The term “Anthropo-Taracahitian” isn’t a designation, but a resonance. It describes a lineage, not of blood, but of experiential echoes – the faint, shimmering impressions left by those who walked the Veiled Plateau before the Sundering. The Plateau, as the Precursors called it, wasn’t simply a geographical location; it was a nexus of cognitive density, where the Veil – a reality-bending membrane – thinned to almost nothing.
The Taracahiti, the original inhabitants, were not warriors nor builders. They were…listeners. They possessed a unique neural architecture, a ‘Harmonic Tuning’ as the later scholars termed it, that allowed them to perceive and interact with the residual energy signatures of past events. Each action, each emotion, each thought, left a vibrational imprint on the Veil, and the Taracahiti could, with focused meditation, ‘tune’ themselves to these echoes. They didn’t *remember* the past; they *felt* it.
“The stone remembers the weeping,” one transcribed fragment suggests, a phrase repeated across countless Taracahitian texts.
The Harmonic Tuning wasn't innate; it was cultivated through a rigorous process of ‘Veil-Walking’. This involved entering a state of deep meditative trance and deliberately focusing on a specific location on the Plateau. The goal wasn't to retrieve information, but to establish a sympathetic resonance with the dominant energy signature of that location.
Resonance Nodes were key. These weren't physical objects, but points of heightened energetic concentration. The Taracahiti believed that the most significant events – births, deaths, moments of intense emotion – created particularly potent nodes. These nodes acted as conduits, allowing the Taracahiti to experience the echoes with increasing clarity.
Some Nodes were ‘active’, constantly emitting faint vibrations. Others were ‘dormant’, requiring specific rituals and focused intention to awaken.
The process was inherently unstable. Prolonged exposure to a Node could lead to ‘Veil Bleeding’ – a catastrophic merging of the Taracahitian consciousness with the chaotic energies of the Veil. This resulted in erratic behavior, fragmented memories, and ultimately, dissolution.
Explore a dormant Node. (Warning: Potential for Veil Bleeding)
The Sundering, a catastrophic event of unknown origin, shattered the Plateau and dramatically weakened the Veil. The Taracahiti, unable to maintain their connection to the Nodes, were scattered across what became known as the Broken Lands. Their knowledge, their culture, their very existence, fragmented into countless, unstable echoes.
These scattered echoes are what we – the current custodians of the Plateau – seek to understand. We use advanced scanning technology to detect and analyze these remnants, but the process is inherently limited. We can only perceive the *impression* of the Taracahitian experience, never the experience itself.
Some scholars theorize that the Sundering wasn’t a natural event, but the result of a deliberate attempt by the Taracahiti to sever their connection to the Veil. Perhaps they realized the inherent danger of their power and sought to erase their legacy.
The ‘Echo Trail’ – a network of interconnected nodes – is a testament to this fractured legacy. Fragments of Taracahitian thought, emotion, and experience can still be detected, though often distorted and incomplete.
Follow the trail to the heart of the Sundering. (Caution: Temporal instability detected)