TRA: A God's Sorrow

Chapter 11: Original Sin

Grall

Grall stared into the mural, the characters seemed to move. Grall peered through the mural and after a moment he could see the magic. To the naked eye, these characters moved slowly, but to Gralls magical eyes, he could see these murals moving with great speed, repeating the scenes over and over again in all possible out come.

"Interesting." Grall said as he reached out his hand, stopping inches from touching the mural. "No," he said turning to the entrance of the cave, "I need to go back to the beginning, not the middle."

Grall walked to the entrance of the cave, finding the beginning of the mural buried in brush and ivy. Grall grabbed the ivy and slowly, carefully moved it off to the side. The mural depicted twelve creatures that Grall recognize as those that took up the responsibility of Gods.

Grall lifted his hand to touch the mural, pausing as another figure, one Grall recognized, appeared in the mural. Imp stood there, speaking with the Gods as though he was one of them himself. Grall began to pull his hand back, thinking better of going to that time, but found himself being sent through time.

Grall found himself standing behind Imp, just as he arrived. The twelve God's seemed to be discussing how to craft the world when one of them, Grall recognized as Talengar, noticed Imp.

"Who are you and how did you get here?" Talengar, the God of war, asked, he raised his two handed sword in a single hand. This was certainly Talengar but he looked to frail to even stand, let alone lift the sword he held in his hand.

"I apologize," Imp said as he bowed to the Gods, "I came here through an odd gate I found. Is this perhaps the first meeting of the Gods?"

The Gods stared at Imp in astonishment, Grall opened his mouth to speak but stopped. The Gods seemed to not even see him. Grall turned to Imp and held his hand out, waving it in front of Imp. He seemed to not realize Grall stood there either.

Grall sighed as the Gods burst into questions, asking Imp to tell them of the future. Before imp could respond, the magic that held Imp in this time, failed to keep him any longer. Imp disappears leaving the Gods gaping in disappointment.

One of the Gods, the god of the Dasari, eyes lingered where Imp once stood. "That looked to be an interesting race." The God said, turning back to the other Gods.

The group continued to discuss building the world. Grall walked up to them, as he approached, whatever hid him from the Gods view seemed to vanish as all the Gods looked up from their discussion, eyes on Grall.

At first, none of the Gods seemed to recognize Grall as a living creature. Then, suddenly, the Gods face contorted in fear as they scrambled to get away from Grall.

"Its The Reaper." One shouted as he started to scramble past.

"He's came back for us." Another shouted trying to get as far away from Grall as he could.

Only Talengar remained as Grall approach, his foot steps unwavering by the fleeing Gods. Talengar clutched his two handed sword tightly as his hand trembled with fear.

"Why did you return?" Talengar asked, he hoped the fear he felt didn't echo in his voice. "I thought you had agreed to leave us be."

"I am not here as The Reaper, Talengar." Grall spoke as he came to a stop in front of the orc that appeared to be a head shorter then him. "I came to seek knowledge of The Reaper. Knowledge of my past."

Grodak

Grodak stood over the plans for a new food storage building. After the mishaps during the long rain, of which they had just recently recovered from, Grodak realized that they need to start storing more food. He originally wanted his magic users to turn the new storage into an ice box, a place where meat can be stowed and last longer, only to be informed that it was impossible.