Message from the Past

Reaching Myrikin’s Wall, Connor began to play the tune taught to him by his mother so long ago. As the first notes filled the chamber, a beautiful white-haired woman suddenly formed, an illusionary message from his mother left ten years earlier…

“My dear Connor. If you have triggered this message, then we have failed. Though I can not know how long it has been since we left, know that my heart cried of missing you each of those days. To you, Langduin, my husband and I thank you for protecting and guiding Connor to this place.

1000 years ago, the Goddess Kol had a vision, a foretelling of a time when a great evil would come to Marai, using horrific armies that would devour the world. In her wisdom, she instructed her most faithful, the Fatesim, to spirit away items of great power to be used in the coming war. She also instructed the three sects of Angels, the Ilgar, the Malfiri, and the Tulari, to vanish from the world. Finally, she persuaded the great Dragons to enter other realms which she had fashioned, to protect them from harm, and ensure they could be brought forth to fight this evil.

This evil is a child forcibly conceived in the womb of Valera by the Unholy King. When news of the pregnancy reached the ears of the Father Sun, he knew Kol had accurately witnessed the future and that only woe would come from such a child’s birth.

The first attempts to destroy the child met with failure, and the Gods soon realized that it was amassing a power greater than any other possessed. Sol Linaru knew that the battle would not only be fought among the stars, but also by the people of Marai. And so he came to us, and the Cerulean Star was formed, with the task of finding the hidden places of Kol, and the keys that would free the Dragons.

But the child was born, and within moments, it destroyed its Father, Ortar. The Black Claw was no more. In a desperate gamble, the Magister sacrificed his own godhood to strip the child of its own. It was then necessary to send us, and other skilled and powerful people of Marai, to defeat this evil once and for all. And as I said, if you are here, then we have failed and the armies have come.

So now, our task falls to you, Connor. You are the last Cerulean Star, the last to hold the responsibility given to us by Father Star himself. I am sorry that your father and I cannot see how you have grown, and I am sorry that we are placing such a heavy burden upon you. We have given to you keys that will help you on your journey; the armor, the lute, and the whip. It is imperative that you release the Dragons, imperative that you stop the Child.

The fatesim will attempt to stop you. The armies will attempt to destroy you. And beware the child, for it will destroy you, and all of Marai with you.

I love you Connor, and I am sorry. Stay with the light, my son.”