The Third Excerpt

[Swgrclan 2682]

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More texts appear throughout the time of weeks; becoming numerous, but clandestine where they hide, and with no author determinable.

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" The Exegesis of the Banks

'In a dark time, the eye begins to see,

I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;

I hear my echo in the echoing wood--

A lord of nature weeping to a tree.

I live between the heron and the wren,

Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den.

What's madness but nobility of soul?
I am quintessence; darkness, what light can never cull.'

 

... As equilibrium was settled upon the realms of light and dark, with Men in their mortal realms and immortals in their skies of light, the Creator recognized that the realms of dark did not reflect that of light in the means that gifted the Four Brothers and the one race of Man bore no power of worldly totality and order. Thus the Creator recognized this weakness, and fearing that the mortal realms would succumb to chaos and undoing, he granted to these realms the banks of life: massive collections of a pure quintessence of dark, known as lifeforce, of which brought order and balance to each mortal world by the laws of the Cycle of the Banks.

 

The Cycle was deemed the true moderator of the mortal realms, for upon every living being was a tie to the banks and the lifeforce that lingered them. Lifeforce itself was what caused life itself to function; without lifeforce, the heart could not beat, and thus Men would be condemned to flesh of cold stone and blood of brackish water without it.

 

With the banks to breath life into the realms of Man, it communed with their mortal souls and made them compassionate, it gave them reason, and it made them alive -- bringing to light the formation of all organic life destined to sprawl across Aos and Eos, forms plentiful and never few.

The Aspects, immortals claimed to be the rulers of nature, are condemned as false lords: for they sought to usurp the control of the banks for themselves, and thus rule all of life; but could not pass the jurisdiction of their Creator, therefore dwarfing heavily their control on the true Cycle of things ... "

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

Artimec tore down these posters and threw them into the Aspect's brazier in the center of town, muttering grumpily about how people keep mass producing and omnipotently spreading these things.

[tilly 5115]

Moved to the Archive. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.