The Second Excerpt

[Swgrclan 2682]

 

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Tales of elder annals trail upon midday winds, speaking of more scrolls filed amidst bations of information; libraries, chapels, though some even drifted through the air, not yet bound to a collection of texts. The second excerpt is as such;

" The I-tru-ion o- t-e Im-ort-ls

 

''Whom the gods love die young’ was said of yore,
 And many deaths do they escape by this:
The death of friends, and that which slays even more—
 The death of friendship, love, youth, all that is,
Except mere breath; and since the silent shore
 awaits at last even those who longest miss
the old archer’s shafts, perhaps the early grave
which men weep over may be meant to save.'

 

... The old Daemon Iblees grew curious of mortal contentment, and thus stepped down from the Seven Skies to embrace the peace of the dark; not knowing his mortal essence of light was not meant to become one with its’ counterpart. So the dark that clung to his being shrouded the light of his existence, and corrupted the mortal quintessence he embraced.

Iblees became fallen; in limbo between the light and the dark, embodying the very precipices of chaos that lingered outside the cosmic veil of Creation. This is written as the First Sin; for from his foolishness, Iblees became a bastion of ill will and sin, which tainted the centerland of Aegis with each step he took upon it. His curiosities turned to spite, wherein he tried to trick the Four Brothers with promise of false glory and power. Krug, the wisest, saw through the ruse, and was quick to wage battle against the fallen Immortal; but was burned whole by his counterstrike.

From this, the race of Man was destined to be tainted by evil, for when the Fallen One committed the First Sin, it’s malignant fallout breached all souls of mortality and sprouted like a cancer. Thus, they discovered war, and waged it against Iblees for thirty years. In time, the Fallen One fell to their mortal powers, but in turn cast a spell upon each of the Four - declaring them cursed as such;

Horen’s sons shall be short-lived, with the burden of time’s scythe lying heavy upon their shoulders.

Malin’s sons shall suffer sparse sons, and seek companionship of the oaks in search of lives less lonely.

Urguan’s sons shall be born shorter than he, and shall not inherit his kindness, but black greed.

Krug’s sons shall be born burned, with his blood-bound wisdom shrouded by blood-born fury.

But it was not the curses that Iblees hoped to break the Four with, but the undoing of their unity. No longer were they mortal man, but were mere mortal humans, elves, orcs and dwarves; splintered and factionalized by the Fallen One’s affliction. The dawn of this disunity falls not only upon Iblees, however, but also upon Aerial - for she came down to bless their curses away with false promises and hollow magic. The fragmentation of the race of Man under these Immortal methods was deemed the Second Sin.

Aerial’s blessings were falsehoods, for she gifted to the descendents what they already bore:

She blessed Horen with the ascension to the Seven Skies upon death, condemning the souls of his mortal sons both alive and unborn to dwell a plane of existence in which they do not belong. This promise tainted the human race, and cursed future generations to faith in Immortals an a Creator ever-absent; leaving their prayers to fall upon deaf ears, and to leave them both ignorant and unanswered.

She blessed Malin with long life, shrouding his mind with impatience, for life under her magic became a breeding stigma and the conception of an elderly, tired culture obsessive for the sparse chance of children.

She blessed Urguan with strength, when they were already mighty - leaving the dwarves to question their ire and collect within great clans of the earth to put a shroud over their false weakness.

She blessed Krug with honor; that which his children already had, therein clouding their wisdom further with backward barbarism and tribalistic ways, for they aligned their honor with the uncertain spirits in desperation for another font of wisdom to guide them.

The intrusion of Iblees and Aerial caught the attention of the other powerful Immortals who, though it was against their father’s wishes, saw merit in mortal meddling; some seeing the broken race of Man as malleable, and others looking upon them with pity. This brought forth the Third Sin; when the Immortals meddled with the mortals like puppets, condemning all humans, elves, orcs and dwarves to the scourge of deific agendas, and generations of shadowed proxy wars ... "

[tilly 5115]

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