The Ristalfan powerstone
The stone that changed Teshelyn's future and united it with its past was beautiful but unassuming, barely larger than Namida's fist, and no one but she knew what it had cost.
Feressa had quickly learned that any questions about it would be avoided or ignored. She trusted Namida enough to not pry further, and she had the self-awareness to know the explanation would most likely fall beyond her understanding anyway. All she had managed to glean was that the crystal was somehow what brought Namida to Teshelyn in the first place, but whether it literally led her here or was part of a larger endeavor was still unclear to Feressa.
Although Namida had revealed very little about it during her visit to the aquacoustic library, Kishti had pieced together that the stone seemingly functioned like a highly advanced glyph crystal. The Tesheli still had yet to understand how to make one of the crystals receptive to one's wishes, and the glyphs they had managed to decipher seemed to only store sound, and yet Namida's palm-sized crystal hummed with an intricate energy far beyond what was stored in the much larger glyphs. Kishti had no idea what to make of such a thing - it was unfathomable to him what could possibly be achieved by such a rapid development in their technology. Its wielder had made herself known as an ally with no malicious intent, but the powerstone still represented an existential threat to life on Teshelyn as it was known.
Both Feressa and Kishti were right: Feressa that the crystal was what brought Namida to her world, and Kishti that it was to be feared. The stone was the last remnant of a dying world, and Namida had stood at its edge as the crystal absorbed its essence. But she was not a destroyer; rather Namida had found the world on the brink of collapse and had used the stone as a way to preserve it, and hopefully later restore it to life. In trying to develop a method to do so, her research had pointed her to Teshelyn - or rather, Teshelyn was what she found at the end of her journey.
Feressa had quickly learned that any questions about it would be avoided or ignored. She trusted Namida enough to not pry further, and she had the self-awareness to know the explanation would most likely fall beyond her understanding anyway. All she had managed to glean was that the crystal was somehow what brought Namida to Teshelyn in the first place, but whether it literally led her here or was part of a larger endeavor was still unclear to Feressa.
Although Namida had revealed very little about it during her visit to the aquacoustic library, Kishti had pieced together that the stone seemingly functioned like a highly advanced glyph crystal. The Tesheli still had yet to understand how to make one of the crystals receptive to one's wishes, and the glyphs they had managed to decipher seemed to only store sound, and yet Namida's palm-sized crystal hummed with an intricate energy far beyond what was stored in the much larger glyphs. Kishti had no idea what to make of such a thing - it was unfathomable to him what could possibly be achieved by such a rapid development in their technology. Its wielder had made herself known as an ally with no malicious intent, but the powerstone still represented an existential threat to life on Teshelyn as it was known.
Both Feressa and Kishti were right: Feressa that the crystal was what brought Namida to her world, and Kishti that it was to be feared. The stone was the last remnant of a dying world, and Namida had stood at its edge as the crystal absorbed its essence. But she was not a destroyer; rather Namida had found the world on the brink of collapse and had used the stone as a way to preserve it, and hopefully later restore it to life. In trying to develop a method to do so, her research had pointed her to Teshelyn - or rather, Teshelyn was what she found at the end of her journey.
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