THE POWERS · THE VALE
The Deep Readers
aka The Deep Listeners
The Far College's radical wing — scholars who dose themselves so deeply on Old Work power that they begin, slowly and willingly, to come apart like it did.
Every Reader is taught the line you do not cross; the Deep Readers cross it on purpose. They argue that you cannot truly understand what broke Vallen until you let the same crack open a little in yourself, and they have the half-translucent, faintly trembling look of people proving it — riven, in miniature, the way the King of Aelvyrenn is riven entire. Taras Mournwright is sliding toward them one obsessive night at a time. The College tolerates them because their findings are extraordinary and dreads them because their findings tend to outlive the finder.
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The Far College
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You cannot understand what cracked a god until it cracks something in you too
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All Relationships (9)
member_of
- →The Far College — The radical tuning wing.
- ←Taras Mournwright — Taras slides toward the deep.
rival_of
- →The Censors — Publish-by-becoming vs bury-it-deep.
- ←Archivist Sevenn — Sevenn distrusts the Deep Listeners' recklessness and locks away what they crave.
references
- →Relic-Reading — They tune too deep.
- ←quest.the-half-echo (unresolved) — Their dream made real.
- →Verdigris Lung — The Deep Readers work the wettest, worst-aired vaults on purpose, courting Verdigris Lung for what they believe the deepest reading teaches before the mind goes.
- →The Vyr — The Deep Readers are Vyr who go too far into Old Work power and do not always come back whole.
participated_in
- →The Unclosing of the Deep Listeners — The radicals who crossed the line on purpose and became echoes.
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