Crestseal - Verse 3 - Backtrack - Pursuit

Crestseal

Progress.

Here the Settler started to make progress towards turning the tide, finally, and the very existence of Skal, Acolyte of the Settler, as well as Ashkalaar, Archon of Havoc, proved that even life itself, which she once saw as the ultimate representation of Enliver's ideals, could be swayed to her own path. With this revelation, the Settler gave the title of Acolyte to Skal, as she watched them burn down their own planet. Majestic, majestic.

Something intriguing too, have accured. While the Settler was traveling the Middlescape in pursuit of the Voyagers and to liberate life from its existence, a curious discovery Skal would have in the planet of Savra. A planet in a state of near-death only inhabited by creatures that called themselves Gnat, who were big winged Gnat. They were acting in ways that, coincidentally, somewhat aligned with tenet of the Settler, more impressively, they were utilizing Angular. These beings have been slaying one another for many eons, eventually there was only one left. One and its four offsprings. Skal informed this to the Settler and asked what he should do with these final survivors, which she responded, saying she found it intriguing to see other Anglers, those utilize Angular, without it being her who granted access to it, explaining that these Gnats abide by one of the principles of Middlescape, the very principle that led to the first Template. She ordered Skal to subjugate them and make them bow.

Upon her response, Skal would go on to subjugate the Gnat. There were four in total, one mother, and four offspring. Mother , whose name was Xal, the Closing Form, slept eternal, while her offspring were active and awake. After a short battle, Skal subjugated the massive all five Gnat, broke and ripped their limbs apart, quite irrecoverably, and brought them to another planet named Crag. A large planet. Skal would seal the five Gnat in the bottom of the oceans in Crag in a prison he built. He did not yet understand why the Settler would order such a thing, but carried out without hesitation. He was going to undo the life in Crag next, but was stopped and called back by the Settler.

Millions of years passed, and Skal too now understood what the Settler was planning to eventually achieve with Xal. For millions of years the Settler herself, along with her acolyte, launched coordinated attacks on billions of civilizations and species, and in those attacks, they did not wipe out some hundreds of them, instead, they chased them to the planet Crag, and left them alone. Hundreds of life, broken, desperate, curious. Their descendants have forgotten about how they got to Crag as many eons passed.

Here the Settler visited the five Gnat, who were starving after millions of years without nutrition, and asked them why Xal is sleeping. Her offsprings Har, Les, Mar and Nur, spoke uniformly saying their mothers slept since she achieved her form, the closing form, and they offspring were her will, communicating with sleeping Xal telepathically. The offsprings informed the Settler that they were starving, and asked what is the point of all of this.

Here the Settler listened this, and asked them to awaken their mothers, as the Settler was there for a reason. So Xal was awakened from her long sleep. Here the Settler spoke to Xal, and, by extension, all five Gnat. saying if they wished to free themselves, they could do so using Xal's larvae. The Settler offered Xal a deal, she offered Xal plentiful hosts if she can get them using her larvae, saying she can give Xal the power to make Xal's larvae a part of herself, and not her offsprings. Through them, they, as well as her four offspring, could feed on and survive. Xal asked how to utilize this method, the Settler responded by saying her offspring would utilize it, as Xal will be producing more and more larvae.

Xal agreed, and went back into sleeping and producing larvae. Her offsprings Har, Les, Mar, and Nur, collectively known as Nether Gnats, started calling for species in the surface of Crag who are desperate enough to come in here and pick up the larvae, so they could feed on. The plan was to have them be one with the larvae of their mothers, so they could utilize Angular via it, and their actions would feed their mother, and, via her, feed them.