* - Sev’s flashback [[SEVARIK-BACKSTORY-AFTER-CONSUMMATION.fountain]] shared in the post. Cool little moment after the consummation scene when they are in bed together, miria asks how he ended up Bonded to tuft. - After her tells that story she asks… no, how did you end up here? What was your old world like? He tells a modified & simplified version of the rebellion against the technocrats. - The trial period for the marriage should be a year, but there's no sun and no seasons… tuft has a base 12 Babylonian system based on the knuckles counting. A week is six days. 4 days on, 2 off, 4 on, 2 off. Six weeks in a month. Four weeks of regular work, 2 weeks of holiday/festival time, the two days in the middle of that are the official holidays. 12 months in a year. The high holidays fall on the center days like our Christmas and Easter or solstice and equinox. These are tied roughly to Tuft's growth patterns and typically mean an expansion; a new tendril, bigger aura, a move, etc. - Scene where tuft gets damaged and goes dormant until the next holiday. - The Scouring. House in the lee of Tuft's aura. Nobody can leave until the ~asteroid belt passes by. Cooped up in the house, not sure how long it will take — longest anyone has heard of was 16 days. It's like a tornado where you have to hunker down and ride it out. Afterwards, tuft needs energy. Food stores are low. House has small bits of cosmetic damage. But more importantly everything that was tucked up against the aura is gone; no river. No forest. Everything is basically ground to dust. The Scouring is the great destroyer. - Hmmmmmm. Maybe Nothing is created or destroyed technically but the Scouring creates something like the raw energy that tuft and other world seeds need? It's where motes come from? - Or maybe we get away from the circle of life and some things are created and some things are destroyed. In balance but not directly related. - Maybe the big full grown ones eat Scouring Storms in a big circle of life thing and that's how they create their ~sun equivalents; once the storms get big enough, they eat it, then they condense the storms down into the ball. Then when they generate the world seed babies they also give birth to the Scouring Storms. Like a weird little male and female thing.