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The peaceful night gently cushioned the grazing field in the comforting

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smells and sounds of spring. A tenant farmer stood night watching over his

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cattle, leaning on his cane, and observed that land he tended but was not

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entirely his. He stared up toward the starry sky and was lost in the beauty

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of the constellations. His thoughts drifted to a time when the land would

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finally belong to his children, and it pleased him to imagine the wars of

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Atheln and Caelwyn being a thing of the past. Perhaps the Crimson Enclave

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would finally wrest control, or maybe the White King's armies would finally

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purge the night creatures from the land. A sudden gust of wind pulled the

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peasant from his stupor, a wind that was both an omen of something

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unimaginably terrible but one that would see his fantasy come true. The thin

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cloud cover seemed to be thickening and almost descending toward land,

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quickly choking the stars out of the heavens. The cattle began to grow

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uneasy, stamping and circling in a way their caretaker had never seen. Though

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silent, the well-disposed animals' lips pulled back as if bellowing. The

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dreamlike state that the farmer was removed from was replaced with another

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more surreal landscape, as from the luminescent clouds, a pale hand slowly

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tore free. A violent winding cone of light and debris pulled free from the

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falling veil of thick atmosphere. In the center, the blind figure of Sidr

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rent into the world. Bolts of charged energy forked all around as both tree

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and fencing were obliterated. The poor cattle took the opportunity of escape

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and bolted, leaving the motionless man alone in the unrelenting storm of

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light and fury. The farmer fell on his backside and jibbered in fear as he

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stared at the entity that forced its way angrily into the world. A monstrous

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and slender figure,  Sidr held the height of a demi-giant with the girth

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measuring less than an under-fed elf. Two elongated arms stretched his full

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length, ending in palms with three grossly exaggerated fingers. His body

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ended abruptly at chest level, dividing into a pair of unnaturally spindly

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legs that made up most of his stature. It was his featureless face that kept

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the man arrested, however.  Unmarred seams of pallid and leathery skin held

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taught over a stretched-long ellipsoidal head swung in complete circles,

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surveying all about it before seemingly turning to him. The fertile ground

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below the farmer immediately withered and hardened as a column of light

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enveloped him suddenly. Somehow satisfied, the light, wind, and being were

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suddenly gone, leaving the scarred landscape in their wake.

Sidr - Revision history

Devortrix at 09:05, 20 September 2023

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