"The first taste of Velvet Nectar is never the last."
- Memories distilled from someone's Consciousness.
- It opens the black market for "sacrifice tokens"—memories extracted from others with Essence Sacrifice.
- It is the most sought after of the Dark Commodities, and it is a widely illegal material that is the end point of the Weight of Indulgence.
- Originally made by the Velvet Cage by mixing a variety of Parasite Atonalis, like the emotional residue of subjugated victims by the Pleasure Parasite, distilled Emberwhisper (which gives the signature velvet color), and memories extracted by Memory Reavers.
- Velvet Nectar is highly addictive as it is a cocktail of emotion combined with the memories of the victim. The stronger the emotion and memory harvested the more potent rush it gives which is the reason it allows for the Weight of Indulgence to develop on a societal scale.
- Velvet Ambrosia, or high quality Velvet Nectar, is the most delicious food in the entirety of Arcanoria, it is Velvet Nectar imbued with the strongest memories, abilities, and intense harvested feelings from Great Spellweavers. The stronger the resistance the person put, the stronger the flavor of the Velvet Ambrosia.
- Velvet Nectar requires a tremendous amount of suffering to produce for which Dissonance Enclaves usually produce a lot of Atonalis and inevitably become overrun becoming an Atonalis Nest until they starve out.
- Velvet Nectar can give "skills" and mastery by acquiring the specific memories. If a vial of Velvet Nectar contains the memory of a master pianist whomever consumes it has now the ability they once had and becomes the master pianist themselves.
The Production line of Velvet Nectar into Velvet Ambrosia
The production of a single vial of Velvet Nectar is a complicated process that has been refined through the Ages. It began in Ages IV with the Velvet Cage with the crude mixture of concentrated Emberwhisper with infused memories of Parasite Atonalis. However, the evolution has greatly purified the process and by the Ages of industrialization the apex of this substance is Velvet Ambrosia which is manufactured by the following:
- A way to process emotional and memory residue of Pleasure Parasites and Memory Reavers.
- The respective Parasite Atonalis and the high intensity energy contained in them as raw Resonance and memories.
- The distilled Emberwhisper to act as the delivery medium of the concoction.
This is primarily due to two Pure Light creatures:
- Emberwhisper weavers which are specialized arachnids that can create vast silk looms using Emberwhisper and the drops of crystallized mineral are embedded within their weave. This provides the raw material of distilled Emberwhisper that is used in the mix and the velvet webs give the signature color of the Velvet Nectar.
- Memory Singers which are medium-sized Pure Light birds that take in the emotional residue of Pleasure Parasites and Memory Reavers while being able to process these Parasite Atonalis themselves, they consume the raw energy of the emotional residue to build their nests and use their saliva by processing the raw Resonance of Parasite Atonalis. The production are nests of high purity and elegance directly built from the suffering contained within these Atonalis.
A Velvet Throne is the facility that creates these precise conditions, on the underground it contains the rooms for subjugation of Great Spellweavers and directly give the raw Parasite Atonalis and the emotional residue for the Memory Singers for them to build these nests that then will be harvested. The middle layer of these "bird cities" for farming the nests contains the buildings that have Emberwhisper weavers building their webs that get used as distilled Emberwhisper.
Before beginning the harvesting protocols, the Velvet Thrones deliberately mark their victims by cutting a V on the palm of the right hand. This serves as the eventual vial of blood that will be mixed with the final production of Velvet Nectar while simultaneously serving as a mark of "The Harvested" to distinguish between status and as a signature of ownership. The specific "cut" is the signature of the harvester patron of the facility.
Finally, by combining the Emberwhisper, the Memory Singer's nest and mixing it with the initially extracted vial of blood of the same Spellweaver while diluting it with Lunehymn the final produce is made: Velvet Nectar. Those which contain the highest purity of all materials, the most intense memories and feelings of the edible nests and the highest grade of distilled Emberwhisper purity become Velvet Ambrosia which has a distinguishable hue of velvet to midnight black with golden sparkles, similar to the patterns found in concentrated Lunehymn.
Moreover, it is possible to track which "person" was made to build the nest of the Memory Singers because these are deeply loyal birds that stick to one particular Fundamental Frequency, and do not cross mix Resonance unless it comes from the same target.
The Pleasure Parasites subdues the body of a Spellweaver by pure bliss and the concoction of their bodily fluids and emotions during release. The Memory Reaver enters the body through the ears and directly harvests the memories from the same subjugated Spellweaver for their memories in the brain. The purity of the nests relies on harvesting as much of the physical, and metaphysical essence through Pure Light beings and Atonalis in a ritual that penetrates both the body and the mind as the commodification of everything that makes up a Consciousness.
A combination of the purity of awe and reverence of the Chorus Pillar running on human suffering.
The two opposing Civilizations constantly wage war between one another of "liberation" one to liberate Humanity and one to liberate Pure Light beings and nature.
The Extraction of Memories with Parasite Atonalis
The combination of Memory Reavers with Pleasure Parasites is a devastating combo that affects the mind as much as the body, the idea is to run on two principles simultaneously:
- The body betrays the mind: The arousal and physical stimulation cause involuntary response to the ongoing burst of pleasure. Even if they try to resist mentally and consciously, the Pleasure Parasite is engineered to perfectly bypass all of the rationalization logic and actually feed on the friction of how much emotion they release alongside the physical fluids.
- The mind betrays the body: The Memory Reavers extract the memories under the ongoing stimulation. The victim feels and visualizes those memories with intensity, it deliberately blindfolds the victim to make them enter a state where the specific memory extracted is being mentally rehearsed.
While both alone are horrifying, the combination of the simultaneous subjugation of mind and body creates an effect even more potent of symbiosis of the two parasites:
- When the Pleasure Parasite triggers dopamine release and it helps to establish a memory consolidation signal, this gets latched on by the Memory Reaver and the high-dopamine states make memories more vivid, more emotionally charged, and more durable. The intrusion becomes Resonance Anchors.
- The Memory Reaver extracts memories during this peak dopamine state, and because dopamine amplifies memory the extraction becomes hyper-vivid. The victim experiences their most cherished memories with extreme emotional intensity while those same memories are being ripped away. The Pleasure Parasite deliberately compounds with these exact Resonance signals to increase or decrease their activity matching to the vivid rehearsal of the memory.
- The direct intervention of the Memory Reaver on the brain while the Pleasure Parasite is directing the body directly enhances the sensation. This numbing massage overrides the dopamine release by doing intricate neurochemistry in tandem. This also prevents dissociation in several layers, first by using the memory as substrate, then by replaying vivid memories, which sometimes even become hallucinations during the most potent releases, and the constant arousal tightens the grip of both Parasite Atonalis. Disturbingly, there is a point on the vivid hallucinations where the victim can replay, if they have significant memories of intimate moments, with their own consensual partners or even in their own fabricated fantasies. This is widely considered to be the breaking point.
— This article is abridged. The full record runs longer in the archive.