The Dance Eternal

The Dance Eternal is a term used by The Conglomerate to explain how a mortal being can overcome the limitations of mortality and live in a mortal sense either for a much greater amount of time than is considered normal or indefinitely.
== Description ==
"Every mortal has a dance they develop in life with form, posture, and essence, the movements taken under influence of personal power. When one dies, they are confronted by the Law of Death and are set to be judged. This is when the dance is displayed. If the mortal has limited power, the dance is short; if the mortal's power is great, the dance is grandiose. Regardless of whether the mortal's power is trivial or magnificent, death must stop to witness the last stand of each mortal. Death cannot overtake the mortal who is recounting the toil of life for the last time until they have finished their dance." - Dekelaus
The Dance Eternal has been an effort by Conglomerate specialists to functionally override the limitations of a physical body when engaging with material conflicts.
== History ==
=== 476CE The Mistake ===
The wizard known as Gideon Albicoris of the Parnak kingdom of Sorrowgate perfected the ritual used to create what is regarded in modernity as a "Worm that Walks". His process was scrutinized due to a temporal anomaly that occurred in the Stormloft region. Analysis of this process was limited, due in part to the nature of the anomaly and also due to the fact that a soldier named Hawke from the town of Hilton destroyed Gideon Albicoris in physical combat.
=== 492CE Black Blade ===
A moon elf priestess named Irith from the city of Talainá comes to possess a rune sword that once belonged to Thorn Stacianodel, Champion of the Divine Power Stacia and Founding Father of the Grey Order. The black-bladed rune sword had come to possess shards of Stacia as well as Alu'nsu-Ro. Under duress, Irith gave herself over to the goddess in the sword, allowing Stacia to take presence in the Material Plane, circumventing the barriers set in place by the Grey Order. Irith's physical form would be destroyed shortly thereafter and her soul joined the fragments of the divine powers within the sword. The weapon was lost to time, until it was recovered later by King Amfrid Rastegar.
=== 992CE Esperedges and Valette ===
=== 998 CE REDACTED ===
Information regarding this matter is redacted by the Conglomerate.
=== 1055 CE Shambles ===
During recovery processes in the Kingdom of Munio to ensure proper containment and disposal of arcane waste generated during the Ocyrian Civil War by Conglomerate elements connected to the Lich Magier, Operatives gathered information regarding a strange undaunted being that seemed to inhabit the form of a scarecrow (an object made to resemble a human figure, set up to scare birds away from a field where crops are growing).