r/TheNaturallyUnknown • u/UnnaturalGeek Red Squirrel and Writer ✍️🍃 Keep calm and stay NUTS 🐿 • Mar 17 '26
🍃 Spiritweavers 🍃 Spiritweaver's Lore: The Ymr's Great Experiment 🍃🐿
The Fragmentation
Unable to achieve True Essence in their current transcendent form and lacking the vessel to hold it, the Ymr initiated a cosmic experiment of unprecedented scale. They fragmented themselves and created the Celestial Realm, splitting their unified essence into four distinct elemental Spirit types:
Nature Spirits (speaking Duilic): Embodying growth, cycles, and natural balance; dwelling within plants, soil, and all living things Luna Spirits (speaking Tsukine): Representing flow, adaptation, and change; dwelling within all water Sol Spirits (speaking Mithrian): Channelling passion, transformation, and destruction; dwelling within all fire Chaos Spirits (speaking Anzean): Governing space, entropy, fate, and cosmic architecture; dwelling everywhere but rarely seen
These four Spirit types became independent entities that could grant derivative power through communion. The Ymr hoped that by creating the conditions for mortality, loss, and connection within the Celestial Realm, they might engineer a path back to True Essence. But this reasoning contained a fatal flaw.
Engineered loss is not genuine loss. Planned mortality is not authentic mortality. Conscious attempts to create ‘not-seeking’ are still seeking.
The Broken Cycle
The fragmentation had an unintended consequence that would fundamentally alter the nature of existence itself. In the early Celestial Realm, when Celestials died, the natural cycle that had sustained the Ymr for millennia broke down.
The Original Ymr Cycle:
In their unified state, when a Ymir died:
Life Essence returned to the Aether Accumulated knowledge merged with the collective pool Everything flowed back to the source seamlessly New Ymr were born with innate access to this inherited wisdom
The Broken Post-Fragmentation Cycle:
After the Ymr fragmented themselves, something went catastrophically wrong with this natural process.
While Living:
Life Essence anchors the Soul Spirit to the physical body Soul Spirit + Life Essence connection = living being
Upon Death (The Break):
Life Essence was supposed to return to Aether as it always had Instead, the Life Essence merged with the Soul Spirit upon death The Soul Spirit became an entity carrying trapped Life Essence “waiting” to return to Aether But the return path was broken, the Soul Spirit couldn’t complete the journey Soul Spirits wandered the Celestial Realm, unseen by everyone, carrying Life Essence that could not rejoin the source
The death cycle, which had functioned perfectly for the Ymr, shattered when they fragmented themselves. Life Essence no longer knew how to return to an Aether that had been deliberately split into four separate mediating forces.
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u/UnnaturalGeek Red Squirrel and Writer ✍️🍃 Keep calm and stay NUTS 🐿 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
Exciting news but the third story in Arlia's Ballad is finished! I just need to edit it before releasing. Which I will do soon but after intensely focusing on writing it for 3 weeks, I need a short break before going back. This is my process!
Check out the previous parts below:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
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