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## Overview
![The Quiet Concept Art](https://git.ratface.club/ratface-games/vale-public/raw/branch/main/Assets/Concepts/file_000000000f3c61f7b59167fb155876c9.png) ![The Quiet Concept Art](https://git.ratface.club/ratface-games/vale-public/raw/branch/main/Assets/Concepts/file_000000000f3c61f7b59167fb155876c9.png)
The Quiet is the primary antagonistic force threatening Vale: a manifestation of perfect, absolute stillness that spreads across the land like a tide of crystalline death. It is the complete elimination of entropy itself, rendering everything it touches into a state of immaculate, eternal stasis.
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The Quiet is the primary antagonistic force threatening Vale: a manifestation of perfect, absolute stillness that spreads across the land like a tide of crystalline death. It consumes entropy itself, leaving everything it touches in a state of immaculate, eternal stasis.
## Lore & Background ## Lore & Background
### The Academic Understanding ### The Academic Understanding
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With Chaos weakened and unable to maintain cosmic equilibrium, Harmony began to run rampant across the realm. What should have been a force of balance became a tide of absolute order, manifesting, so the scholars say, as The Quiet. With Chaos weakened and unable to maintain cosmic equilibrium, Harmony began to run rampant across the realm. What should have been a force of balance became a tide of absolute order, manifesting, so the scholars say, as The Quiet.
The event is real. The conclusion is wrong. The wounding of Chaos did not create The Quiet. Its true consequence runs in the opposite direction, and it is the reason Vale still has a chance to survive. The event is real. The conclusion is wrong. The wounding of Chaos did not create The Quiet, and its true consequence runs in the opposite direction of everything the scholars believe.
### The Deeper Truth ### The Deeper Truth
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Following traces embedded within the traveler's mind, the fungus discovered a route to the Meridian homeworld, whose greatest pride was an impossibly ancient library containing perfect knowledge of innumerable worlds and dimensions. Following traces embedded within the traveler's mind, the fungus discovered a route to the Meridian homeworld, whose greatest pride was an impossibly ancient library containing perfect knowledge of innumerable worlds and dimensions.
The fungus took root in a dark corner, and began feeding on the meridian's reality. And with each record it consumes, it encodes the perfect and complete information of an entire dimension, trivializing the process of tunneling into and consuming it. The fungus took root in a dark corner and began feeding on the Meridian's reality. With each record it consumes, it encodes the perfect and complete information of an entire dimension, trivializing the process of tunneling into and consuming it.
A mapped world cannot hide. A mapped world dies before it even realizes it is under attack. This process - a hyperdimensional fungus that devours entropy itself - is The Quiet. A mapped world cannot hide. A mapped world dies before it even realizes it is under attack. This process, a hyperdimensional fungus that devours entropy itself, is The Quiet.
### Hope ### Hope
Vale should have suffered the same fate as every other mapped world, were it not for two intervening circumstances: Vale should have suffered the same fate as every other mapped world, were it not for two intervening circumstances.
First, no Meridian ever completed a map of Vale. No hypercube of this world exists within the archive. It did not arrive with the full knowledge of Vale's universe. Instead, it was brought to Vale by accident, on the robes of a young Meridian at the start of his ritual journey. First, no Meridian ever completed a map of Vale. No hypercube of this world exists within the archive. The fungus did not arrive carrying the full knowledge of Vale's universe. It was brought here by accident, on the robes of a young Meridian at the start of his ritual journey.
Without it's recent advantage of incomprehensible knowledge, the fungus must manually consume this world. Without its usual advantage of incomprehensible knowledge, the fungus must consume this world by hand. This gave Vale the gift of time.
This gave Vale the gift of time.
The second circumstance happened long before The Quiet arrived. The second circumstance happened long before The Quiet arrived.
The "The Academic Understanding" ([see section](https://git.ratface.club/ratface-games/vale-public/wiki/The-Quiet#the-academic-understanding)) got some of the story right. The scholars got one part right. There really was a mage of unimaginable ambition, and he really did mortally wound the god of Chaos in his attempt to seize the throne. The imbalance between Harmony and Chaos is real.
There really was a mage with unimaginable ambition. What the scholars don't know is that the god of Chaos, in his final act, seeded the world with sparks of himself. These became the first Adepts.
This mage really did mortally wound the god of chaos in their attempt to usurp the throne of chaos.
The imbalance of harmony and chaos is real.
What the scholars don't know is that the god of chaos, in his final act, seeded the world with sparks of chaos, and created the first Adepts. A tide of perfect order is rising over Vale, and the only force that has ever broken order is Chaos. In dying, the god armed this world against an enemy he never saw coming. His sparks are the one weapon that can answer The Quiet.
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They are also the world's only hope of resistance.