Marked From Birth
"The 'Pressure' generates the 'Friction,' the 'Friction' generates the 'Quintessence,' and the 'Quintessence' feeds the 'Engine.' We have built a machine that 'Grows' by the mere act of 'Functioning.' We have achieved 'Perpetual-Sovereignty'."
To mark the birth of the Cycle, the Guild-Masters on Oura, the Architects in the Void-Orchards, and the Engineers at the Drain performed a "Simultaneous-Strike." Every hammer in every reality hit its anvil at the exact same moment. The result was a "Cosmic-Chord"—a sound that didn't travel through the air, but through the "Fabric-of-Being." It was a "Declaration-of-Permanence."