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In the Beginning of the world of Te'a, it pleased the gods to give unto the first woman three daughters: Aela, Ri, and Urda; the Healer, the Warrior, and the Destroyer. Aela was kind of heart, soft-spoken, and pleasing to look upon, and it was said that she could heal any wound and cure any ailment. Ri was strong and fierce, proud and red-haired, and whenever she rode with the armies of Te'a-nari--the name given by the people of Te'a to the part of the land they inhabited--none of their enemies could prevail against them.
And Urda, pale as the moon, eyes as dark as night... It was she that visited the people of Te'a-nari when their loved ones were dying, she that conducted their souls to Kur'en, the land of the dead. People feared her greatly, for she had deep within her the seeds of power that would destroy the world.
Ages passed, and the three sisters fell into the myths of the people of Te'a-nari, believed to be goddesses, and the mothers of the three major classes of women among them. The Aeli were healers of great skill, the Rii female warriors that could not be defeated, and the Urdi--Well, not many of those existed, and no one really knew what they did, aside from the rumors that they visited graveyards at night, and were always accompanied by strange, black birds, which they were said to whisper to as they stood among the dead.
And thus it was, and had always been, and the gods seemed pleased with their creation; the people knew neither famine nor plague, neither crime nor poverty. And so it would ever be, the poets said, for the gods of Te'a loved that which they had made.
And so they always would.
Dayinara · Tue Dec 09, 2008 @ 02:35am · 0 Comments |
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