THE LORE VERSE

Taken from:

THE BOOK OF THEREAFTERS

1   Seven tomes of ancient lore

kept sacred by locks and keys
about sigiled Judges and fallen Kings
with mystic Priests and fiery Prophets;
yet, amid them all a hero walked
in that darkened Nephilim age,
ere the world was washed away.

8   It was in the days of Adam,
when Cain won his fame that the world
changed and men groped for true
understanding and meaning of their fall
that the Sons of God came to reveal
that they held the power to heal
and raise up a new era of knowledge.

15  From eastern lands dark men came
with inked skin and stone hearts
they bonded as one in their journey
for the sea-lands of the far west;
those gray shores of forgotten docks
where a remnant harbored all alone,
hidden behind vine-laced walls once fair.

22   In their meeting, that tribal Judge
from war-torn lands did praise
that fair King beside the Blue Bay;
not for conquest's sake, but for hope
to settle their herds and tents to pitch
in peace as eager adoptive-children,
as to learn from the Sons of God.

29   Those fair Sons of God then took
the daughters of the lesser men;
their wives bore the strength of Mithar,
as the city swelled to bursting numbers
in loyalty to that Tower's Crown
by persuasion of his Priestly Adviser
were the people then spiritually shackled.

36   The descendants of those founding
fathers and daughters of men,
called Nephilim Lords then rose like
giants in the land as teachers
of magick and secret rites;
they forged strange new weapons
and caused dreams to be conjured forth.

43   Called the Sons of God or Angels fair
they were -- but the Ancients who
never fled the realm of men
in their swan-carved ships;
for they feared most their own
failing flesh to the unknown
that lay beyond the forgetfulness of death.

50   The Nephilim were named immortal
when compared to lesser tribes of men;
those long lived men of ivory skin
were a marvel to behold or hear
as their words charmed the listener,
who were as eager children before them
spellbound into servitude by vain praise.

57   Those offspring of Nephilim Houses
swore themselves to the truth,
that the Tower's lore was forged divine
and they alone were Keepers of its word;
as guardians of accurate knowledge
they were beyond the reproach
of those unbelievers beyond the walls.

64   The Mitharian's sacred service was to
the Crown's ever changing New Light
as revealed in their times of disbelief
like dawn brightens upon the night
were they told the reason for constant study
to manifest a slave's heart before God
whose messenger resided in Varlendur.

71   Those Bedouins conformed to a new faith
abandoning their former traditions;
they were sat upon the hope of a hereafter
that forbade turning aside
to even the banishment of apostate families
beyond the great Sibling-Gates
of those Nasil who lived in Slavath's tents.

78   Yet, from those deceitful teachings and half lies,
broken hearts did fall away to heal
unto their own understanding
they saw the Tower Fathers as viel
betrayers who had yoked them
after their own cunning passions
for power's sake, being self-deluded in lies.

85   Valenfay lay claim to the restoration
of Mithar's true message that the discarded lore
of Lindol's more ancient scrolls held
the origin of the Remnant's seed;
in time of war many fell away to that new king's
raised banner in seeking the abandoned
eastern realms where their truth lay.

Herein did a new hero arise, Fayendar
the questioner who once believed
and yet lost his family to their faith...

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