I: Vide Stellas

This is a remake of my collab & the 1st book in the series, which has the 1st arc: Memory. II: Quod Vero De Chaos Et Timor has the 2nd arc: Chaos infiltration. III: Auxilium has the final arc: Freedom's Journey. Could've put all the chapters of the arcs in one, but it'd be 2long2read. I like to separate arcs in my stories; people won't get confused.

Most mortal societies have two things in common; the belief in the almighty, and the fear of death. Some of those who fear their own mortality will seek an existence that transcends death. Ultimately, we all must die; but what if someone found a way to circumvent death - not to prevent it, but to erase its permanence? To create a living death, a cursed and bloody existence. We cannot ignore death. We try to understand it, to shift the unknown into areas more familiar, more explicable. We create stories to help us deal with the immutability of death; one such story haunts us now - the legend of particular demons who roam this world. But a legend is not proof. The story is not reality; we cannot be certain that they exist, not yet. Contamination, sudden abnormal deaths...in this place death is sure to spread quickly; all the factors are in place. Close contact with neighbours, life in an isolated area, a society that handles their matters internally. A town with complicated regional ties and complex blood relations, Yes, the disease will spread quickly; and by the time it is done, this village will be annihilated. It is the cause of demons. In this village there is a legend; a legend that says that those who die with regrets or grudges shall rise from their graves and haunt the living, and wherever they go, calamity is sure to follow. They will wake, wander and bring more people to join them. They will rise among the trees and travel down the dark hill. They will find idle dreamers and fearful folk huddled around dim lights - lights that can do nothing to protect them; and they will strike.