by Great Thrash » Fri Apr 26, 2013 3:45 am
With Yerkan's permission, I will enter the Facet for a moment.
I find a pack of the earth elemental wolves near where Gilderoy, Drax, et. al end up on the ethereal plane, but several months before they arrive. Earth elementals have always loved Thrash, for self-evident reasons.
I stoop, extend a hand, and enter their cave. I say not a word. I open my other hand - inside is a fat pig, made of the same stuff as themselves. This pig LOVES mud, and typically exudes or seeks it instinctively/constantly. I give the piglet to the wolves to raise, impressing on them wordlessly that it is not to be eaten. The pig tends to root up old boots, rusty shovels, and other "treasures." Island analogues occasionally spring up near the pig on the ethereal plane.
This pig carries a clay idol of a badger around its neck, which emits the divine aura of a holy symbol. This idol is hinged and locked. Inside is a brown irregular trapezoidal prism like a wedge of strong earth, and a dirty platinum coin with an unfamiliar king on one side and an unfamiliar continent on the other.
This prism is a perfect representation of the planet of Thrash. With a thought, users can zoom in or out without limitation. A whisper in their mind identifies who or what they see.
Zooming in, they can see Yerkan fleeing Thrash's southern surface in his vehicle of adamant and quicksilver for the reaches of the phlogiston and planes beyond. "Yerkan of Elish." They see the wormhole open and consume Thrash's southern continent. They see Thrash bleed saline seas into the atmosphere. They see Yerkan enter the wormhole later, and catch a glimpse of Dunia (if you wish).
The wedge can never show any times other than this small slice of time. It cannot scry on anything within Dunia (at least not by the power of Thrash).
Zooming out, they see a manta ray swimming for distant lands through the phlogiston. Its name is masked. A fiery gnome, a spidery human in a trenchcoat, and a bulky tiger-human dance on its helm. "Agni. *masked*. Tiger Henge."
They see a Seed of Thrash landing on the water-only surface of Luna Diana and colonize it like a bacterium in a petri dish.
They see a mage leave the surface of Thrash - one head is a dragon, one head is a blindfolded human. "Omar." He reads from a scroll, and a barren new planet is born.
They see a floating orb of light darting in and out of a spacecraft, guiding messages into oblivion at superliminal speeds. "AIiCE."
The item zooms all the way out of its own accord, showing only points of light in a humongous multiverse. A glimpse of something crystalline but ethereal for a mere moment. "Explorers."
The item returns to their control.
Anything you consider too revealing you may alter as befits your world.
After my visit, the wolves' footprints (when they make them) have the hazy print of unfamiliar continents in them.