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TAK

Quite how gods play their games is beyond mortal ken. Pr You need an abstract mind to play a beautiful game. One man's love is another man's lust.  Imagine, if you can, two Gods the god of day and god of night. They watch over the world,one half at a time, and never the twain shall meet. The world in question is their gameboard and it has many squares and many stones. Their board is infinite and thus has Far too many components for the numbers to make any sense to us mere mortals. But for all the difference it is all the same, it's just a question of focus, and it's only a game after all. Now games have rules and in Tak the objective is to create a pathway of stones right across the board. It occurs to me that if our two gods were also playing Tak, which is the assumption upon with this whole thing rests, then there are some interesting opportunities to apply the same rules of Tak to the shape of the word that is the four corners. Superimpose the Tak board over the Map ...
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Maelstrom

4 ~ Maelstrom The Mael This theory of a parallel Realm of Darkness needs expanding upon and so the time has come to talk about the Mael. Now that’s not a just a word that I have conjoured up since Bast also tells us of this place and we shall visit his quotes about it later on, but the Mael predates Bast as he freely admits, and so we needs must explore a bit earlier in time than his learned input. So we shall have to go even further back in our search to a time long before the Fae could even be considered as a Name, to a time before even the moon had arrived to light up this this dark realm. Now all good stories should start at the beginning, and in this book that means the beginning of all things. This nameless void described in the next quote is eventually going to need naming properly if we are ever going to get anywhere and so I will put the first pin in the ground today and name this place as the Mael. The second pin will be found in the new world named by Aleph, and the fae real...
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Blue

1 ~ Blue So what might be so special about this blue blood that I speculated upon in Primordial Soup then? Selitos is our main blue blooded example but his power was held to be in his ‘magical’ ability to look into the hearts of men and read them like heavy lettered books, and he was not alone… ‘In those days there were many who could do such things but Selitos was the most powerful namer of anyone alive in that age.’ I suggest then that this blue blood of the namers is in some way fundamentally different to the red blood of those without any such naming powers. Perhaps it has something to do with a Namer changing their own name? Elodin tells us that the original namers walked the streets like tiny goods and were obviosly far superior to their servants, the common folk and other serving men like foot soldiers but could anyone become a namer or is this skill inherent only to certain bloodlines? and more importantly, can this power that these blue bloods possess able to be passed on biol...
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