The bubble for DAMODRED appeared, and a string ran from it back to CAUSES, and then to THE TIDE THAT OWES NOTHING.
"Because the mechanism as we understand it is narrow," Ruination said. "He cured a Cursed Lifeform bound to Those Who Remain through Cause replacement. That act altered cause and effect across existence and time. The Tide followed the altered weavings back to the only thing they still resembled, found an extinct people's markers sleeping in their own Causes, and matured an egg from it."
"Is that reproducible? Or was it a single accident? Does it only ever come as a Tide reward for curing a Steed, and are there even any more Steeds we can reach? Or, now that we know its origin, can we replicate it deliberately?"
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THE Infiniverse thought about it!
