So, the whole “Cosmic Forces Tug-of-War” storyline is basically going in this direction:
There are 6 Cosmic Forces, but there’s also a secret 7th one, and everybody is afraid of the 7th, so the 6 Cosmic Forces keep trying to conquer each other so that they can unite against the 7th and survive.
What if the 7th force is the players?
The unseen hands that control the fate of the murderous “mortal” adventurers who cannot die and defeat anything that stands against them?
Probably not, it’s probably gonna be Kerrigan from Starcraft or something lol
We’re an emergent phenomenon, not a cosmic energy.
(Unless the cosmic forces are not really elementary energies at all, but rather are just the magic of different ancient emergences across all the universes out there and all we are really missing for our universe to join them as an equal is a distinct identity of our own)
…
I’m about a step or two away from a padded room, aren’t I?
I would hope the cosmic forces would have studied us to know that we can be defeated with transmog options. Just one big cosmic trading post with a wish list of cosmetic options to keep us busy. Then they set up simple quest that offer us currency once completed that we used to buy those items…
Six realms. Many intersections. Countless fractals.
In balance? Possibly. But that might be wrong. If six equal one, then what is the other? The one outside the pattern.
And then there’s this item from Korthia:
The seventh covets what the six hold fast. The fulcrum wavers. All will be undone.
And then there’s that weird Broker guy from Zereth Mortis, Firim:
The six forces that pointed toward a seventh, and yet denied it. For a long while I considered this seeming contradiction no more than another variable. An unknown waiting to be solved.
But the song of the oracle continued to reverberate in my consciousness. And as I allowed my focus to soften, my grip upon the tangible to loosen, the geometry took shape in my mind.
It was both six AND seven. The six were one, and the seventh the other.
Did they desire union? The song seemed to say otherwise. Both were, yet only one could be.
