Anyway - in my personal history the first abiding tone of the tale is set firmly in the lands of the ancients and so it's fitting to give you a taster of the world myth as devised by the Pyrvyrns and the first Meeters, back in the mists of Haven's own emergence into social sentience...
The World thou
must Live In is Here. The World thou must Live In is Now. Know also that the
World HereBefore and the World HereAfter may be studied and used to inform thy
understanding of the World of Here and Now, but they cannot guide thee in thy Paths
through thine own Life.
Where then must
thou find a Light for thy Path? The Moot tell of the ancients of the World HereBefore,
where all things were sought to be known and bent to the service of AllFolk.
Great deeds were done and they became wise in all things, or so they thought.
They discovered the secrets of the Worlds Within and Without; travelled to the
far suns and learned of the great mysteries of Life. Of How It Came To Be and
What It Could Become.
The Moot know also
that AllFolk now Living were brought to the Haven Lands from the World HereBefore
because it was dying, for the ancients could find no way to save it. Wherever
the World HereBefore Was, it no longer Is. It has gone forever and the ancients
let it be known to The Moot that No One should attempt to restore it, or its
ways, for they had led AllFolk into hubris, and folly, and forgetfulness, so skilled
had they become in their mastery of All Creation.
In the latter
days however, the wisest and greatest of The Meeters of the World HereBefore, knowing
that their time was nearly done, wished to attempt one last great service for the
innocent generations to come, and so they sent them to what safety lay beyond
the stars of the World HereBefore. They built great arks to carry their own
seed and all kinds of other life and matter: to make a new home for AllFolk in
a place made safer for them to live, in Another World of the Here and the Now.
Here, in the HavenLands, they came to rest after many Ages. And the Great Work
Began.
Know thou who must
Live in the World of Here and Now. Though thou must dwell in the World Without
and be subject to its seasons and fates, the World Within thee must never be
neglected, nor forgotten, for it is there that thou must truly Live and Grow.
Knowledge of thyself, of thy strength, and health, and purpose, is what thou
must hold to all thy Life. Live in the Here and the Now. Learn from the World
HereBefore.
Of the World
HereAfter one cannot be sure, save that thou wilt reach it through how thou
hast Lived in the Here and the Now. The World HereAfter is for the Dead Ones
who Pass On. In the World HereAfter they reach Life Beyond, gathered amongst
the Infinite Stars.
Transcribed from the First Tome of The Moot
by I, Veritas
High Keeper
this 5th day of the Autumnal Quart in Cycle 6987
Cloudbeis Keep
by I, Veritas
High Keeper
this 5th day of the Autumnal Quart in Cycle 6987
Cloudbeis Keep
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