( Elizabeth looks fatigued but hopeful, a triumphant upward tilt to her chin as she smiles at him. In one hand she holds up the volume she'd borrowed from the library, the picture zooming in so that he might read the text for himself. Behind the picture of the wall of text treatise, Elizabeth sighs softly. )
Do you see it! The Void is as the monarchs are; a God. Like them, it might be slain via the murder of its Avatar.
But, I know not who it might be, or if it has even chosen one. We shall have to look into the matter at once.
( A moment of adjusting, and her face is back in view once again. )
My lord, I do so sincerely apologise for my vast delay in reaching out to you. But if you would still wish conversation and company, I am freely at your service.
[The note is handed to Saralegui through Maelle. Until Saralegui touches it, the note will be a harmless report on the state of the theatre. Once he does, the true text will slip onto the page.]
Some things you might want to know regarding a Mutual Interest.
You can control the Void, as much as you have the shards to do it. A handful of shards can control smaller fragments of the Void—this looks like it links to the research of Malichides over at your university—but any real attempt to control it requires massive collections. Presumably, what the courts have. You can get a lot more safely near the Void if you have a shard and know how to push it back.
The Void definitely consumes everything, tangible and otherwise. My reports are all arguing that what is consumed is ended but remains within it in a state of potential for the rebirth. Sounds like the Monarchs are at least honest about that. Tossing a Shard into the Void will make it lurch forward faster, so there's a heartwarming thought for some.
The alternative is sounding pretty dire. This came from people who worship the Void, so have a little skepticism, but nothing about it seems wrong. Looks like the Uaine Cridhe and the Void are two sides of the same coin—ultimate creation and ultimate destruction. Destroy one and you more or less make the other one useless. Ending the Void means a sort of 'endless twilight,' which I'm guessing to be the slow process of making all the multiverse lukewarm and decrepit. Destroying the Void also means we don't get anything lost back. The Uaine Cridhe once was all existence, and the Void's going to put it back into that state. If it does (and remember this is from its worshippers) then everything will come back, since it'll consume everything.
Oh, and it sounds like the Void has itself an Avatar.
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