An Introduction to the Inner Eye

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The Inner Eye is how one views the Shadowlands. The Inner eye begins closed and must be opened for avatars to reach any part of the Shadowlands beyond the Foglands. Those who enter the Shadowlands with a  closed inner eye end up in the Ring, or at best, the Foglands. There are benefits to all three variations on the Inner Eye.

The Darkened eye is attuned to the story and the Shadowlands. One with a darkened eye will see the secrets of the story and the weak points of foes more readily. A darkened eye will also strengthen ability in the high magick. But the darkened eye opens one up to story and one with a darkened eye is more vulnerable to the attacks of denizens of the shadowlands and also more susceptible to high magick used by others. Further, with a darkened eye the shadowlands can entrance send mesmerize one, Leaving them vulnerable and helpless.

An enlightened eye is attuned to the bonelands and to science. An enlightened eye will see through the forms that things take in the shadowlands to the metaphors they represent, granting them improved resistance to attacks and high magick. An enlightened eye also grants improved ability in the low magick. But this all comes at a cost. Seeing the bonelands clearly is taxing to the mind. The skull can overflow with the scope and scale observed. One who looks too deeply through the enlightened eye may find their mind has cracked. Further, an enlightened eye sees fewer details of the shadowlands and has difficulty invoking the high magick. In addition, the affinity for low magick also means the enlightened eye is vulnerable to low magick as well.

The eye of dusk is also sometimes called the wine drunk eye, or even beer goggles. The Eye of Dusk offers none of those benefits. But it also offers none of the attached disadvantages.

The Bonelands

The so-called real world, the world of flesh and bone, the world of fact and science- the alien world so far beyond the capacity of the human mind that we created the Shadowlands again and again to escape it.

The human mind is a small thing, and fragile. The universe on the other hand is vast. Indeed, the universe is vast beyond human imagining. To say that the universe is beyond human comprehension is to undersell the scope of things quite spectacularly. The human skull runs over trying to hold the seemingly impossible scope of the universe. The concept of zero drove men mad. The idea of an infinity universe terrified the wise. The Catholic Church was so threatened that it declared heretical idea of earth as a tiny speck in a small galaxy in an insignificant corner of a universe so vast that light could only trek across it slowly.