Boundless Mirror

The Overlight bond shared between a Zenith Order Monk and a Hamanu. This bond was first formed by the Diamond Queen and a Hamanu many ages ago.

Their friendship is the friendship through which the potential of such a bond is entirely realized. And it is by the grace of that bond that they walked the Path together. It forms the beating heart of the Zenith Orders’ most sacred and shared experience — for the Monks of the Zenith Orders form Overlight bonds with the Hamanu, the likes of which are not repeated across the Seven.

These bonds are for life, and the death of one of the bond-mates means that the survivor lives out their days bonded to only the fond memory of a unique loved one — a loved one who has nevertheless yielded to the unstoppable void. Although much ink has been spent within manuals which attempt to detail the practices to avert such grief, the Monk or Hamanu who survives does not often live for long after their friend succumbs to formlessness. It has been said that some Monks and Hamanu are so gripped by a fear of such parting that they make this fear the basis for their entire spiritual practice, seeking to overcome it through a strange tradition of seeking self-annihilating union with that absence from which the Overlight shines.