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td it shall come to pass that in a certain day shall come the One
Whu to use the Orb, and if he be brave and pure, shall Torak be
overthrown. But if he falter or be tempted by the power of the Orb,
shall Torak overcome him and recapture the Orb, and then shall the
world be Torak's forever.
But behold, the madness of my brother Torak is a disease and a
canker unto the Universe, and if it should come to pass that he
prevails 'm this, it must be that my brothers and I raise our hands
against him, for the madness of Torak unchecked shall rend the
Universe even as he hath cracked this world which we made and
which we love. And thus will we come against him with the most
fearful power. In sorrow shall we pronounce the dread words -'Be
Not' - and our brother Torak shall be no more, and, as it must needs
be, this lovely world also shall be no more.
Guide well therefore the child and the man who is to be the
Appointed One and prepare him for his great task. Know that if he
fail, Torak shall conquer, and my voice must be joined with the
voices of my Brethren to speak that final - 'Be Not which will
unmake all that we have made. And, though it will grieve me
beyond thy power to understand, I will bend all of my mind and all
of my will into that fateful word, and this world will shimmer and
vanish as morning n-ust beneath the weight of the noon sun.
Thus I leave the world in thy keeping, my sons. Fail not in thy
duty to me and to the world.
I will go now to seek pleasant fields among the stars and shaded
pathways to strange suns; and, if all passeth well, shalt thou join me
there when thy task is done.
- And, so saying, did Aldur turn and ascend into the star-strewn
skies, and no man hath seen him more
THE BOOK OF ULGO*
* Once we started on this particular Holy Book we began to see all kinds of
possibilities
beyond the original intention of providing background for Relg. And when we
expanded
the Ulgos into the Dals, the Melcenes, the Morindim, and the Karands, we had
constructed much of the non-Angarak population of Mallorea.
Note This is the famous southern copy of this disputed work. It differs in
certain crucial details from the seven other fragmentary copies, and is
considered by certain scholars to be a corrupt, third-hand copy with no
historical or theological value. It is, however, the only complete copy
we have, and provides the only clues we have to the understanding of
the enigmatic Ulgos. How it came to be in the possession of the
Dryads in southern Tolnedra is, of course, a mystery
At the Beginning of Days when the world was spun out of Darkness
by the wayward Gods, dwelt there in the silences of the heavens a
spirit known only as UL. Mighty was he, but withheld his power as
the younger Gods combined to bring forth the world and the sun
and the moon also. Old was he and wise, but withheld his wisdom
from them, and what they wrought was not perfect by reason of
that. And they had despite unto him that he would not join with