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''Copied thus is a piece of the Book of Ancients, translated by Thraymn Astair, the words taken down by his personal scribe Jess Matail. What is scribed here is but part of a whole, and should be regarded as no more than a beginning - the start of the faith we know as the Order, as written by those whose footsteps we follow.'' | ''Copied thus is a piece of the Book of Ancients, translated by Thraymn Astair, the words taken down by his personal scribe Jess Matail. What is scribed here is but part of a whole, and should be regarded as no more than a beginning - the start of the faith we know as the Order, as written by those whose footsteps we follow.'' | ||
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The History of the Elders
The texts containing the history of the Elders are not yet complete. Additional works and the history of the Order will be made ready toon.
The Arrival of the Elders
Copied thus is a piece of the Book of Ancients, translated by Thraymn Astair, the words taken down by his personal scribe Jess Matail. What is scribed here is but part of a whole, and should be regarded as no more than a beginning - the start of the faith we know as the Order, as written by those whose footsteps we follow.
And thus did the Old World - Midgard, by name - come to an end, both the mortal world and the higher realm of Asgard consumed by Ragnarok, the apocalypse. it came for everyone, and spared none, from low-born peasant to highest God, all were touched, and forced to battle. The skies burned, and seas rose, encasing the world in clouds of ash and drowning everything and everyone upon its surface.
Who won the battle does not matter. It is better to say only that those Gods who were left were left above a dead world, ash stretching from horizon to horizon, with not even the tallest mountain peak breaking the surface of the hungry oceans. Of the Gods themselves, there lived only five, two of which had been greviously wounded in the terrible battle.
Odin, in His wisdom, knew that Asgard could not survive above the shattered and now frozen world, and thus cast His realm into the blackness to drift towards the night stars, knowing, in His eternal Wisdom, that another world could be found and called home.
They drifted through space for a hundred years, and then, after another 9 days, came to this world, drawn through the stars by the conflict found here, so like Midgard used to be. Settling again in the heavens, Odin gazed down upon us, as Thor found His place among the clouds and set the wind whispering news of Their arrival.
So did I meet the Lord of Thunder, atop the mountains of my homeland, and listened as Odin spoke to me of the times to come. Thus began our faith within the mountains there, with a gift of blood, and the Voice of Asgard.
