Twisted Transistor

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"It feels like the world is rushing away from us."

"...When something embraces so much of the world, and all its potentia, near conceptual casting speeds,"

"Is it supposed to look like a giant needle?"

"No, that's not what happened when I did this. I figured it would have looked like the Garden,"

"But it's not necessary."

"If anything, the Spirit World and all its sub-realms are but mere reflections of the self,"

"Of the self of the materium."

"That incudes your own while we're in here. So if it's mostly just stars, and empty, rocky blotches of random stone and water everywhere..."

"...It's a blank slate of you."

"Blank enough."

"Do I..."

"What are we even supposed to do here, looking down through this rune ritual, into such a finite space?"

"Cast whatever you want."

"This little realm is both our oyster now,"

"And maybe, with a little luck, you can still influence the materium like I do."

"Speaking of."

"Why'd you get stuck here anyway?"

"I don't have much in the way of Metaphysical magics, neither in this life, nor the previous. Broaching the perimeter was out of the question."

"Wayfinding was simply too out-of-the-way."

"But that doesn't mean I can't possess some tiny pieces of the materium that vaguely resemble my own consciousness."

"...A very, very powerful runic ritual lead into my death,"

"So I ended up in my own special sub-realm here."

"It's been a very quiet, very empty millennia."

"Or has it been eons?"

"...Even here, in this space, just like _____'s realm, just like in that imaginary ritual, those laws of the materium don't quite make as much sense."

"Even though this point in time, this event is completely unknowable, it was also inevitable. From the second I set foot here,"

"I couldn't rewind my Timestreams to beforehand."

"Not even to _____. Not even to the last major event."

"At least I know how these silly sub-realm shenanigans function based on all the times i've helped Nera."

"So, hold on,"

"If i'm an extremely ethereal & pataphysical entity unto Solais, does that mean I can..."

"Absolutely."

"Most of your summoner powers to the materium should still be available."

"Go on, try focus-incanting it on some of the Monsters that Jokul left behind."

"They should be simple-minded enough to poke around in, and later, you'll know how to control the strongest."

"No easily going back on this world either. Ironic that none of us can portal around."

"We will shape the heavens,"

"And I, the vestige we leave below."

"Being here, emotion casting and rune casting should be easier, too."

"Like those construction drones, slowly digging a hole, pouring one concrete slab at a time..."

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Demiurge; Noun;
One that is a creative force or notable aspect of power, often under the will of something controlling a higher domain of celestial power.
In most human cultures, a Demiurge is described similarly to the possessed or to demigods, most of which are held responsible to their respective possessor or god.

All that knowledge compounding on itself again and again could not go unnoticed forever. The greatest scholars, the masters of transmutation and creation, all eventually become aware of most their reincarnon process; As their understandings deepen into worlds both old and new, worlds yet to be imagined, worlds ruled by unknowable, intangible cosmic powers, they also become aware of how to expand their dominion - How to bargain with the broken, fractured pieces of those gods governing Time, Space, Life, and Death.

These unions of madness, devotion, and a little blessing - Somewhat rare as they are - Become Demiurges, cosmic entities of sheer potential creation along similar lines to living stars, albeit restricted to the ideals that the natural laws of their gods promote.

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"What a weird, familiar-looking one... You'll do."

"I'll name you after..."

"The Peace Barrier."