The Convergence

I am assured at any rate
Man´s practically inexterminate.
Someday I must go into that.
There´s always been an Ararat
Where someone someone else begat
To start the world all over at.
- Robert Frost, "A-Wishing Well"

Many of the oldest Gypsies say that the universe is a slumbering giant, and that when she stretches, the very nature of reality shifts as well. However, it takes time for the moves of such a giantess to reach her toes, and the Gypsies place the Earth upon her littlest left toe. The stars, they say, will align to tell the Gypsies of the latest reality shift, so that they will be prepared when the world mother´s latest shrug reaches her toes. This time is known as the Convergence.
Others say that the universe is like a snake that traces her way along her own body looking for her tail. When she reaches her tail, she begins to swallow herself, and just as she swallows her own head, the universe changes and is reborn. The time of change is the time of the Convergence, and it is written in the stars.
The Gypsies believe that they have a crucial role to play at the time of the Convergence, and that their actions will help decide what the Earth will be like in the drawing of the new age. The true nature of their role in the Convergence is a matter for debate. The Gypsies are curious, but they also know that what will be, will be. The oldest and most popular theory goes as follows:
Out mother, Daenna, gave into our trust the five Seeds of knowledge. They have been scattered throughout our families for many, many years, but when the stars wheel and dance in the skies, so will the Seeds come together from across the lands. When the Seeds are planted together and watered with five drops of of Daenna´s gift, then will they sprout and grow together into the World Tree that holds all knowledge. It will be given to the Gypsies to eat of its fruit and climb among its branches, and the tree will be so great that it will be as a highway stretching to our sister, the moon. On that day, the day of the Convergence, and on that road, the road of the World Tree, our actions will decide how the next dance is to be danced, the next song to be sung.
There are many variations on this story and even more interpretations of its true meaning. One variations says that Alako, a Gypsy who drank of God´s tears, will return from his home on the moon and grant his people the ability to walk between the light and the dark, between the gods and humanity. Others say the World Tree bear more of the sacred Fruit of Knowledge and that any who eat of this fruit three times will be transported into the realm of the faerie upon eating the first apple, into the realm of death on biting into the second, and then, after partaking of the third, reborn into the world again to decide the faith of all.
Regardless of the words of the tale, the Gypsies believe that the Convergence is growing near, and that they will play an important part in deciding the fate of the world. It is the reason their race was born, and the Seeds are the burden they must bear until they have completed their appointed task.

- Teeuwynn