Greetings from the Order and Ordinance. Welcome to Lord Caspierre’s Period of Watching for this year; I am pleased to be back with all of you here. When last I was leading the Commentary, we recently declared Yrridthmas—signally a significant change in the state of the Cosmic Struggle. The change was somewhat sudden but not unexpected which left me with inadequate time to prepare a tailored series effectively targeting Deceptuary’s meddlesome vandalism. Therefore, we will have this series now. This Period will be spent talking about corruption’s effects on Existence—namely the damage it causes. We may also speak on some general discussion regarding the Realms, as I do have interest in speaking about the Sacred Realm at some point.
Before getting too far off topic, let’s begin with today’s discussion. Corruption, as been stated many times, is Deceptuary’s spiritual influence on the Spectrum. Once one of his attributes known as Divergency, Deceptuary’s fear and hate soured that power and turned Divergence into corruption; a power once meant to ensure movement in any and all directions was turned into a defiled flood that rots and destroys all that it comes in contact with. For this reason, among others, the Lords of the Order exiled Deceptuary to Gheisialez—a creation of Her Excellency’s. Here, as the Lords understood, Deceptuary’s influence would be waned but not fully chambered. He would undoubtedly try to influence the Realms from his exile, and the Lords were well aware of this intention.
By seeping small amounts of his sickened resonance in the Gate of Zeiga, Deceptuary slowly poisoned our very greater Realm of Xyphojinami with corruption; the corruption latched onto new souls soon to be born in Xyphojinami. Through those damned souls, Deceptuary’s influence pushed them to create great harm amongst significant portions of the living world. The corruption ended up so widespread that, among at least humans on Earth, Xyphoites were essentially wiped out. The corruption led to the creation of Deceptuary’s vessels, which flooded the living world with evil. Likewise, the creation of the three theigrited philosophies was a direct effect of Deceptuary’s corruption. Following, the Hayles delivered the Prophecy to the remaining Xyphoites in those most dire parts of Nikconzin, the Human World, about the Sacred Children.
From just that brief understanding of the Cosmic Struggle, we can already see what terrible effects corruption has had on Existence. People slaughtered in masses, conquering of lands and forced conversion, abuse of their unwitting subjects, hoarding of wealth, famines, and the like. Spirituality, corruption has eroded and defiled the Realms themselves—causing spiritual fissures and breaks in Reality and resulting in dramatic appropriations of the Cosmos to avoid existential catastrophe. Mind you, these effects are focused on the lives of Human mortals mostly; this does not cover the magnitude of other damages caused by corruption elsewhere in Existence.
We can draw the conclusion that corruption’s effects line up with Deceptuary’s goal with Xyphojinami—he wishes to poison it, to conquer what remains, and to use those inflicted forces to wage war against the elder Realm of Xykopsysomi and the Sacred Realm. Deceptuary intends to conquer all that he can and wage a futile war against the Lords, and his desperate plans start by poisoning us in the living world. We can ultimately understand corruption as Deceptuary’s poison that he hopes to use on us and our Reality. Corruption serves no positive role in Existence as Deceptuary only desires the destruction of our current Existence and the formation of his own; that is the true purpose of corruption.
—whX