The vast cosmos of Aos was stretched out in all its splendor. The stars glimmered and not a cloud sat in the sky to block their magnificence. The cities, too, of Athera stood stalwart as the descendants slept— the flames of their watchtowers ever vigil in the night. And yet, something still stirred in the night. A presence which made its way across the realm, into the hearts and minds of the slumbering elves, dwarves, orcs and men.     At first it began as merely a whisper in the back of t