Tag: Wisdom
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Knowledge Is Not Innate
Read more: Knowledge Is Not InnateThe world before the Chaos War appeared, on the surface, to bear the signs of one of the most modern and advanced civilizations. Magic had enabled the development of technologies that would have seemed like sorcery to the ancestors of the Espers. But although the world as a whole had modernized, every new Esper still…
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Learning from Mistakes
Read more: Learning from MistakesThe Espers were far from perfect. Learning from their mistakes was therefore also a natural way for them to grow.But in a society where the right to make mistakes was becoming less and less accepted, learning from one’s own mistakes was also becoming increasingly difficult. The image of success had changed. At the height of…
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A World That Has Become Ultra-Complex
Read more: A World That Has Become Ultra-ComplexThe civilization of the Espers had been built over thousands of years, and for a newborn discovering the world, this meant trying to make connections between billions of objects and increasingly complex and abstract systems, in which billions of individuals were put to work, while no one could fully understand how they functioned anymore. And…
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Learning to Pass On
Read more: Learning to Pass OnIf the use of magic had brought many benefits to the daily lives of the Espers, the world before the Chaos War had changed enormously, for better and for worse. No one could have imagined how much society would change thanks to the new technologies made possible by magic. The population had exploded, as had…
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The Prism of Wisdom
Read more: The Prism of WisdomThe end of the War of Chaos had revealed not only the StarDust, but also the artifacts of each element. For water, it was the Prism of Wisdom. Every Esper who developed their StarDust in their water element could acquire this artifact, which helped them see, through a prism of tolerance and humility, not only…
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The Shadow of Wisdom
Read more: The Shadow of WisdomAs for Wisdom, the Shadow within each of the Espers was no less present. On the contrary, when faced with difficult questions or complex problems, this Shadow would often avoid the real issue and instead answer something simpler, something it was capable of solving without effort. That was why the Espers sometimes behaved in contradictory…
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The Flexibility of Mind That Builds Dialogue
Read more: The Flexibility of Mind That Builds DialogueLune Lune, our cat companion of the water element, now accompanied Guruo to his lessons. At first, he had been reluctant to go, but the teachings given in the Great Library of Esperia truly spoke to him. There were many things to learn, of course. But one thing had changed since the Seven Shapes had…
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Choices and Priorities
Read more: Choices and PrioritiesThe end of the Chaos War had nevertheless, despite the ecological and civilizational devastation it had caused, brought with it perhaps, at last, the solutions needed to build a society living in harmony with nature and at peace. Vati, the Shape of Wisdom, then spoke. “When the Eclipse cast a veil over the StarDust that…
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Common Values
Read more: Common ValuesSince meeting Guruko, Lune Lune, our little cat of the water element, had come to understand what the Seven Shapes, and especially Vati, the Shape of Wisdom, were striving to accomplish in order to finally bring harmony to the world. Nurturing the StarDust that existed within every Esper could become the foundation of shared values…
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Coherent Ideas
Read more: Coherent IdeasThe reconstruction of Esperia after the Chaos War had raised an essential question: how could they finally ensure that such events would never happen again? Until then, the five elements, each under its own sovereignty, had never stopped trying to outdo one another, at the expense of the weakest, the least fortunate, and above all,…