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But let’s move onto Your other questions, shall we?
First the ones ‘Of Little to No Worth:’
>Clocks, Time, and Space.
We Beings are native to the Beyond, a sort of ‘place between places.’ It never really had any form or boundaries, nor any way to properly ‘define’ it. Things just sort of happened. The only element one could use to track our history were events recorded in relation to other events. A ‘moment by moment’ record, if You will. Events like when a new Being formed, or when another was annihilated, would be cobbled together into a ‘flow’ of sorts. I’m afraid that I can’t really give You much on those moments because I had formed at a much later point.
Needless to say, at some moment before I had formed, other Outer Beings had found ways to Infiltrate other worlds. Results were usually mixed.
Occasionally a Being found a world so suited to their needs, that they would claim it and bar others from entry. The Abyss being the most historic example.
Numara on the other hand was a world rich with mortals and other resources.
It was far from the first world to be discovered with sapient life, but Numara was the most developed by far, as many other worlds were claimed while their ‘Inner Beings’ were still in infancy, and could be sculpted to suit their new master’s needs.
What Numara had, that other worlds did not, was advanced mathematical and navigational techniques.
Even if they were ‘rudimentary’ by modern standards, the fact that the mortals on Numara created vast carefully measured structures that could chart the motion and distance of the heavens themselves provided a much greater barrier than other worlds had. Back in those times we Outer Beings had to worry about hourglasses and water clocks, as they could precisely and consistently track the flow of time.
Because when time and space are properly recorded, we as Outer Beings cannot exist.
In most scenarios, being around a working clock, even if it does not display the correct time will hurt You, because even then it is recording the passage of every second.
Worse yet, if a mortal is there to observe its record, then the effects are magnified ten-fold and the mortal themself will be very difficult to interact with. If You are Potent enough, then You will be able to endure for a while, if not…
Well, there is a reason why Numara hasn’t been fully claimed, and the URC aren’t the first to try.
Precise measurements of space can have a similar effect, but it is harder to pull off.
If You aren’t careful You can be annihilated by either force.
I am told that it is a very slow and painful process.
>Her abilities.
She is very old by Outer Being standards, and the main ability She has been perfecting is extending Her reach from the Abyss into other worlds.
She does so through wounds.
Be that the physical wounds of a mortal, wounds in architecture, or a wound in one’s self.
It’s why She favours the mirror so greatly.
Mortals often inflict the worst wounds on themselves when looking into it. Any doubts they might have in themselves, their abilities, appearance, etc.
Any can be made into a doorway for Her if the wound is allowed to grow and fester.
And if She is not impeded by space, time, or other form of interference, She can make even the most minor scrape rot and widen.
While this ability is somewhat lessened when used on other Outer Beings, She will win any struggle if it comes down to attrition. And Her vast age has made Her very Potent especially in Her domain.
There are only a handful of Beings that have been able to properly match Her in a confrontation. But most of those Beings are either elsewhere, or… different.
>The Names, Titles, ((and Colors)) of Beings you can share.
Hmm…
I can probably give you an outline of the major players here on Numara, if You don’t have a particular individual in mind:
- There is myself of course; Avenue, though I also go by the names ‘System Itself,’ ‘Contractor SI’, ‘Avalon Utilities and subsidiaries,’ and on rare occasions ‘Unwinding Thread.’
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- You of course know Grey Gash. She has started to go by the name ‘Lovely’ recently, Her very first name if my sources are to be believed.
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- Then there is Hanging Garden, better known by the name ‘Warden Oak’ or ‘Contractor Oak.’
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- And of course one cannot forget the most popular Being (that I’m allowed to talk about) among mortals. Kind Eye, or the name He is more commonly known by ‘Aldemire.’ Though before that name He primarily when by ‘The Light’ or just ‘Light.’
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- There is also Memoria, a more recent player that is starting to make headway under the name ‘Contractor Stone,’ but I’ve also heard Her go by the name ‘Last Twilight.’
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- Finally there is also The Wrong Step, a Being about as old as me, but He came to Numara a long while after I did. He goes by the names ‘Wrong Foot’ and ‘Other Word.’ Bit of free advice, don’t trust a single thing He says.
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There are others Outer Beings present in both Numara and the Beyond that I know about, but if I were to list them all now, then we’d end sitting here for all eternity.
If I’m not mistaken, that leaves You with three more questions ‘Of Moderate Worth.’
But feel free to save them for later, if You’d want to do Your own investigations first.
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