Ascetia

**Title:** The Memorial

**Energies:** Life, Time

**Traits:** "I carry the burden of thousands who have come before and those connected with me will remember them eternally." Translation: People are more aware of history, by the time everyone reaches adulthood they automatically achieve a +5 bonus to Knowledge: History

There is a flickering light on this planet, dead center in the Gyre. It also isn't rotating; it's utterly still.

Mona makes a perception check! Ascetia is less of a planet and more of a flat floating space anchored in the center of the Gyre. Seems like it should be a place rich with life, beautiful, putting the Yerasol Isles to shame. In the center of this planet in the center of the gyre is a tall, mountainous spire with a blinking light atop it (it's not a supernatural light thing, it appears to be a carved stone lighthouse built out of brick lovingly into a very human-familiar lighthouse, one that could've existed in Flint.)

Hears it speak in thousands of voices after Hoya greets it, "Hello, Hoya". And some of those voices? They seem almost familiar to her! H "how do you know my name"; A "one who rests upon my surface has known you." H "I'm sorry, what?" A "One who rests upon my surface does not know that they know you." H "uhhh who is it?" At the end, H "Is it my sister who is there?" Ascetia says she's not there yet. Is time linear here? That's a tricky question, says World! Time does not exist for somebody who will see the end of it (aka: time does not pass as long as you are on it.) **This is a permanent fixed point in the Gyre, but it won't reach the end of the Gyre until everything else goes kaput before it.**

How do people get here? There's a few ways, primarily at the end of their final reward, when they are ready to return what made them into the rest of the universe. The unique way to get there? Some who cannot die like others do, not dead but not alive. Is Nicodemus there? There is sure is someone that sounds like him here! One feels so familiar/intimate that you know you know them because if you heard their voice you would know so why deja vu? The other one, it's something very similar to a person you've heard, their brother or twin. By the way one of the likenesses sounds a lot like some of Cleone's past lives, as well as Dala. **This plane likely has something to do with why devas can't reincarnate now? A mystery.** Hoya, after this planet, says goodbye. Ascetia's answer? "I'll be waiting."

"This is the lighthouse at the end of the tunnel". If you put Ascetia in the 'time' spot, does it allow you to have a reverse Reida? Time won't ever end? What would this do to life....vibes only, that feeling you have where you are connected with everyone around you.

Features a central lighthouse, a jungle, and a graveyard full of eladrin women who died in the Great Malice. William Miller tends the lighthouse and graves. Dala used to be in the graveyard until she gave her power for Cleone to carry.

The party ended up on Ascetia in Adventure 12 after a quantum-split resulting from their death during Av's destruction. The party met William here; Cleone talked to Dala, and Mona found the spirit of Ascetia (making the Icon of Ascetia) in the lighthouse.