Research Findings

All transmissions found below have been marked under the standard calendar, but it is clear that the subjects within do not exist in the same chronology. A general timeline has been compiled based on dominant traits of the Eras referred to within the transmissions
First Era:Medullian. Rarely spoken of, synonymous with prehistory?
Second Era: Epithalassic. This time period is often used in reference to the largest creatures, but does not feature humans.
Third Era: Cerebrogene. Understood to be the 'human' era, most transmissions fall within this timeframe.
Fourth Era: Adrenazoic: Major war and the post war period. Fewer humans, and more dispersed than in Cerebrogene

Do you hear the people sing?

Calling
The city rings with the shouts of the chosen and cheers of the bereft
Though no one is hungry, no one without home or hearth, the feeling still burns in the rude, mean peoples of avarice which plague the rest.
But the keeper is not without mercy, and tools of revolution are granted.
Sing for the future, sing for your freedom!
2026

A friendly looking dog-human hybrid standing in a forest

Dual Natured
The Obscura generally rejects humans, but for a price it allows a select few to make their homes in the wooded depths. A visit to the tars of change with a precious keepsake from the forest grants those who would undertake the pilgrimage brings a new form to the pilgrim. These hybrids can never reenter the city, but in return they are shielded by the heart of the forest like all other Obscurans
2026

The flesh shall remain caged. Mekhane's will is our will.

A Theft; A Gift
In each Particle's sheen
The tick of the machine
From Boson Condensate
To QG Plasma irate
On the day of the light cone's center
The flesh sought to steal, to break
But steel and gear do concentre,
Phase shift and they ake remake
A god dismantled, is seldom defeated.
Through metal and mirror, we are the baseplated
In our rise, her rebirth.
2026

Overdue
The City Times reporting: Novel Transportative Techniques Displayed by Anti-Spire Paramilitants

Yesterday evening, the skies above the City were pierce by the lights of war, as the Torn Clovers a known paramilitary force with a vendetta against the occupant of the Spire. First responders report a force of at least twenty individuals utilizing web-like vines to grapple up the tower, in an audacious frontal assault on the fortress. Witnesses also claim to have seen several of the combatants were thrown off of the building by its innate defenses. After ten minutes of fighting, a portion of the Spire was ripped apart by a particularly violent explosion, and the crown of the Spire flashed violet, marking the return of the Tower's keeper, ending the attack as the remaining Torn Clovers immediately retreated. It is unknown at this time what the goals, if any, of the attack were planned to be, but an investigation is ongoing.
2025

Devour
Sun, Sol, Lifegiver. We appreciate your gifts. But now, you are ours.
2025

Sterner Stuff
"The wrath of nature fought us, but we were boiled near to death in its crucible and came out all the stronger. We took what it had and threw it right back."
"I don't think we can take credit for an Obscuran shacking up in a crashed battleship, chief."
2025

A figure wreathed in darkness that claws its way toward the person, who holds a magic light in one hand and a small knife in the other.

Thaumaturgical Thermocline
In the depths of the Southeast, where the sprawl of machines clashes against the forest of secrets, the Arborea Obscura, there is a line. A line so tightly pressed on both sides by these disparate realms that no light from the gleaming city, nor glow from the Obscura's soul can enter. But why would you want it to? Darkness is a comforting thing, after all.
2025

Breathless
"You ever heard the phrase 'laughing in the face of death'? Well, I guess ol' death never thought anyone could steal his face. Didn't laugh one bit, mostly just seemed shocked. Or maybe he just couldn't talk without a mouth, heheh." Audio recording taken off Badge#6:8-11's helmet camera, as well as the last frame before camera feed cuts.
2025

Gentle Aileron
There is a magic to the North. The East is magic, yes, but its magic is spoken for. The residents of the Obscura have made that clear.
The North? It flows like the wind itself, unbound. You've heard the stories of all the ambitious little mages who traipse into the snow, I'm sure. Do you ever wonder why none of them have come back?
It isn't the cardinal beasts, though that is a good guess. The Republic? Hardly. The republic wishes they had the reach to catch those that wander the North. No. It's because to live there, you have to understand it. But if you understand it, you'll never leave.
2025

A massive raccoon

Storytime
"And that's how I got out of the Shifting sea! So what have you been up to?"

2025