A Thesis on the Dark
-By the Immortal Loreholder.
“In times of yore, times from which many of us dreamed of being alive, the Arch Daemon cursed our lands with foul beasts and equally foul arts. The Undead of Iblees, the Harbingers and beyond are all dangers of legend that have faded with time. Long since, the arts we curse and disgrace have changed purpose drastically.
In Axios, or in Atlas itself, you can already note the difference in the behaviour regarding the tainted and the weavers. They no longer seek the destruction of the Descendants, but rather they seclude themselves in their own covens, one in the Tainted Mountain, and the Temple of Xion, epicenter of the followers of the Old Dark; Xionism. Never have I seen such quiet, passive dark. And fret not, t’is not a problem. In my thoughts, I see the weavers and all the others thought-to-be dark arts practicioners as trying to help us. Aid us from the claws of the Gods and their blind servants. Tahariae, Xan, Aeriel. All of these from which come Clerics, Paladins and Ascended respectfully. These blind followers, these maleficar were the ones that aided Gazardiel on Axios, on his quest to purge the land from Descendant filth.
These are the ones you must fret, good men and women of Atlas. Not the Old Dark, not the weavers, tainted and victims of undeath. These maleficar are snakes. They seek nothing but the destruction of those afflicted, in pain. They seek naught to try and help those by reverting what caused their ultimate fate. They only seek death and destruction to all those that are not in the standards they have established. I see reasoning, of course, in fearing the taint, the dark. I myself do. Though I must re-assure; Iblees is a danger of yore, only to be feared in history books.
One mustn’t instantly relate a weaver, a tainted being to be instantly a servant of Iblees. I, a graven, wizened with time, am myself a Xionist. I can assure whoever wants re-assurance, that I not only do not follow Iblees, but despise his actions against my once-brethren, the descendants. His actions sought destruction to all we knew, and possibly even to the arts you curse and disgrace.
This is all I have to say on the Dark, the victims of undeath and the supposed ‘Light’, maleficar, blind servants under hungering Gods."
Written and published by Scion, the Immortal Loreholder
Circa 1647, 2nd of Snow’s Maiden.