>>5193095The blank eyes are not a health condition, they are simply an appearance caused by a metaphysical mystery related to the way the soul is integrated into the Firmament. As for specifics,
I am still trying to figure the three or four logically consistent answers I would need to have for that question. There would be what the masses, who fear the Strangeness, think, which would be different from what Chlotsuintha and other Witches think, which would also be different from what the actual answer is. On top of that, if the Quest did go into the interior of Outremer, then I would need to figure out what the Cimmaroons think, which would be dependent on a completely different cosmology. I'm sorry for this long non-answer, I just don't want to just blurt something out, and then have to either write around it or retcon it later. As for the Lodestar, a Revelation is exceptionally rare, but not completely unprecedented. It has appeared to groups of people right before great triumphs and great calamities (like the appearance of the Strangeness, and the Betrayal of Macrobia). There are many more reports of individual revelations, but very few of them have been confirmed by the Priests of the Pattern. Typically, the Patternmaker just sends Heralds on His behalf, to communicate His demands, or to lay with Vestals to impregnate them with Angels to directly carry out His Will. The Lodestar exists only on the Firmament, however, if you were to map the Firmament, and then overlay the map of the Firmament with the map of the night sky, then the Lodestar always appears in the Bootes Void.
I have finally caught up on everything. So tomorrow, I am going to get up early, and start writing. By the end of the day, I hope that I will have finish the update from last thread.
