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[thelordsage]

[Sephiran appears on the screen, a serene smile on his face. Seems someone got used to the tower after so much time had "passed"...]

Greetings, everyone. If we have not met, my name is Sephiran. If you are new, welcome to the tower. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me and I will answer.

I come with an important announcement: today marks my 200th year in the tower. My 200th year of punishment from Ashera. [Yes, he's still convinced that his goddess sent him here.] These centuries have been trying, to say the least. I have endured countless experiments and traumas, and even a few deaths. Well, more than a few, really, but after a while, you lose count...

Nonetheless, I would like to say something. I have met many people over the course of my time here, all very intriguing people. To all of you people here... thank you. You have made my stay here almost enlightening. The people here are most certainly the best part of this place, and it makes me wonder if this is not just a punishment, but a lesson for me...

As for the new people here, I say this: talk to those around you. Learn their stories. They will most likely become your support as you stay in the tower.

Thank you for listening.

[Here the feed ends.]

Comments

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch shakes his head slowly.*

...Riki, this is cruel. Time is not meant to be a human plaything.

*A sigh. Might as well talk to the poor man. 200 years...that never happened...*

...Ashera, you said? That name is familiar to me.

*It was the name some gave the feminine aspect of God, also called the Shekinah. Naturally, he had no idea this was a completely different one.*

[thelordsage]

Riki? What about him?

You know of Ashera? You aren't from Tellius, perhaps, are you? Ashera is our goddess in Tellius.

[warriorscribe]

Everyone who believes more than a year has passed believes a different amount of time has passed, and some...like me, have experienced no "extra" time. I believe this is his work.

Though...I've seen many lands where Ashera is worshiped, but I'm afraid I haven't heard of Tellius. It's the name those lands often give the feminine aspect of God. The "Mother", if you will.

[thelordsage]

Ah? Is that so? So no one is capable of keeping the passage of time straight? I'm not sure I entirely understand.

So you have a different Ashera, then... that's quite a coincidence.

[warriorscribe]

It is. Odd, how two higher beings have the same name. If your world is called Earth, maybe she is related after all.

But the time... Some of their bodies have been altered, too, to reflect the aging they believe should have happened.

[thelordsage]

My world... on the whole, it does not have a name. All the continents save Tellius were flooded.

So people have been aged, and their perception of time has been altered?

[warriorscribe]

So it seems. Some are and think they are twenty years older, and others...have the look of eternity about them.

[thelordsage]

This look of eternity... what would you say it looks like? Do I have that look about me?

[warriorscribe]

It's...hard to put into words. It may be something in the eyes, something that shows they've lived too long...

*He shakes his head.* I'm sorry. I can't explain it very well...

*Though he himself surely knows it. He has old eyes, himself.*