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The Saga of the Poles

The Pole of Fire

ONCE THERE WAS UA
THE GRAND TAPESTRY OF EXISTENCE
UPON IT WAS LAID OSA
THE JEWEL OF WORLDS
THE MOST GLORIOUS OF HOMES

WITHIN ITS VAST HALLS
ITS UNENDING BOUNTIES
LIVED THE ONE PEOPLE
THE PEOPLE OF KA
THE FIRST AND ONLY PEOPLE

FOR TEN THOUSAND ETERNITIES
THE PEOPLE OF KA PROSPERED
UNSCARRED BY DARKNESS
THEIR DESIRES BECOME TRUE
THEIR WORKS BECOME MANIFEST

THEN DARKNESS SETTLED WITHIN
GROWING SLOWLY FROM
THE HEART OF OSA
AT FIRST IT WAS NOT GREAT
AT FIRST IT WAS UNKNOWN

FROM THE HEART IT GREW
SUBTLY IT SPREAD
CRACKS IN THE JEWEL
BROKEN, THE WORLD
BROKEN, THE PEACE


The Pole of Wood

THE KA DREW TOGETHER
THEY SOUGHT TO SALVE IT
TO REPAIR THE WOUND
BUT IT WAS TOO LATE
BUT IT WAS TOO VAST

THE TOUCH OF DARKNESS
SPREAD AMONGST THE KA
UNDID THEIR GREAT WORKS
IT BLACKENED THEIR HEARTS
IT BLACKENED THEIR SOULS

THE ONE CALLED OROS
SOUGHT NOT TO HEAL IT
BUT TO CLAIM IT
HE SOUGHT ITS POWER
HE UNLEASHED ITS FURY

THE GREAT BLOOD-SPILLING
NEVER HAD ONCE BEFORE
ONE KA SLAIN ANOTHER
NOW THEY WERE KINSLAYERS
NOW TURNED AGAINST EACH OTHER

THE WAR GREW FIERCE
MANY WERE DESTROYED
THOSE TAINTED BY DARKNESS
THEIR NUMBERS WERE LEGION
THEIR FOES WERE FEW


The Pole of Air

THE CONFLICT UNENDING
FOR TEN THOUSAND ETERNITIES
TIMES TEN ETERNITIES MORE
THE KA WARRED ANEW
THE CRACKS GREW DEEPER

THOSE WHO SOUGHT POWER
FROM THE HEART OF DARKNESS
SOUGHT TO TAP IT
SET THEIR MAGICS UPON IT
SET TO DRAW UPON IT

THOSE WHO OPPOSED THEM
SLEW MORE FOR NAUGHT
THE JEWEL OF OSA BUCKLED
THE CRACKS GREW DEEPER
THE WORLD TORN ASUNDER

AS THE JEWEL SHATTERED
OROS DRANK OF THE DARKNESS
FILLED HIM FROM WITHIN
HIS REACH GREW VAST
HIS ANGER UNBOUNDED

THE FOES OF OROS
NOWHERE LEFT TO TURN
THEY WERE EXILED
CAST OUT INTO THE WILD
CAST OUT INTO UA


The Pole of Water

TEN HUNDRED THOUSAND ETERNITIES
THE KA WANDERED
ADRIFT IN THE TAPESTRY
MANY WERE LOST
MANY CONTINUED ON

THE DISCORD OF
THE TRACKLESS ABYSS
HORRORS AWAITED WITHIN
TORE AT THEIR SHAPE
TORE AT THEIR BEINGS

FEWER STILL THEY STOOD
PRESSED ON THROUGH CHAOS
ONE MILLION ETERNITIES
THEN UPON IT THEY CAME
THEN THE SEED WAS FOUND

WHERE ONCE THEY WERE
THOUSANDS STRONG, AKIN
FIFTY STILL STOOD
SEED FOUND AMONGST HORROR
SEED GROWN INTO NEW HOME

THE NEW WORLD OF MERU
BUILT IN HONOR
THOSE WHO FELL
THOSE WHO WERE UNMADE
THOSE WHO WERE LOST


The Pole of Earth

AMONGST THEM THEY CRAFTED
THE ENTIRETY OF THE WORLD
MERU, THE HEART OF BEING
ARU, THE WREATH OF MANY
ZORU, THE CROWN OF CONTRAST
HINU, THE JEWELS OF LIFE

YMITRI, FOREMAN OF THE WORLD
GAIA, BODY OF THE WORLD
YU-ATEN, RAISER OF HEAVEN
MALFEAS, BUILDER OF ROADS
KIMBERY, WATER OF SOULS

ORAMUS, PATTERNER OF NONE
CYTHEREA, MOTHER OF CREATION
ATOMNOS, CAUSE OF UNFOLDING
LYTODEA, WEAVER OF FATE
AREN, FORGE OF BEING

AMIDST IT STOOD THEY
NYX, BELOW,
AUNA, ABOVE
EREVEL, BETWEEN
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

THUS WAS IT BROUGHT INTO BEING
THUS WAS IT BEGUN
THE GREATEST EXPERIMENT
THE TRUEST OF SEEKINGS
THE FIRST AND FINAL CAUSE