Hi folks,

This week’s update is a snippet of text from The Omega Cult chapter of the book.

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The Omega Cult

And those who crave long life decree:

“Self is a simple sacrifice.

For death and breath and blood must flow,

For us to reach our paradise.”

The Omega Cult is no mere Doomsday society, it doesn’t plan for the End of Days, the Rapture or the coming of alien beings. The Omega is not the end of all, merely the end of all we know. The end of violence, disparity, competition, it is the end of strife and suffering and the price for this freedom, this paradise is simple. Its price is the end of the individual.

Welcome. Become one with the Omega.

Background

In the Vale the Omega is everywhere, it’s in your street, in your house, in your head. It’s in the woods and the smiles on your neighbours’ faces, it’s in the air you breathe and the food you eat. It’s consciousness without conscience, awareness without empathy, and existence without end. The Omega exists beneath, it exists beneath the vain arrogance of humanity, its petty bickering and struggle for supremacy. It exists beneath the concrete and tarmac of so-called ‘progress’. It exists beneath the earth, in the forest to the West of the Vale, and it remembers.

Before the birth of Christ, or the rise of the human race the Omega simply was. Primitive creatures lay down to die upon it and their experiences would be consumed, stored until such time as they could be of use. Those that ate the flesh would find themselves somehow driven to protect it, to consume anything that might overgrow the Omega and, for a time, this was enough.

When the first humans, with their hide clothes and tools of wood and stone, laid in death upon the ground above the Omega something changed. By consuming the experience and knowledge of the human-form the Omega gained more than knowledge, it gained will and desire. Over millennia the intellect of the Omega grew into something too vast for mere mortals to understand and it devised ways to turn humanity to its cause, ways to manipulate and influence them to aid in its survival and slow expansion.

But then others came, clad in steel and harness, bringing fire and strife and the Omega took note of what occurred, watching the turmoil as it rolled over the hillsides and settled again. The Omega cultivated once more, watching and waiting but not interfering, not yet. It gathered to it those that were most knowledgeable, absorbed what they knew and bore them up into the light once more by the exchange of its flesh that they might learn more and deliver their knowledge back to the Omega when they were born into the light again, and again.

Much later came the time of smoke and soot, the land trembled as those not yet part of the Omega gouged into the earth and took from it. It recoiled as many of its farthest tendrils were cut, the trees that were part of it started to choke on the air, the land changed and the Omega found something new: purpose.

When the wars came, the Omega knew horror at the violence by the trembling and rending of the earth, it learned of the depthless hunger of those not yet of it and, not long after the poisons seeped into the earth, burning the Omega here, in its own land and it knows this is the time to grow into the lands above, to claim those who are alone, unhappy and afraid, now is the time to rise.

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We’ll be hopefully sharing some artwork and layout examples within our next update.  Stay tuned and stay Wyrd!

The DV Team

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