Monasteriat
| Monasteriat | |
|---|---|
| History | |
| Founded on | Susur, the Edge |
| Status | Active |
| Organization | |
| Purpose | To accelerate the approach of INEVITA |
| Membership | |
| Founded by | The Susurians |
| Members | Alpharael, Raphaella, Xu-Ifit |
| Information | |
| Colors |
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| Species | Humans, Vampires |
The Monasteriat is an insular and esoteric governing body of hundreds of elector monks in the Edge. They administer Monoist doctrine from the faith's capital at the Lip of Susur, the photon collar that rings Point Prime, the first and most holy supervoid of the Monoist faith. The Lip of Susur is what remains of the star that birthed Point Prime[1] Tezzeret described the Monasteriat as entropic death cult and questioned the existence of the Faller.[1]
Monoism
Monoism, referred to by its members as "the True Faith," is an ancient unitary faith practiced by multiple species.[2] It competes with Summism as the most widespread faith in Pinnacle space, each trading the claim to the greatest number of practitioners, physical sites, and client worlds at any given time.[1] Though Monoists are not a monolith, most of the faithful are true believers, and most modern-day Monoists are human.[3][4]
The Immortal Faller is the name of the savior and first prophet of the Monoist faith.[1] He can be observed approaching the center of every supervoid, known as the Zero Point, beyond which INEVITA, the perfect future, is believed to lie. Monoist doctrine teaches that INEVITA, also known colloquially as the Next Eternity, has already occurred, and that the work of the faith is to accelerate its arrival. The core practice of the faith is centered around the communal recitation of the Faller's ongoing transmissions, typically in the form of ecstatic polyvocal choirs. The Plummet Record, the Monoist religious text, is composed of two volumes: The Seeker and the Well and The Theorem Unending and Final, each believed to come from the Faller himself.
Monoists justify their actions through self-evidence.[1] Their prophet exists in every supervoid. INEVITA is already resolved, merely awaiting the advance of local time. Thus, Monoists conclude, so, too, should they exist in every land of the void. If the Edge did not want Monoism to propagate across its stars, then supervoids would not hold at their core the immortal form of the Faller. The Monoists seek to expand their supervoid holdings to accelerate the approach of INEVITA.
The Monoists believe that all matter in the universe will eventually gather into supervoids. They also believe that each black hole contains a new and better universe. The mission of Monoism is to entangle the newborn supervoids into a single grand ensemble, to grow and sustain them, and to protect them from the Summists. Above all, they seek to observe the descent of the Immortal Faller: to glean from his transmissions new elements of The Theorem Unending and Final, the description of what is and what will come. Sometimes individual Monoists are called upon to go ahead, in a ritual called the Plummet, the sacred plunge into a supervoid and the Next Eternity.[2]
Monoists operate a society of total emancipation and enlightened selfishness. They sleep in seawater sleep tanks.[2] A popular Monoist prayer to the grace of gravity is given as:[5]
Gravity is the gift of purpose. A free path. Effortlessly, we speed to our fate. And when we are close enough to fate, time and space change places. Going down becomes the same as passing time. The absence of effort, the geodesic of destiny. Obey your nature. Acceptance, not resignation. Inevitability, not inaction. Do what comes to you. The fact that it came to you makes it right. Down is the same as tomorrow. Nothing tests our faith.
Military
The Monasteriat military is a volunteer force.[2] Frontline militants include miracho and kamu-shiku soldiers. They are led by gravkill paladins. Monoists carry tidal weapons and armor, powered by gravitational tides, which cause space-bending to deflect projectiles.[5] Alabile, called "the tidal metal," is a metal used by Monoists in the construction of their high-pressure gravkill suits.[1][6] It is said to be hammered out of condensed spacetime events and is resistant to the effects of a singularity.
History
In ancient times, the star Susur collapsed into a supervoid, later called Point Prime.[1] Susurians, the native species of the Susur system, divined the first tenets of Monoism and founded the faith. The Monoists have created nine hundred ninety-nine supervoids since Point Prime, with Sothera as their one-thousandth.
The Monasteriat and the Summist Celestial Palatinate are engaged in the Entropy War.[1]
Glossary
- Catena — The series of entangled supervoids.[2] The process of connecting supervoids is known as "catenation," and can be confirmed when the Immortal Faller is observed plummeting at the center of that supervoid. Supervoids are considered the highest entity in the Monoist hierarchy, and are referred to as "super catenam," Latin for "top of the chain."
- Cherazad — A generator that creates a distortion bubble that delays the momentum from high impact, allowing Monoist ships to crash into enemy ships and engage in combat before the bubble collapses and the lost momentum is immediately restored.[1][2] They can defer a thirty KPS debt for about ten minutes. Its boundaries glow with the violet haze of fast time and cause or emit xenotic particle decay.[5] Its name is likely a reference to Shahrazad.
- Dragonfly missiles — Small missiles docked in armor.[5]
- Gravliner — A gravity-powered spacecraft.[2]
- Growler beam — A Monoist mass weapon that coincidentally shares a name with Susur Secundi.[2][5]
- Incident armor — Armor that can delete an event that would kill its wearer.[5]
- INEVITA — The promised and inevitable end of the universe, believed to be an Elysian paradise.[3][1] Also known as the Next Eternity and the World to Come.[2]
- Inevitor — A stealthy one-way boarding pod.[2] Powered by gravity alone, an inevitor will not fly unless its arrival is inevitable.
- Puzzle club — A group of members, called puzzlers, who like breaking locks.[5]
- Rahu — A religious leader and head of a Monoist monastery.[2]
- Sekhar — Also called a singularity bead, a microvoid wrapped in a bead that causes singularity induction.[2][1] Each bead is entangled with Point Prime. Used by Monoists to accelerate their journey to the Next Eternity. The exact meaning of the term is a secret within the faith, but it is rumored to be an acronym for "singularity ekpyrosis held at rest" or, less seriously, "shall emmediately kill hoever attempts rongly." Possibly named after the real-world Chandrasekhar limit.
- Surfact shears — Long weapon used for opening enemy armor.[5]
- Weaklight bombs
Notable Monoists
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References
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Miguel Lopez, Jay Annelli, Laurel Pratt, and Amanda LaFranco (June 20, 2025). "Planeswalkers Guide to Edge of Eternities". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Seth Dickinson (June 25, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 3". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Going Galactic in Edge of Eternities with The Magic Story Podcast (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (June 20, 2025).
- ↑ Seth Dickinson (June 21, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 1". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Seth Dickinson (June 26, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 4". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ AnaMaria Curtis (June 25, 2025). "Edge of Eternities: The Doors of Uthros". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
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