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![The Quiet Concept Art](https://git.ratface.club/ratface-games/vale-public/raw/branch/main/Assets/Concepts/file_000000000f3c61f7b59167fb155876c9.png)
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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.
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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. It did not, because the fungus arrived blind.
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.
No Meridian ever completed a map of Vale. No hypercube of this world exists within the archive. The Quiet was not carried here by knowledge but by accident, on the robes of a young Meridian at the start of his ritual journey. Without its usual advantage, it cannot simply tunnel in and consume. It must take this world by hand, one inch at a time.
Without its usual advantage of incomprehensible knowledge, the fungus must consume this world by hand. This gave Vale the gift of time.
That bought Vale time. Time alone would only delay the ending. What gives Vale a chance to win was planted long before The Quiet ever arrived.
The second circumstance happened long before The Quiet arrived.
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.
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: warriors forged to hold back the rising tide of Harmony his own wound had loosed. He could not have known that the same gift would one day answer a far stranger enemy.
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The scholars got one part right. A mage of unimaginable ambition did mortally wound the god of Chaos in his bid for the throne, and the imbalance between Harmony and Chaos is real. What they never learned is that the dying god's final act was to seed the world with sparks of himself. These became the first Adepts: warriors forged to hold back the rising tide of Harmony his own wound had loosed. He could not have known that the same gift would one day answer a far stranger enemy.