ExposCharacter
Expos is a figure who has waited many Cycles for a successor, watching civilizations rise and fall from the windows of a tower. They are described as expressionless and composed, and possess an awareness that each Wake could be the one their successor finally arrives.
Where it appears (44 mentions in 1 book)
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- ¶1Expos stood in a room of complete darkness. A single spotlight illuminated a table. On the table sat a short mushroom stuffy. Expos stared at it, hands folded, face expressionless. Expo…
- ¶2Expos: "Ah at last! My successor, I have waited many Cycles for you."
- ¶5Expos: "Quite the life it was, truly. I am your largest fan. I had been hoping you would be selected, and it seems the tower has decided at last. Come along now, you are The Most Worthy…
- ¶7Expos: "Folks call me Expos, and I suppose that is my name in the sense you mean."
- ¶10Expos: "I am not sure it has a true size. It is as infinite as the universe."
- ¶12Expos: "Dear, dear Zeshin, the universe is so much larger than just the place you call home."
- ¶14Expos noticed Zeshin's fascination with the walls and paused their stride. The shorter figure's dark eyes held depths that suggested knowledge accumulated over countless Cycles, yet som…
- ¶15Expos: "The tower remembers everyone who has walked these halls. It knew you would come, even when I began to doubt my vigil would ever end."
- ¶16…he stone itself possessed awareness beyond mere magical resonance. Zeshin turned to study Expos more carefully, noting how the shorter figure seemed to belong here in a way that transce…
- ¶18Expos: "Time moves strangely within these walls. I have seen Lum dim and brighten through countless Cycles, watched civilizations rise and crumble through the tower's highest windows. Y…
- ¶21Expos: "The tower serves as more than shelter, Zeshin. It is a lens through which one may observe the true scope of existence. What you see there are but fragments, echoes of the infini…
- ¶24Expos watched Zeshin's reaction to these phenomena with the careful attention of one who had long ago learned to read the subtle signs of tower-touched minds. The transition from surfac…
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