Edge of Extinction war story/Chapter 18

"Evidence exists, your highness, that the limited elemental cascade is evoking sentience."

"What?" Tralin asked the scholar from the School of Thought, startled by this unexpected pronouncement.

"The gathering charged energy has resulted in that energy itself beginning to take living form. However, the elemental annihilation that is occurring means that which is being created is neutral anima in nature."

"Living energy, but without direction; that is the basis for the formation of creatures like Salamanders and Water Weird, correct?"

"Yes, your highness..."

"So what you are saying is that what is being produced is an non-e.. er... a neutral el..."

"The words fail, your highness, but yes, I believe your understanding is correct. This energy is gathering over the major conflict zones. Eventually, it will reach a tipping point; this tipping point is likely your described 'explosion'. At that juncture, the cascade will be unleashed and manafest... er manifest in some manner.

"One takes it in a manner not propitious for living beings of either anima."

"One can only conjecture, your highness, however, I personally would avoid being anywhere close to the impact zone. I do not particularly think it would be healthy even for other living neutral anima beings, as such beings generally have a strong elemental charge to go with their lack of spirit energy. This being, in so far as it can be called a being at all, is spirit that has lost all elemental affinity."

"A non-being? This really does have an untoward amount of similarities to the Shadow Universe, doesn't it?"

"It does, majesty, but it is decidedly unlikely to follow an identical course because the area of effect is more contracted and because the elemental affinities is being lost, whereas Erebus maintained his own."