Aetolian Game News
Empyreal Happenings
Written by: Heiress Rashemi
Date: Thursday, March 20th, 2025
Addressed to: Everyone
Sapience,
As the Empyreal Vault expands and settles into the vast stretch afforded to it by the Starforger Itself, my sidereal students have toiled to chart the power that flows between these new worlds and the stars that ornament that place's emptiness. Not unlike the archaic manner in which sorcerers of eld charted the leylines during the War of Power, we have begun to notice specific channels through which mixtures of cosmic energy flow towards Aetolia and its sibling realms. Despite having no official observatory or workshop beyond my estranged relative's estate, we have made great strides in measuring the strength of these supernal tides.
Imagine our surprise then, to find that they are intensifying. Like veins flooded with glittering blood, those invisible currents are heightening in strength - and eventually, it will burst like a dam when the combined forces of multiple worlds weighs on it simultaneously.
Initially, the other worlds seemed to possess disparate courses that kept them from blocking one another - until recently, when a few have begun to hasten their plod through the Empyreal's blind eternity. Around this time, our records show a noticeable shift in measurable sidereal force, though its harnessing seems beyond us at this point, as some internal mechanism of Creation keeps it out of our direct grasp. A blessing and a curse!
Of note, the Nascent Cradle and the Untamed World's motions seem most likely to be involved, for their positions chart relative to one another - an omen of green eras and unknown forces yet to burgeon. Lurking there beyond it all is the Twisted Mirror, the Dark World That Should Not Be... desperate to align and supplant our positional relevance, as usual.
To draw the leyline comparison further, Sapience: a cosmic foci disruption nears. As only three planets shall be involved, it will be a minor conjunction but could result in varying anomalies as the powers mingle and twist together. Should all of our worlds align at once in the Empyreal Vault, I predict a cataclysmic flood of power - and I would refer to such as a Grand Conjunction or Major Conjunction, if our civilisations survive to tell of it.
Look to the skies and behold, o ascendants and adventurers, for a planetary conjunction is nigh - a convergence of astral powers! We have glimpsed a triune of worlds as we commune with streaking comets and burning stars. Of two, we are sure of their alignment - their light shall blend until it is nakedly visible in the sky. If the third aligns, the conjunction could last several days as the forces hold them together!
What a sight it shall be when it arrives.
Averroes' wisdom guide you,
Heiress Rashemi
Herald of the Staff
Sitting leader of the Guiding Starlight Council
Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 22nd of Chakros, in the year 10 AC.