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[Video] All that we See or Seem is but a Dream within a Dream

[When the video starts, those who know Regis might notice that his face is a little redder than it usually is. He's also wrapped in what looks his own cloak and a heavy riding cloak, one that a person would expect to see out in the frozen wastes, not in a city like Havenwell. Honestly, he looks a little silly all curled into the cloaks as he is, but since waking up out in the backyard under Peter's silver apple tree, he has yet to shake off the cold. It might be a long process considering he has no idea how long he was out there.

Actually, considering he usually puts off heat like a furnace and still feels this cold, he has an idea and it's one he doesn't like. Cor would have his head if he was still here.]

Those who have been here for a while know that we have been communicated with through dreams before.

[Who could forget the strange warning that came before the break in last October?]

I think it may be happening again. How many people are having dreams with the ghosts who visited us in them? And how many of them are talking to you? Mine had quite a lot to say and in regard to something I have investigated before.

[He takes a moment to fight back a shiver and then quotes what he remembers from the dream, once again grateful for how good his memory is. His hands had been shaking too hard for him to write anything down when he first returned to the house.]

"The world began as thus: it was a rock. He came upon it first, and loved it immediately, this empty rock where nothing lived. He burrowed deep inside and devoured it inch by inch, teeth breaking upon the surface and growing anew. Through Him, over time, the stone became soil. The soil grew fertile through His work, yet all was still naught but rock and soil.

Then the Winged Lord appeared, uncertain of the path He was to walk. He was hungry, so He clawed at the stone to find where His prey crawled."

The natives have just remembered the Winged Lord for some reason, but we still don't know who the first "He" is. Could "He" be trying to contact us in some way in order to keep things in some kind of balance? I am very curious to hear what everyone thinks.

[The video ends here, but once he is done with that Regis sends out two quick texts.]

[Locked to Ardyn:]

Remember when I told you I would inform you if anything weird happened after touching the ghosts? I think I just hit "weird."

[Locked to Honerva:]

By the time you get this, I am certain you will have seen my video post. Would you be willing to work with me on a new investigation if I started one? We have talked before of how strange it is the natives are now remembering the Winged Lord. How far behind do you think his fellow is?

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"The Crawling One"...

This would seem to be a variation on a tale we have been told before. Previously it was described as them playing a 'game' of sorts, and the Winged Lord loved the life that was created and the Crawling One loathed it, the the Crawling One using the dead to feed.

In this version is sounds as though the Winged Lord was hungry and it was not a game.

[Regis nods as he listens, though Verstael cannot see it.]

I thought I remembered as much, but I don't have my notes with me at the moment. Of course, if this is coming from the side of the 'prey' they are less likely to see it as a game. Usually, they are the party at a disadvantage, struggling just to survive. They have no time for games.

[There is a short pause as a thought hits him.]

Verstael, you've been gathering information since you got here. Has any of what you've found had information on when our current set of deities were 'born' so to speak? It very much sounds as if the Winged Lord and the Crawling One were alone at the beginning which means some event afterward gave birth to the others. They are not like the Astrals who all came to Eos at once.

That is correct. From the story, it seems that somehow the struggle between the two gave birth to life on the planet.

What details we have imply that life here came from other worlds. I suppose it would be like an asteroid hitting a barren planet and bringing with it bacteria that then spread across the land. Perhaps the Crawling One does not care for alien life forms?

There are some dates. However, I can't be sure how to interpret the length of time since then with what I have thus far. I do not know the meaning of the labels they use for their calendar.

If you were to ask my opinion, however... I have spent my life in the lab and experiments do not happen overnight, nor does life form quickly. Given that we are aware of an "Experiment 920194", I believe we are speaking of significant amounts of time than have occurred, both after and before the destruction of this society.