Tau
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still crystal chime Sharp points are run through with bright and brilliant amethyst and sapphire. The colors remain but smolder to heather in their dying light. The chime is grave-still. |
Tau is one of the chimes of Chavvah. Shortly before the player's arrival at Eyn Roj, she was deeply affected by a vision of the future referred to as the "gyredream", and decided to separate from Chavvah. The player can determine her fate in the quest If, Then, Else. Her physical chime is the
still crystal chime, and her psyche manifests in the Taproot of
Eyn Roj as
glowing soft, accompanied by
Aoyg-No-Longer, servant of Ptoh in the Cosmic Wood. Upon giving her
chime to the
soft, if Aoyg is alive Tau will join the Seekers of the Sightless Way as
Tau-No-Longer. If Aoyg has been killed, she will instead become a pariah as
Wandering Tau. In either case, she will give the player the
crystalline halo. After receiving the halo, if Tau is killed by the player, the halo will transform into the
crystalline jile.
Trivia
- Tau is mentioned in
From Entropy to Hierarchy, which describes her as an accomplished artist who makes psionic crystal mazes on the edge of the
Moon Stair. This may refer to the widespread structures of
hexagonal crystal through the
Moon Stair, or perhaps to the
psychal rhythm rocks found in psychic biomes.
From Entropy to Hierarchy formerly referred to Tau as τª.