[Item known as Grand Inheritance manipulates the Will of the World in a direct manner. In contrast, host's Path does so using the route of mutual Wills, which uses the combined Will of those who follow host to influence the Will of the World. The latter is a safe manner of obtaining power, while the former has the risk of bringing harm to the Will, which can corrupt the Wills of all sufficiently connected individuals on the continent. This was how the Apocalypse came to be.]
On the throne in the air in the middle of Angaria, Daneel sat all by his lonely self while an object slowly rotated in front of him.
It was in the shape of the continent, but the edges were smoothed.
Listening to this summary of the Grand Inheritance that he had asked the system to repeat, he got the idle thought that from certain angles, the continent almost looked like the skull of some ancient being which had lied down in the sea and died, leaving behind its bones for them to be born on.
