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“So it’s done.” “It’s done.” “...” “How do you feel?” “I feel conflicted. It is as if I have finally accomplished my own destiny; grasped at the threads of fate and made my own choice. Did something I truly believed in. But I feel like even if I have good intentions, to do the right thing, that I have done something wrong.” “Perhaps you have, there were many that looked up to you as a hero. There were others that looked to you as a betrayer. Do you recall having a spear before your very eyes? Twice? Do you recall being kicked while lying down, broken and beaten after nearly sacrificing yourself?” “...All too well.” “And there were those that beckoned for your freedom. One spoke of the…. Power of friendship, something or other, did they not? Another of ancient dragon-pacts. Youthful and naive as they may be, perhaps they were right.” “No, they weren’t. I abandoned Titus at behest of my lord. And given now the option to become my own lord, I abandoned my friends once more. Even if they live - they will never forgive me for what I have done.” “...You forget, Sordran, you are not of mortal heart. You may not forget; but they will. Will you have two mortal lives weigh upon yours forever? Do you believe there is such a thing as life without regret?” “No. But it is the cost for being myself. I am a destructive being by nature; even if I do not intend to. Even if I try to be helpful.” “I brought you here to be of free kin, of united brotherhood - not to mope.” “Forgive me. I suppose it is just hard to think of what there is now. What there is to do.” "Do you not understand? It is not all gloom in what would have been your death in fruitless defeat." “What is there to understand?” “There is no Archdrakaar. Nor is there a Dragonhunter. Our kin may come from the shadows; to live as they were intended. Unfearful, unfree - perhaps we will see the likes of Neridraza again. Aedrex, should he ever lighten up… Even the others. The brothers and sisters lost, but not forgotten. Of the original few, of Dragur’s brood. Ours is The Age of The Dragon - the age where Dragur’s sons reign and live free.” Sordran looked outward from the clouded mountainhome, the nest of a weary Dragaar which would become the place of his rebirth. Would he keep the mantle of The Blinding Flame? Would he forego that title? Perhaps that was for who he would become, who he would be, to decide. It felt divine and yet it felt like every pain conceivable and beyond. Entangled in a space without an up or down, I see my body burn away and reform before me. My scales turn to branding iron, the blessing The Ruiner burning within my heart searing away and twisting my very heart. What is this sensation? What is becoming of this body of mine? I can see everything and yet nothing occurring at once, I watch as my talons, my wings, my eyes turn to nothing in the ether, and yet they still see, they still feel. I hear things I had not ever heard before, a song of a dying god as his memories echoed throughout my heart. What is this… hatred? Have I always hated? Has he? My body is fading as I turn to both light and shadow, this heavenly metamorphosis lifts me to a place I could not have even conceived of visiting. A place that was never intended for the likes of me, never intended for my kind, never envisioned by my father. I was to inherit his legacy, I was to be his greatest creation. A design by the gods not to rule them, not even to be among them, but to transcend beyond them. But this mortal coil, this thing that sheds from me as this skin is flayed scale by scale, it only had limited me. I know I am Azdromoth. Or was it Eressioth? Am I the firstborn of Dragur? Am I not Order? Chaos? Who is this woman encloaked in shadow who sits at the edge of my vision. She smiles with a face I cannot see, with a mouth she does not have. I see a world of dragons and know I must rule it. No- was it not to destroy it? I despise Iblees and yet I am made by him. It is he who granted me this power and yet the greatest evil. Why did I succumb to it? Why so willingly? Am I evil? Who am I? I awake in a realm of nothing but fire. What was once an immaculate citadel of radiant sapphire now burns as it’s faithful stand before me, immolated and twisted. Burnt away and made in my image, but this is not an image I know. A mirror that I did not understand as golden eyes looked back at mine. Was it this great body of black scales I once knew? Are these appendages that make me in the image of man? My mind twists and tangles as two great webs meld together of the greatest of foes. To the creation I once was, ambitious, tyrannical, immortal in spirit, and too this body of fury, might, immortal in nature. I feel myself falling back from these eyes as they gaze upon these new spawn of mine, grasping for control with hand and claw as I come in and out of control. I am in control. I am fate, I am destiny, I am divine. This realm will be made my own, and too will my spawn reap from that which they have sewn. Those back upon the mortal plane may feel the same; this intertwined manifestation of self determination, fate by our own making, immortality in body and spirit, do they still live in this mindset of old? Do they feel hollow, and left behind as creations of an afterimage? Of who Azdromoth was? I see the elf, and I know he is friend. I see his hair of white intermixed with blackened shadow and witness as his body turns from shadow to light too, those orange eyes I knew persistent as his enwraithed form mixed with that of Malin’s progeny. What is it I wish for? What is it that lays next for me? For my kin? I must aide them - they are a part of my shadow, an image which must be made anew. It is now that we may live as we had always wished for. Without burden of thirsting gods, without the weight of ensnared sons of dragur bonded by fear of his lance or my maw. It is boundless that their lives may see a fate that is of their own making. A way of life and a world at their full disposal, as they walk upon it as the gods once did. An age of Descendantkind which has been freed from divine justice, and made to be what it was meant to be. The path of Fate, the path of Destiny, the path of Conviction. Asioth. As his brother perished, a lone Aengul stood within an empty court. It had always been more hollow than it should have been; than it was ordained to be. A mere shell of what was once a former god stood within, looking back at Tahariae as he asked. “It’s up to us now, you know.” Purity looked back, though those of the beyond could not weep, he felt as if he wished to. A sorrow immortal, a kinship unfound between any other of the creator’s spawn now severed forever. He looked back to he who followed, but would by no means would ever truly respect him. “The only ally we have left is driven into a craze at the scent of sulfur.” “I know. That does not change what I said.” “It does leave just us. But think, zealous-son. Is his vision ours to be shared? Do we live to carry his legacy? Is this vision of ours realistic in this world?” “Would you rather sit and lay complacent then when the world burns?” “No. You should know better than to assume such a thought. To even entertain it.” “Don’t insult me, Staglord.” “I do not. But it warrants reconsideration. After the failure of mortal agents, both his and my own, it warrants thought if they are worth the trouble to begin with.” “You should let me handle it.” “I admire your zealotry but if things were so simply done many before you and I would have solved things in much different ways than they had turn out.” “If not by my hammer then let it be through theirs. No soul of mine would be so fickle as those of the dead lion.” That pang of emotion flittered through Purity as it pained him once more, before it faded again. “Let us reinvent the idea. No doubt have the others observed this result and consider the thought of their own with what few had considered the idea to begin with. May we lead the charge; but let us not be foolhardy. Let us not make the same mistakes as what was done before as we perfect a model anew.” “Finally, Staglord. I will not longer allow us to sit behind a curtain at the beck and call of others. Be it alone or with an ideal new, we will forge a path that is ours.” “Let us see where that path takes us.” The Order of the Material Realm shifted as Apotheosis was made. Those that hid within the deep burrowed mountains of the world, emerged slowly to the light. The sons and daughters of those of the skies now awakened from the blanket of dormancy that enveloped the world. Dragur’s children now felt the influence of the eternal hunter secede from all facets of the realm, where locks and chains wrought of virtue now fell to the ground. Abandoned, many lamented to the skies searching for their God and yet they only saw the quarry of their former hunts. Those who once were kept to the edges of the world could now unfurl their wings to search for food, land and battle. Where many kept to the intricate caverns that kept the accursed of Nemiisae, to the frozen prisons of the pig-men that once knew of how to wield these majestic beasts, they knew that they could not be kept grounded by the influence of another. Dormant clutches of eggs now grew warmth in their abandoned nests, as their parents laid dead surrounding them, skeletal remains protecting as such. Those trapped within the labyrinthian libraries of yore now arose their many heads, the serpentine beasts now simply not a product of Blood Rites, but the ancient beings now emerging as they once did before. Yet what this marked was a goal by the most ambitious, where draconic Apotheosis was reached before, but not against a Deity that could fight back. The title of Aengudaemon was one that was not static, and it was not a creature of its own, it was simply the next step within the existence of the most dedicated. The ladder to the Heavens now had its final rung restored, where it once laid empty since the first of the fallen, snapped by the Radiant Man at the start of creation. Yet, what did this transformation mean? Could even MAN ascend to the Heavens? For the fall of Gazardiael enlightened those above could fear the might of the Descendants, able to pierce and shatter their claims against them if they marched upon the world. Yet, the Fall of Xan enlightened the Heavens of something different and more sinister. They were a bounty for the Creator’s most favourite entity, for his blessed descendants to hunt their heads and assume a mantle closer to HIM. This Age was marked by the emergence of Dragons, yet this would be an Age of Blood and Conquest. All of those that lingered upon the edges of the world realised that the Heavens were a malleable construct, they were not set in stone and could be re-written akin to a Historical Chronicle. Fate now stood within the world akin to a Blank Canvas. Who would be the first to paint what the new world shall look like? That of the Heavens? That of the Mortal Lands? That of the Skies? That of the deepest burrows of the world? That of the forgotten, the fallen, the abandoned? That is, unknown.

One of the talking skulls starts babbling on about economic and cosmic theory. Relating how subtle changes in the void and the veil are actually responsible for the tax rates in Lurin.

The Azulyte Odurex lofts the paper up with a smile. "Divert forces over to the Templar city. We'll engage them in the mountains as we do everywhere else."

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An Inferi stares down at the two captive skulls in the throne room. "I could get use to a talking throne. This is fun."

THE LOTHAR STONES THE FIFTH AND EIGHT TABLETS Splendor & War ABSTRACT The Lothar Stones are marble engravings regarding life in the Bathalite Empire, otherwise known as Old Balian, dated somewhere between the fifth to seventh century. They are attributed to St. Lothar the Bannerlord, the final dynast of that ancient civilization. At least twelve of these stones are believed to be in existence, with each depicting the perspectives of Lothar and his countrymen on various topics. They are written in Old Balthalite, a script similar to non-Dragaari Flexio. The tablets presented herein were discovered as a pair in an antiquity shop. They were purchased and translated by Caspian of Rhen, the Lesser, who now presents them to the Balianese people as a gift to mark the accession of their king, Alexander II. SYNOPSIS The Fifth Tablet, Splendor, describes the capital of the Balthalite Empire in the time of St. Lothar's grandfather, Emperor Lugo II. The period depicted is the zenith of the empire's wealth and dominion. It is written as an epitaph to the author's father, and the son of Lugo II, who was Bero IV. Like all tablets in the series, it freely addresses events both contemporary to St. Lothar and before his birth. In particular, Splendor seems to be an explanation of why St. Lothar continued to honor his ancestors despite rejecting their failures. The Eighth Tablet, War, chronicles the transformation of the Balthalite Empire, first from a liberating force (at the time of its founding by the mythical Balthier) into an imperial hegemony under the later emperors, and at last, its overthrow by St. Lothar. In it, the author admits guilt for his participation in the empire's conquests, and attempts to provide justification for his eventual rebellion against his father. V. SPLENDOR VIII. WAR

A mage by the name of Lillith looked at the missive and wondered when she was ever in Numendil, not having left her house in weeks. She glanced at the things she was being accused of, "I guess I should have figured the church would stoop so low to creating lies about me after I embarrassed them. I suppose worshipping a dead god leaves too much time on their hands."

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Barrowlord Fornotos, the Herald of Strife shook their head, exhaling that of a ghastly sigh as the missive reached their desk. A simple response was posted in turn. "That title is not yours to give. We advise that you learn your place."

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