Report: Lazarus Dream/Vision of Redressor Capabilities

[April 16 2025]

-Lazarus experienced a strange dream seemingly related to the capabilities and nature of Redressor.

*Note: The Golden was psychically present during the course of the dream, but seemed unfamiliar with it contents.

-Began by falling into an alien landscape, grey-mudded ground surrounded by a forest of gargantuan blades of grass (60-100 stories in height). These growths undulated not with wind, but apparently under their own power/direction, and specifically bent toward a more distant point, where Lazarus glimpsed a red glow. Approaching this point gave him the sense of undergoing time dilation, with the world moving slower around him.

-The source of the glow shifted in color upon approach, and resolved as a large (boulder sized), jagged cinder with a flickering pearlescent core and crystalline shell. This description matches that of the Nemesis Device, though considerably larger. Lazarus has previously noted that his device's core flickers in the presence of corruption, as the Cinder was currently doing, and that this seemed to be correlated with the grass structures reaching toward it.

-Lazarus touched the Cinder and communed with its presence; it greeted him "warmly" and "with relief." The empathic connection enabled Lazarus to be guided into a more effective mastery of the Purge/Purify Protocol, using an internalized mantra/thought process/meditation that would allow him to "become flame." Lazarus was able to use this enhanced power to destroy the grasses around him and the Cinder, for which the presence thanked him,

-A final sense imparted that a foothold remains. I am uncertain at this time whether this means that an Asterii foothold against the Archenemy remains, or that the Archenemy managed to gain a foothold within the Asterii technology.