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The Redemption of Erâth: History of Erâth – The Third Age (Part IV)

(iv) The Changeless World

So it was that the world of Erâth ceased to change, and began a period of some three thousand years in which the lives of men continued on as they always had done. The knowledge of the powers of Erâth slowly began to fade, and creatures of Darkness were forgotten. The Namirèn and the Duithèn lost their face to men, and were known merely as death and darkness. Soon, men no longer referred to these races rightly, and they became myth.

The Sarâthen, too, faded from the memory of men, and were forgotten entirely, while the Illuèn, who continued to dwell in Thaeìn, had no longer any contact with men, and were forgotten also. Tales of magical beings of light became legend, and soon no one in Thaeìn could remember whether these tales had ever once been true. The race of men turned ever inward to itself, and grew no more.

This is not to say the Third Age of Erâth was uneventful. The pivotal events at the end of the Third Age notwithstanding, men did not stop pushing the borders of themselves or the world around them. Changelessness acted more as a barrier, protecting men […]

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A Gothic Symphony: Possibilities (Part 2)

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Every time he left the city, he was reminded how much he was beginning to loathe living there. There was a lot to be said for living in the heart of everything, of being minutes from every possible form of entertainment and business imaginable, but the stone and the brick and the dust and the exhaust fumes, after ten years, were starting to get to him.

Here, by contrast, everything was beautiful. It was mid-afternoon on a hillside in the country, looking west-ish over a a field of barley, and the sun was lowering and the air was warm, and everything was bathed in a wonderful golden light, and everything was simply beautiful. Never mind that there was a highway twenty feet behind them.

Also, he was nervous, because he thought this was pretty much the perfect time for it.

He looked over at her, her eyes closed and lying back on the grass, hands behind her head, and thought to himself that she really was very pretty. Maybe even beautiful. In the warmth, she had taken off her cardigan, and her top showed a touch of her stomach, and he wanted very much to hold her. But […]

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The Redemption of Erâth: History of Erâth – The Third Age (Part III)

The Sarâthen’s Choice

The world of Erâth had now seen the kingdoms of men brought twice to ruin by the rise of Darkness. Every reasoning being is ultimately responsible for its own actions, and it fate that the Duithèn would become hungry for power and the men of Erâth should be so easily corrupted. Nonetheless, the Sarâthen, held themselves accountable for the great destruction that had now befallen Erâth during the First, and now the Second, Age. They had witnessed the doom men had brought upon themselves at the end of the Age of Light, and the subsequent corruption of the kingdoms of Aélûr and Cathäi. They mourned still the loss of the Mirèn, and unlike men, the memory of their ruin did not fade.

So the Sarâthen set out to put the world of Erâth to right in such a way that could not be undone by men, or any other Race. Their first hope lay in the defeat of the Duithèn, who lay now weakened in the West. The Sarâthen sought to confer with them, and the Illuèn went with them also. They spoke to them of righting the balance of Erâth, and the survival of all races. […]

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