The Weave Mind is a Ruidian council of five[1] extremely old and powerful reiloran mystics that act as a conduit to Predathos's mind and are the true rulers of Ruidus.[2]
Description[]
The Weave Mind are the masters of the Imperium who "usher the flares," control the city of Kreviris, and tell others the design they must follow. Those who speak against them become "pliable" shortly thereafter. They act as a conduit and connect the population to the Dreamers and to Predathos; despite this, they have forbidden the use of Predathos' name on pain of torture and death. The belief is that if The One Who Sleeps were to wake, everyone on Ruidus would be transported to Exandria.[3] The members of the Weave Mind almost never leave their stronghold within the Prime Pillar of Kreviris but can use their minds to control other beings at a distance.[4]
The five members now in power are the five original members, having stretched and altered their lifespans for four or five centuries, and according to the few who have actually seen them, their bodies are now withered and taxed.[5] When the group appeared before Bells Hells, they appeared to be Mystics wearing extremely intricate armor, jewelry, and chains adorned with gems, gold, platinum, and rune-carved bone, their faces covered with masks,[6] their dangling thin limbs atrophied and no longer needed.[7]
The Weave Mind oversees magic and engineering throughout the upper echelons of Imperium society, developing and supporting the military (the Dominion of Cruth and its disciplinary arm, The Will) by the development of the juggernauts or hulks.[8] They can also psychically project themselves anywhere on the moon by inhabiting the minds of Kreviris-born reilora, all of whom are marked at birth by the insertion of an organic object into the back of the head.[9] Rashinna described them as masters of "psychic bioengineering" who employ multiple biological designers (such as Ivanas, who eventually left).[10]
According to Petrov Godo, they are able to turn Exaltants into fully realized versions of themselves, completely in control of their abilities.[11] Despite their role in creating them, the Weave Mind don't trust Exaltants.[12]
Barthie believed that the closer one gets to the Weave Mind, the harder it is to deceive.[13]
History[]
Rashinna stated that the five members of the Weave Mind have been enslaving the Ruidian peoples for four to five hundred years;[14][15] they came to power during a time of prosperity for the reilorans, and slowly they subjugated the other Ruidian races.[16] The Weave Mind fundamentally altered the standard reiloran physicality to serve their ends, creating the various types now in existence from an original parent form.[17] The council and their various sects destroyed all writings documenting the history of the Bormodo "long ago".[18]
Ludinus Da'leth was the first Exandrian to make contact with the Weave Mind sometime around 543 PD, and through them, with Predathos itself. This produced a "unique dynamic" between Ludinus and the mystics, with each thinking they could use the other for their own ends.[19]
Around the time of the establishment of the Bloody Bridge between Exandria and Ruidus, the Weave Mind was working with Ludinus to create technology based on Aeorian artifacts supplied by him, particularly items related to the Factorum Malleus. Their goal was to map the veins of Ruidian glass within the moon and burrow through the layers holding Predathos imprisoned, freeing it.[20]
Campaign Three[]
In 843 PD the power of the Weave Mind reached Exandria, and they took an interest in Chetney Pock O'Pea, an elderly werewolf. They considered him an "instrument" of their desire, and influenced him so that he would transform and lose control without a full Catha in the sky.[21]
That same year, when Chetney and Bells Hells were running through Vaterra Kreviris after completing their missions there, the figures of the five mystics of the Weave Mind surrounded them, looking for those responsible for the commotion unleashed in their city. Although they were mostly interested in Imogen Temult, an Exaltant Ruidusborn, they were unaffected by the Invisibility spell covering the others and addressed each one of them, revealing their connection with Chetney's lycanthropy, sensing Delilah Briarwood's soul within Laudna, and finally welcoming Imogen home. The others were welcome to stay in Kreviris as well, but when they sensed their resistance coming from the Fatestitcher's unfamiliar fey magic, the figures disappeared.[22]
Not long after, and unexpectedly, the members of the Weave Mind allegedly left their cathedral to travel to Exandria in person, appearing in the Red Center and terraforming it with their psychic powers, creating a fortress around the Malleus Key to protect it,[23] and possibly altering other paths and sections of the excavation.[24]
References[]
- ↑ See "Seeking Sedition" (3x88) at 3:20:22.
- ↑ See "Divisive Portents" (3x89) at 0:25:16.
- ↑ See "Red Rural Revelations" (3x84) from 0:58:17 through 1:01:10.
- ↑ See "The Cradle's Convocation" (3x104) at 4:01:43.
- ↑ See "Divisive Portents" (3x89) at 0:25:38.
- ↑ See "True Heroism" (3x91) from 1:03:51 through 1:05:56.
- ↑ See "Where The Red Fearne Glows" (3x94) at 2:40:40.
- ↑ See "Divisive Portents" (3x89) at 0:26:25.
- ↑ See "Divisive Portents" (3x89) at 0:29:50.
- ↑ See "Divisive Portents" (3x89) at 0:34:47.
- ↑ See "Intense Interrogations" (3x85) at 1:20:25.
- ↑ See "Broken Roads" (3x92) at 0:28:44.
- ↑ See "Red Rural Revelations" (3x84) at 1:49:28.
- ↑ See "Seeking Sedition" (3x88) at 3:20:22.
- ↑ See "Divisive Portents" (3x89) at 0:26:04.
- ↑ See "The Cradle's Convocation" (3x104) at 4:08:01.
- ↑ See "Divisive Portents" (3x89) at 0:24:30.
- ↑ See "Red Rural Revelations" (3x84) at 0:56:01.
- ↑ See "Broken Roads" (3x92) at 0:28:13.
- ↑ See "Broken Roads" (3x92) from 1:15:02 through 1:21:12.
- ↑ See "True Heroism" (3x91) at 1:06:30.
- ↑ See "True Heroism" (3x91) from 1:03:51 through 1:11:00. See also CR Cooldown - C3 E91 (subscription required). (Transcript)
- ↑ See "The Cradle's Convocation" (3x104) at 4:01:15. Liliana Temult also confirmed this at "Collecting Legends" (3x105) at 0:13:48.
- ↑ See "Looming" (3x108) at 2:48:31.
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