The Knight King of the High Lordship of the Spinning Table Knights was handed off to [Teacher]. Having spent years as a Shroud Mentor, [Teacher] knew how to express Xi Yan's meaning in the most mystifying language imaginable, giving these devout toxic paladins a little psionic shock.
Xi Yan, meanwhile, entertained the ruler of the Seteran Covenant before him, a Seteran whom they called the "First Scion."
Seterans bore some resemblance to humans, though only "some." They had the same biological arrangement of a torso, a head, two legs, and two arms, but their heads were extraordinarily developed. The backs of their skulls extended far behind them, looking extremely bulky from the side yet rather thin from the front.
As misshapen body proportions went, theirs were middling.
Their extraordinarily large brains endowed Seterans with formidable intelligence and reasoning abilities. Perhaps that was precisely why they had chosen fanatic spiritualism.
"There's a spacetime fissure in your Homeworld System, or an astral rift, to use the scientific term, isn't there? It's troubled you for many years." Xi Yan seized the initiative with his underhanded outsider knowledge, recalling a description he had happened across years ago.
[Origin: Rifts in the Sky It is believed that when a Seteran passes away, their essence returns through a gateway leading to the Astral Plane. This is also how they reach the afterlife, though the form that afterlife takes remains a mystery. Governed by a strict moral code, the people hold fast to this belief, for no devout Seteran wishes to drift eternally through the void. Their bravest explorers are searching for rifts in spacetime, hoping to answer their society's ultimate question: where do we go after death?]
This origin guaranteed that an astral rift would spawn in the Homeworld System, and greatly increased the