by Vamp » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:16 pm
Well, Dovah Tsavahn is a lost world written by the D'ni. It's a small tropical island drifting on the ocean. It is enthroned with jagged cliffs, lush vegetation, and a large mountain scraping the sky. The people who lived in this age had to abandon it when the fall of D'ni came. These people themselves had a certain talent, as the D'ni could write books to take them to parallel worlds, the Tsavahnians could weave cloths that when touched could take them into the memory the creator had at the time.
This is partially how they develloped their picture technology. When they saw a gorgeous sunset, they could focus on the memory in their heads, hold the threads, and they would quite literally come to life. Sometimes, the memories captured by the cloths were powerful enough to send the weaver into another world. However, such a thing requires painful amounts of concentration. For this, they were called the "People of the Loom", experienced Weavers.
The secret to their threads was a special crystal found in a cave in the mountainside beneath the temple. They melted down this crystal and infused it into their threads so it became something like fiber optic wire. This crystal has the extremely peculiar property to copy a person's memories and broadcast a person into them. Or, to be more precise... the person is not really there! Upon contact with the crystal thread, the memory contained in the cloth is released into the person's mind so they're actually experiencing the memory of the creator.
That's all the background information.
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