Ruin’s consciousness was trapped by the Well of Ascension, kept mostly impotent. That night, when we discovered the Well for the first time, we found something we didn’t understand. A black smoke clogging one of the rooms. Though we discussed it after the fact, we couldn’t decide what it was. How could we possibly have known? It was part of the body of a god—or rather the power of a god, since the two are really the same thing. Ruin and Preservation inhabited power and energy in the same way a person inhabits flesh and blood.
