Forever-Silence

In Rockallic mythology, the Forever-Silence (Rockallian: Teóiste-gu-dhéo [ˈʃosʈkʏˌçʲeu̯], Fernolian: Téuibh-am-byth [ˈtiu̯mbəθ], Astrallic: Seuste-go-déogh [ˈɕu:st gəˌɖeo]) is the end of everything. The Forever-Silence will be heralded by a set of events, initially obscure but eventually inescapable, until eventually the life cycle of the All-Tree will come to an end, only for it to never reemerge again. With its disappearance, the Deities will disappear too, leaving only silence.

The All-Tree
In Rockallic mythology, all nine worlds are located in the branches, between the roots, or directly underneath the All-Tree, the source of all life, similar to in. The All-Tree lives its life in cycles: first, it lives underground, in its seed; then, when it comes above ground, it is tended to be the Deities; as it grows, nine different worlds will form on its branches, betweens its roots, and underneath it; the All-Tree will live its very long life, until eventually it dies, and one of its seeds falls to the ground. The deities, the only creatures who are able to live even after the All-Tree dies, will then patiently wait in silence until the All-Tree grows again.

But one day, the All-Tree will not grow again, as attested in the very last verse of the Legendarium:


 * But one day there will be no tree
 * Nothing will there grow
 * The Deities will no longer live
 * Their bodies will disappear
 * And then for eternity
 * Silence will fall

This event, the failure of the All-Tree to reemerge, is referred to as the Forever-Silence. The cycles of the All-Tree loosely correspond with the theory of the, whereas the Forever-Silence could be seen as the  or.

The Forgotten Silhouette
The Forgotten Silhouette is the popular name for an otherwise unnamed girl who is mentioned at the end of the chapter Ialm of the Legendarium, who is a Forgotten One, a follower of Girl in the City, Hidden in a Corner. The goddess That Ghostly Girl at the End of the Road will one night appear before the girl, and propose that she become one of her followers, a Silhouette. The girl refuses. This process repeats itself every cycle, and every time the girl will refuse. Then, at the very end of chapter, there are the following two verses:


 * But one time at Afternoon
 * The Forgotten One will agree
 * And become of two Deities
 * Both forgotten and unknown
 * Never visible
 * But as a silhouette


 * And as she agrees
 * That Ghostly Girl at the End of the Road will know
 * Girl in the City, Hidden in a Corner will know
 * And Hidden will know
 * That at the end of the cycle
 * The Forever-Silence will commence

The creation of the Forgotten Silhouette, a girl a follower of both Girl in the City, Hidden in a Corner and That Ghostly Girl at the End of the Road, is the first sign of the coming Forever-Silence. At first, only That Ghostly Girl at the End of the Road, Girl in the City, Hidden in a Corner, and Hidden will know of the fact that the Forever-Silence has been heralded, but they will be unable to communicate it to others, for they are by their very nature unknown, forgotten, or hidden away.