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The Tale of the Scarlet King

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The Orb Walkers have been told that this tale of the Scarlet King is incomplete.

The Tale so far

In the time when The Tree of Knowledge was planted, all things were given form. Even the Deep Waters of the Darkness Below and the vaults of Darkness Above took shape and form, and many elder gods were born of them. Of these gods, whose names are oft forgotten, there was Khnith-hgor.


Khnith-hgor was not great upon his formation: in truth he was small. He crawled around in the darkness of The Abyss, but unlike his brothers and sisters, he knew himself and knew The Abyss. So, blessed and cursed by awareness, he felt pain and loneliness, and looked beyond the depths: but the thought of the light and the shade of the tree pained him more. Existence was pain, and he would have no part of it. It would be better to not exist. It would be better for all things not to exist.


Upon this vow, he consumed his brothers and sisters, and grew strong on their essences. This act, this first sin of Khnith-hgor, caused him greater pain as he himself grew greater. He grew blind by his pain. So great was his spite and so absolute his hate, that he cursed the Creation and its Creator Fate, and vowed to destroy the Tree and all that it supported in its branches and roots.


He clawed his way up to his throne on the bones of his fellow gods in those dark aeons. Many other gods born of the Darkness Below died in these times or chose to leave those shadowed realms to work within Creation. Those that remained grew old and powerful, but they were bound in subjugation under Khnith-hgor.


When there were no more gods to subjugate in the lower realms, Khnith-hgor declared himself King of the Darkness Below and set the boundaries of his kingdom. This kingdom he built to bring utter despair to those who lived among the Tree and its roots and branches, to share his pain with all of Creation as he destroyed it. He diverted many souls to his realm, delivering pain untold upon them as they were stayed from their true rest.


With the borders of his realm set down, the King declared his war. His servants, and there were many, those birthed of the Darkness Below or those that had fallen to the King’s service, surged out of his kingdom, and there was war with Creation. This war continues to this day and shall not end until the end of all things.


Of the gods the King had subjugated, Sanna was considered to be the wisest and most beautiful. She had not remained in the King’s realm willingly, but her escape had been prevented by circumstance. She obeyed the king with her words, but not with her soul, and for this goodness she is mourned.


With the war declared, the King took Sanna by force, and lay with her for seven days and seven nights, until the Mother of Those Beneath Us was broken beneath the King. When this was completed, he rose in her blood, and was from then on known as the Scarlet King.