"For as long as the Primordial World Sea People live on the land, there are Shrines of the Continents, and for as long as the Primordial World Sea People die on the land, they are buried there. The shrines are like the value of life for life, like trinary processing; they are intrinsic to the people. In the skin of the dead, there is knowledge. In the blood of the dead, there is wisdom. In the return of these nutrients to the soil, there is the possibility for transmigration, up through roots, out of fruit and flower and into the mouths and bodies of the living. In this way, the being of progenitors becomes the being of progeny for as long as the shrines are carefully tended.

"The first solid food in every infant's mouth is put there by a Gardener, and the last wet, sweet taste of life sponged over the lips of the dying is as well, when possible. The holiest of holies are those vaults of flesh and memory, and their tenders are fixtures in the cells of all the people. In some, the call of the body is weak, and there is little awareness of the sentience that feeds it. In others, and especially in the Gardeners, the call of the body lies over the senses like a web and gifts the being with the coalescing sapience of all the people who come before.

"So, when the disparate cultures of the Primordial World Sea People are forced to flee their ruined home in search of a new one, they grieve together over the loss of these shrines and the countless generations blooming there in tree, leaf and fruit. This grief brings them together, and in that sorrow they take the name 'Petals Of The Twenty Thousand Blossom', since the Shrines of the Continents are often and in many languages called the Twenty Thousand Blossom for their fecundity and their history. Their abandoned solar system then comes to be known as the Home of the Twenty Thousand Blossom, the place where the Shrines of the Continents flourish and are lost."

-As told by Event Horizon

World Sea Legacy

This is the first of three trilogies about the descendants of the original Petals of the Twenty Thousand Blossom. The novels are tentatively entitled:

* Book I: Twilight of the World Sea People
* Book II: Rise of the World Sea Stewards
* Book III: World Sea Legacy

For more information about this series, please feel free to contact me.