Wordforge 8-14-14 (Eula/Terrible Truths)

Wordforge 8-14-14

SONG: "Eula" by Baroness

THEME: Terrible Truths





There are some parts of the Other Side where reality completely breaks down into a roiling, infinite cauldron of chaos, the raw stuff of Creation. And it's that mad, primordial ocean that stands between everything that is and everything that isn't -- on the other side of the Sea of Chaos looms Oblivion, the Nothing from which everything came. But one thing has to be made clear, and it cannot be stressed enough.

Oblivion is not empty.

There are things within the void. Monstrously ancient things that slumber, dreaming unknowable dreams that brave the eternal storm of the Sea of Chaos and infiltrate Creation.

Say what you want about the Others, they come in all shapes and sizes and makes and models, some are decent enough and some need to be put down. You could say the same about people. But those from Beyond? They seek only to spread their nihilism, to gnaw at roots, spread Oblivion. They long for the Nothing that preceded Creation and there is no reasoning with them, for their will is alien and unreasonable. The best anyone could ever hope for is to banish them back to the emptiness of the void.

One has to stop and wonder though, after taking the requisite time to dread the magnitude of the truth, what came before Oblivion? And more than that, what brought Creation out of the darkness? Was it the very darkness that sought to become something else and broke itself into That Which Is and That Which Is Not? The truth leads to the shadows of greater, more terrible truths.

I've never met a Beyonder, but I've heard stories, and everything I've heard scares the hell out of me. If they really are out there moving in the world they're a clever, insidious lot that keep to themselves and work through so many backchannels as to be invisible. Shadow masters behind the shadow masters? It's not that much of a stretch for a sufficiently paranoid mind.

And people wonder why I prefer to stay indoors.