These are the writings of Askokarsarian The Shade. I, Faliasor, his student, set down these writings so that they may be preserved and waring taken following the Master’s revelations in the valley.

A time is coming when the very shape of the world will be changed. Here will there be forces shaped whose influence the world has already felt and there has been change and will be change. There is no event but there will be an event in time that will shape the world.

In a dream I sat in the place that will bear the light. I saw the children of the dawn gathered around the serpent’s eye and the gleam in the eye of the serpent is a doom. I saw the headed servants made headless, abandonded by their creators.

In the fires of time they were forged, yet they too are headless. Chaos reigns but out of the chaos emerges a beautiful pattern, a shining web of jewels and gold yet the nature of the pattern is deadly to us. Even those of us who have gained the full protection of the great and fearful old gods who are yet born anew from a chrysalis of jet to rule above us. Even those such as I who have glimpsed the full shape of the web out of time will not be immune for our claws are not so strong as those who were created to follow the dawn and those whose claws pull on their fate lines.

To those who were living here when the dawn will break I send this message- the children of the dawn are our enemy and our doom and yet may provide our salvation. It is not the strongest claw that always prevails- remember the lesson of the pyramid which will not tip yet may be moved with a touch.

You will listen to our words and our doom will find you still be there will be a battle and a claw of rock and a child of the dawn who was like unto them but who becomes like unto us; there are figures whose echos ring across the whole web and who loom large in the shadows and there are the other worlds and the demons there who will have once served and who will serve again yet I cannot say who they will serve, only that they serve.

You who follow, heed my words. Guard these lands well. I see that the tide of those who live in a circle will push our world from these lands yet I warn you not to abandon them wholly for in the struggle to come we must harken to the land as the children of wheel harken to it for we must hold the lands against them.

Those who would wish to know more of the shimmering web must do as I. The flesh is treacherous and will betray you- enter the way of shadow and forsake the bargain you made all unwilling at the cracking of the egg with the light. Forsake the light and stalk the shades and your power will grow and you will soon attain the next level of your power and will be able to devour your foes. Forsake the seductions of the world of empty hollows and embracethe fullness of the web and you will attain wisdom.