It was at the Crucible upon Niyati that my predecessor first detected the Darkness. Many refused to believe, whispering that the years spent studying the artifacts had twisted her Sight, if not her mind. Others, a minority, argued that the energies surrounding the Crucible could have in fact enhanced her Sight. Both arguments had their merits, and of course more study should have been undertaken. The political realities of that moment, however, forced me to voice my support for the majority. Rubria IX soon fell into a depression and not long after retired to the Collegium Visum priory at Mount Parnassus on Athene, and the Conclave subsequently selected me as Sacrator Primus. In the near term, it was not politically viable to pursue any further study of this Darkness that Rubria claimed to be present, but I had intended to revisit the issue at a later date. But events conspired against me. I have come to suspect that the Darkness conspired against me.
- Secret Journals of Licinia VII, Sacrator Primus of the Sacerdotes Vacuum (322 to 339 P.D.), recorded 339 P.D. (28 years prior to the Fall of Man.)