They carve onto the bottom of each stone a small sigil allowing the stones to be hoisted into the air through the power of the Medium. These sigils are not faces carved into expressions of human emotions. They are directions of obedience. The stones obey the simple commands of the builders. Once in place, they become immovable and fixed. This knowledge was passed down from an emperor-maston in a previous age. He who built a city of glory, the fame of all the world. And then the city, the entire island, lifted from its foundations and disappeared into a brilliant cloud to rejoin the Essaios of
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