Lore:The Breaks in Time

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Lore	Entry #	Location
TRANSMIT - initiate the quantum foam - RECEIVE - initiate the wrinkles in time - THIS WAY - see how you are drawn to it - WHAT'S PAST IS PAST - nostalgia for the absolute - WARNING - may cause melancholy - WITNESS - the mechanised longing of the THIRD AGE. Lower the water levels, see them cast their ships; memory blown across the sea, back to the old continents, the broken ziggurats and cathedrals, shhhhhh... LISTEN - the echoes of iron prayers. They sought the Second Age like you seek the Third, clawing back to the magic of primal places, the wellsprings of anima, raw, and powerful.	Entry 1	Location             Thinis, 1897BCE (Instance), (554,492): During the mission The City Before Us. Run up the path past where you bury the ark to the top. Look at the rock formation, laborers working on a wall will be to your right/South and the Anima Well will be behind you/West. Jump over the large boulder and follow the small path.
Scratching through the surface of Agartha they stripped what they needed to construct engines of time. A and B connected by C - WARNING - please keep your extremities inside the tomb. We are now approaching the limit. The Third Age built machines for every purpose. Their minds strained forward as their hearts clawed back. In the desert, among the remnants of the old cities, they charted where the black holes rotate. They focused their energies, energised their focus. Harness the machines, reclaim the hocus-pocus! Countdown to blast back: zero, zero, zero. Cue the cosmological nightmare. WITNESS - the speed of memory. The boundaries blur. The time, they are a-changing.	Entry 2	Location             Scorched Desert, (214,544): Behind the Time Tomb.
TRANSMIT - Kakudmi and Urashima - RECEIVE - the zero point module - EASY DOES IT - slink past the suns of Caligula - WITNESS - the shifting tides. The universe is a warped water park. A series of slippery tubes. You're not the first sweetling to slip back in search of...what? The Primordial Pool? The Big Splash? Roman sticks and supplies? Cue the Casimir effect. Your current curviture breaks the mind but feeds the heart. Oh, sour sweetlings, how you long to change the past. We know the things you did tomorrow. We know the fear, the ache, the sorrow. You shifted what you'll go to shift, recall what others will occasion. You saved some then so others die when. it just doesn't seem fair, will it? Cue the cause.	Entry 3	Location             Sol Glorificus, 329AD (Instance), (433,635): While on the the mission A Time to Every Purpose. Up a hill on the eastern side of the instance - you'll see it first, and then have to walk against the time winds to get to it.
Their time tombs were functional, but imperfect. They couldn't transport them to the pre-break moments they sought. Limited by their construction, limited by cosmic continuities, limited by the need for anima, limited by their conceptions of time. LIMITED TIME ONLY! Cue the system of singularities. Peepshows of the past; fuels of the present; bombs of the future. Look long enough and see the void in all things. Every age a snowflake, responding in its own way: the age of paradise; the age of awe, worship and sacrifice; the age of the engine; the age of fear.	Entry 4	Location             Date Factory (Instance), (242,284): As part of The Prisoner mission.
Initiate the FNF frequency. Don't fear It. Fear Nothing. Fear the Foundation. It's no wonder; they say once you hit four, it's all downhill from here. You, of all ages, have so much reason to claw back. So much has been lost. So feel free to punch your ticket to the past. Go ahead, glance back. Don't sweat it, sweetling. You won't turn to salt and you can't make yourself impossible. History will conserve itself. The continuities will hold. You'll slip back as into a dream, sift through the sands of your collective mind map. The best you can hope for is to wake up, suddenly remember where something was buried.	Entry 5	Location             Al-Merayah Foundation (Instance), (390,538): During The City Beneath Us mission. In the room with the Depth Lingerer.
Such sweet scrabbling in the dark. This. The age of what? Fear. Nothing. Stopping the second can't undo the the first. Nothing would have and nothing will. The one break in time. The greatest event of all. Nothing. It has ripped through all possible past and unmoored the future. There are no clocks in Tokyo. This is the end, o honeyed friend. This is the end.	Entry 6	Location             The Last Train to Cairo (Instance), (188,228): During the The Last Train to Cairo mission. As the tunnel sequence progresses, drop down behind the first tanker car and back into the boxcar (189,241).

Achievements

• Collecting all 6 entries awards the Nostalgia for the Absolute achievement

Related Articles

• Update 1.6 - Main article
• Entry 1, 4 - Third Age and Second Age, see Ages
• Entry 2 - Agartha
• Entry 2, 4 - engines of time - see Time Tomb
• Entry 2 - black holes rotate may refer to Gaia Engines
• Entry 6 - Tokyo

Trivia

• Entry 3 - Kakudmi is from Hindu mythology. He meets the god Brahma and then finds out that 4 Ages of Man had passed while he was gone.
• Entry 3 - Urashima is from Japanese mythology. He meets the god Ryūjin and then finds out that 300 years have passed while he was gone.
• Entry 3 - Caligula is a Roman Emperor typically used as an example of sexual peversity
• Entry 3 - The Casimir effect is a quantum level effect that possibly allows for managed creation of Wormholes which then may lead to possibilities of time travel.
  • This explanation is partially used in the popular TV series Lost

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