The Divine Past is a Divine of the Divine Principality, aligned with Stel Kesh. Its elect is Cymbidium. Part floating city, part living library, it was built tens of thousands of years before the Divine Principality was created. It stores an untold amount of information about the cultures it has observed, including the Divine Principality itself.[1] Before it was a Divine, it was the being known as Crystal Palace, the prophetic computer which predicted all events within the Principality of Kesh's borders.
During the events of Obelle, On Fire, Past crashed just outside of Obelle. Stel Kesh falsely claimed this was the work of Apostolos.
The Rapid Evening were sent to Obelle after Past crashed, in order to recover enough of the Divine to begin rebuilding it.[2] During this mission, Exeter Leap recovered the robotic janitorial unit Figure A,[3] who had been deactivated and placed on display in a museum inside the Divine millennia before.[4]