Messengers
Gentle energies collide with chaotic blackness, ebbing and flowing into themselves over and over again. A struggle composed of light and dark plays out to those that have eyes that can truly see. Amidst the strange and often morbid entanglements of psychic energy, one can often hear strange whispers in the silence of the night. Some may utter terrible things into your virgin ears, defiling them with unspeakable fear and dread. Others speak in love, driving back the dark shadows of your mind as you try to grasp at what is truly real and what is not. So... how can you even begin to label beings that are made of light, shadow, and the very fabric of your conscience. Though they may have many names, and wear many faces, perhaps " Messengers" is an appropriate title for beings that cannot be discerned, yet heard. Guardians and gatekeepers of the black bridges that connect every wave to the desire that fuels it, these messengers remain hidden from most. Though secretive, Messengers are very active beings when it comes to influencing and guiding the desires of most waves. In some waves, Messengers never existed, yet in others all that exist are Messengers. Ultimately, just like everything, and nothing in the oceans of want, such is your wave, such is your choice... if the was ever there in the first place.
Basic Information
Anatomy
Being and nothingness, unknown and thought. Living and dying manifestations of every little thought that forms and dissipates in the oceans of want and need. From my own perspective shadows and light come to life all around me, whispering and tempting me to harbor good, or evil desires. At times they clash with one another, each being wishes to help, or harm you in your daily thought processes. Strange forms of raw will grace my presence with their mystery, wearing masks over what might be understood as faces. They reach out to me with tendril and hand alike, beckoning my mind to connect with what I want at that moment in time. Are these Messengers really just in my mind? How many of them come from outside of Oculus I wonder? Some thoughts and dreams appear to be my own, yet other desires seem so alien to me. They can be so intense, these desires from worlds and beings unknown. Our hearts are temples in which many beings wish to create their own abodes. Therefore be very cautious when wondering threw Oculus, for how can you be sure that these manifestations of thought and will are really all from you?
Growth Rate & Stages
Some Messengers may never exist, while others are eternal. As some ideas and thoughts are fleeting, so to are the living bridges that connect one desires. For the black bridges and the Messengers are one and the same. Still are they ever truly gone, fading away into the black abyss of thought and reason? What if they simply transform instead, wearing a mask that befits the one that a Messenger is trying to help or direct? So much mystery surrounds these beings of shadow and gloom. Some do appear more benevolent than other Messengers, yet intent is always the question that you and I should ask ourselves when strolling through the nexus of Oculus.
Dietary Needs and Habits
Since Messengers are composed of the raw, psychic potential of a being that thinks and dreams, they are only as strong as the will that comes across them. Most don't notice them, but every time a thought is conjured from the primordial energies of being, Messengers wax with the corresponding desire that enabled them to exist in the first place. The same principle applies when a thought is forgotten or discarded. A messenger will then wane into nothingness until a new thought or idea stimulates them to grow once more. In contrast Messengers of light claim to derive their essence of existence from Triad himself. These light Messengers are stable in all that they are, no matter the thought they dwell in. So many mysteries, perhaps too many. What are they really, these beings of thought and will?
Additional Information
Geographic Origin and Distribution
They are everywhere, and they are knowhere. Shades of thought writhing in the abyss of want and excess.
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
In terms of sensory capabilities, both light and dark messengers are capable of sensing and discerning the heart of any being, no matter how powerful or small they may think themselves to be. With these strange senses of will and want they guide the dreamer across the abyss of want to their desired goals. Yet, a messenger is often all too keen on influencing your choice or want. At times they may suggest little tweaks to your will, like adding more color to a picture, or more words written in a love letter. Other times Messengers may go as far as to try and completely alter the dreamer's train of thought, pleading and begging for said dreamer to cross another bridge to a completely different end. Whether a Messenger has good or ill intent in influencing you is often decided on the perspective that follows these Messengers of desire. What light is dark, and what's dark is light. One should be sure of the moral compass that guides them in every decision, whether monumental or mundane in scope. For every thought, word, and deed carries ripples that expand themselves into eternity.
Civilization and Culture
History
Messengers, those shades of thought and dream made manifest, what of them dear dreamer? You have felt them in your mind already, hence the reason you are here in Oculus. Whether you realize it or not, Messengers have been visiting you for a very long time, well if there is a time where you're from. I have to ask, how much of you is, well you? Do you think all or desires are really your own? Just a friendly question dear dreamer, from a fellow dreamer that has wandered into one too many paths that were suggested to me by one of those shades. What do you, or any of us really know of them? These so-called Messengers say they are our own thoughts given form, yet I could have sworn that I saw a Messenger the other day that was the spitting image of an old dream I held onto long ago. It is possible that something else desired what I wanted, thus bringing about a Messenger that resembled my own. Is it there for possible that not every messenger in my dreams and thoughts come from my will alone? If not just from me, then where do some of these Messengers come from? That's the real question everyone should ask themselves when they wonder threw the bridges of Oculus.
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
There are sightings, dear dreamer, of another kind of Messenger roaming the endless labyrinths of Oculus. Unlike the voids of darkness that were accustomed to seeing, these other Messengers are completely different. Rather then shadow, light covers these Messengers in a brilliance that is said to rival even the brightest stars of other realms and plains. Strangely these Messengers of light do not forge paths of their own, nor do they incite others to make their own paths. Unlike their darker cousins, these "Light Messengers guide and direct other beings to a single path not made by them. The path of Triad, with all its splendor, serves as a beacon and destination for The Messengers of light. They guide and protect the ones that Triad calls, keeping away other Messengers from interfering with the new path that some are being shown. What is even more profound is that these Messengers of light claim to be from outside Oculus, just like their dark cousins. How can this be? Granted this realm of realms is bizarre in more ways than one, yet what is being claimed by these Light Messengers turns aside much of what is said of the darker Messengers we have always known. What is truth, and more importantly who is speaking it, dear reader?
Origin/Ancestry
Every thought, word, or dream is a messenger building a bridge to your desired destination. Yet some claim to be from another realm entirely, a realm made of love himself.
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