[IC] New Crobuzon & the World Beyond

[Betimi]

"And my question remains, I can tell him of my home.. the Far Realm. What would he like to know. I know he understood the question.

The ambassador gazes at you blankly.  "I'm aware of the birth place of aberrations.  All cosmologies are 'threatened' by the Far Realm.  I actually admire the work of the uvuudaum.  But I'm more interested in how the Far Realm interacts with your Prime Dimension.  It does have a penchant for breaking into reality at various points in the Underdark, does it not?"
 

"It does, and it has, and it will do so with increasing frequency as long as these instabilities increase. And not just the prime, but all cosmologies. Your Hell is as imperiled as the Prime is. And as evil as your kind may be, you have rules, and that makes you.. and Selina may think me mad for saying it.. that makes you the lesser evil. My creators are the greater, as they want to twist even your kind to their perversions. I have faced into the oblivion and slept there, it is peaceful when compared with the rebirthing and reshaping. It has actually been a relief, this most recent reshaping, though it had I not escaped with my baby, it meant a life as breeding stock." 

"I wonder what the daelkyr would reshape such a being as yourself into? Perhaps a beholder-kin eyeball, weak and nigh powerless, only able to watch and not make bargains or bend the world to your will, or maybe into an infant, or larvae. Their whims are chaos.."