Tuesday 24 July 2007

Solace: Prologue

"There is no glory in this war.."

"& no solace to be found in victory.."

In 642 AE a war erupted which decimated most of the known world. Millions were murdered, maimed and slaughtered for a cause that was never their own. A resistance movement was suppressed and a government supplanted. The world had begun to spiral down a drain so steep, it seemed nothing could stop it..

All seemed lost until, out of the smoke and darkness came a collective of warriors. Imbued with power so great that the very earth shook with their footsteps and whole mountains crumbled at their wake..
These avatars of the embodiment of a great Light & Hope laid waste to the evil that had so decimated the world and, once the fog of war had lifted and the scourge of darkness purged from the land, the collective dissolved into the mist almost as mysteriously as they first appeared..
It was then when it happened; the EM proxy visited the world & all sentient life was wiped out, almost as if those great warriors who came before had not come to save the world, only pave the way for it's annihilation..

1200 years later a new civilisation emerged.. Ignorant of those that had been before them & assured of their right to exist they took upon themselves the relics of old, settling into the old-cities that had been errected by their precursors & establishing for themselves vast economies of peace & prosperity.. In their new uptopian world the civilians knew not of the history of their dwellings nor did they know anything of the secrets of the old world they were so shielded against by their leaders.. The only link they were exposed to presided in the central square of quaternion city; a giant monolith with the words inscribed "Illic est haud glorior is bellum..." and "& haud solor ut exsisto instituo in victoria..." [Ion Cave Archive, 2088 BE]