At this time as he looked at everything, Adelheid's voice arrived in Noah's mind.
'What you are perceiving are THE Terminus Citadels. You are looking at eight of them from this angle, though there are more beyond the immediate perimeter.'
Her mental voice carried the quality of her physical voice elevated into pure precision, each word arriving with deliberateness.
'This entire region was constructed during the Fourth Age. Ancient Gilded Ones, among the most powerful our civilization has produced across its history, identified nine locations within THE Braneworld Observable Existence where the specific conditions of dimensional density and existential substrate permitted the concentration of Prime Cause light from THE First Cause into a stable persistent presence.'
