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42 ABY
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Oacanogoc, Selen
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Bril Teg Arga
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New Order era
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Arcona
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The Adansede is a sacred site constructed in the aftermath of the Battle of Brimstone, whose construction was overseen by Bril Teg Erinos as a gift to the Selenian people. A place of remembrance, confession, and silent release, The Adansede serves as both a spiritual refuge and a psychic pressure valve for a wounded people. Warriors, civilians, and even criminals have all come here to utter their burdens—fears, regrets, guilt, grief—in an act of private catharsis.
The site draws heavily from Iridonian funerary rites, blended with new traditions born Bril's new life on Selen and from the crucible of recent loss. Following its creation, The Adansede has become a symbol of resilience and shared mourning among the inhabitants of Selen, as well as a beacon for seekers, penitents, and Force-sensitives from across the Dajorra System.
Structure and Atmosphere
The Adansede is located on Oacanogoc, an island located off of Ussun's northeastern coast that suffered the highest number of casualties and damage during The Pretender War's conclusion. Visitors enter through a narrow corridor flanked by walls inscribed with names of the fallen. Built into the hollowed heart of a shattered mesa once teeming with life in all forms, which now exists as a barren shadow of itself in the wake of a massive volcanic eruption, The Adansede's central chamber is a quiet, domed sanctuary carved from local stone—illuminated solely by the lambent glow of a massive kyber crystal suspended above a shallow pool of still water. Its presence creates a subtle, calming aura in the chamber, and visitors report feeling a presence that listens, reflects. The more one speaks or meditates, the more the crystal seems to quietly shimmer, pulsing in time with the emotional release.
Beneath the crystal and arranged in a circle are smooth, stone seats covered with cushions stuffed with cotton and feathers, a few mats for kneeling, and ritual objects left behind: weapons, beads, trinkets, torn cloth, even handwritten notes pressed into the stone crevices. These offerings are not removed. They become part of the Adansede's living memory.
Force Effect
Though not all who visit are Force-sensitive, many report leaving with a feeling of lightness, of unburdening—as if whatever had been weighing on them had been left within The Adansede's walls. Indigenous and Arconan Force users have verified that the kyber crystal does, in fact, absorb emotional pain, guilt, and fear—not permanently, but as a salve to ease the caustic touch of profound loss The effect, whether spiritual or psychosomatic, is significant; however, the more these feelings accumulate, the more volatile the crystal becomes. Left untended, the Adansede would risk becoming a Dark Side nexus, twisted by unpurified emotion and despair.
Ritual Purification
To prevent this, Bril—alongside Force practitioners of various traditions both foreign and indigenous—has instituted a cleansing rite meant to purge The Adansede of everything it absorbs from its visitors. Held every 20 standard days (or sooner if needed), the rite involves:
- Careful anointing using local herbs
- Echo smudging, where trained Force users draw out excess emotion from the crystal and diffuse it
- Collective prayer or storytelling designed to realign the emotional tone of the space
Bril himself often performs a version of the Iridonian "ayure" ritual, using a ceremonial knife to mark sigils of release into items of stone, bone, or wood. He invites others to do the same, encouraging them to write their thoughts on small shards of bone or dried wood before tossing them in a communal fire pit just outside The Adansede's central chamber.
Symbolism and Cultural Impact
Although it was built in commemoration of those lost in a specific tragedy, The Adansede has grown into a living monument—a place where the emotional weight of war, survival, and trauma can be seen, named, and honored. Members of Clan Erinos sometimes bring their foundlings here to teach the value of vulnerability. Outsiders come seeking absolution or a way to remember their own.
Whispers say that the Adansede never echoes with footsteps, that voices drop away as soon as grief is spoken aloud. Whether placebo or Force-induced silence, the effect leaves many believing they were truly heard—by something deeper than the room itself.