for unless they were wrong , and by now he was convinced they werent ; just as wixelor said , all that had happened to them seemed to be part of a carefully studied , exceedingly precise plan in a few moments he would stand before the rune of life , an actual , tangible object which was supposed not only to rule a realm as vast and wondrous as norien , but to have been the source of all life , containing the essence of a god so powerful , its will had forged everything out of nothing .