Satenskyhou: переводы

→I accept the gift of the Masters. I, high priest of the Thundercall Pell, do holy work here in the world. The Masters look on in glory, and are proud of our efforts. \n\nI alone among the Thundercall have seen its power. Its potential. The Masters left it for me to find, for the Thundercall to use, for the Chosen of the Storm to change. \n\nTo become a god!\n\nBut the gifts of the Masters are not without challenges. Tests. For this Great Work the faithful must do, we Disciples, before the Masters will allow us to rise to meet them.\n\nThe Masters call upon us to sacrifice his mortal life - and so it shall be. The greatest of us, one chosen by the Masters, shall become a god. And the wisest of us, the one called Blade-Wind, shall be the conduit that transforms the Chosen. Both shall end their mortal lives.\n\nThe power of the gods shall flow through Blade-Wind, and no other. Shaped, driven, bent to my will, the power shall infuse the Chosen, the Pell who will become a god. The Storm shall awaken within. And I, high priest of the Thundercall Pell, shall create a new god over which I shall be master!\n\nI summon my chanters. I summon my acolytes! My sentinels, strong as the sky! Join me. Together we shall be true immortals. We will live forever in the wind, the stars, the lightning. We thrive in the thundering heart of the Stormtalon. We unleash this gift of the gods upon this world, and rejoice!\n\nThe Talon of Storms is but the first.

→[This document lays out the principles and goals of the Sandthorne faction of the Thorns of Arboria rebels.] \n\nIt is with heavy hearts we true Aurin of the Sandthorne do lay down our loyalties to the queen of the Aurin, long may she reign. We do not abandon our queen forever. Only until she understands why we must abandon this mad world beyond the Fringe and return home before it's too late.\n\nEven now, the Planet Reapers lay waste to the world we truly call home. This place, this Nexus, she says it will be our new home, but how can this be? We are Aurin of Arboria. We are as the trees of the forest, and we plant deep roots. And this forest is not ours. \n\nOur forest is many light years away, defended only by those brave souls who remained behind. The true Aurin who are, let us be frank, better than us by far. They did not give up. When the queen drove us to the ships, forced us into steel shells and metal bubbles of air that took us far away, they declared they would remain to be "thorns in the Dominion's side."\n\nDoes the queen remember? Did she even hear?\n\nSo call us thorns as well - the Thorns of Arboria. And let those of us who protect the life even in places others call lifeless be called Sandthornes, like the cunning raptors of Arboria's northern dunelands. And like the Sandthornes of our home let us be stealthy, clever, and true of purpose and intent.\n\nWe will soon be thorns again. But for now, we will be Sandthornes beneath our enemy's feet.

→Leader of the Vigilant Church's military arm, the Radiant Legion, Commander Toric Antevian represents the best of Cassian humanity and is said to embody all of the Vigilant Virtues. Though lowborn by birth, the young human - the youngest ever to lead the legion - is admired and beloved by all citizens of the Dominion, who have given him nicknames like the Vigilant Star and Toric the Invincible. He has now followed the emperor and the high sentinel to Nexus, where he leads the charge against the Exiles and other enemies of the church who infest the Eldan planet.

→Vind are small, relatively docile rodentoids that have become ubiquitous on Nexus. They were one of the first types of "critters" to be exported from the planet (albeit illegally, as Dominion law requires all life forms native to Nexus to be the property of the emperor) and are now a somewhat common site among the elite and wealthy of the Fringe underworld. Their planet-wide distribution on Nexus is almost certainly due to their ability to float by expanding internal gas organs that make them lighter than air. This ability to metabolize elements and synthesize exotic gasses has also made them prized by scientists, and not always for ethical reasons.

→The Lopp are a race obsessed with treasures, trinkets, and rare artifacts. Known throughout the galaxy as talented treasure hunters and shrewd traders, the Lopp have come to Nexus to scour the planet for its lost treasures - and have established a far-trader merchant network that connects the dozens of Lopp settlements across the planet. A cultural fearlessness has inspired the Lopp to explore and settle some of the most dangerous places on Nexus - but the diminutive creatures often find themselves biting off more than they can chew. \n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\nADDITIONAL REFERENCE\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n"Many things this Lopp finds out in big, wide world. Many shinies. Too many for Diki to carry. Big-folk want to buy some? Oh, yes, you do. So shiny."\n--Far-Trader Diki

→The Focus of Water is hidden deep within the Whitevale region. It has recently been disrupted, leading to wild temperature fluctuations in the area and bizarre weather systems. It is unknown whether the Focus of Water can be stabilized, as primal water is one of the most volatile forms of matter in the known universe. Now that the Focus of Water has been thrown out of balance, it may never return to its original equilibrium.

→Mondo Zax is never short of assistants, most of whom are eager to volunteer to learn under the famed director of DRED. Very few have survived the experience of learning from "the Zax," but those who do often go on to their own prestigious research projects for the Dominion Research and Experimentation Division - usually after an extended stay in a Dominion medical facility.

→Rootbrutes are a species of ambulatory plant-animal hybrids that are unique to planet Nexus. Resembling tall mushrooms, they walk on a set of three to six rigid tentacles. They spend most of their time partially embedded in the earth like plants do, but when necessary for survival they can easily uproot themselves and move about with surprising agility.

→Agent Lex (AKA the Lethality Efficiency Experiment) is the right-hand of Axis Pheydra and one of the ICI's top agents. Custom-designed to Pheydra's specifications, he specializes in the arts of espionage, diplomacy, and when required, assassination. To aid him in his work, Lex possesses a powerful holographic disguise unit built into his chassis that allows him to assume the appearance of anyone or anything he chooses. Considered the ultimate in efficiency and effectiveness, Lex is frequently deployed by Axis Pheydra into situations where failure is not an option.

→"You only make one mistake," Ludo said, his huge Chua eyes flashing with wicked glee. "You forget first rule of Chua science."\n\n"What is that, puny worm?" the Osun warlord growled. "Hurry your words. I want to smash you, and you bore me."\n\n"'BORE you'? That huge insult! Very, very not cozmotronic. Also not smart. Because," the Chua said, "you only make one mistake, but it big, BIG mistake!"\n\n"Yeah, still want to smash you. What mistake?" the Osun asked.\n\n"Never loom over an armed Chua when wearing a stupid loincloth!" With a cackle of pure malevolent joy, Ludo pulled the trigger on the molecular destabilizer ray, blasting the Osun's undercarriage with thousands of particles of destructive energy.\n\nThe results were immediate. The towering Osun warlord, so confident of victory moments before, screamed in shock and pain as most of his body below the waist disintegrates into raw atoms. He continued to scream as his upper torso dropped with a sickeningly wet crunch onto the smoldering remains of his shins, driving the jagged edges of his leg bones deep into his lower abdomen. Still screaming, the grotesque creature - who now appeared to have feet growing directly out of his mangled and bleeding intestinal cavity - swung his massive, meaty arms at the quick-footed Chua. Ludo easily rolled out of the way, then brought up his molecular destabilizer ray for another blast. This one caught the warlord a glancing blow alongside his face, stripping the flesh to the bone and forcing an even less intelligible bellow from the dying warlord that sprayed blood, spittle, and pieces of flesh into the air.\n\nTwo more shots, and the Osun was armless and still roaring in agony. With a slightly unhinged laugh, Ludo stepped back, took careful aim at the Osun's face, and asked, "You see now, yes yes?"\n\n"Kill me," the Osun gasped, his strength bleeding out into the muddy soil. With half his face missing, it sounded more like "kith mith," but Ludo was able to understand.\n\n"Yep yep! I think you understand after all. And good news! No one will miss stupid warlord when gone. Because Ludo going to kill your whole tribe!"\n\nThe warlord continued to beg for death, but he would have to wait. Ludo and his molecular destabilizer ray had a lot of work to do.\n\n[The previous excerpt is taken from a presumably fictional novel about a heroic Chua warrior who goes on to single-handedly destroy an entire clan of Osun using his cozmotronic technology. The rest of the story appears to be just as relentlessly violent.]

→Alchemy is the name given by non-Eldan races to a form of science that manipulates primal power through biochemical means - usually by blending certain elements, biological matter, even tangible energies to create elixirs and potions that can be consumed by living creatures. The practice of alchemy occurs in many galactic cultures, most notably among the Mordesh of Grismara, who literally wear their alchemical prowess on their sleeves in the form of the Vitalus serum. \n\nOther infamous practitioners include underworld organizations like the Darkspur Cartel or Nexus cultures such as the giant Osun. Though there is not necessarily anything inherently "evil" about the practice of alchemy, it does have negative connotations to many.

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