Wakeful

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Wakeful is a strange, nascent, "potentially post-divine" gestalt being comprised of the Divines freed from the Garden of Fidelity and the Delegates who have reunited with them.[1] Some people who are not Divines or Delegates, such as Elects, are also part of Wakeful in some way. It is unclear what happens to these people, but whatever it is, it's probably gross.[2]

History and Involvement

After the Divines were freed from Fidelity's garden, they began to spread throughout the Afflicted Lands. In response, Fidelity began luring Delegates back to her in the hopes of regrowing them into full Divines for her to torture new Delegates out of. Thisbe, August Righteousness and Partial Palisade spoke to the Divines Guilt, Opposition, Responsibility, and Leadership to ask them to protect the Delegates from this new threat. They ended up breaking the chains connecting the four Divines, and Leadership began to counter Fidelity with its own call for the Delegates to join it.[3]

Gentian, Crusade and the Nidean forces offered their "protection" to Leadership and the Delegates, and gave over the Temple of the Threshold to the new Divine kingdom. Many Nideans and Nidean Divines, as well as freed Divines from the garden, flocked to its umbrella.[3] The Divines there began to form a nascent gestalt consciousness.[4] August Righteousness sought to negotiate; the gestalt as Righteousness agreed to turn over Gentian, Crusade and their retinue, while the Cause agreed to leave the kingdom be for now.[4]

The developing gestalt, which took the name Wakeful, had been in communication with Future and Devotion out in the Mirage. It called them to Palisade to join it physically. The Cause was able to prevent this and keep them from further influencing the gestalt. Without Cause approval, Levi began working on restoring towns within Wakeful’s remit. He was successful in convincing Wakeful that helping people was more important than strict control.[5]

With Wakeful now more open to cooperation, August once again led negotiations. This time he asked that the remaining Nidean Divines and officers be turned over to the Cause lest they be forced to go to war. After discussing punishment, rehabilitation and the appropriate time scales for either, Wakeful agreed to the demands. Wakeful privately believed that in 100 years or so it might be able to successfully reintegrate those Divines into itself.[2]

Known Members of Wakeful

Divines

The Divines that make up Wakeful include most, if not all, of the Divines freed from the Garden.[note 1] A number of Principality Divines were originally part of them as well.

Delegates

Wakeful is able to make "temporary exudation[s]" of Delegates from the Divines that are part of its gestalt. This includes Delegates that were reabsorbed by their Divines (such as Bright Mercy), and possibly also new ones made by emphasizing parts of itself.

Notes

  1. It is heavily implied but not outright stated that all the Divines who were freed from the Garden eventually joined Wakeful. That would add Consultation, Emphasis, Guilt, Influence, and Responsibility to this list.
  2. Crusade was ejected from the gestalt in A Palette of Colors Pt. 5.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Devotion and Future were either connected to or in contact with the gestalt from afar, but prevented from becoming a physical part of it.
  4. All remaining Nidean Divines are ejected from Wakeful in "A Palette of Colors Pt. 8".
  5. Unlike many Delegates who joined Wakeful, Eclectic did so unwillingly, or at least unwittingly. He was violently reabsorbed into Opposition, who later joined Wakeful.

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