AuthorConcept
The Author is a deity or cosmic force in IntEarth belief, credited with writing or determining the nature of the world, setting the Cycles in motion, and establishing the Lumspan. Followers speak of the Author as an entity to whom one may pray and whose design gives meaning and structure to existence, though not all inhabitants acknowledge or revere this figure.
Where it appears (23 mentions in 2 books)
Found Journal of a Traveler · 1 mention Read the book →
- ¶6…eath lie vast deposits of minerals, ancient fossils, and even subterranean civilizations. Author only knows what other secrets and wonders lurk in the (possibly) infinite depths below?
Authorian Paladin · 22 mentions Read the book →
- ¶4No. 2: "O Great Author, who pens the parchment of this world with precision, who determined the Lumspan and set the Cycles in motion, hear my words. I am Your instrument in this story, a sword…
- ¶8…t look around you! I am clothed in finery, my coffers overflowing, and I have knelt to no Author, bowed to no Cycle. Where is your so-called reward? If such virtues are written into your…
- ¶10No. 2: "Who are you, that you would blaspheme against the Author? Speak aloud your name, that it might be known. Tell me was it for you alone that the Author has stirred me from my slumb…
- ¶12…t Council! These lands thrive thanks to our judgment and how we choose to spend our coin! Your Author may satisfy the prayers of the poor and the market folk, but it is the Council that decid…
- ¶17…tir. No. 2 remained like a mountain unmoved by storms, their gaze steady, the mark of the Author etched into every fiber of their being. No. 2 looked upon Lord Veyren, and the corners of…
- ¶19No. 2: "O Great Author, who set this Cycle in motion, who wrote each character with care and burden alike, forgive this one their folly, though judgment must fall. Have mercy upon the ink of Y…
- ¶20…if even the Wakes themselves paused, as if the very fabric of Intearth waited to hear the Author's answer. No. 2 lowered their hands, their body braced. No. 2 moved.
- ¶25Around him, chaos unfolded. Those who had held faith in the Author fell to their knees, bowing low, weeping prayers into the blood-slick stones. Their voices, though jumbled and desperat…
- ¶26…nce again seek to escape the confines of our story. When I wake, it is by the will of the Author. The Author's hand stirs me from Leep, summoning me to prepare the Faithful of Intearth.
- ¶27…d not all of the ancients awake. The eternal egg still incubates in its orbit around Lum. The Author has blessed us at this time, for when it hatches, even I will not be able to mitigate muc…
- ¶29…e of that illness and have no more truth or evidence than any other words of anyone here. If the Author were real, we would only exist when the Author was writing about us. All our lives leadin…
- ¶32No. 2: "Very well, Council Person Vissira. What would you have me do to prove the Author's existence?"
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