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December 21, 2024 - January 4, 2025
She picked an informant on the other end of the spectrum—a beggar named Hoid whom Cett claimed could be found in a particular square late at night.
Even now, I can barely grasp the scope of all this. The events surrounding the end of the world seem larger than the Final Empire and the people within it. I sense Shards of something from long ago, a fractured presence, something spanning the void. I have delved and searched, and have only been able to come up with a single name: Adonalsium. Who or what it was, I do not yet know.
“A man is what he has passion about,” Breeze said. “I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.”
I have come to see that each power has three aspects: a physical one, which can be seen in the creations made by Ruin and Preservation; a spiritual one in the unseen energy that permeates the whole world; and a cognitive one in the minds who controlled that energy. There is more to this. Much more that even I do not yet comprehend.
There is something special about the number sixteen. For one thing, it was Preservation’s sign to humankind. Preservation knew, before he imprisoned Ruin, that he wouldn’t be able to communicate with humankind once he diminished himself. So he left clues—clues that couldn’t be altered by Ruin. Clues that related to the fundamental laws of the universe. The number was meant to be proof that something unnatural was happening, and that there was help to be found. It may have taken us long to figure this out, but when we eventually did understand the clue—late though it was—it provided a
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P.S. There are still two base metals and their alloys that no one knows about. You might want to poke about and see if you can figure out what they are. I think they’ll interest you.
