Session 19

This is an old story.
 
The tenth sun is like a true sun, a big radiant ball of energy. Each of the other suns is a universe bathed in a specific kind of light, although they do have every kind of light.
 
The war started at Satyrine, because hitting the Vislae was an important strategy for the Enemy. The Enemy are from nothing, and are so trying to convert everything into nothing. Before the War began, the enemy existed and were "demons of the other nothingness". They were used like other spirits by the Vislae, but were not very popular because they're just so horrid. They were really only good at disrupting and ruining things. More corruption than destruction. It took everyone by surprise when they appeared in large numbers and started attacking everyone.
 
At first people didn't get it, they thought it was an invasion. It wasn't until well into it that people realized it was not an invasion, but an extermination. The higher powers of the enemy were the named enemies; Enemy of Sleep, Enemy of Reason, Enemy of Peace, Enemy of Choice, Enemy of Time, Enemy of Space, Enemy of Prudence, Enemy of Compassion, Enemy of Forgiveness, Enemy of Strength, Enemy of Health, Enemy of Youth, and Enemy of Truth. They have vassals who use the same name but are of lower power; the big Enemies never took the field of battle.
 
Gwyn has encountered the Enemy of Truth in person, multiple times. A recurring foe.
 
The problem that the Vislae face is that these enemies are powerful. Notable people that we don't remember; most of the princes (Blood, both Dragons, maybe the Prince of Forms). Do remember Shield Prince , the Star Prince, the Forever Prince (but not as cool).
 
Hate Cysts were a weapon of the War, used to keep the Enemy from coming through in a specific place.
 
The Vislae were led by a council of Vislae, but were taken over during the war by the Deathless Triumverate, who were the "spirit of Satyrine" in some way. Even after that, Satyrine was still on their way to losing.
 
Nearing the end of the War, most of Satyrine is in rubble, most of the districts having been destroyed entirely. A lot of people have fled; some into Shadow, just into other words and half worlds.
 
The project... Locke's idea. He brings it up to the others as a way of bringing about Moksha, of ending the cycle of rebirth and existence that grinds the Actuality inevitably towards destruction. Locke believes that the only way to end this is to make a change to the universe more fundamental than winning the world; "In a world in which there is victory, there can be no end to War."
 
Locke is a Grand Magus, Gwyn is an Imperator, Aliliana is a Grand Artist and Fynlan is an Ultima Mysterion. Each of us is pretty darn important. In the project, we consider Locke to the be the Arhitect, Gwyn the Chief Engineer, Aliliana the Project Manager and Fynlan the Program Manager.
 
During the conspiracy we don't hide that we're doing something, we just hid the specifics, pretending we were doing one of Locke's plots that he had considered and developed but abandoned.
 
In our experimenting, we accidentally created the Mirror Virus. At some point, the acquisition of rare materials is necessary for the construction of the device. We send Grabblejean, an associate of Gwyn's. Eventually, he does not return from that trip.
 
Late in the War, the Enemy targets Fynlan's family specifically. Fynlan takes a break, and plots the assassination of the agents of the Enemy who did that.
 
Towards the end of the war, the Enemy was preparing over overrun Satyrine. Their Shock Troops were the Thah. At this point, the tool has been created. It is The Cutting Stone, and is ready. The only thing that stands in the way is the two Wardens of the 10th Sun. To deal with them, we create a Half World which is exactly like part of their world, lure them into it, and then trap them in it, and send it into the Outer Void.
 
We then do the thing to collapse the sun. In the end, we have a stone the size of a grapefruit, which contains nearly universal power. This stone changes reality fundamentally so that there is no longer a War.
 
The destruction of the Sun causes a lot of Vislae to go into Shadow. We decide to do so as well. We alter things before we go to make the universe more livable for the people who do not go into Shadow. We are why nobody talks about the War. In this altering, we fuck things up pretty badly, as we are unable to agree on how deep we should go in changing the lived experience of other living beings.
 
Locke took the Killing Stone, and took it to the Labyrinth. There, he made a deal with the Avatar of the Void, giving up his old soul (the Watcher), taking on The Abyss, and placing the Killing Stone past the center of the Labyrinth.
 
Back To Today
 
We are at the Temple of the 13th Eye. Locke says, "Well, we're going to need a little time."
 
Locke goes home, very depressed. He does almost nothing. After a few months, Gwyn visits him with a project proposal; he's written some books about the old reality, and he wants to know if Locke can create a process to make mathematic models of them, so that things in this reality can be compared to that reality, to see what is the truth in each of them.
 
Locke says no, but starts working on this anyway.
 
XP Rewards: +1 crux, +1 despair, go up one rank in your order, +5 crux to apostate stuff only, +5 acumen, have access to my old forte.