MAY MINGLE

[stellafortunamods]

May Mingle: Entombed City
Welcome to Teyvat - a vast magical world of adventure.
Everyone's hard work resulted in the gate to upper Dragonspine opening. These ruins have not been traversed in years, if not centuries - everything within has been lost to time and living memory. An entire city has been buried in the snow.

People once lived there. The broken buildings host damaged furniture and weathered streets. There are various cloth-covered mounds in a house here and there, accompanied by a sprig of blue flowers. Someone has laid these people to rest after they passed away.

Traces of technology can be found in the city - golden boxes that contain crystals capable of recording and playing back holograms. One of the boxes introduces this place as Vindagnyr; a land once full of greenery and life. Just what happened to these people? What caused the eternal winter?

The highest point in the city is occupied by a temple built into a Domain. Within the Domain is a pale white tree, split in half by a strange object that has fallen through the Domain's ceiling. This temple was once a site for worship for Vindagnyr's people, and even in death they continue to pray for salvation. The priests have been frozen in ice, and the sheer cold emanating from the Skyfrost Nail makes it obvious that it is the cause of winter.

The city's inhabitants worshipped Celestia. Why then were they left to die?

State of the World

On October 1st, the entombed city of Vindagnyr becomes open for exploration. Travelers can choose to look for clues or try to scavenge the city for ancient materials or tools. Recording boxes all around the city tell stories of Vindagnyr's greener past, and of the days when winter suddenly arrived. This is the cruelty of Celestia that Forneus wished you to see.

For all questions regarding May's mingle and events, please head over to our OOC post.

Comments

[stellafortunamods]

[ Forneus takes Jun's word for things. He trusts the youth to go get healed if he doesn't want to get healed by a time god. ]

Yes. Ripples of ideas can influence worlds that are not your own. Even if your actions here won't directly affect your world, the tales of heroes and world-changing events can often echo between realms.

[ He straightens up, and he'll help Jun too if it's needed. ]

It's hard to tell who copied who first, though. Or maybe Death took inspiration from something else at the same time as I did.

[whiteshroud]

[Jun will slowly move to stand up. Yeah, he hurts - but he's used to pulling himself back up on worse injuries that he won't look to Forneus to help himself up. Tough one, this kid.]

Ripples of ideas that echo between realms ... [He considers this] ... That'd certainly explain a few things.

[Like Rean being in an anime. Was that an echo someone caught on his world about Rean's? Considering what he knew about the Eclipse, it didn't seemed that far fetch at all. Especially when the anime depiction of Rean is rather distorted- like someone had based it off a reflection or a hazy image rather than the real thing.

Putting anime characters aside though....]

...Curious, I didn't say it was Death who had the scythe. Just how much about Earth do you know?

[stellafortunamods]

I had to visit Earth to recruit you. Though, I've also dropped by a couple times in the past just to sightsee.

[ ?????? ]

[whiteshroud]

[ ... 💧 ]

Please tell me your visits didn't trigger any Eclipse incidents.

[stellafortunamods]

Oh, don't worry about that. I'm very good at blending in.

[ Or being invisible altogether. ]

[whiteshroud]

[Well in that case, that means Forneus's tendency to be a tourist isn't his problem! Nice. There's a distorted scoff sound through the hood.]

Then I hope you enjoyed your visits.

Is that normal for gods to travel to other worlds like that? They always struck me as territorial.

[stellafortunamods]

Nah. Most gods tend to keep to their own world. Not all gods know how to travel between worlds, either. I'm pretty good at it, though, so I looked around a bit. Maybe stayed awhile if it was interesting.

[whiteshroud]

[...]

And yet you're choosing oblivion once we defeat Celestia instead of moving to another world.

[stellafortunamods]

[ Forneus chuckles. ]

Even I get tired, you know. [ this went dark real fast ] If it's a necessary sacrifice, then I don't see why not. Rules are rules after all.

[whiteshroud]

Says the one bending the rules of this world so I can use Light.

[Grandpa can use that excuse being the god of contracts, but you sir...!]

It's not a sacrifice if it's an end you want. It's just suicide.

[stellafortunamods]

All things come to an end. You'd imagine the custodian of entropy to be the one who understands that the most.

[whiteshroud]

Not really. You strike me as really out-of-touch.

[BLUNT. But jun is apathetic enough where he's not going to keep continuing this argument. This just reaffirms some of his own stances on the matter.]

Thank you for the seal.

[stellafortunamods]

[ One day Jun will get all the deets... one day. ]

No problem.

[whiteshroud]

[He looks around for an exit- but seeing how it's just a white void right now? He finally just opts to teleport away]