Crystal palace

The **crystal palace** is a structure located on a tiny island in a lake of lava in the Luminous Peak region of the Ultravoid, and is the final resting place of the Antecedent, the first Umbra and first Elder to have existed.

Most of the crystal palace is located underneath the island, being comprised of only one huge room and an enormous entrance hallway. The chamber of the palace is rather cavernous, with only one way to reach it in the form of a long and wide downwards-sloping hallway that runs from the palace's entrance. The walls of the chamber are covered in niches that serve as shelves for various objects, mostly ancient tomes of text.

The entire chamber is littered with piles of different tomes of text and other curio, some of which were collected from different civilizations heralding from planets that had been consumed by the Ultravoid.

The crystal palace is also the final resting place of the Veruki explorer Taragon Danderpaws, who decided to perform the Ritual and die and join the mycelium network when he came there.

## Readable texts

### Scientific journal

A scientific journal published by an advanced terrestrial race.

One editorial theorizes about the next evolution of faster-than-light travel that may lead to interdimensional travel.

Another article details a recently discovered [[technology that combines matter and anti-matter into a supercharged energy
source|Voidtech]].

Research on this technology has been banned from the solar system due to its highly unstable nature.

### Starseed schematics

Detailed schematics for a matter collapsing device.

### Journal of the cosmic racer

The ancient journals of a cosmic racer who took a shortcut and was trapped in the Ultravoid...

Her writings indicate she befriended a warm and caring Umbra steward named Gahrrlac.

She describes a fulfilling emotional bond with Gahrrlac that she has never found in her own species. He helped her repair her ship and return home.

A footnote is at the bottom of the page: "I shall never seek another companion, none can compare to my racer from the stars."

### Dalecto's unsent letters

A collection of unsent letters, written post mortem, by Delecto.

### Gadget catalogue

A catalogue of various gadgets that consumers can purchase while traveling through the cosmos.

### Puzzle collection

A collection of puzzles about predators, prey, fodder and river crossings.

### Last pages of Taragon Danderpaw's jorunal

I take the rites willingly. My friend has shown me there is nothing to be afraid of in passing over to the next life. The Eternal Garden awaits.

I am lucky. I have seen more in this life than any Veruki can imagine.

I will not return to my home of brambleberries and tansydids, but at least I will return to the land.

-- T. D.

### Biotic species list

A detailed list of the dead and living biotics from various planets that have entered the Ultravoid - - according to the records, not all planets are destroyed on impact.

### Entrepeneur's story

The story of an entrepreneur who attempted to hide stolen profits in the Ultravoid...

When he realized his ship wasn't capable of leaving the Ultravoid, he sent out a beacon issuing his surrender.

### Dross theories

A long-dead traveler's theories on the origins of the Dross.

Theory 1: The Dross are an ancient parasitic lifeform that can survive indefinitely in the vacuum of space, drifting from planet to planet, destroying all biotics in their wake.

Theory 2: The Dross belong to a hive-mind, following the bidding of a treacherous matriarch that hails from a blighted planet.

Theory 3: The Dross travel to populated sectors of the universe through wormholes in order to feed on biotic lifeforms every few millenia.

Theory 4: The Dross are war machines that turned on their creators and annihilated them, and now seek biotics to use as living batteries to power their offspring.

### *Labyrinth* novel

This book tells the story of a "goblin" sovereign who kidnapped children and held them captive in a large maze.

### Trystero postal stamps

A booklet of extremely rare Trystero postal stamps. Most of these were destroyed by the Thurn-und-Taxis post.

### Poem

A poem by Ahrric...

To my children who grow up tall,

and create cool shade for the very small.

From gills that launch ballistospores

and coat the nourished garden floors.

From which the Hyphae flex so proud

and build a wall of Umbral shroud.

Beneath my toes the carrion crawl

amidst my garden, I love them all.

## See also

* Antecedent
* Taragon Danderpaws
* Ahrric
* Gahrrlac
* Luminous Peak