A Creation Myth
Aeons before, before the dawn of civilisation, before the three great destructions of mankind, before even the starborn Athro bonded with the firmament and created the Cardinal Race, this site was sacred. It was the meeting point of the three planes, imbued with the powers of the heavens, the firmament and the underworld.
Where long forgotten Nunda and Dermesh fought in ritual combat for the right to name and Vintu called down the primordial ice-age. It was here that Twice-damned Damku Sinesh harnessed the power of the three planes and constructed for himself the Menbim Stone and all too briefly raised himself to godhood. The first being since the Great Divergence to straddle all worlds at once, he became an abomination to Those Who Were and to Those Who Came Before. His destruction was swift but catastrophic, without Damku Sinesh to control the Menbim Stone creation began to unravel and the three planes began to merge.
Before things could be undone the Arch-Elder Utu-Kamla threaded them together holding them in place at the convergence point here at the sacred site but forever separating the three planes. Aeons later, the strange dreams of the warlord Reptos led him to this place. He set his massive army of slaves to building a mighty city the centre of which held a strange labrynth. Unbeknown to all, including Reptos, the labrynth traced exactly the tracks of Utu-Kamla's thread. Reptos built the labrynth to stop the dreams but instead they became worse, much worse, nameless nightmares of unknowable dread that drove Reptas to acts of unspeakable cruelty. Eventually, in a moment of clarity, Reptos saw that he had been manipulated by the Dire Lord of Nightmare, Sopias.
He saw the plan of Sopias to undo the thread and allow the denizens of the underworld to flood the firmament before it or the heavens could react. Reptos travelled to the centre of the labrynth and ritually sacrificed himself to bind Sopias to the infernal construct. Epoch after epoch, each King ended his reign in the same way, renewing the sacrifice of Reptos and rebinding Sopias to the labrynth. Then came the sorcerers coup and the knowledge of the binding of Sopias was lost. As each decade passes his chains grow looser and his influence greater. To renew the bind the true descendent of Reptos must be found, he must find his way to the centre of the labrynth and renew the sacrifice. Somewhere, a young man has strange dreams of blood and dark corridors.
Aeons before, before the dawn of civilisation, before the three great destructions of mankind, before even the starborn Athro bonded with the firmament and created the Cardinal Race, this site was sacred. It was the meeting point of the three planes, imbued with the powers of the heavens, the firmament and the underworld.
Where long forgotten Nunda and Dermesh fought in ritual combat for the right to name and Vintu called down the primordial ice-age. It was here that Twice-damned Damku Sinesh harnessed the power of the three planes and constructed for himself the Menbim Stone and all too briefly raised himself to godhood. The first being since the Great Divergence to straddle all worlds at once, he became an abomination to Those Who Were and to Those Who Came Before. His destruction was swift but catastrophic, without Damku Sinesh to control the Menbim Stone creation began to unravel and the three planes began to merge.
Before things could be undone the Arch-Elder Utu-Kamla threaded them together holding them in place at the convergence point here at the sacred site but forever separating the three planes. Aeons later, the strange dreams of the warlord Reptos led him to this place. He set his massive army of slaves to building a mighty city the centre of which held a strange labrynth. Unbeknown to all, including Reptos, the labrynth traced exactly the tracks of Utu-Kamla's thread. Reptos built the labrynth to stop the dreams but instead they became worse, much worse, nameless nightmares of unknowable dread that drove Reptas to acts of unspeakable cruelty. Eventually, in a moment of clarity, Reptos saw that he had been manipulated by the Dire Lord of Nightmare, Sopias.
He saw the plan of Sopias to undo the thread and allow the denizens of the underworld to flood the firmament before it or the heavens could react. Reptos travelled to the centre of the labrynth and ritually sacrificed himself to bind Sopias to the infernal construct. Epoch after epoch, each King ended his reign in the same way, renewing the sacrifice of Reptos and rebinding Sopias to the labrynth. Then came the sorcerers coup and the knowledge of the binding of Sopias was lost. As each decade passes his chains grow looser and his influence greater. To renew the bind the true descendent of Reptos must be found, he must find his way to the centre of the labrynth and renew the sacrifice. Somewhere, a young man has strange dreams of blood and dark corridors.
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