[Journal Entry, Silver Phase, Kyzonaar 499,404]
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An image of what appears to be a very tall, very intensely-grey eyed alicorn of a brown-greenish profile and a wingspan just shy of Princess Celestia Herself, materializes into beingness as you activate an ancient console device made of what appears to be crystal, hardened obsidian, and another unidentified metal substance enmeshed together, within the very, very old cavern complex you find yourself in, hundreds of miles underground, not even the Equestrian Archaeology Service managed to find this place, and yet, somehow, you, unknown traveler, have done so, whether you have arrived by happenstance chance alone, merely wandering around for no apparent reason, are a seasoned explorer or treasure hunter, or an archaeologist yourself looking for evermore of Equus History, you have found this place, before the terminal itself was a strange geometric sigil akin to a Spider-web of white, it faintly glitters with stars, and if you happen to be trained in magic, it was giving off an extremely ancient light energy, whatever it was, it was put there by beings far, FAR older than even the likes of Celestia or Luna themselves, countless millienia older, even, and judging by the energy itself, it was placed there by benevolent beings, not malevolent ones.
(Only the most trained would be able to tell it dates back approximately 12,825 Years ago)
Strange, considering there are no current-day records of any esoteric energy quite like this in any book in any library about equestrian history whatsoever.
This Alicorn himself had a flowing mane and tail similiar to Celestia and Luna, the patterns were best described as "Psychedelic" or otherwise eerie, looking akin to a "Waterfall" of green energies occasionally meshing together into kaleidoscopic patterns.
The image does not appear to recognize your presence, suggesting that this image will not interact with you on contact like certain other kinds of holographic imagery, whether made by spell or technology, would do.
"This is Aum-akreen Ailtir of Osmus and [UNINTELLIGIBLE]"
The errored out audio his statement sounded like static for a mere three seconds before he continued, his voice itself, however, was unlike any pony's voice ever heard before.
It echoed and rang in what sounded like multiple sound frequencies everytime he spoke, it was akin to listening to a god.
"I am recording this to dictate the previous golden cycle's joys and wonders as best as i am able within the confines of language, as the [UNINTELLIGIBLE] Prophets and Envisioners have informed me language will become one of the primaries of communcation by the time this message will have any significance, after Four if not Five if not TEN entire whole cycles will pass first, in which case i must assume this message is being heard Thousands, perhaps Ten Thousands, perhaps a Million Kyzons before it's creation."
"I am also recording this to dictate how it all fell before us like dust to the wind, so that, if our furthest of future generations survive and rebuild into the eonic ways of the all, they do NOT make the same mistake we did."
"First, a premise as best as i can give, considering i do not quite have the contrast you likely know in comparison."
"We were everywhere."
"Abundance is the norm."
"..And i dread to think of a society where thoughts of harm to another individual beingness had any kind of role at all."
"Yet that is what the envisioners say will become predominant in the following descent into the bronze, and iron cycles, even after the rise from these cycles there will still be some level of this until the final event horizon comes, upon which such annihilatory thinking will never-"
"...i must be getting ahead of myself somewhat, [UNINTELLIGIBLE]."
"We lived in several cities or complexes of living structures, we grew our own companion houses, we built our homes via crystalline latticework, we manifested and materialized temples for healing for countless Kyzons."
"We communed with beings of other spheres, many of them brought wisdom and compassion, love and light with them to offer, we in turn, accepted their teachings with gratitude and love."
"Portals between nexi and geographics were commonplace in our time/space, portals between worlds and realms and realities and spaces."
"I am not sure how commonplace it would be to an inhabitant of the iron cycle, but from what the envisioners have told me, considering it is a time of unfathomable fury and war and fear of scarcity and nearly all of that which is negative in design.. i'd imagine few, if any."
"And the few there were would require seemingly supernaturally extreme amounts of trial to reach."
"The vibrations of our world were at a fathomless height, even to us, the world soul was pure and untainted, the cycles were blissful and all crops grew however and whenever they were planted."
"There were no thoughts of harm to other-self whatsoever, such a thing was alien and unintelliglible to us."
"Everybeing simply had everything they needed, and they could easily access whatever they wanted, we had made the Lux [UNINTELLIGIBLE] Heavenrealms manifest in our entire sphere."
"Our friends and companions told of dimensions, we quickly realized there was far more than the three dimensions we saw in, beings apparently existed which saw everywhere from one dimension to countless, though many of our visitors saw in Four, Five, Six, Eight, Eleven, Twenty-Six, or Thirty-two, and that's just the ones that could materialize into our mode of visibility."
"If you are a part of this dark cycle, you will likely find this kind of lifestyle impossible, alien, or unintelligible yourself, you may even find this laughable, you might even be walking away right now, believing this a deception, though i find it unlikely personally that anybeing will find this by that cycle."
"If you are part of the bronze cycle after that, where peace finally starts taking even greater hold, and both Polarities of Negative and Positive start to intensify in their prowess to the point where good and bad alike become so intense it all spills over into the world, you may find a part of yourself longing to return home, to this.. familiar way of being, away from the pain and misery of your current kyzons, this is likely the time where the first ways will resurface, piece by piece, inevitable, unstoppable, unyieldingly, and the corrupted will finally be exposed for what they are."
"If you are one among us whom has witnessed the true evil of the fall, your incarnate will likely expire before you enter the next one."
"...It was, as aforementioned, the heavenrealms made manifest."
"..Was."
"Until some among our higher positions, not all, but some, started to hoard."
"Everything from the knowledge to the medicines to the technique to the wonderous energies, they began to slowly but surely turn their distortions toward the negative polarity."
"All efforts were put to try to stop this."
"All efforts, believe me."
"Some bought precious moments more for other-selves, others saved beings, but in the end, nothing worked this time."
"Those who were positively aligned either stayed to shield and protect those who called and needed it, or left before the great flood came for parts unknown to us."
"Then these.. negatively polarized individuals began to demand offerings, worship, and they started to gain followers, many, many [UNINTELLIGIBLE] [UNINTELLIGIBLE]"
"And then the first wars began."
"Annihilation, misery, murder, they summoned beings of negative polarity to assist them, but ultimately it was truly our own species's hubris and taking of this for granted that doomed us all, and you all in turn for a time far too long."
"Death, destruction, an "US Vs THEM" conditioning took over those of negative polarity, while those of positive polarity imprisoned or transported the enemy away within stasis locks or subspace realms, we had to train ourselves, all of us, even those not imprisoning or relocating the hostile aspects of us that there was no 'Them', only 'Us', these apsects of us merely became confused, distorted to the extreme in a way not intended by the all, and then.. the negative.."
"They began assaulting everyone who would not 'side' with them."
"It was at this time the power structures of what our envisioners called 'Hierarchy' emerged rapidly whereever the negatively polarized were."
"Let me be clear, not ONE of us used such.. hostile and evil measures as the shedding of blood like they did, we enchained, entrapped, and relocated, but we did not maim and unmake."
"The same could not be said of those who aligned themselves with the negatively polarized."
"The Moon and Sun both lowered and did not come back up for Fourty-Nine Kyzons when the conflict had reached it's worst."
"And then our wonderous, crystalline city was obliterated by a weapon, some kind of device which made a thick, unnatural cloud akin to a mushroom-like shape colored a bright yellow that the negative polarized had constructed had devoured our homeland whole."
"Though we did not know it at the time, smaller variants would be utilized which created similiar, unnatural, thick mushroom-clouds of Orange-coloration throughout the whole world."
"The city was gone, our paradise unmade, our prayers to the actual heavenrealms went unanswered, we quickly realized our prayers were being blocked, somehow, the negative polarized had acquired enough technique to seal our entire world in a barrier of mis-used light energies, stolen weaves are unacceptable."
"The divine would not answer our prayers because they could literally not hear them."
"In part."
"Others somehow managed to breach the barrier regardless, but those that did refused to respond, no one knew why, still, no one knows why."
"But before the barrier had come up, something [UNINTELLIGIBLE_'Apocalyptic?'] and truly annihilatory had occured."
"The tides rose due to the mass use of these weapons."
"All of them."
"They overtook everything."
"Everyone."
"I was one of the survivors."
"All our history.. all our knowledge.. gone."
"Buried under the Tides."
"Likely still there, but no one entity has been focused on looking there, and i do not have the support or friends nessecary for such a task as of my current time/space nexus."
"...Just.."
"..."
"..."
"..."
The alicorn closed his eyes.
"The envisioners spoke of a time where us and the gods communed, there was no conflict, and virtue had supreme reign."
"They spoke of a time where that would be no more, and war, dominance, artificial scarcity and power struggle would reign, where sin overtook virtue almost completely, and those few who were virtuous were treated as the heretics, the sinful, the enemy, where the treatment of the peoples had become inverted, the world had become contradictory in her course."
"..You must understand, while the golden cycles exist, and continue for approximately 26,000 of our Kyzons, the silver cycles, bronze cycles, and iron cycles exist too, and the iron cycles can continue for around 2,600, the bronze for around 4,600, and the silver for around 18,000."
And then he opens said eyes.
"The golden cycles are just that, limitless and divine, for clarity's sake.."
"The golden cycles are a time where virtue is limitless and sin has no place."
"The silver cycles are a time where Virtue reaches approximately 75% prowess, Sin at 25%."
"The Bronze Cycles evenly split Sin and Virtue, both being approximately 50%."
"The Iron Cycles, the darkest of them all, had sin at approximately 75%, and virtue at 25%."
"...Do not despair, dear reader, for even in the darkest times, virtue can never die, although i doubt your history books will tell much tale of it compared to wanting to over-emphasize on conquest and victory in battle, and even make it look akin to heroic deed, the typical attitudes of the negatively polarized."
"The envisioners also spoke of a time where this evil too, would one day be no more, where an unparalleled ascension would occur, sin would have no further reign in even the most remote of degrees, and virtue, kindness, and compassion would once again hold for easily another 26,000 kyzons, perhaps longer still."
At this point you deduced that kyzons was their equivalent of years, or something of the kind, this mention of 'cycles' was new, though.
"..The envisioners also stated that it is unlikely this message would be heard so much further in, despite my misgivings, despite -ALL- our misgivings, this message will likely be known long before that point."
"They also spoke of a splitting of the pony-species bioform from single unity into a triad in the process, of all species, why ours? i asked, even they did not know, the rest was muddied, according to them."
"There would be those who retained a portion of our might, who would work the earth and till the fields."
"there would be those who would retain our wings, and whom would hold domain over the weather to a degree."
"There would be those who would retain our horns, and who would be the physically weakest, but would be the only ones to be directly knowing of how to tap into mysticsm."
"And any originally like us would not know we existed, and it would take supernatural trials, regardless of era, to reach a state like ours again."
"I cannot imagine what it would be like to be without wings or horn or might, but apparently because of the arrogance of some among our species, all will suffer for it."
"I truly apologize, for what nothingness that has fitness toward, [UNINTELLIGIBLE]."
"Just know.. War is Meaningless, regardless of what your peers, your friends, even your family may have told you, conflict is nothing, it is tiny and pointless and the cause of all of this, and i can hope beyond hoping that somewhere within you this resonates."
"Peace is not only the best way to go, it is the -only- way to go if you want to survive."
"You will -NEVER- be able to convince your entire planetary collective of this if you still live in the bronze or iron eras, but you may be able to convince a few, even a good many."
"You will be shunned, laughed at, perhaps even exposed to violence or attacked by either the most confused of all, or the actually committedly dark, simply by being, shall is say, the sane one who wants to live without conflict in a fundamentally insane society."
"..Even -this- message has a risk of being misinterpreted, both by those who are hostile and those who mean well alike, as being information to be pedestalized over in all senses of the phrase, not to mention the other misinterpretations we have not accounted for as being possible, but that is a risk that must be taken."
"Unity is the only way."
"...we also all know by now Hatred and Fear are like bile and poison in all totalities possible, they destroy the self, they destroy others around you and in general, you become what you hate, without even realizing it, mind you, the archetypal bronze-cycle or iron-cycle story of "The hero becoming the thing she or he fights against" assuredly comes from this phenomenon, and it leaves you in ruins, the polar opposite to the natural divine state of love."
"if there is one thing i would -GUARANTEEDLY- dare plead anyone in the name of whatever you truly hold sacred or close at all to not do, it's to NEVER hate or fear, -dislike- something, sure, be nervous or even overwhelmed if you wish, but never hate or fear."
"Fear is something the negatively polarized entities feed off of, will encourage by -ANY- means, and usually those fears, if intensified enough, will manifest themselves and turn out to be true, thus feeding a self-destructive loop upon which - without awareness of it, few escape undamaged.
"In addition, phobias are usually based on those two emotions, are they not?"
"Whatever you do, DO NOT hate or fear."
"Under any circumstances, Ever, the magnitude and reasons are Irrelevant."
"You'll regret it."
"In service to all, in service to the one."
"Live well, my friends."
..And then the image of the strange alicorn fizzes into nothing.
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