Rising Shadows

Time was yet not born when Cel grasped earth into his hand and shed tears on it. The legends do not tell if they were tears of joy or tears of sadness. They were tears and tears are water, and so the earth took shape. Wind shaped the Earth into form, Fire hardened it and finally Cel blew Spirit upon it! He raised his Voice and the entire world heard his cry: This is the First Born, ruler and lord over the world, born by our grace into our likeness. Let his name be known to all! The old books have it that the First Born was perfection come to life and his rule lasted so long that even the count of its years has been lost. But the old books have it also that longer still than his rule Sin always searched until he found him. And longer still after Sin found him they walked together, the First Born never seeing the Sin at his side but falling into it all the same. Finally, when the First Born fell, and fell he did, it is told that his cry shook the world from its roots, the desperation of it piercing the heart of every living soul. It is said that in its fright he tried to rid himself of the sin and this is the way man and woman were created. The books don't say which of the two has the Sin inside or if both of them have it. Men decided for the Old Books and ruled that women are those of the Sin. What the old books agree of is that in that day the Shadow was born, a child of the Light and a reminder for those of the First Born to beware the Sin. The shadow will loom over everyone and everything that belongs to the Light, as a reminder and a pledge to remain in it. There is nothing that stands in the dark and spreads a shadow. The shadow belongs to the light. And as the shadow belongs to the light so does the First Born belongs to the shadow. So it is that the Shadow King has risen.

Extract from the Wisdom of Shadow.