#permanence

the vidyadhara imagine, and the preceptors guess; even Long didn’t have a specific definition, only THEIR interpretation.

permanence is an ideal brought up by an aeon that was not Permanent THEMSELVES, which really makes you wonder if Long’s permanence was truly the “right” one.

every character closely tied to the Permanence we meet in game has immortalised themselves, or wishes to; most of them are scholars.

dan heng himself, as an archivist, is the one that preserves knowledge of every planet we see, and every faction we meet, so that it exists permanently within the data bank.

memories never truly die in the xianzhou, the same way they never truly die when transcribed in a book. i’m so glad they made the character so deeply connected with the permanence also be connected with the closest thing to a library the express has.

i can’t wait to see how his journey through this “new” permanence he met in amphoreus will shape his own idea of it.

while BOTH water and earth ARE permanent, the way they go about it is so different it was a great idea to have him experience both.

earth keeps changing its shape to continue its existence, erosion and other factors changing it fundamentally, while water stubbornly stays in its place, as long as possible.

perhaps this perspective is what dan feng and the other yinyue-juns were missing, while studying their own Permanence.

perhaps staying rooted in one place is the antithesis to permanence, even if it seems an oxymoron.

Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

-- Chuck Palahniuk

Btw it IS the logical conclusion to think that Long was absorbed by Preservation, but SINCE that’s the logical conclusion I think the only reason they wouldn’t tell us that outright is if Long wasn’t actually merged with Qlipoth, but consumed by Nanook. The fact that Long’s fate is currently obscured gives me the impression that there’s more there than meets the eye.