Doom Arriving Eventually Which is a Difficult Spell Which Creates Not That Which Is Not There, But The Impression That It Will Be There Soon Most illusion magic is easily testable by the savvy adventurer. False fire may not convincingly burn a sliver of wood. A lack of scent may betray a simulated beast. It is far more difficult to disprove that which does not present itself to be measured. The Immanent Illusion creates an illusion partially translated into the future. It is experienced as a belief or dread that the subject of the illusion (which is not present) is about to be so. This may cause those under its glamour to avoid a feared subject or tarry long awaiting a desired subject. The caster decides on a subject for the illusion and describes it in a script written or engraved somewhere immobile. Moving the script more than a few inches divorces it from the magic, as does destroying it. The material used to write the script or the strength of the material in which it is engraved d...

An early Bestian, magnified x1000 In The Beginning Very early in the lifetime of universe (0, t , x, y , z , 0.zz9 , l ), multicellular life began. What gods had formed did not notice it until the early creatures had no use for them.   Water formed in a a cooler niche of a chunk of early matter and animalcules swam around in it. Certain physical peculiarities ‘see’ each other's thoughts, which both allowed them to easily communicate and gave enormous advantages to the animalcules whose random mutations allowed them even the smallest ability to dissemble. Those animalcules who could ‘lie’ would simply eat all of the trustworthy ones. Simple cultures formed, fearing outsiders might be ‘liars’, reinforcing each others' fear as they witnessed it shiver through society. The cultures discovered history, science, and genetics before the individual creatures were more than a few hundred cells each. The need for defense led them to seek more robust forms, so they invented sexual reprod...