NOTHING

The Silvergrey Sea

Part Four: Elementals and Dragons

Nothing

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…another Oerth.

Before life, before shape, before the crust had cooled, there had been the Æthyr, called the Breath and the NOTHING.

Not god, not spirit, not divine, not even alive.

It was the intangible SOMETHING behind everything.

As impossible to understand as it was to bite one’s own neck. That wasn’t to say no one had tried to understand. Definitions by the score there were. Soul. Spirit. Quintessence. Void. The Æthyr.

This world, this Oerth, had been the place of power for the Templars. They had ruled from here until the war. The Templar War.

After, the Æthyr had stilled this world. Not right away and not by choice.

Stillness had just…happened.

The world lay, like the castle ensorcelled by Maleficent, waiting for a change that would wake it.

Finding the Æthyr would have to wait until the Oerth quickened again.

—Gideon Jagged
Innsmouth, September 2026

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