The game
  • THE PLOT
    • HISTORY OF VEEL-TARK
      • The Prolegomena
      • The Framework For Action
      • First Movements
      • The Creation Of The Game
      • A New Acropolis
      • The Fall
      • The Rebirth
    • GENESIS OF THE KHEPRIS
      • The Creation of Life
      • The Shadow of Athanasius
      • The cosmos machine
      • From among the dead
    • THE ATHANASIUS MANUSCRIPT
      • The Tohu va-Bohu
      • The cogwheels of chaos
      • Khepri and the dead
  • VEEL-TARK FILES
    • ROLES GUIDE
      • THE GUILDS
        • Alchemists
        • Exegetes
        • Procurators
        • Sentinels
      • THE FACTIONS
        • Heirs of Eleusis
        • Neo-Atlantists
        • Stellar Circle
        • Hermeticists
      • THE LODGES
      • THE LEAGUES
      • THE BROTHERHOODS
      • THE RACES
        • Humanites
        • Reptilians
        • Cyanites
        • Spectrals
        • Biomechanicals
    • CITY MAP
      • CENTRAL DISTRICT
        • The Agora Plaza
        • The Mint
        • The Prytaneum
        • Atlantis Library
        • The Athenaeum
      • NORTHERN DISTRICT
        • Alchemists' Tower
        • Khepri's Temple
        • Thermal Caves
        • Tabernacle
      • SOUTHERN DISTRICT
        • Amphitheatre
        • Odeum
        • Stadium
        • Akasha Museum
        • The Great Hyperborean Inn
      • EASTERN DISTRICT
      • WESTERN DISTRICT
      • Ruins Outside Veel-Tark
      • The Gates of Veel-Tark
      • Door of Thoth
      • Lemuria Academy of Veel-Tark
      • Hermeticists
      • Historical Society of Veel-Tark
      • Atlantis Library of Veel-Tark
    • TRAITS OF THE KHEPRIS
      • TAXONOMY
        • The Independents
        • Protogonic Dinasty
      • CHARACTERISTICS
        • Classification
        • Properties
        • Attributes
        • Constitution
    • CHARACTERS OF VEEL-TARK
      • Nimrod, the Gatekeeper
      • Procyon, the Ambassador
      • Senet, the Game Master
      • Lyra, the Master of the Council
      • Cepheus, the Judge
      • Pictor, the General
      • Ursa, the Machine Whisperer
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The cosmos machine

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As above, so below

Given the impact that this writing must have had on Holberins' work, part of which constituted the project of the virtual city of Veel-Tark, whose model rested in the Bildung Complex in Fribourg (Germany), it is not difficult to understand the great importance that the Egyptian deity named Khepri acquired within said project. Its transformative nature, its rebirth, and its elevation from waste were revealing to the mysterious scientist.

Supposedly, Holberins commissioned the construction of a small-scale replica of the gear machinery described by Athanasius in his manuscript, which was included within the Veel-Tark model itself. This machinery came to represent the heart of the city; a tiny mechanical dung beetle was inserted into the wheel of the athanor to exert movement with the accumulative action of its front legs, causing the gear apparatus to rotate constantly, day and night, propelled by its own kinetic energy. The entire dynamics of Veel-Tark's enormous and complex structure depended, then, on the activity of a minuscule being.