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<blockquote data-quote="SolidSnake" data-source="post: 47724" data-attributes="member: 102"><p><strong>Harvester 5, 591 CY</strong></p><p></p><p><em>I have seen the end today...the world is covered in Darkness...all hope is lost. The remaining Oracle in my services has seen it...but more than that, she has felt it. There are many possible futures, but only one will emerge victorious. The Chosen I had spoke about before were seen leaving the Demiplane of Dread prematurely and thereby negating their ultimate purpose. With this future, other more horrific futures began to emerge. True, some possible futures were filled with a small measure of hope but how to divine which is the more probable? One of the possible futures nearly became history when the man known as Strider died in the Temple of Elemental Evil...with his death, the Oracle saw the dissolution of the party and consequently my dreams of peace on Flanaess. Luckily for us, Fate was not finished with him just yet. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I realize that should the Chosen fail, there is little I or anyone else can do to save Oerth itself, but this party of adventurers that I have managed to gather to Hommlet might be able to turn the tide...I sound foolish don't I? As if I could gather the forces of Good together to vanquish the Great Evil like in the fairy tales...no, I must admit to myself that the Chosen are our only hope and the adventurers I have worked so hard to garner among these troubled times will only serve to buy us time.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The strands of fate are decieving indeed. Like a web, there is almost no way to know if one is seeing the actual strands or the pattern on wishes to see. With a slight jerk, the whole thing can unravel...but the web does tell a tale of what could be provided the right strands align properly. I see what I must do now...I had hoped to avoid this task, but no one can escape their duty in the end. I have read some of Azalin's work; enough to know the man behind the words. He spoke of many properties of magic unattainable through normal practice that could be reached provided certain corners were cut. I feel a great weight upon me, but I must cross a threshold that I have forbidden myself to even touch. For many years I have gathered artifacts and knowledge that could disrupt the nature of peace on this world...one of which was the codex Azalin wrote about his experiments in magic...may the Gods have mercy...</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>-Mordenkainen, High Defender of Flanaess and Leader of the Circle of Eight</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SolidSnake, post: 47724, member: 102"] [b]Harvester 5, 591 CY[/b] [i]I have seen the end today...the world is covered in Darkness...all hope is lost. The remaining Oracle in my services has seen it...but more than that, she has felt it. There are many possible futures, but only one will emerge victorious. The Chosen I had spoke about before were seen leaving the Demiplane of Dread prematurely and thereby negating their ultimate purpose. With this future, other more horrific futures began to emerge. True, some possible futures were filled with a small measure of hope but how to divine which is the more probable? One of the possible futures nearly became history when the man known as Strider died in the Temple of Elemental Evil...with his death, the Oracle saw the dissolution of the party and consequently my dreams of peace on Flanaess. Luckily for us, Fate was not finished with him just yet. I realize that should the Chosen fail, there is little I or anyone else can do to save Oerth itself, but this party of adventurers that I have managed to gather to Hommlet might be able to turn the tide...I sound foolish don't I? As if I could gather the forces of Good together to vanquish the Great Evil like in the fairy tales...no, I must admit to myself that the Chosen are our only hope and the adventurers I have worked so hard to garner among these troubled times will only serve to buy us time. The strands of fate are decieving indeed. Like a web, there is almost no way to know if one is seeing the actual strands or the pattern on wishes to see. With a slight jerk, the whole thing can unravel...but the web does tell a tale of what could be provided the right strands align properly. I see what I must do now...I had hoped to avoid this task, but no one can escape their duty in the end. I have read some of Azalin's work; enough to know the man behind the words. He spoke of many properties of magic unattainable through normal practice that could be reached provided certain corners were cut. I feel a great weight upon me, but I must cross a threshold that I have forbidden myself to even touch. For many years I have gathered artifacts and knowledge that could disrupt the nature of peace on this world...one of which was the codex Azalin wrote about his experiments in magic...may the Gods have mercy... -Mordenkainen, High Defender of Flanaess and Leader of the Circle of Eight[/i] [/QUOTE]
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