Some Vault Of Knowledge Ideas:

Some Vault of Knowledge ideas:

The Vault of Knowledge, obviously, is a place of knowledge, intended for preserving the memories and experiences of people more than holding actual writing.

The Vault itself is not there by nature and was instead built in the void through the incredible power of darkstone, making it so that they could theoretically keep extending the Vault forever.

There were also different ranks of memory keepers, with some of the higher ones wearing crests on their head to symbolize their rank and their prowess in magic.

The Vault once had a strictly regimented sorting system for the stored memories so that everything could be found easily. However, everything fell into disrepair once the inhabitants died and the Skykids don’t know the sorting system (and don’t have enough of an education to create one). Even if they did, most of the memories that were being stored in the Vault were cracked open and destroyed, leaving them empty shells.

Witnesses of major events were asked to record their recollections of what had happened on memories that would then be stored in the Vault for later researchers to find.

Certain areas of the Vault had designated keepers, who were high-ranking skyfolk in charge of preserving very specific and often powerful memories and spirits.

The very high-ranking Vault keepers were given specific graves after their death, which were often up-kept by other grave keepers.

This is all relatively straightforward, right? Because here’s an idea that goes in a slightly different direction. A vault is a place that’s locked up tight. This definition includes prisons, which I believe the Vault doubled as.

The Vault was not a lighthearted sentence, and was usually given to people who were considered an enemy of the state. The punishment involved a small realm being created and then attached to the Vault for easy access, and the people being punished being transformed into spirits that were bound to said place and altering their memories so they cannot imagine or remember their life outside the realm. These spirits were then given keepers who were in charge of making sure that everything went smoothly and none of them ever escaped. It was a huge effort to do, and so it was usually a punishment given to groups of people.

Essentially, the Vault double-functioned as a purgatory for people that Resh especially didn’t like. These spirits were also sometimes visited by living skyfolk so they could be used as examples of “how not to act, lest you end up like them”.

The Little Prince Spirits, Nine-Coloured Deer spirits, and Remembrance spirits were subjected to this punishment, and the punishment was effective enough that they are still imprisoned, even long after the fall of the kingdom they barely remember.

Kinda chewing on Omen and Crepuscular’s relationship right now…man they’re complicated and I wanna talk about them 😭

Even independent from Crepuscular, Omen is a pretty fascinating character to me. At first I didn’t like him because he felt like a bad stereotype, but character development saved him for me so much. He’s a really good representation of positive masculinity, even while he’s doing things that many of the more violent or problematically masculine characters do. He manages to do these things without having to be toxically masculine about any of it, and I’m proud of him for that. And a lot of his ability to do that came from Crepuscular.

Because while I definitely think that their relationship is toxic, Crepuscular was still hugely important for Omen being able to develop his own opinions and do what he wanted instead of being a shy kid who trips over his own two feet. Being with Valkyrie and Skulduggery and helping in their missions definitely started him out by giving him a taste of what the adventuring was like, but every single time he sort of…went back to his normal, boring life afterwards. He always felt like Skulduggery and Valkyrie needed to call on him before he could do anything useful.

Enter Crepuscular, who has so many emotional issues that he successfully manages to hide from Omen by actually being interested in what Omen has to say and encouraging him to do more risky and adventurous things. By this point, Omen has spent his entire life being an idiot who nobody takes seriously and who’s inferior to his brother, so he eats up what Crepuscular is feeding him and starts doing little rulebreaking things, like helping his brother get a knife he needs to kill the King of the Darklands. Small things, and stuff that Omen doesn’t have to get too involved in to help.

And then his brother kills the King of the Darklands a year early, freaks out about it, and suddenly stops helping out people around the school, even when that’s been what people depended on him for for years. There’s suddenly nobody to do it. There’s an empty niche in the school’s metaphorical ecosystem that Auger used to dominate but is now too traumatized to.

And then Omen is there with Crepuscular encouraging him and helping him grow and be more adventurous and be more independent. Since Omen understands what his brother must be going through right now and also understands that the people around them need help, he takes it upon himself to help them (while also pretending that it’s Auger who’s doing it). And Omen circa Resurrection would never have been brave or strong enough to do that, but by this point he’s been following around Crepuscular long enough that he’s actually brave enough and organized enough to figure out what needs to get done, sneak out and talk to Crepuscular, and then actually get up and do it.

And then Damocles Creed becomes Supreme Mage and suddenly they’re living in an incredibly fascist and restrictive state. Does this stop Omen? Hell no. The boy becomes a little punk who investigates suspicious activity around the school and talks to his friends (and sometimes other students) about how they’ll escape this situation.

And then he picks a fight with Valkyrie, who’s an evil god at this point, and tells both her and Skulduggery that they’re awful people (and rightly so). Again, Resurrection Omen would have passed out at the idea of disrespecting these two in their normal forms, but two years later he’s perfectly willing to yell at a god with a streak of breaking people’s wrists.

Crepuscular was a bad person who was produced by circumstances so bad even he knew they were fucked up and he was helping Omen for his own emotional gain, but that doesn’t prevent the fact that he gave Omen the same thing that Skulduggery gave Valkyrie all those years ago: a safe space to test himself out and spread his wings in a way that felt comfortable. And even if Crepuscular was simply doing it to compare himself to Skulduggery, it legitimately helped Omen so much and allowed him to become a more emotionally put-together person than Auger, who had always been considered the better one.

And even after Omen decides to break off his friendship with Crepuscular, that bravery still lingers. He leads a goddamn rebellion in his school and the other kids accept him as their leader and begin taking orders from him.

And after it’s all over? Omen decides to go to art school with a girl he met while on a mission with Crepuscular. Crepuscular was such a bad person but he helped Omen so much and I honestly wouldn’t change much about how their relationship went.

And I honestly think that Crepuscular didn’t hate him either. Aside from Omen giving him what he wanted, Crepuscular chose to go back and ask for Omen’s forgiveness even after he claims to have proved himself better than Skulduggery, and Omen chose to go on one last mission with him because Omen is a sweet person who is easily peer pressured and Crepuscular knew that.

In short, their relationship is toxic but developmentally important for Omen and this post mostly turned into me ranting about Omen’s character development, which I’m not mad about.

Headcanon that the Cellist and Pianist are like the fun aunts/uncles for the Hopeful Steward. They get into so much trouble together 💀

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Ohh, so I was looking at my storage and found these! I originally shared them on twitter before yeeting the platform. Anyway, feel free to use! Art memes for your oc :D

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