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Concordance of the Demiurges.

"Here lies the domain of the wielders of names, No bound or lay-line encircles it, For from step to step, They span the span, aft and fore, They are world straddlers, and their stride is shod with fire."

Inscription on the main arch entrance of the Concordance of the Demiurges.[1] Many think the inscription apt irony, considering the current state of the Concordance[2]

The Concordance of the Demiurges was the greatest speaking house of any age, with many chambers, a small city onto itself.[3] It is located in the very innermost circle of Throne, Sacred Spoke.[3][2][4] Today it is a blasted, cursed ruin, untouched even by treasure hunters for its reputation. The corpses of the two Demiurges who began the Universal War are, according to legend, still here, impaling each other on their weapons.[3]

Description[]

The Concordance of the Demiurges is a colossal domed building next to the very center of Throne (which is taken up by the Tower of Zoss). It is an ancient speaking house, one that predated the Demiurges and was said to be used by the Gods themselves, speculation that is reinforced by its colossal size. The honeycomb of halls inside the concordance are cavernous, and its central chamber is large enough to fit a small mountain inside.[2]

Today the Concordance is half-collapsed, a dust and detritus-choked ruin clogged with the bodies of the bloodthirsty fools who caused its fall. But in its glory days, the building was the center of all political life in the multiverse. It was here that any that the Demiurges called their peers had a right to meet, to debate, and to stand at assembly.[2]

Even when the Demiurges themselves were only a few thousand in number, the hall was still buzzing with activity at all hours. The Concordance, for that purpose, not only contained a main speaking hall, but also lodging and services for those attending its functions, for debates could carry on for days. A small army of sanctified servants tended to its daily functioning, servants who were so wholly committed to their cause that many of them grew up their entire lives scarcely leaving the building. Some historians speculate that this insularity was enforced, for the servants of the Concordance frequently heard dizzying facts and secrets about the inner workings of the multiverse that, if carried out of the holy center of the city, could have made them kings on their own.[2]

As the ultimate masters of creation, the first Demiurges were a society of enlightened equals, and wielded their power as a pure democracy. They respected nothing but ambition, intellect, and the power of reason. However, the sheer scale of the Demiurges’ society only grew as the worlds outside of Throne were opened and conquered, and it could not stand under its own ideals for long. It was on the speaking floor of the Concordance that the first blows were struck in the Universal War, and according to apocrypha, it is said the wretched corpses of the two men who started it are still there - their names forgotten or perhaps erased from history out of shame.[2]

Meetings of the Seven[]

A Concordance of the Demiurges is a meeting of The Seven, the last surviving Demiurges.[5] The last Seven Demiurges have continued gathering to discuss matters as peers since the creation of the Pact of the Seven Part World. Originally, these meetings were informal feasts celebrated in the presence of Zoss, but eventually relations soured violently between them.[6] It is implied that a fight against Jagganoth broke out, and they almost never met again since.[7]

There have been two major occasions in which the Concordance has been convened in recent memory. When the Holy Thorn Knights decapitated Zoss and abducted Zaid, Jagganoth intercepted them in the Void and brought the boy to a table set upon the head of an unknown dead God,[8] found slumped on a throne in the Void, calling then a meeting of the Seven to discuss this invasion of his territory.[9]

This place seems to have been a secondary gathering place for the original Order of the Demiurges, since around that table there are dozens of empty thrones, as well as Zoss' own dais and seat,[10] and the location where the fight against Jagganoth broke out, as denoted by the cracks on his side of the stone table.[7]

The second time, and the last before the War for Rayuba broke out, took place in the original Concordance of the Demiurges. It was convened by Solomon David in an attempt to stop the petty squabbles between Nadia Om and Mammon and remind them all of the need to fulfill the oath of the Pact to stop Jagganoth together.[1][3][11][12][13]

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