What is "preservers"

Usage examples of "preservers".

We've never risen above our animal selves since the Preservers gave us the banyans as our province, and that is the excuse the Mud People use when they hunt us.

The avatars may have been silenced, but the Preservers are still there.

The priests taught that the Preservers heard and saw all, yet chose not to act because they did not wish to invalidate the free will of their creations.

Even if the Preservers had withdrawn their blessing from the world after the affront of the Age of Insurrection, as the divaricationists believed, it was still possible that machines, their epigones, might recognize the justice of answering a particular wish, and intercede.

He believed that all measurements and constants might be arithmetically derived from a single number, the cipher of the Preservers which could unlock the secrets of the world they had made, and much else.

All Shaped bloodlines possess the universal sequence of genes inserted by the Preservers at the time of the remaking of our ancestors.

Even the various races of simple indigens, which were not marked by the Preservers and which cannot evolve toward transcendence, have genetic relatives amongst the flora and fauna.

Insects chirred all around in the dry grasses, insects and grass perhaps from the same long-lost world as the beasts which the Preservers had shaped into the ancestors of his own bloodline.

Since the Preservers abandoned Confluence, one new race has appeared, albeit briefly.

The Ancients of Days were the ancestors of the Preservers, and we cannot guess at their powers.

Yama loved the sturdy square temple, with its clean high spaces, the black disc of its shrine in its ornate gilded frame, and walls glowing with mosaics picturing scenes of the end times, in which the Preservers (shown as clouds of light) ushered the re-created dead into perfect worlds of parklands and immaculate gardens.

Dismas was infamous for his belief that chance, not the Preservers, controlled the lives of men.

He did not attend any high day services, although he was a frequent visitor to the temple, playing chess with Father Quine and spending hours debating the nature of the Preservers and the world.

After all, demons tried to overthrow the order of the Preservers an age ago.

But I do question the great lie with which the priests hypnotize the population, that the Preservers watch over us all, and that we must satisfy them so that we can win redemption and live forever after death.