Past the Nine Circles lies the territory that most Warriors spend their entire lives pretending does not exist, because the existence of things far beyond what one can reach produces a despair that the mind prefers not to sustain.
The Nine Circles are comprehensible. They have names and stages and measurable progress, and the warrior who stands at the Eighth Circle can point at the Ninth and understand, at least abstractly, what direction to walk.
Past the Ninth Circle, the territory has different rules.
An existence that breaks through the Ninth Circle does not advance to a Tenth. There is no Tenth. What occurs instead is Ancestral Transcendence, a process as different from cultivating through the Circles as a river is different from the rain that fed it.
The existence sheds the shackles that bound it to the ground, and within itself, it begins to form a Land.
