#and explode

Gorgeous shade of red ver🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸(I tried to make it more like the Sanguine color aargh)

I don’t know I just like Eric and Fear Cult

The Owlks arrived before the Nomai, and the Nomai arrived a six digit number of years ago compared to the canon present.

The Owlks arrived tens of thousands of years before the sun would explode, and the Eye showed them their doom, and they were so despairing and afraid that they decided whatever time they had left before it was no longer worth living.

If they hadn't been so thoroughly devastated, if they had found it within themselves to stay on the Stranger outside of the dream world and see what a future could still look like, their species would have had more time left than the entire evolutionary history of the sentient Hearthians. They would have invented new instruments, and lived long enough to entirely forget when and how they were invented. They would themselves have evolved, gaining adaptations better suited to living on the Stranger than on their home planet. The Stranger would have been added to and improved - they could have cycled between different planetary systems harvesting more materials if they needed to, and their technology would have progressed to make it faster and more efficient. They would have had generations left to live full lives, generations left to be born and taught more and more gently about what is to come, and come to terms with it. They could have had such a beautiful culture still, one of music and art and acceptance of the value of life and beauty even if it has to be temporary. Maybe they could have even recognized the Eye as an artist like themselves, waiting to make them into something new, and it could have been their object of worship and comfort again.