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|The Jihad |
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|Draw close seekers of Wisdom and hear my words, and I shall tell you |
|of the subtle and terrible beginnings of the Jihad. |
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|When the Realms were recovering from the aftermath of the great |
|DreamWars which spawned so many of our races, and shaped the very |
|island continents we now know, new powers began to appear to fill the |
|great void left by the fall of the Powers of the Old World. |
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|During the second millennia after the Wars, the Powers arrived to our |
|Realms by the score, drawn by the seething mass of our life force. |
|They offered their favors in exchange for the one currency an Immortal |
|needs: belief. In exchange for our belief, our faith, these Powers |
|grew stronger and granted more and mightier favors on their chosen. |
|During the first millennia, while the realm was recovering, the Powers |
|fought in subtle ways, for the world was yet too damaged. Time passed,|
|and the seas ceased to boil, and the sky began to clear. More time |
|passed, and the surviving races began again to rediscover the lost arts|
|of building, and the lost arts of war. |
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|At the dawn of the third millennia, the Powers began to move against |
|each other openly. Forming armies of their believers, they marched |
|one against the other in their struggles to prove their might to their |
|followers, and thereby increase their own power with that rare |
|spiritual currency of faith. Led by their incarnate Avatars, and their|
|powerful Priests, the Jihad was born, and the realms were plunged into |
|the Age of Darkness, the modern Age according to Kyldissian Lore. |
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|For a full millennia the Jihad raged across the lands, and slowly, one |
|by one, the Powers fell. Frightened by the fall of their brethren, |
|alliances began to form amongst the Powers. Pantheons began to rage |
|with incredible might and power against the lone Powers and overwhelm |
|them. |
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|Now, my children, we sit at the End of an Age. The fifth millennia |
|since the end of the DreamWars, which brought to an end the Age of |
|Dreams, now sees the end of the Third Age, the Age of Darkness. |
|Whether the Fourth Age of our World will be one of Light, or Doom |
|remains to be seen. Only six of the great Powers remain. I have |
|written down a brief history and ideology of each should you chose to |
|learn of them. |
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|And now, I name them, the final six players of the Jihad. |
|Everen, the Goddess of Light, |
|The Gods of Many Faces, |
|The Mother of All, |
|The Great Old Ones, |
|Karaveth, the Lord of the Middle Dark, |
|The Blood Lords. |
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|Of course, of the atheists I will not speak except to say they waste |
|their lives for no benefit. |
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| To this Writ I set my Hand, |
| Jarrod Melshimber, Servant of Truth, |
| Witness of the Ages, and |
| Seer of Kyldiss. |
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