All In A Number
Six. Is always six. Six scions, six primal elements, six seem to be number that signifies importance throughout history and creation. You likely know this. Golah did. But is easy to recognize patterns in the past. So easy to look back and connect the dots when the answers already given. We in Dominion so fond of taking lessons from past, but that because past stable. Concrete. Golah going try something different. Going ask you to look to future. To recognize that something strange happening. That right now, before Dominion's eyes, patterns of past beginning to repeat.
For long time, Golah not been overly religious. Has...believed, but has only believed for self. Not want to die and there be nothing after. Was maybe more like hope than belief. Feel like that case with many. Moons have good lessons for chua and Helmina's church very nonracist and relaxed place. Supported both, but did truly 'believe'? Maybe not. After all, if Eldan gods, why they not show themselves? Why not give us sign?
Not sure when it was that noticed. One day it just clicked. Chua moons teach of balance. Of mixture of logic and emotion. Pago is knowledge and Pergo is rage. It speaks of duality of chua life, how we powerful mixture of intellect and passion. Like moons, we both light and dark. Is our belief that these moons guide us and watch over us in our lives.
And guide us they have. Chua society has come long way. Yet we always had barrier. While our drive and passion let us thrive in Dominion, we always little removed from it. We not seen as equals. Helpful? Certainly. But while our contributions valued, our presence often less so. Yes, maybe slightly our fault with hilarious pranks, but we mean no harm. Yet were often seen as rodents, slanks, vermin. Called this too. We're second class citizens, only really respected when something needed fixing or breaking.
So what changed? Because on Nexus, is not case. Somehow, someway, chua respected. Highly respected. Are treated well, invited to important things and given lot of leniency. We suddenly have respect and treatment that have always wanted and on new capital of Dominion. How we suddenly find the position of equals?
At first, Golah looked to the obvious. Neffelo Clamp. One of main things chua have on Nexus is powerful, traditional Collective. A Collective that is willing to take in the uncertain and teach them how to be proper chua. A voice for both chua, pushing traditional values and proud, dignified actions as well as for non-Chua, explaining what chua life like and damning racism.
Then began to see. Neffelo Clamp very reminiscent of chua moons. He a force of both darkness and light, good and bad depending on who asked. Has had long, winding past that let him walk through so many aspects of chua life, seeing all that our kind can achieve. He unified the traditional chua on the planet and given us position of equals we deserve. He even born on the very moons he worships as if was their chosen one.
And then Golah saw it. Wasn't just Neff. There were more. In fact...there were six.
Red Tails, Dalakan, Junction, Dreadtalon, Institute, Vigilant Church. Six powerful children of the Empire, all born from its diverse reaches and with very different methods of operation. Yet despite fact that each is so different and has own unique ways and plans, they are united. United in loyalty to Dominion and belief that its future is here and ours. All of ours.
Chua not only unified race. Draken have found group of their own. Dreadtalon clan is much the same, offering traditional guidance and structure for all draken who seek it. Astoreth, child of Mikros, looks to the future by following the past. Strong roots in culture lay groundwork for the draken of this world, yet this culture not hoarded. Is shared. What was once fearsome to outsiders is taught and explained, the draken's own barriers in the empire beginning to fade away.
Dalakan is not unifier of Cassians. Is wake up call. In age where some highborn seem content to sip wine and watch, Dalakan is example of why highborn meant to exist. Rather than watching from the shadows, they lead from the front, the shining example that the highborn are meant to be. Rather than telling us what to do, they do it and encourage us to follow.
The Junction is the opposite of mechari stereotypes. Is not secretive. Is open. Is friendly. Is a bastion of not just what mechari are, but everything they can be. They the embodiment of the fact that just because one born from the forge, they can be as diverse, as intricate, as flawed and as compassionate as one born from the womb.
Like primal elements, this takes care of four natural ones. Four races. But leaves life and logic, the more abstract elements. Life isn't hard to find. Is Helmina's church. Life is their purpose. All life. All are welcome in their congregation and the only thing preached, only thing they care about is how to improve lives of those that come. They are life and if listen to their sermons, can feel it. Is tangible. In the very air.
Logic is the Institute. While many factions trying colonize and develop Nexus, Institute has different objective. To understand. To learn from. Are things on this planet we have never seen before, objects left behind by the Eldan themselves. Is going to be a bright future in Dominion. Time when we ourselves may be able simply create things like artist paints a picture. But to get there, we need answer the question the Institute ask every day. 'How did Eldan do what they did'.
Once again, Dominion being guided by six Scions. This time they, not Eldans, here to uplift the Cassians. They the Dominion's many people, here to claim our promised land. There was a time when Golah not sure if their gods. Now is certain. More certain than ever. And they guiding us forward, to a new Dominion. A Dominion of peace and prosperity beyond any we ever seen before. A Dominion of racial harmony and cooperation, of many cultures unified for the purpose of something greater.
Our many gods have chosen and uplifted their heroes and we guided to their purposes. You may have been told before to walk with the scions. Today, Golah asking you to do something different. He wants you to walk as the scions. Because this is the Dominion reborn.