Truth.
The origin of Words are in Runes, the structure behind the cosmos.
A dark:
Did you see the bison on the cavern wall? The one pierced by spears
carved from flint, framed by the handprints of your oldest ancestor? Have you
seen the aurochs painted deep in the bowels of caves, the ones that predate
words?
For every image, there's a rune that's even older.
A deeper dark:
The journey from rune to image is the path of the mortai.
The mortai, cloudlike beings of pure dream who spun the runes into
images, patterns and archetypes from which the Beastlands were created.
A petitioner in the Beastlands has two paths:
The path of form, where they manifest as an animal archetype.
The path of dream, where they become one with the mortai.
Archetypes and images that go rogue become stories in Arborea, a plot or lie
built of images, living words. Stories of beginnings and endings describe
the Runes, manifest in the structure of Ysgard.
After draconic Lahmu and Lahamu created the first Words, they left their
children (who would later rage against Tiamat) and journeyed to Pelion, in
Arborea. They created two more children there: the Wraithworm, left to guard
the Words for all time, safely ensconced in the fading lies of Story where
they would do no harm, and their daughter Lirr, who was sent out into the
worlds to discover more.
Ysgard: runes, basic energy
Beastlands: images, form
Arborea: words, story, lies.
Every plane leaks.
Limbo: Signal to Noise (runes decaying into meaningless potential)
Outlands: Chaos detrius, rogue archetypes, half-beasts, funny animals,
mousekin, vole in hat, Dr Seuss, mythagos eating civilization, tragedy,
leftover sensation, escaped stories, by-blows, conquerors, fractured fairy
tales.
Elysium: Symbols of Pure Good leaking from the Beastlands. The Oceanus is
the flow of Good from Elysium to Arborea.
Bytopia: The rivers of Peace and Gold, the Spine River and the river called
the Battling Serpents flow into the Oceanus.
an exotic picture crotch,
Rip Van Wormer
