🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

- Come here and take a look through the Ocular while I adjust the lens... I'll show you something interesting. I think, as a subject of Asuguth, you'll find this particularly fascinating.

Asmidul watched. He gazed, unable to tear his eyes away from the starry expanse, an endless canvas stretched across the night sky. He watched, afraid even to blink, lest he disturb this new, breathtaking sensation of contemplating the impossible. He watched as the Akonian sun disappeared, and here and there, the first lights began to twinkle on the veil: countless young and old, bright and fading stars pierced the eternal twilight, sending their light through the veil of the vast universe to meet their sisters on the other side of creation. He looked at the Reimy light: bright, bold, and self-assured. He looked at the Lafrenian system: brave, vibrant, and forgotten. He looked at the extinguished, chillingly cold Visterian and Ertenian worlds. He watched and thought; about what everyone thinks when, for the first time, they break away from the familiar hustle and bustle of life and raise their eyes to the night sky. About the insignificance of human flesh, a tiny grain of sand in the broken clockwork woven from the fabric of thousands of worlds. About the greatness of human consciousness, which rises to the stars themselves, like an artist capturing the fruits of his creations on a dark canvas. Only to reunite with eternity on his deathbed, thinking for the last time: "It was not in vain!".

-This... is simply amazing, Ayya. - After an unknown amount of time, he finally broke away from his contemplation and looked at his companion. - Thank you... or can I say "you," since we are of a similar age, for this demonstration. And could you tell me a little more about that Lafrenia and Ertenia? Perhaps I wasn't paying close enough attention and missed their mention in the early lecture about the deities.