Multiverse Minutiae

"...anarchists also are people and, as such, contain the billion-faceted varieties of human reference. Some are anarchists who march, voluntarily, to the Cross of Christ. Some are anarchists who flock, voluntarily, to the communities of beloved, inspirational father figures. Some are anarchists who seek to establish the syndics of voluntary industrial production. Some are anarchists who voluntarily seek to establish the rural production of the kibbutzim. Some are anarchists who, voluntarily, seek to disestablish everything including their own association with other people, the hermits. Some are anarchists who deal, voluntarily, only in gold, will never co-operate, and swirl their capes. Some are anarchists who, voluntarily, worship the sun and its energy, build domes, eat only vegetables, and play the dulcimer. Some are anarchists who worship the power of algorithms, play strange games, and infiltrate strange temples. Some are anarchists who only see the stars. Some are anarc...

While Morwenna remains captured by her own Prophet faction, Loren and Morulan return to the Moon. They hide away from Balkov in the underground Moon temples, no longer in use by the enslaved Magi. There Loren discovers the lost Magi's staff. Legend holds that it is powered by four glomes representing earth, water, air and fire. From the Prophets came earth and water. From the Wizards came air and fire. Loren must explore the labyrinth of the Moon temple network to find the scattered crystals hidden away by the First Magician generations ago. Loren collects the elemental power glomes after solving a series of puzzles. He finds within the final chamber the original ancient agreement between the Wizards and the Prophets called the Covenant of the Future Seers. The pact foretold that one day the Magi class would be misguided by a cruel and selfish leader who would try to be the Last Magician by turning the Wizards and Prophets against one another. But the hologram foretells that t...

Future Seers  An Utopian Science-Fiction Plot R. C. Brooking "The Last Magician" "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke "...it is demanded of all of us. Without it there can be no survival of mankind, for man himself must be his last magician." - Loren Eiseley Generations ago the Future Seers once lived in peace. The Prophets and the Wizards were united by the First Magician who centered the competing consciousness between the two classes in the founding of the Covenant of the Future Seers. This put an end to the strife but that era has long ended. While the Prophets of the Terrestrial Ecotopia have developed the physical geosciences, the Wizards of the Celestial Technotopia have been developing astronomical and space sciences. Each has been developing their own use of psychic sciences. Their technologies have advanced to the point to be indistinguishable from magic.  In the year 4055, ...