Those words were issued over a millennia ago, few know it's true meaning, to those
that do they belong to several casts, most of which have long died out. But the
few that know the true meaning understand it's dark message. Some will choose
to fear it, some will fight against it, and still some like me will fulfill that
message. For those such as I who follow these words, time has no meaning no consequence,
our emotional barriers are gone, we do not require such meaningless things. For
us the only path is that decree, my story as it is follows throughout the following
events. I suppose I should get on with things and tell you how it began, for those
of you I know I ask you not to be to alarmed for you know that my past is one
that was shrouded in mystery to begin with, so this story should be of no surprise
to you. Now that you've been warned let us begin.
On the battlefield once more, I saw him, our leader he sent us forth so many had
died that day, I was among the survivors. When he approached me I knew I was in
the presence of a power, that I did not yet fully understand, in time I would
come to know him. He came to me while I was being tended to, I had taken a blow
to the shoulder from an axe, they said I would loose it, he told them to make
sure I kept it. I did keep the arm, but it still gives me pains to this day. At
this time I was young, eighteen or maybe seventeen perhaps, I can't remember anymore,
but I was a fighter and he saw that. There were those that feared this man, and
what he was. But I was not one of them, I was in awe of him, although now I see
that it was unwarranted for he just had better experience then I, after that battle
I took after him, he became my teach and I was his student. There are things that
you can learn from beings such as him, some of these things would take many lifetimes
to accomplish, I have learned many in the vast centuries that I have lived.
Not all though, but I am rambling I suppose I should go back to the story. He
took me as a student and taught me in his ways, I even had to learn a new language,
that of the ancients, it was hard to do at first but I learned. As time progressed
he taught me many things such as sword fighting, hand to hand combat and even
other methods which seemed almost magic to me. But I still learned them and came
to know them, he was one of the few I trusted back then, but one thing bothered
me. He would never let me go into battle I was always at the back watching the
battle, many of his men came to know me, some feared me and some did not, I even
made friends of some. When I asked him about this one day he told me these words,
"Yours is not to fight, for now you are to watch and observe for in the future
there will come a day when I will call upon you to fight and you will have to
lean back on all your talents." I didn't understand at the time and took it to
mean that I was to be forever watching till I died. He could sense this and eventually
and slowly let me take my own force on expeditions into territory that he wished
to conquer. To those who knew me within those forces came to be close to me, I
even called them friends instead of just soldiers. Our little force was a nice
one, I still talk to them to this day but we don't operate in the same fashion.
One day while out on a scouting mission we came across some of the enemy, they
were fierce, but we took no casualties, we did however have many injuries, I even
sustained a few. Actually I didn't tell the whole truth, we did have one casualty,
it was my horse when the beasts we were fighting took him down to get at me. It
was the only thing in this realm aside from my teacher and my unit that I cared
for, so you can be assured that I made them pay. We did many scouting missions
after that very few ended as badly as that one, in fact only one other was that
bad, but we didn't loose any men or transportation in that skirmish. As time progressed
onwards we occupied more territory, till one day the order was given to stop,
we were to come back to the original kingdom that we had occupied so long ago.
At this time I had aged many millennia and the being that I had come to know as
teacher was now know as a friend, although we still kept up the same teacher student
act for the others. But on that day I was infuriated, I could not understand why
suddenly we had stopped occupying territory and scouting ceased.
I found out on that day when he issued that proclamation those words still ring
in my ears like it was only yesterday, along with those words he also gave another
decree, we were to stay together through time, my party would not disband but
we would operate differently then the others in the shadows. We could not understand
because most of us had aged considerably aside from my teacher. He had always
kept his youthful appearance, and on that day we would find out how. Almost before
we could say anything he had us bound and tied to the ground, one by one he passed
over us and dropped a different stone on us, each one with it's on distinct color
and shape. When he passed over me he stopped and leaned over saying a few words
to me, I never in my life told a soul what he said but now with the time of the
decree coming close I will tell you of his words. He told me that "I would always
stay in my youth and that I would never die unless someone harmed me mortally,
which meant I was to be careful and teach the others that this was true for them."
With that he waved a hand over me and dropped something that can only be described
as energy pure and simple, upon my head, when it reformed it sent out a wave to
the others, I don't recall much other then mind numbing pain that racked our bodies,
and then getting up feeling weak. I wondered what had happen and then I saw it,
as I looked down in the pool of water I saw my face, as it had been when he had
first found me. But I was different now, I traced the lines that once were there
and saw they had gone, but they were replaced with something knew, it was a mark,
almost in the shape of that thing he dropped upon me. I was in disbelief but the
others had the same mark so I could not deny it and even more so when weeks had
past and I still hadn't woken up. We were young again, we basked in the glory
for what little time we had for we knew we had a task ahead of us so we went out
to make our separate fortunes, none of us save two ever had families because of
the complications of matters. Most of us couldn't have such luxuries because we
were to busy, to consumed by the matters. I was like the rest I had no family
aside from that which died over 4 centuries ago. But during this time I made contacts
I lived through the various ages in history and experienced many things.
Like always I was leading the others to our common goal, to expand upon that proclamation.
There were those that we had come in contact with that we used in our goals, but
mostly we drew upon the two members family in order to carry out our will as trusting
those within us was easier then letting in those we didn't know. But we did have
defectors, not of the original group but from those who had come close to us to
serve us. When they came to learn of our ultimate goal they thought us mad, that
we would get ourselves killed. We cared not so these ones mattered little to us,
when they came to us or tried to fight us we would dispatch of them either by
killing them or letting them go free.
And now I come to you, a being who tried to kill me, someone who thought that
because I was a child in a tavern that I would be easy prey. And now you stand
under me about to have your entire existence wiped out your probably wondering
why I told you this. I want you to do something for me when you go to the other
side, give a message to those who I have taken that they will not be alone. Many
will join as this realm is full of foolish beings such as yourself. That is your
message, and now my young friend it is time that we ended this conversation.
