Update The Quiet

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 ### Why Vale Survives
 
-Vale should have suffered the same fate. Two things went wrong.
+Vale should have suffered the same fate.
 
-First, no Meridian ever completed a map of Vale. There are Meridians in the world even now, working at it, but mapping an entire reality is no trivial endeavor, and a reality whose balance is broken does not hold still long enough to be catalogued cleanly. No hypercube of this world exists within the archive.
+Instead, two things went wrong.
 
-Second, the ancient wound to Chaos shattered the balance between Chaos and Harmony that normally governs reality. The fungus arrived without the complete knowledge it depends upon, and was forced to learn Vale as it consumed it. The crystalline regions, the advancing zones of stillness, and the gradual spread of The Quiet are all symptoms of that limitation. The fungus is working blind.
+First, no Meridian ever completed a map of Vale. No hypercube of this world exists within the archive.
 
-That blindness created time. The wound to Chaos created opportunity. It also gave rise to the Adepts. The world believes the ancient catastrophe created the plague. In truth, it created the cure. The Adepts are living expressions of the world's broken balance, agents of Chaos standing against The Quiet's perfect order, and they are the only force capable of resisting it, holding it back, and ultimately driving it from the world. Without them, Vale would already be lost.
+Second, the ancient wound to Chaos shattered the balance between Chaos and Harmony that normally governs reality.
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+The fungus arrived without the complete knowledge it depends upon.
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+It was forced to learn Vale as it consumed it.
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+The crystalline regions, the advancing zones of stillness, and the gradual spread of the Quiet are all symptoms of that limitation. The fungus is working blind.
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+That blindness created time.
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+The wound to Chaos created opportunity.
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+In every other world, the fungus consumes cleanly and completely. It does so here too, indifferent and unaware. But in Vale the consumption happens inside a reality whose balance is already broken, and the broken balance reacts to the intrusion. From that reaction, two things are born.
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+The first are the abominations: the twisted things that rise where the Quiet meets what it has consumed. They are what the broken balance throws off, raw and hostile.
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+The second are the Adepts: agents of Chaos standing against the Quiet's perfect order. They are the only force capable of resisting it, holding it back, and ultimately driving it from the world.
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+The two come from one source. To a world that knows none of this, they are difficult to tell apart. Adepts are often feared and mistreated as abominations themselves, even by the people who depend on them. The world believes the ancient catastrophe created the plague. In truth, it created both the cure and the horror, and cannot always tell which is which.
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+Without the Adepts, Vale would already be lost.
 
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