The PRL Event: Darker Resurrection 8
A ghost is the spirit of a deceased being that occupied the physical realm in its life. This spirit is made of special matter that exists throughout the various realms of existence and coalesce for unfathomable reasons to give life to a vessel after it has formed in whatever womb conceived it. Ghosts can appear in almost any realm with exceptions, though they can only be seen by other ghosts and those with physical bodies capable of seeing them (a definition of the word medium).
There is a layer of perception that overlaps the existence we perceive in the physical realm, and it is largely unseen by physical beings, even to the probing eyes of the medium that are tuned to the energy signatures of ghosts. Ghosts themselves are made of the matter of this layer but are generally unable to perceive it. This layer of perception exists as a realm in itself, though it is entangled with our physical world. Knowledge of the physical world can inform knowledge of this layer, and vice versa, but ignorance of this layer means that the effects of the physical world on said layer are unknown. The best example of this is the influence of earthlings like the giants who inhabited Earth for a portion of its pre-human history.
Mog, descendant of the northern band, with shoulders like sharp cliffs and a jaw bone like a rugged crag, was born to parents who were eighteen feet tall in their adulthood. Mog learned to interact with special matter and he used it to take the shape of a human. He was curious to interact with primitive man when he encountered them, and he fathered one daughter whom he loved.
The traditions of the northern band to which Mog belonged, can be traced back to a time when Earth had just one continent that housed the many varieties of First People who evolved on planet Earth during earlier periods. The First People gifted with sight of the special realm generally passed along knowledge of it to their family and members of their bands in hope that they could better protect themselves from other bands.
Mog was a very typical giant of his time. He was slow to learn the ancient rights, then enthusiastic once he knew that he could use it to interact with a smaller world beneath him. Mog wanted excitement away from training to be the man that his father had been, as extraordinary as he was. When he met Fomorn, Mog was on the shore of a beach, staring out at the unknown and wondering when he would get to know it. Mog saw the man flailing in the sky under the bright sun and then plummet into the ocean, and Mog puffed himself up until his arm was long enough to reach out and grab him.
Fomorn was tired when he fell; he had managed to fly from the continent of Africa all the way to the island of Ireland, and he knew that he needed rest, but he was partly afraid to land. Fomorn had been flying for a long time and he realized that he was far away from the lands that had made him, far from everything that he knew. But he had exhausted the powers that he inherited from his extraordinary human mother, the first Alia, and a mysterious giant that he never met, and he fell, at the mercy of Mog who would save him and love him for many millennia to come.
The two had many adventures before the curse of the first Alia, and they became well known for their extraordinary partnership and the gifts that allowed Mog to grow, and Fomorn to fly and move things at a distance. The two were more extraordinary together than they were apart, and soon they became the master manipulators of special matter, and the special realm took notice.
The special realm, or veil as it is sometimes called because this special realm exists invisibly over the physical one, has inhabitants that would look familiar to inhabitants of the physical realm. There are beings with the forms of animals like the deer or a giant version of the spider who navigate the special realm and can exert power on the physical realm. Whether these entities mimic the beings of the physical realm or vice versa is impossible to say, but there are things that exist in the special realm that do not exist in the physical realm, and vice versa.
One such special realm spider of antiquity was known as Anes and she took a liking to giants of the physical realm who often called on entities like herself to imbue them with the uncanny abilities that allows for extraordinary feats in the physical realm. Anes was a troublemaker in her time, very powerful with a plump, neon green thorax that meant she was well fed. Her kind feeds on the energies drawn from the physical realm, but it is not life force that they crave, it is attention. The awareness of beings on the physical realm can manifest as a solid in the special realm, but the trick is that beings of the physical realm are not often aware of the special realm. Spiders like Anes learned to influence and manipulate beings from the veil and they create cults that pray to them even if they cannot see them, which provides for a feast in the special realm.
Anes came to know Mog by chance. She had been obsessed with his father and christened him her soldier, giving him gifts that he used to impress other giants as she whispered her name in his ear and encouraged her worship. She was well fed, and then she noticed the bright potential of the son, of Mog, who would be taller than the rest when he reached adulthood, over twenty feet, and she kept an eye on him.
Anes ran afoul of the deer known as Koyu who had worshipers from the southern band of giants, and they warred for a long time. Until they were united against a common enemy, the man called Ssi and powered by a force from an unfamiliar place. Ssi managed to absorb the powers of many beings of the special realm and in an effort to avoid annihilation of their formidable powers, they hid them in the bodies of Fomorn and Mog who were so powerful that Ssi could not threaten them.
Before the curse from the first Alia, Fomorn and Mog fused the power of Koyu and Anes, meaning that even when Fomorn and Mog were separated by distance, they were always one in the powers they shared. Until the first Alia stripped them of their power, and Koyu and Anes were unable to retrieve it as it sought out the descendants of Fomorn and Mog.
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