Gilgamesh is one of the already-present Otherworlders who has come to visit these Central Gardens tonight mostly out of pure curiosity as to their nature.
This evening, beneath the light of the three moons, the enclosed gates have yielded. Thus far, especially being on the tech path, the King of Heroes has mostly encountered the more urban areas of Magisteria: High Rise Village, as well as Eden 6/"Neon Heaven," so this place... presents quite the different showing. Home to the spirit world and ancient beings, eh?
The King of Heroes cannot but think of his conversations with Lucy as to the distinction between the Age of Gods and the Age of Man within his own world. From what he has seen thus far, he has no reason to suppose that the history is precisely similar to that of his own world, but ... this Elysian Grove, this world of spirits, it does have a strange sort of resonance. It's very different to the primeval world that had surrounded his kingdom In The Beginning of Time, and yet conceptually, there are... undeniable similarities.
A world of never-ending twilight and roaming spirits... not quite the Forest of Cedars, and yet... and yet...
"A spirit gardener, is it?" But the enchantment of this land makes Gilgamesh more amenable. "Very well... in reward for the gift of light to guide one's way in the face of Absolute Darkness, I shall assist you, O gardener of the ancient realm."
It is the same manner in which he addresses/thinks of the gods and goddesses of his own world; in fact, the Grove has something like the darkness of Kur, and also the lights of Bios remind him of the lights of its many souls, drifting in the abyss.
So Gilgamesh summons a curved blade from his vault. It drops easily into his hand, and, using this, he begins his work in collecting the Glowshade Ferns and the Phantom Lilies. After all, he is one to get bored easily, and this is at least something to do, even if he might say menial labor was habitually beneath him. But is it menial if it's all connected to these great spiritual rewards, and to such beings? There is also, of course, the matter of the challenges involved: approaching these glowing flowers, one might suddenly lose sight of them... only to see one some distance away, as if the blooms keep relocating. Forest spirits, illusions, shifting pathways... one feels in a dreamlike haze.
And looking at this Bios-infused garden... his thoughts cannot help but drift back, far back, to a time as long ago for him as this secluded realm represents for Magisteria. As he is collecting these flowers, he sees another moon, and other stars: a canopy thereof. And hills and mountains and a wide open world, a world that he had so loved to explore and travel to the ends of. And there was another who traveled with him, the only companion he allowed as he journeyed all through that world in his own youth in the primeval garden of the Earth.
Before him, he sees the spectral outline of that person. Others who approach will also see him gazing at that figure, one with androgynous features and long, pale green hair. They don't at all look out of place in this garden in Magisteria... and their original form would not have looked out of place here, either. Quite the opposite. His friend could indeed have been born in this very garden, Gilgamesh thinks.
Seeing them now, looking back at him proudly, of course Gilgamesh does smile, if his eyes are tinged ever-so-softly with wistfulness.
"Of course... you would have liked it here, wouldn't you have? Enkidu... my friend..."
Just as they loved the natural world, this Elysian Grove would have been a perfect space for them.
Gilgamesh | Fate 👑| Current Player | (will do more prompts, but, yanno, splitting bc of teal deer
Gilgamesh is one of the already-present Otherworlders who has come to visit these Central Gardens tonight mostly out of pure curiosity as to their nature.
This evening, beneath the light of the three moons, the enclosed gates have yielded. Thus far, especially being on the tech path, the King of Heroes has mostly encountered the more urban areas of Magisteria: High Rise Village, as well as Eden 6/"Neon Heaven," so this place... presents quite the different showing. Home to the spirit world and ancient beings, eh?
The King of Heroes cannot but think of his conversations with Lucy as to the distinction between the Age of Gods and the Age of Man within his own world. From what he has seen thus far, he has no reason to suppose that the history is precisely similar to that of his own world, but ... this Elysian Grove, this world of spirits, it does have a strange sort of resonance. It's very different to the primeval world that had surrounded his kingdom In The Beginning of Time, and yet conceptually, there are... undeniable similarities.
A world of never-ending twilight and roaming spirits... not quite the Forest of Cedars, and yet... and yet...
"A spirit gardener, is it?" But the enchantment of this land makes Gilgamesh more amenable. "Very well... in reward for the gift of light to guide one's way in the face of Absolute Darkness, I shall assist you, O gardener of the ancient realm."
It is the same manner in which he addresses/thinks of the gods and goddesses of his own world; in fact, the Grove has something like the darkness of Kur, and also the lights of Bios remind him of the lights of its many souls, drifting in the abyss.
So Gilgamesh summons a curved blade from his vault. It drops easily into his hand, and, using this, he begins his work in collecting the Glowshade Ferns and the Phantom Lilies. After all, he is one to get bored easily, and this is at least something to do, even if he might say menial labor was habitually beneath him. But is it menial if it's all connected to these great spiritual rewards, and to such beings? There is also, of course, the matter of the challenges involved: approaching these glowing flowers, one might suddenly lose sight of them... only to see one some distance away, as if the blooms keep relocating. Forest spirits, illusions, shifting pathways... one feels in a dreamlike haze.
And looking at this Bios-infused garden... his thoughts cannot help but drift back, far back, to a time as long ago for him as this secluded realm represents for Magisteria. As he is collecting these flowers, he sees another moon, and other stars: a canopy thereof. And hills and mountains and a wide open world, a world that he had so loved to explore and travel to the ends of. And there was another who traveled with him, the only companion he allowed as he journeyed all through that world in his own youth in the primeval garden of the Earth.
Before him, he sees the spectral outline of that person. Others who approach will also see him gazing at that figure, one with androgynous features and long, pale green hair. They don't at all look out of place in this garden in Magisteria... and their original form would not have looked out of place here, either. Quite the opposite. His friend could indeed have been born in this very garden, Gilgamesh thinks.
Seeing them now, looking back at him proudly, of course Gilgamesh does smile, if his eyes are tinged ever-so-softly with wistfulness.
"Of course... you would have liked it here, wouldn't you have? Enkidu... my friend..."
Just as they loved the natural world, this Elysian Grove would have been a perfect space for them.