“ Even in the Ethereal, where everything passes and flows, the heart holds on to what it loves.” wisdom of the phirblas     Fourth Guild Day of Mortis, 126 HR   Ambar sat in his chambers in the palace on the Ethereal Plane and read the short transcript on the piece of parchment in front of him once again. The Chosen had found this text in a book in the catacombs underneath Broken Reach, and Yelmalis had copied part of it. After the events in the Opal Tears Palace, the air genasi had sent a copy of it to the other group. It was the first time they had discovered truly tangible and concrete information about the mysterious Deus Machina. And yet the text fragment remained enigmatic. Once again, Ambar’s eyes wandered over the lines:   “ ... which may even date back to the time of Arendur. The ancient tome ”Deus Machina" by Tolumvire suggests that the so-called God Machine is a machine-like mechanism that is directly integrated into the architecture of S...