Finally starting to catch up, bit by bit! Jydshi's cute. The Urtelem worldbuilding was rock solid. Bonus points for a Jvanic hightailing outta there as soon as things got too hairy.

Jvan has her own complementary care package to send, but I think that can stay in the pipeline for a while more.

[@Kho]

The Purple Sands is basically the Amestrian coast. The stone calendar is just next to (or possibly surrounded by) Xerxes and should be intact.

I think the Noctus passage refers to the fact that for the quantum processes by which Nocti gain energy, natural entropy is violated and available energy increases with time. Normally, energy becomes less and less usable with linear time.