The White Lotus:  The Revealed Way of Cluo

“The Eternal Force of The Touch thus moved and The Great Pillar was forged in The Darkness Beyond. Atop the Great Pillar was set the Golden Lands of Mun, which glowed like a candle.

“The Touch thus spun and from this came Clou, The Celestial Lotus. Clou thus wandered amongst the trees and hills and lake and oceans of Mun and saw the wonders and love that permeated the Golden Lands.

“Cluo came upon The White Tree. Seeking to contemplate the wonders of all things, Divine Cluo sat beneath The White Tree and thus opened his mind to the world. As he sat the Wisdom of All Things came to him and thus Cluo did know Truth.

“Cluo thus wandered amongst the world, his new insight bringing many new and wonderful things to Mun. From his footsteps sprang forward the other gods of Mun, Fair Naggarium, Beautiful Miran, Honest Saphir, and others, who move through the air and water and land, spread across Mun.

“Cluo did withdraw from his people, heading to his great monastery Shallaban, to contemplate the wonders of the world. But the men of Mun, being numerous but lost, sought the wisdom of Glorious Cluo. Men from all of the races of Mun, including Trolls and humans, dwarves and yakitaurs, minotaurs and goblins, and many more sought Cluo's wisdom. Leading these men was great Knute of the Sarta, who was considered the wisest and most loving of all those great peoples.

“Knute and his men journeyed far and at great peril to great Shallaban to speak with Divine Cluo. Cluo, seeing the bedraggled pilgrims took pity and let them into his sanctum and agreed to show them his loving path.

“Great Knute excelled the furthest, learning the love and compassion and mysteries of the universe with great speed and devotion. All of the men of Mun learned his loving lessons and thus spread forth across the world, teaching the Righteous Path of the White Tree and Celestial Lotus.

“So great a teacher was Knute that he traveled for many years amongst the Sarta, teaching the love and wisdom of Great Cluo, drawing many of the Sarta to his loving embrace. So lovely was Knute's voice and so melodious his message that the Sarta, to a man, were mesmerized and became the greatest practitioners of Cluo's Divine Message. So great was their devotion that one by one, the Sarta began to transform, drawing ever upward and upward until they eschewed their living bodies for their living souls, joining themselves to The Touch directly.

“Ever after have the men of Mun sought to emulate the Sartans, yet to no avail. Yet all is not lost, for with time, all things come to pass.”