![]() ![]() ![]() He would need assistance this time-only another attuned to the same unknown could understand it. It was rank, alien, shudderingly devoid of emotion and meaning. Its core remained just beyond perception but he knew it was something he did not understand, something fresh and threatening which shattered all the rules known to commonsense magic. But never before had it seemed so potent in its anticipation of coming death and destruction. He dropped words from formulae, bollixed simple conjurations, stuttered in his reading and rhyming studies.Ī great evil was afoot in the world, an evil encountered twice before in the wizard's own long lifetime. He could not, for those visions haunted his sleep and tormented his days. Frustrated or simply terrified, the few who could see turned away or deliberately placed a calming interpretation on what had troubled their minds. The faces danced and leered and mocked their ignorant observers. Only a very few were capable of discerning their existence. It left a black scar on the flesh of existence, a scar that glowed and lingered.įaces formed within the timescar. It crossed east to west over the Tree and lasted for half a fortnight. On the fourth day of Eluria, which follows the Feast of Consanguinity, a great comet was seen in the night sky. Discontent ruled the stars, and there were portents in the heavens.
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