing
Lost and greedy
Wails of mourning
What has been found is never enough
Her reach is vast and cutting.

The parchment was ripped and smudged, nothing else could be made out on it. I am uncertain if it means anything at all, but I see no reason not to share it, just in case it might match something someone else has found.

If you have made it this far in this message, I appreciate your time. Thank you.

Comments

[shadowthief]

I'm afraid not.

The only thing that comes close is some of the older locals here mention the Gods listening for those short on faith.

[gynvael]

A man not of any territory I know of claimed to be the first and last disciple of the Singularity. A unique connection to it. He's not been heard or seen since.

There may be answers somewhere in that.

[ He also doesn't know what that means, if the man saw himself as formed out of the Singularity or linked to it in some other way. If perhaps he was the first to have been summoned. But it's curious, given what has surfaced here. Oliver has vanished for months now, since the first of them fled Thorne. ]

[shadowthief]

This man didn't perhaps aid in the freedom of prisoners months back, did he?

[Himeka told her those first earliest days about her own first days here, and how terribly she'd been treated in Thorne, and the luck they happened into with a strange man no one has heard from for months since. Could it be the same?]

Certainly couldn't hurt to ask about it.

[gynvael]

Yes. Only one of us spoke with him directly.

Ask of Oliver. Though I can't say what reception that'll garner you.

[shadowthief]

Do you know who spoke to him?

In my experience, most things worth doing are neither easy, nor do much in way of garnering favor of the ones it might threaten the power of. That does not make it less worth doing, though.

[gynvael]

Relena. Himeka knows her.

[ Is he assuming Inej knows Himeka solely by being in Solvunn? He is. A woman with pink hair and a lizard tail is hard to miss. ]

Just don't make any deals with one, if you run into any gods.

[ Most of what people fear as gods, if they wind up existing, are simply monsters or entities of some kind. Born of this world or crawled through from another. He's already asked someone to investigate if things could have crawled through any possible gaps in the Singularity and it's something he's been trying to determine for himself.

Stories are stories. But some are rooted in truth. ]

[shadowthief]

Thank you. I will speak to her.

[She thinks she remembers Himeka mentioning this Relena, now that the name has been brought up again.]

Rest assured, making deals with devils is not a habit of mine.