I am being Senmut. I am speaking for the Oracles of Time. You are hearing me in this time. You are sitting. I am thanking you and offering you a gift. I am answering your questions. You are listening.
You are knowing this now. The Future is affecting the Past. You are not understanding this, but soon you are understanding a little, and that is being enough.
Before the Beginning, there is being One or Nothing. Each possibility is being equally likely. But then the One is Ceasing, or the Nothing is Beginning, and so the Universe is being born. There are being an infinite number of possible Pasts; an infinite number of Futures. In the beginning, all of the legends are being true. All of the myths are being likely. But memory is changing the Past. Belief is shaping it. Telling Stories often is making them more likely, more true. Forgetting Stories, disbelieving, they are fading.
Until 1987.
In 1987, only one Past is existing, only one shifting Future.
I am explaining.
In March of 1986, Lilly is being born. She is being the one you are calling the First. In June, Merrie is being born. In August, Crystal, and in December, Morgan. One cycle is completing, another is beginning. In March of 1987, Billy is being born.
In the Beginning, it is being very likely that the Pure One are shattering. It are being too much, or too little to be existing. It are crying out and reshaping itselves. This is being consistent in all of the most likely Pasts. The shards, what you are calling Avatars, are finding homes in the souls of humans. But never are existing at the same time all the shards of a Pure One, or saying better an Aspect of the Pure One.
Until 1987.
The children are sharing all of a single Aspect. At one time, all of an Aspect is existing in the world.
It is taking over time. Redefining the Past; replotting the Future. Only its own Past is existing. And in its Future, all of humanity is being given over to Oblivion so that it is Ascending.
The Oracles of Time are stopping their fighting in the War and are searching for other possible Futures and more probable Pasts. But they are finding nothing.
Now I am explaining the History that you are following. It is being sequential, but not linear.
In 1987, Billy is being born. Then the Pure One are shattering and the Universe it beginning. The girls are playing with their Dollhouse, but they are not letting Billy play with them. So Billy is leaving them and is writing. He is writing a Prophecy, and it is being sung by the shattering Pure One. Billy is writing a Play about his sisters, and his sisters are acting it out. At the end of the Play, Lilly is beginning the Universe by tearing off the calendar page. In the light of the beginning Universe, Shadows are being cast of the girls. Lilly's shadow is being Lilith. Merrie, the Wyld. Crystal, the Weaver. Morgan, the Wyrm. The shadows are acting out the play. And the shadows are being the girls, too. You are not understanding this, but still I am explaining.
Lilly is bringing Awareness to her sisters. Lilith is bringing Awareness to her sisters. Two of her sisters are becoming insane. But Merrie is not being Aware. The Wyld is not becoming insane. Lilly is feeling guilty for the madness she is bringing, and she is going to Earth. Lilith is feeling guilty for the madness she is bringing, and she is going to Legend. Lilly is Awakening many things she is finding on Earth. But they are boring her. They are doing only as she is telling them. She is leaving them, and they are becoming the Fae.
Billy is finding Man. And Billy is giving Will to Man. But Man is still being unAware, and Billy is leaving him.
Lilly is finding Man and Awakening Man. But Man is using his Will and is binding Lilly into a staff. He is making her the symbol of his power and is Awakening many others with her. Lilly is retreating deeper into the staff, fearing that she may be driving others to Madness. The shards of the Pure One are finding Man Aware, and are now exiting through Man.
Lilly is being born in 1986. She is being severely autistic. She is being so withdrawn from the world, that her parents are forgetting her. She is being taken from them and being given to foster parents. They are also forgetting that she is existing. I am not remembering where she is going next.
If there were One (Lilly)
First came to the Weaver (During the play)
First touched by Its hand (Crystal being made Aware)
Next tried by Deceiver (Morgan)
Thrown down upon Land (Going to Earth)
If there were One (Lilly)
Who beckoned the Souls come (Awakening Man)
Raised high above all (Becoming the symbol of power)
Who hid from the bright Sun (Retreated from consciousness)
Still fearing the Fall (After driving so many insane)
If there were One (Lilly)
Shattered first of Nephilim (the Avatars)
Found Weaver's first Air (Bringing Awareness to Crystal)
Could not awaken (Hiding within the staff, and her mind)
Who wished not be there (After driving so many insane)
Over 3000 years before your present, Merrie is being bound into a staff by a Dreamspeaker. His young apprentice is dying at his feet, freezing to death in the far north of Russia, though the Dreamspeaker is living long before that name is being used. Merrie is being bound with Ice and Air, forming the Wyld staff. The Artificers are coming quickly, trying to be stopping him, but they are being too late. They are leading a great army, drawing from the many local tribes, convincing them of the dangers of the Powers of Chaos. And when they are seeing the Wyld staff for the first time, they are dying by the hundreds. You are watching. They are transforming randomly, and hundreds are dying needing water for breathing, or boiling in the too hot snow, or bleeding out spun silk for blood. And butterflies. Everywhere butterflies are appearing. Butterflies coming from their mouths, and eyes, and stomachs for irony. Butterflies dying frozen in the snow. And the Dreamspeaker is being struck down by the Artificer's saber. And Merrie is walking Away. She is vanishing into the Wyld. And in Australia, a tribe is finding her. They are passing her down through the years, to the wisest men among them.
In 1852, Caeron Mustai is stealing Master Porthos' copy of the original Prophecy. Caeron is joining the Order of Hermes fifty years before, and he is hoping to gain power through the Prophecy. In 1893, he is discovering the Wyld staff in Australia. He is taking his partial translation and seeking out the staff. He is meeting the Father of he that you are calling Granddad. I am not speaking his name now, lest he be listening. Granddad's Father is convincing Caeron to be giving his translation of the Prophecy to him, and to be going away, and to be forgetting about this. And because Granddad's Father is being a powerful Master of Mind, Caeron is giving the Prophecy to him, and is going away, and is forgetting about this. And Granddad is going to America with the staff awaiting the fulfillment of his part of the Prophecy.
In 1902, the Shockwave of the Technocracy is killing Granddad's Father and his tribe. The Shockwave is believing that it is destroying the last of the Bunyip and their Kinfolk, but they are missing Granddad himself. You are looking surprised, but it is continuing to be true. All those who are knowing Granddad's Father are knowing a great Kinfolk. And all those who are knowing Granddad, are knowing the last Bunyip that the Oracles of Time are hearing of.
Granddad is waiting 103 years to be giving the staff to Merrie. And you are knowing the rest.
If there were Two (Merrie)
If there were Two (Merrie)
Traveled the whole world (Other places before Australia that I am not talking about)
Fearing the Night (The Wyrm)
In unspoiled grasslands (Australia)
Found true delight (Granddad's Father is hiding her very well)
If there were Two (Merrie)
Also Nephilim (One of the Avatars)
With unlikely bound (She is being bound with Chaos in the Wyld staff)
The locked gates She'd Open (Ascension is needing the Chaos)
Ascension is found (For the Aspect, but now also for the Oracles)
In 1403, the first Symposium is being held. The Technocracy is being formed, and a small group of them are deciding to be harnessing the powers of Order. In 1450, the Artificers are binding Crystal into the Weaver Staff. They are forging the staff of iron and primium, and they are using the staff for drawing the Shard Realms into orbiting the Sun. Thus they are solidifying Copernicus' vision. The staff is passing down each generation to the first born. I am not speaking the name of the family who is controlling the staff, but they are gaining power in the Technocracy, the great Merchant Houses, the Star Chamber, the Masons, and the Knights Templar.
In 1820, Master Porthos is stealing the Weaver Staff for controlling and protecting the Hermetic Order. He is bringing his cabal, the Drua'shi, to the pinnacle of the Order. He is moving Doissetep to a Horizon Realm. And the Staff is drawing the entire Order more and more into its own twisted politics. The Hermetics are becoming a more marginal player in Europe. The Cultists are asserting more sway, but are lacking the unity for holding back the Technocracy, who is gaining more and more power in the world. Master Porthos is trying to be changing things by imprisoning Crystal in GrandMaw. His solution is helping only slightly.
If there were Three (Crystal)
Found deep in the hot earth (Forging of molten iron and primium)
All things it would make (Ordering things for human understanding)
Passed each to the first birth (Father to son through the Family)
Once granted to fake (Master Porthos)
If there were Three (Crystal)
Laid paths for the Shard Realms (Placing the planets in orbits)
Usurped by the Flame (Master Porthos)
Brought Truth to the Seekers (Drua'shi, Seekers of Truth)
Protected Cal Ladeim (Doissetep)
If there were Three (Crystal)
Her heart like a prism (Crystal)
Found in the maw (Grand Maw)
Rescued by strangers (The Party)
Then leading them all (to Earth)
In 1789, Jean Clair, a French Craft mystic, is binding Morgan into the Wyrm staff, "Soul Eater." He is making the staff of willow bound in mistletoe. The staff is draining his soul when he uses it, stealing his Avatar. It is passing on to other mages when Jean Clair is dying. In 1799, it is coming to Napoleon and helping him spreading his power. In 1809, she is leaving Napoleon for he is boring her, and she is finding Filipe, a Malkavian-Antitribue. She is not draining him as he is using her, but when he is Embracing a Mage, she is gaining all of the Avatar. He is searching for Mages for two hundred years.
In 1932 he is finding the Frank Potter, an Orphan Mage. He is Embracing Frank, and Frank's Avatar is shattering, and Morgan is growing strong. In 1984, Frank is meeting Betsy, a Pooka, who is naming him Ogre because he is being so big. And Ogre is being insane because of his Blood. And Ogre is believing that he is still being a Mage. In particular, Ogre is believing that he is being whatever Tradition he is last meeting. And Betsy is helping his believing with her illusions. And she is convincing him that she is his sister and he protecting her.
If there were Four (Morgan)
Last made by Deceiver (the Wyrm)
In Death bound a tree (Willow in mistletoe)
Would drain the receiver (the mages)
Till in Death it were free (Filipe)
If there were Four (Morgan)
Gave peasants their weapons (Morgan is helping in the French Revolution)
Public Safety their teeth (Morgan is beginning the Reign of Terror)
Half the world then to conquer (with Napoleon)
Till in Damned found relief (Filipe)
If there were Four (Morgan)
Spawn of Deceiver (Wyrm)
Breaking the chains (Morgan is destroying the old thoughts that are preventing Ascension)
Wielding Soul-Eater (the staff)
Salvation through pain (Cab's salvation and others')
Walks All Paths is losing his soul in exchanging for Nicole's. When the Wyld Cairn is being opened, Nicole is being transformed into Bastet by Gaia. When the Wyrm is attacking, Gaia is creating her Wrath in Nicole, a Kahn of the White Furies. And Nicole is fighting and killing and dying, and the Cairn is dying with her, but by her many of the Corruptor are ending, and many of her new Kinsmen are living.
If there were He (Walks All Paths)
Torn through the skyline (Soul crossing the Horizon)
Reversing the grave (Saving Nicole)
Lost in his Binding (Losing his soul)
A child would save (Saving Nicole)
If there were She (Nicole)
Reborn of Deceiver (Returning from the Wyrm)
Saved from the Fall (Receiving her soul)
Now made a Believer (Kahn)
Would watch over all (Fighting for the Cairn)
You are knowing your part in all this:
If there were They
Searching for lost soul
Creating the past
Binding the split whole
Ascension at last
In 1998, the children are joining together and Ascending. No one is Ascending before them, but now all are being able to, future and past. You are remembering, the Future is affecting the Past. And soon I am Ascending. And I have been waiting long. And others, standing at the Brink, are Ascending with me. And I do not know what happens next.
If there were All
Air, Water, Flame, Wood
If there were All
Bound by the Lost
If there were All
Return where they once could
Salvation for All
And at last pay the Cost
© 1997 by Rob Napier