#Inktober Day 20 - Breakable/ Wind


The etheric winds constantly swirl across the spirit realms, sometimes drifting like a zephyr, sometimes howling like a hurricane. They carry fragments of chimeric flotsam and jetsam that batter the realms like millions of sand grains, eroding the edges of dreams and realms until they too become spiritual debris in the eternal maelstrom.

The will of a single soul can prevent gradual erosion of a local realm in the endless storm, but more souls dedicated to a single ideal are required for securing larger realms, or for preventing the effects of the more dangerous storms.

When a population is divided in it's beliefs, cracks begin to appear in a realm. The patterns of growth and self healing give way to statis, fragility and brittleness in a realm. These are dangerous times, where a single savage storm can obliterate a realm, and where the reflection of this loss in the physical realm might be revolution, war, or more physical like earthquakes or global climate change.

Everything has repercussions, all is interconnected.

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