In spans that predated the concept of spans, THE Deliverance had observed the nature of advancement with attention that most beings could not sustain across even a fraction of such duration.
It had watched countless existences conflate two processes which were, upon examination that required no effort for something of its nature, quite fundamentally distinct from one another.
Transcendance and Ascension.
Transcendence referred to the elevation of existence beyond its current categorical limitations, the movement from one classification to another in ways that redefined what the being fundamentally was. Ascension represented advancement within one's existing classification, the refinement and expansion of capabilities without actually changing the foundational nature of the existence in question.
The distinction mattered. Those who failed to understand this failed at everything that followed.
