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The Prologue
The
Time Before....
One
speaks of the time before the Summer of Fire in the same hushed tones
as one speaks of the time before the cataclysm. As though the world
was somehow softer then, as though we were more innocent and more
lovely. As though no trouble existed. It is the golden age, not long
ago but far away. It is seen as almost out of reach by those who do
not really know of what they speak.
To
speak of a time before the Summer of Fire, a time truly before the
cacophony of events that chose to confluence in those short months,
is to speak of a time more than four hundred years gone. Few have a
genuine understanding of what lead to the time known as the Summer of
Fire, of the rising powers that had grown, with the patience of
mountains, over centuries. Only in looking back, could scholars
rightfully understand the full scale of events that preceded it.
It
is difficult to distinguish therefore what came 'before', as this is
a relative term. Each individual will have a point in time that they
consider to be the time 'before', after which their life will have
changed irrevocably. General consensus suggests that by 1099ac it was
already too late, but for some it started long before that.
