Alpharas: The Die Is Cast [ EDIT ]
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Only the oldest of elves can remember when the night sky of Alpharas was set with a thousand jewels.
To most, the stars are a forgotten myth, a pretty story for children. They look up into the pitiless, unadorned black and can imagine nothing else. But the wise old ones are right – there were once constellations and twinkling lights in the sky as on a thousand other worlds.
But some seven hundred years, without a fuss, they began to go out.
The nights became darker and more dangerous, monsters roaming the inky black beyond the light of torch or hearth unchallenged, and celestial navigation became nigh impossible. For years uncounted the forces of darkness ruled from sundown to sunrise, pushing against castles and cities in a cruel tide and civilisation seemed to gutter and wane like dying embers.
And then, a hundred years ago, the dwarves lit the night. In a cavern beneath the earth the Moon was crafted, an immense lantern of mithril and silver, diamond lenses and sorcery. With the aid of the other folk of Alpharas and an immense effort of magic and engineering it was lifted aloft into the starless sky, to cast down a cool, reassuring light on the world beneath, to offer sanctuary and hope in the darkest night.
To most, the stars are a forgotten myth, a pretty story for children. They look up into the pitiless, unadorned black and can imagine nothing else. But the wise old ones are right – there were once constellations and twinkling lights in the sky as on a thousand other worlds.
But some seven hundred years, without a fuss, they began to go out.
The nights became darker and more dangerous, monsters roaming the inky black beyond the light of torch or hearth unchallenged, and celestial navigation became nigh impossible. For years uncounted the forces of darkness ruled from sundown to sunrise, pushing against castles and cities in a cruel tide and civilisation seemed to gutter and wane like dying embers.
And then, a hundred years ago, the dwarves lit the night. In a cavern beneath the earth the Moon was crafted, an immense lantern of mithril and silver, diamond lenses and sorcery. With the aid of the other folk of Alpharas and an immense effort of magic and engineering it was lifted aloft into the starless sky, to cast down a cool, reassuring light on the world beneath, to offer sanctuary and hope in the darkest night.
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