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| ===''Destiny 2''=== | | ===''Destiny 2''=== |
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| *'''Shaw Han''': The City's put out a call for raw materials. We're looking for anything that generates an electrical signal or bioenergetics.
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| *'''Zavala''': To all Guardians in the region: the City is in need of unprocessed materials. You're standing in a target-rich environment. They may have something we can use.
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| *'''Zavala''': The Vanguard needs a willing Guardian to track down hostiles in the region. Relieve them of anything we can break down for raw materials.
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| *'''Zavala''': The City needs supplies, Guardian. Hostiles in your region have what we need.
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| *'''Shaw Han''': See if the local hostiles have anything we can salvage. The City's supply vectors were waylaid this week.
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| *'''Shaw Han''': The City Weapon Foundries have reported a shortage on resources. Can't run strikes without rifles. Vanguard will pay for whatever you can scavenge.
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| *'''Zavala''': Guardian, we need you to hunt down local invaders and relieve them of their equipment. City's hurting for raw material.
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| *'''Zavala''': To all Guardians on the Cosmodrome front lines — Invaders in your area possess equipment or bioenergetics the Tower can use.
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| *'''Zavala''': Shipwright Holliday is asking for parts and fuel for hangar bays. See if local invaders have what we need.
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| *'''Shaw Han''': To any Guardian in range — we've got hostiles in the area. Coordinates marked.
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| *'''Zavala''': The former Hunter Vanguard, Cayde-6, used to be in charge of patrol beacon placement. You remind me of him. Let's see if you can match his kill count.
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| *'''Shaw Han''': Vanguard scouts report a group of hostiles threatens to destabilize the region. We need that area clear. Locate and neutralize them.
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| *'''Zavala''': You've accessed a patrol marker. They're placed by Hunter scouts in target-rich environments. See to it their numbers thin.
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| *'''Shaw Han''': The Vanguard needs an operative at these marked coordinates. Be ready for a firefight.
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| *'''Zavala''': Hostiles detected in your region, Guardian. Locate and dispatch.
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| *'''Zavala''': The Cosmodrome is one of several steady sources of new Guardians. We try to keep it clear of hostiles as often as possible.
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| *'''Zavala''': The Vanguard keeps supply vectors towards the City as clear as possible across hostile territory. I've marked targets of opportunity that could use your attention.
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| *'''Shaw Han''': Weapons-grade energy spikes detected. Could be anything from firearms to Hive bioenergetics. Requesting a Guardian responder.
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| ===Survey the Hive===
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| *'''Ana Bray''': I could really use some more information on the Neural Nodes. Will you scan for me?
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| *'''Ana Bray''': I've noticed some really interesting ice formations out there. Go take a scan for me.
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| *'''Ana Bray''': This Golden Age tech is awesome. I could use more data, though. Take a scan!
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| *'''Ana Bray''': I'd love to know more about where these Frozen Hive are coming from. Go take a scan.
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| ===Survey the Area===
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| *'''Ana Bray''': Let's get a better understanding of Martian terrain.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Many Reefborn Awoken experience prophetic dreams. They vary, but often feature the same symbols— roiling oceans, or starless skies, or, commonly, flowers… | | *'''Shuro Chi''': Many Reefborn Awoken experience prophetic dreams. They vary, but often feature the same symbols— roiling oceans, or starless skies, or, commonly, flowers… |
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': That's pink asphodelia. Plain, but pretty. We used to grow asphodelia to mark births and deaths. It's taboo to pick the flowers for any other reason.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': When I was Taken, my thoughts were not my own. It was as though I had been exiled from my own body. But there were moments of clarity when I could see something, or smell it… like these flowers.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Asphodelia… the flowers are a symbol of the fragility of life, and they were originally planted from clippings gathered in a place of enduring death.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Pink asphodelia is grown only in the Dreaming City, and we do not pick the flowers except to celebrate a birth or mourn a death. They have a unique power over the Awoken soul.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Pink asphodelia. It’s a cultivated strain said to descend from the flowers in the Black Garden. Among our people, Prince Uldren was the first to walk the Garden, and the first to bring these back.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Asphodelia flowers are taboo to pick except under special circumstances. Getting a thorn lodged in you skin causes paranoia, madness, violence… put the petals themselves, steeped in tea, bring peace and enlightenment.
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| ====Cave====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': There are rumors that the Dreaming City was built upon the foundation of a ruined planet, one we found and towed back from beyond. They say we preserved the old structures and built atop them…
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': I can name the heroes depicted in every one of our statues… but this face is a mystery. We did not carve it ourselves. It simply manifested overnight.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': I don’t know who or what that face depicts. All I know is the Awoken did not carve it. Queen Mara has said it’s an ugly thing to carve your own likeness in stone will you still live.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Dreaming City is so-called because the Awoken drive the fate of the Dreaming, and the Dreaming drive the will of the Awoken. The Dreaming have been known to manifest on occasion— strange faces, peering from rocks…
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| ====Summoning Pillar====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This was a summoning ground, once. We called the Harbingers here to speak to them, to persuade them, to listen to their whispering — strange songs in languages we all felt we should know.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This was once a place to call the Harbingers. It is a pity that you cannot see them as they were — ageless, unfettered minds, twining through the mist like ribbons on the wind. They were beautiful.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': I called my first Harbinger standing where you stand right now. It was mine, and mine alone, and I sent it to its death when we attacked the Dreadnaught. A being of immeasurable age and power… destroyed in an instant by that beast.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': We used to use that spire to summon the Harbingers. They're all dead now— all but one, and only Queen Mara knows where it is. A good thing too, considering that me and my sisters were Taken.
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| ====Amethyst====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Amethyst is a symbol of royalty and power among the Awoken. As a mineral, it is nothing more than simple quartz, but it had been irrevocably transformed— much like us.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': We Techeuns wear gems to augment our innate powers. The variety of mineral varies by personal preference and by task. Amethyst, in particular, is good for communing with the Ancients.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': We used to give carved amethyst as political gifts to the Eliksni— back in the old days, before the Wolves rose up. The Archons, especially, prized our amethyst for its beauty.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Awoken once had a space station we called Amethyst in honour of the gems we use to channel our magic. The station fell at the start of the Reef Wars. Petra still mourns those we lost.
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| ====Oracle Engine====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': We created the Oracle in communion with the Ancients. It was our invention, and ours alone. The Ahamkara had nothing to do with it.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': I'm told that before the Collapse, humans invented mechanical models of this solar system. This is no model. Models are static. They do nothing but mimic an idea. This Oracle— it creates ideas.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Oracle Engine is a bridge — and I mean that in two ways. Like the bridge of a ship, its power can be used to command the whole of the Dreaming City… and like a bridge across a chasm, it links worlds together.
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| ====Star Map====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Awoken were wayfarers. We walked between worlds; we charted stars. It’s for this reason I know Queen Mara respected Oryx. He was a beast— but a navigator, too.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Before the Queen left, she conjured the map you see there. I do not know what it represents or where it is— but I trust it is important to our future as a people.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': That map is not just decoration. It is a kind of prediction. The Awoken will meet their final fate somewhere in those stars and planets wherever they may be.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': When you know your future, you must make yourself ready to meet it. This map is not so much a signpost as it is a promise.
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| ====Meditation Circle====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This was once a training ground for Techeuns… Hmm, do you know Petra Venj was once meant to join our order? She denied the call. It’s just as well, I suppose.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Generations of Techeuns have stood where you stand now, dreaming of a future where they might twin themselves to their own Harbinger.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': When I was learning to be a Techeun, I often meditated here. I'd like to tell you it was a transcendent experience, but… most of the time I was bored to tears. Ha! I was so young!
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Young Techeuns in training used to come to this platform to meditate. Now, just three of us remain and we will train no more — by decree of the Queen.
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| ====Dual-Ring Globe====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Awoken were born from the Collapse. We have as many legends about our own genesis as there are statues in this City. One story speaks of a planet with two rings.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Ordinarily, it is not possible for a planet to have more than a single ring. Gravity and the planet’s equator will pull two rings into one. But, where there’s a wish, there’s a way…
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Dual-ringed planets should be impossible. Two rings, distinct and equal, each in its own self-supported orbit. They are a good metaphor for the Awoken, if you ask me.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Awoken explorers once ventured far beyond this solar system. They saw many strange things: abandoned worlds orbiting accretion disks; rogue planets lost to the Light; young planets with dual rings…
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| ====Ansible Lens====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': We built the Dreaming City with the help of the Ahamkara. Their wishes fueled our innovations, but it was our own ingenuity that shaped our evolution as a people. Wishes only go so far with the short-sighted and unimaginative.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Awoken communication systems rely upon paracausal realities. We route our communications and transmat networks through other worlds.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This is an ansible lens. It is capable of relaying and transmitting messages between Awoken cities and ships at faster-than-light speed.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Ansibles like this one are capable of transmitting information into the past. As such, only a queen is permitted to make such broadcasts— and even then, only under grave circumstances.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Before the Battle of Saturn, there were seven of us. It is good to be myself again, good to be whole — but I miss the afternoons where my friends and I would come to these benches to talk and enjoy the sun.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': There were more Techeuns once. Wise Illyn. Nervous Portia. Steadfast Lissyl. Fearless Nascia. Now it is just me and Sedia and Kalli. Our coven, our family, is broken. Everything here conjures a memory…
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': I used to come to this bench and sit with Nascia. She and I entered the coven at the same time. She bonded to her Harbinger before I did— I was so jealous, and I could not say so, because we were taught to feel no jealousy. Not all lessons stick.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': My friends and I used to come here. Now they are dead. Whatever rituals you enjoy, Guardian, whatever little things you hold dear— cling to them while you have them. You don't know when they'll disappear.
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| ====Gardens of Esila Overlook====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': When the Awoken first arrived in the Reef, Mara was not our Queen. She was simply our leader. We MADE HER our Queen. This is where she was crowned. This is where we knelt and pledged our devotion to her.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': When Mara and Illyn began to shape the Dreaming City, this was where they started. They stood on the edge of the world with rough rocks all around, and they saw the potential of what this place could be.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Your Traveler terraformed your planets. But the Awoken terraformed the Dreaming City. It is our creation. It is a reflection of our people— not a false gift from a skittish god.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Turn and look out over the clouds. Breathe in… then out… now turn. Look at the gardens. Study them. Take them in. Everything you see is the reason we’re here, Guardian. If beautiful places like this cannot survive, then why fight at all?
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| ====Cleft Gate====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': These gardens were named for Esila, a famed poet and storyteller who chronicled our history and sang our epics. She was one of the first to stand in support of Mara during the Reckoning.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Do you see the arches before you? We call it a cleft gate. The architecture symbolises the divide between the past we left behind and the present we live in now. There is no bridge between them because there is no going back.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Look into the sky. See that portal? It controls access to the Tangled Shore — and, crucially, it holds the cloaking technology that we use to disguise and protect the Dreaming City.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': There is a large gazebo just beyond this bridge. It was Queen Mara's favorite place to meditate, to think. When we first realized that Oryx was on his way into our system— that is where we found her when we delivered the news.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': We Techeuns are taught absolute obedience to our queen. We have no desire but what our queen desires. We have no fears but what our queen fears. Good traits. But weaknesses against certain enemies — like the Taken. Like the Aphelion.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Those statues there… look up at them. Those Techeuns died a vicious, irreversible death. They died in trance; each one screaming with the other's voice; each one unable to comprehend the horror of the thing that had killed them.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Techeuns you see here died while they were in trance together. Sometimes, when you are in communion, you cannot see what is coming close— like the Aphelion. Their last words were these: "First it shimmered… Then it crawled… and then it screamed."
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': These three Techeuns were victim to the Aphelion. I pray you never see it, my friend, because no matter what gods you have killed… you will not survive it.
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| ====Dead Tree====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Let this tree serve as a reminder that all things have their end. There is a certain amount of time that every one of us is granted. We must all make the most of it.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': You Guardians embrace death. But, it is not final for you, and so it has not weight, no impact. The Awoken believe in its finality. We believe we are charting towards a final future, a final shape. It is our duty to help shape it before we are gone.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': We Awoken have one foot in the Darkness and one in the Light. Your Traveler is a gardener, so we garden, too. But the Darkness demands each thing fit to its final shape — and so we accept when something must die.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Hive preach the gospel of the final shape: death. In our way, we believe in its power, too — but the Hive have such limited imagination. They have not heard the song of the Sky. There are more ways to carve and craft than cutting and killing.
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| ====Queensfoil====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': See that plant? It's queensfoil. The leaves, carefully prepared, can be used to see into other planes, other realms— but the power of the vision can destroy the weak.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': That's queensfoil. It's highly poisonous, but when the leaves are properly dried and crushed, it can be used to induce prophecy. The risks are immeasurable.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': When my friend Nascia was still in training to become a Techeun, she dried her own queensfoil and tried to induce a vision. It nearly killed her. Give that plant a wide berth.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Queensfoil. Orin the Lost stole several of those plants before she embarked on her fool’s journey into the heliopause. I tried to warn her, but her curiosity was overwhelming. She did not listen to me.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': A great tragedy once occurred at these cliffs. It was early in our relationship with the Ahamkara, before we’d learned their tricks, before we’d learned how best to live alongside them without becoming their prey…
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Step past the tree. Peek down over the ledge. That drop goes on for some time. Now imagine a voice whispering to you, luring you, promising you that your feet will find solid ground where, in truth, there is only air… Ahamkara lies.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Dozens of good people died walking over these cliffs. They were lured to their death by an Ahamkara during a celebration of the solstice. Those creatures… They can turn on you in an instant if you aren't wary.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This was the site of a mass murder. An Ahamkara of immense power tricked dozens of civilians into walking right off the edge of these cliffs. We saved none of them. And to our great shame, the Ahamkara — Azirim, he was called — escaped.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This is a statue of Queen Devna Tel, ruler of the Distributary, last of her name. She held the throne when the Sky and the Deep came to the Awoken to collect their terms. She chose to stay, and Mara chose to go.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This is an altar to Queen Devna Tel. To be honest, I’ve never understood why we chose to honour her. She was selfish and cowardly; she chose to luxuriate in paradise when she knew she could have stood to change fate.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Queen Devna Tel and her loyal Techeuns. Devna's rule predates the arrival of the Awoken in the Reef, as did all that came before Queen Mara. We built these statues in their memory.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': These statues depict Queen Devna Tel and her Techeuns, Yara and Imar. Imar is himself noteworthy, as he was a man. There are no prohibitions against men becoming Techeuns— nor against men ruling. It's simply rare.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': When we helped Queen Mara build this place, she felt it was essential to incorporate water into the landscape — to honor our old home in the Distributary, to make everything here feel more… real.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Dreaming City is built upon a disc that contains a silver sea, The water is real, but the horizon is an illusion if you’re accustomed to spherical worlds. If you went far enough, you’d fall off the edge of the disc.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': There is a stabilization ring beyond the horizon that holds the City in alignment. When water goes spilling off the horizon, it is captured and fed back into the atmosphere before it dissipates into space.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This waterfall is not fed by a river. Instead, its water comes from hydrocapture systems buried deep in the bedrock. We recycle all of our water— the whole place runs on a closed ecosystem.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': I have heard it said that the Awoken brought the Ahamkara into this system — that we found them amid the ruins of the planet that we carved into the base of the Dreaming City — but if you ask me, they came from the Nine.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Ahamkara always came and went from the Dreaming City by way of this platform, which meant they always passed these geodes. We used them as protective measures. Shiny surfaces can reveal some of the Ahamkara secrets— if you know what to look for.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Reflections are powerful things. They can disarm certain kinds of magic. Wish-magic, in particular, is susceptible— since it is so heavily dependent on expectation and perception.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Know this, Guardian. If an Ahamkara has hidden itself away beyond Jupiter, if the last of them did not die here in the Dreaming City… you can reveal their true intentions with reflective surfaces.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Dozens of Ahamkara have crawled or flown or slithered across this platform since it was built. They had the power to change their shape, to reform themselves to match the expectation of their beholders. We expected nothing of them, and so they came as they were.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Awoken knew the Ahamkara long before the Guardians ever noticed them. We made our alliances and cut our deals at this pillar— and for the most part, we lived alongside each other.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': It was here that we first struck an agreement with the Ahamkara and here that we met the very last of them. Those creatures have keen memories, and they love patterns and ceremony. When you start a tradition with them, they follow it through.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': I remember the day that the last Ahamkara arrived in the Dreaming City. Queen Mara was standing beside this pillar. She turned toward the horizon and saw the refugees fleeing extinction, and she felt… pity, I think. Perhaps empathy.
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| ====Osana Sov Statue====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': You can tell a statue of a queen from a statue of a Techeun by what they hold in their hands. The queens hold nothing at all. Techeuns hold symbols of life— orbs, lights…
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': That statue depicts Osana Sov— mother to Queen Mara and Prince Uldren. Thought she is venerated here as a Queen, she was not royal herself. The Awoken do not believe in royal lines or inheritance.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': That is Osana Sov, the Queenmother. She did not follow her children to the Reef. Forgive me, Queen Mara, for saying this, but — I feel she was a coward.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Osana Sov. She does not deserve the respect my lady grants her with that statue. Uldren argued against putting it up; he thought Osana should be forgotten. But Queen Mara chose to remember.
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| ====Kelda Wadj Statue====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Awoken believe that it is natural to gravitate toward two different paths. The first path is the path of war— for Corsairs and Paladins. The second is the path of the mind— for engineers and Techeuns.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': When a Techeun takes her title, she must swear a sacred oath to cover her eyes for the remainder of her life, showing them to no one— not even those closest to her. They can only be uncovered again when she has died.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': That statue depicts Kelda Wadj. She was Illyn's mentor in the Distributary. For all her wisdom, I'm told she was one of the loudest voices to speak out against Queen Mara's decision to leave.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This is a statue of Kelda Wadj, teacher of teachers. She trained Illyn, the mother of our coven, and Illyn, in return, trained every Techeun to ever walk the Dreaming City.
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| ====Alis Li Statue====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': That is a statue of Alis Li, the great bargainer. They say she turned the Green into the storm. They say she cast out the lightning sails to attract both the Light and the Dark. But those are not my stories to tell. Not really…
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This is Alis Li. She woke before the rest of us; she spoke to the Sky and the Deep and heard their confusion when they found us caught between their fists, and she agreed to their terms. She founded the Distributary.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Alis Li, the very first of our queens. She was given a precious opportunity to build a society in the way she thought best. She chose equality, exploration, engineering, peace… and her wisdom led us to paradise.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Alis Li. I did not know her; I was not born in the Distributary— but Mara knew her. Illyn knew her, Uldren, too. They all spoke highly of Alis. She was an excellent starship pilot and a levelheaded ruler. A good queen.
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| ====Sjur's Tree====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': It’s taboo to carve a statue for someone who still lives, and so sometimes, we will plant trees instead. The Queen planted this one herself after one of our best warriors went missing. Would that we were all so lucky.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This chamber was refashioned in honour of Sjur Eido, the first Queen's Wrath, when she was found dead. She was a fearsome warrior in her own right— the only Awoken to ever survive an Aphelion attack, and a skilled hunter of traitorous Ahamkara.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This chamber was built for one of our most skilled archers. Her name was Sjur, and she was beloved by all of us— even by the Eliksni. They called her "Siyuriks pak Variisis"— Sjur the Unyielding.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': That tree was planted in honor of Sjur Eido, the Wishender. She was the first Queen's Wrath, and her skill with bow and arrow was renowned throughout the Reef. Queen Mara trusted her implicitly.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Illyn used to ask us riddles when we were training. She would ask, "Can there simply be light if there is no source?" And if we replied "No, that is not possible," she would say, "think again."
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': A single light burning in the dark is a potent but uninspiring symbol. It's far better the rally around the more complicated ideas. Sometimes, embracing the dark is the only way to find light.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Turn and look behind you. Do you see the two statues? The left hand is for creation. The right hand is for destruction. Illyn used to say that we can hold fate in just one hand at a time.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Turn. Look down. You stand above the entrance to the Hall of Names. Techeuns and Paladins alike used to receive their titles in that Hall, witnessed by the living and the lost alike.
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| ====Hall of Names====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Look at the statues all around you. How many queens? How many Techeuns came before you? The Dreaming City is older than your Tower, your Last City— but the carvings here almost all honor people that never once stepped foot in the Reef.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': We call this the Hall of Names. It was once a place of ceremony. Young women — and sometimes men — came here to be transformed as a final rite of passage in becoming a Techeun.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Hall of Names has always attracted great power. Illyn used to say it was the elevator shaft, that its circumference and depth were precisely engineered to create a vortex irresistible to immaterial beings. I think she was having a laugh at my expense.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': The Hall of Names. Solemn as it may be, this was a joyful place— more or less. It did see its share of drama. Tears. Fights. Even the odd betrayal, but Mara and Sjur always put a quick stop to those…
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| ====Eao's Nest====
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This bowl was once a nest for Eao — he was a sly little Ahamkara, always laughing, always twining around your legs, whispering lies, saying "I have seen your eyes, o witch-mage mine." We never expected him to go bad.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This was once a resting place for an Ahamkara who loved stories. He would recite all of our myths, name all of our heroes… And that's where we went wrong. We should have never trusted him to keep our secrets.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': This little chamber was once a home for an Ahamkara who betrayed the Awoken. He crept out of the Dreaming City and went to whisper in the ears of Warlocks who wondered who we were— and so we had to kill him. The Warlocks, too.
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| *'''Shuro Chi''': Ah… This is where Eao liked to rest, before Sjur hunted him down and skewered him for his deceit. One of your Warlocks bartered for his corpse and traded away his bones. Another mistake. You must never scatter the bones.
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