In the workshops of the Asymmetry all the essential forms of
reality have been hewn and sculpted and forged, in great open
chambers set into a cliff face with no known ground or top or sides.
It is simply a wall facing an empty sky, and into the fruitful earth
of this wall Grains quarry ever deeper for materials for their
creations that will eventually be delivered into nature or the minds
or hands of mortals.
Grains believe deeply that nothing is perfectly symmetrical, for
even if an object is itself symmetrical, its environment is not, and
no object can be considered outside of its environment. And so in
any pursuit of symmetry with the environment in total, an object
must itself be asymmetrical, further complicating the whole. Despite
the impossibility of perfect balance, Grains are forever pursuing
the act of balancing: introducing new animals or tools—even new
philosophies or deities—to cardinal worlds in order to tweak and
understand discrepancies in the shape of things.
The endless wall of the Asymmetry is composed of all manner of
substance, from metals and ores and every consistency of earth to
pockets of embers and rivulets of water, and on the cliff face
itself grow trees and fruits in vertical latticed orchards. Over
aeons caverns and interconnected tunnels have been bored to
incredible depths, and in the myths of Grains there is another side
to the wall that will eventually be reached, full of new forms of
matter and a community of brethren from which they were separated in
primordial times.
Some believe the gods themselves—some of them, all of them, who
knows?—were painstakingly sculpted in these forges. They’ll make
anything but keep careful ledger so that the output of the plane remains
balanced. Every thing created is forecast to have certain effects, and
miscalculations are rapidly accounted for. They are famous employers
(famously rewarding, famously exacting) of explorers and researchers who
report back to them on the results of their more ambitious or uncertain
endeavors. It’s said that these mercenaries are chosen very, very
carefully. Often the act of investigation itself and those chosen to
investigate are meant to fix any imbalances, and surprisingly often the
investigators themselves find their own nature changed in the
process.
many more things are made than are released - why/how? not sure
- name
- The Asymmetry
- The Consonance
- The Figure
- The Formation - or this
- The Hew
- The Kinesis
- The Marrow - TODO maybe this
- The Sum
- demonym
- Grains
- Marrows
- Melds/Melders
- Rhemes (linguistic term: comment that is being made about topic of
sentence)
- quote search ꧪ၇ꧠ
- environment
- theory that cliff is imperceptibly curved and is on inside of rim or
outside of steep mountain
- maybe yemen mountain cropped?
- network of caves in cliff face/endless wall
- the rock provides all kinds of stuff, they dig in
- myth of reaching the other side where new forms of matter will be
found
- culture
- filament library if not ꩧ၇ဓ
- halting problem!!
- polyhedral distortion
- clone awaits you
- elemental forces
- petitioners are somewhat featureless (like ꧪဋဗ?) bald, wiry, strong, scarred - ATLA
Aang-ish
Environment
The Wall
- A single giant wall, no ground or top (is there secretly a top?) two
sides but no way to get from one to other - no one has dug far enough.
people talk mythically about “the other side”. but since it’s infinite,
two places too far apart to be reached on foot/climbing, how do you know
they’re not on the same side? people have attempted to map it out but
many locations still haven’t been connected
- if there is a top (or bottom) it should be sheared off absolutely
flat like a glitch in a video game
lattice gardens or something
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Culture & Paradigm
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Visiting
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Locations
Festivals & Traditions
History
Rumors & Mysteries
Antipode
Curving