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    © 2004 Jonathan Phillips
"I have fought for ages that can't be counted; Seen this realm backwards and forwards; Dipped my hand in the blood of nightmare; Crossed paths with the
Nimrowcomicon. Too hell and back, my mind has plexed several times. As I walk it is as four of me. Separate minds flowing around each other. A collection of these minds is formed into my actions. The ages roll by and now they are increased by multipules. We are not meant to remember so much. I still hold the feeling of my deaths. The effects of my lives fold inward. I am becoming an entity formed by time and thought. No creature exists as I do. I am the X. I must hold on my friend."
Burned into a chunk of wood found in the ruins of a temple next to a bench where X once sat. The temple is the resting place of his friend Zangairrian, one of the original eight liquid shadows. Zangairrian took his own life after realizing he could not control his Quadra from several years of fighting as a liquid shadow. X is talking about the long-term effects of remembering all his lifetimes. The reason he calls himself X instead of Xenon is the concept of X being a crossing of paths (The paths of his memories and thoughts). Some complex things can be thought of as loops spinning around each other, connecting at points and forming a very complex 3D web. X feels as though his mind and movements are taking on this high level of complexity. At this time his armor directly shows this as it loops around its self forming many arm-like shapes. Walking and moving using his armor is no longer structured in the form of a 2 or 4 legged creature but instead as a free form collection of potentially hundreds of arms in a liquid effect. The face of his armor is also constantly changing. Either by not being shown or by forming mixtures of Xenon and other creatures he has encountered throughout his life. During this time he is often alone, hunting demons. He remains this way until he finds a balance and recreates himself in a new form which compresses his lifetimes into one. |
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