>>6302904Satisfied enough with The God King's reply, Isemay begins to quickly drift off, mumbling a few final incomprehensible whispers, before she crumbles over in her armor. Swiftly, at least in the God King's timespan, before he can even return her body would become little more than a heap of fungus now festering over rotting wood and rusted armor.
>>6299462>>6299403>Isemay withers. A new Vessel rises at Lake of Communion (14,12).Back at the Lake of Communion, the Listeners have settled well under the rule of The Great Houses. The ages pass steadily, and peacefully, as The Whisper has acted idly to grant its people many miracles in Isemay's expansionist absence. The once uneasy alliance between the Subterrids and their superterranean neighbors has blossomed as the two peoples have quite literally metamorphosized. Now adjusted to the hostile environment of the spore clouds, the new Subterrids, dubbed Chitterlings by their sporefarming owners.
As Isemay's distant commands and thoughts drift to nothingness, her body returning to The Whisper, her people prepare themselves for a new Vessel. The Great Houses gather together their pregnant women within the Holy Waters of The Lake of Communion, even folk of the split House Vaelith of The Eastern Reach bringing their expectant, dipping into the Lake to bless their youth with the potential gift of Speakership. As newborns release unified gasps, risen from the blessed waters as their lungs fill with spores, a Seeker or House Yros reads blessings from the resonating folds of myceliac bundles. The Faith of The Whisper works its way from the heap of mycelium roots gathered in a basket, extending to the other hand of the Seeker to meet the child's temple. This ritual goes on for months, each child born and blessed in anticipation, until one youth comes bounding from the water in a cloud of spiritual spores. A healthy, spry but scrawny, and mighty curious child of House Yros: Serell the Swift!
>Develop [MA] Subterranean Roads>Preqs: Scarce Chitterlings (Subterrids II), Substrate, Subterrid Husbandry>Special road tech to create paths underground that provides no benefit to non-burrowers, meaning no speed boost, but merely as a safe means of travel for Chitterlings and other Listeners to transport people and goods where they cannot be attacked and their trade cannot be intercepted. Entering these tunnels/roads requires Subterrids/Chitterlings, or some other means of burrowing.As Serell remains in his youth, the Listeners move along their progress without the aid of the Whisper. This advanced breed of Subterrids, the Chitterlings, have become a part of society here. They now bore deeper, with more reinforced tunnels, capable of breaching beneath even mountain and sea. What better use for these tunnels than to travel? These substrate reinforced tunnels shall become paths for the Listeners to safely travel to their destinations without the chance of interception.
