“You will know the final days by the coming of the three false blessings: The hungering father, the mad mother and the undying child. Do not heed their words, for they are only lies. Beware the signs of the end and open your heart to the One God, for He alone offers you His love and His salvation.”
- The Book of Light (23 PA)
When life first contemplated crawling from the seas, the infant creatures believed that distance was the greatest of all barriers. The line of the shore, etched in gold by the first rays of morning light cutting through the thin, toxic atmosphere, seemed so very far away. Certainly not worth the time it would take to crawl to it on limbs so poorly adapted to land travel.
So life remained in the seas for another million years, never straying far from its spawning ground and fearing what lay beyond. Only when food grew too scarce and mates too hard to find did the young creatures of the worlds dare to crawl out of the oceans. As the eons passed, fins and flagella gave way to limbs of all sizes, uses and numbers. As they spread across the land, food and resources grew scarce once again.
And so eyes turned to the stars. When life first contemplated the skies, the infant creatures believed that distance was the greatest of all barriers.
They were wrong.
