It's hard to tell if it is an awakening or a death rattle simply because the records aren't there or available to us to help guide our understanding. I think you know more people that can communicate with the thing than I do, and I imagine that if they had a precise read on which way the thing was zigging or zagging, they'd share it.
[Alucard exhales slowly, running everything over in his mind. There has to be logic involved here, but what is the starting point?]
I'd say that the start of heightened activity began back in Ikorr with those swords the vampires there were keen to keep under lock and key. The message left by the deity involved directly preceded those false 800 years. If we take the message left for us by him after those events, perhaps the Singularity expects there to be some direct conflict between us as Summoned and the intentions of Solvunn, the Free Cities, and Thorne. Then it becomes a question of where loyalties lie, but as I say this, it all sounds so...silly. Except for the first part, I believe the timeline for whatever this is having origins in Ikorr isn't wholly wrong.
[The simmering is up. Alucard is quick to take the pot off the stove and pour the cider into two mugs. One has a little bat handle and is all black, the other is a normal mug in the color of honey. He offers Himeka the honey colored one. The bat mug is clearly his.]
Maybe it is the Old Gods in conversation with the Singularity then. I don't doubt the two are interconnected.
[Finally, the dhampir sits himself down opposite Himeka.]
I don't like the idea of becoming a deity. I was raised to place great value on the human side of my heritage. However, Abraxas has let me define myself in ways I prefer and would never be able to back home. I'd rather the risk of apotheosis than going back and being known simply as my father's son, among other things.
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[Alucard exhales slowly, running everything over in his mind. There has to be logic involved here, but what is the starting point?]
I'd say that the start of heightened activity began back in Ikorr with those swords the vampires there were keen to keep under lock and key. The message left by the deity involved directly preceded those false 800 years. If we take the message left for us by him after those events, perhaps the Singularity expects there to be some direct conflict between us as Summoned and the intentions of Solvunn, the Free Cities, and Thorne. Then it becomes a question of where loyalties lie, but as I say this, it all sounds so...silly. Except for the first part, I believe the timeline for whatever this is having origins in Ikorr isn't wholly wrong.
[The simmering is up. Alucard is quick to take the pot off the stove and pour the cider into two mugs. One has a little bat handle and is all black, the other is a normal mug in the color of honey. He offers Himeka the honey colored one. The bat mug is clearly his.]
Maybe it is the Old Gods in conversation with the Singularity then. I don't doubt the two are interconnected.
[Finally, the dhampir sits himself down opposite Himeka.]
I don't like the idea of becoming a deity. I was raised to place great value on the human side of my heritage. However, Abraxas has let me define myself in ways I prefer and would never be able to back home. I'd rather the risk of apotheosis than going back and being known simply as my father's son, among other things.