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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gli'jar" data-source="post: 2902865" data-attributes="member: 36562">Isfendiyar nods as Kuma’s storyis told, and a minute has passed, Isfendiyar begins his own story.  He stis up and leans forward, “We have a small saying we teach to our congregation.  It originally referred to Apep and his legion but the story became corrupted and is applied to the foes of light and their unending hunger to destroy us all.” He stops for a second then continues, “They raved for food with increasing frenzy, being always ahungered and never abating the gluttony of their terrible maw; for what food shall be sufficient to fill the void of their belly or enough to satisfy and give respite to their insatiable jaws.”  He takes a drink then continues, “I tell you this Kuma because Apep, is also known by another name,  Apophis or the Chaos Dragon.  He is the force that threatens all of creation.  Where Ra represents life and light, Apep is darkness and death.  He is a great and evil dragon, a serpent that can be only temporarily defeated as he exists outside the normal world in the Uncreated. His every defeat is but a setback for he rises again in the Uncreated where he is trying to swallow up everything and everyone into the void of non-existence.”His voice becomes measured, “I stood next to my lord and fought against Apep’s legions. All darkness and despair, no end in sight in that realm.   Although his army was greater in size than ours, our lord gave us strength to steel our resolve.   Our lord and Apep fought, and the landscape broke.  Fire reigned down from the heavens and burst forth from the earth.  Lightning, broke from the skies and the clouds formed funnels of such great magnitude that great beasts were swallowed and thrown into the heavens. The ground gave way to oceans and the oceans gave way to mountains. Then all went quiet when Apep was cast down and defeated. A withered husk of death, who could not abide in the light and life which is our lord.”  He shakes his head as if awakening, takes a breath then continues, “I apologize, it is my hope that you are successful in casting down your own chaos dragon. As we defeat the foes of light the darkness loses its depth and we soon find it is little more than a puddle but we must be ever vigilent as even puddles grow.”</blockquote>

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