[RPG] [At] Athonlaurism ~ Battles Before Time

[Timothy Collett]

Little is known of the Battles Before Time save to the most learned  
of scholars.  However, I can tell you what I do know.

In the beginning, before there was the World, there was the  
Universe.  From the thought of the One, She formed the Gods.  First  
were the Three, Mistarin, Arelien, and Elanzil.  Then came the Seven,  
who were less than the Three, but still greater than those that  
followed.  Sensing the presence of a new place, many spirits came  
from the Void: some lesser, some greater.

But the greatest of them was the Betrayer.

His name, some lore says, was Akorin.  His form and words were fair  
at first, and he drew a great many spirits to his following.  But the  
Seven and the Three were not fooled, and nor were many of the other  
spirits.  They uncovered his plots, and learned that he had betrayed  
and destroyed other worlds before this, and he was furious: and there  
was war in the starry vaults of the Universe.

Arelien was the captain of the armies arrayed against the Betrayer,  
and Damoril, the Smith, who is one of the Seven, forged Her sword— 
which I see even now hanging over the Eternal Flame in the temple in  
Lothruin, and which I will take up again one day—and the weapons of  
the other Gods and spirits.  The struggle was fierce, and had the  
World been created by then, it would have been destroyed a thousand  
times over.

When Arelien fought the Betrayer, she dealt him a grievous wound, but  
she was unable to overcome him, and was forced to withdraw.  It was  
her greatest shame, for when Her sister, Elanzil, fought Akorin in a  
mighty duel in the highest vault of the Universe, She slew him: for  
though He was a mighty Power, old and full of tricks, She had still  
the strength of a God new-born from the starfire, and She fought for  
Her own world's future—and unlike Her sister, She scorned not to use  
tricks born of base cunning.

Thus was the Betrayer slain, and his forces thrown into disarray:  
though the forces of the Gods, too, were sorely depleted, and even  
one of the Seven was destroyed, and even his name has passed from  
memory.  But he was replaced by a spirit that came from Beyond, and  
Her name is Aya, the Silent One, the Binder, Who is now the Guardian  
of the Land of the Dead.

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"I'm being nibbled to death by cats!"
~ Londo Mollari
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