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 Creation of Life

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Encounter with the solar beetle

Based on the latest known details of his life, Holberins, the founding father of the city of Veel-Tark, began to give certain relevance to the figure of Khepri in the early 1910s. Khepri is an Egyptian deity who, in the form of a dung beetle pushing the solar disk, represents creation and rebirth, the constant transformation of existence. The significance that this figure acquired for Holberins can be related to a recurring need to reinvent himself, considering that his fascination with Khepri coincided with the zenith of a life filled with changes and the pursuit of spiritual truth through science: quantum mechanics and chaos mathematics, driven by scientists like Planck and Poincaré.

It also coincided with the fire that consumed the Bildung Complex (New Year's Eve 1921), the headquarters of the Scientific Research Center Sigma and a global cultural reference, from which only an allegorical sculpture representing the spiritual forces that move the world was saved. The threats that preceded this event once again pointed, for Holberins, to the need to rebuild his project through transformation.