In Honor of the Five
Your tales tell you schoolchildren, of the Four Founders who wished to bring their craft and lore together and into order, for the teaching of the young. This came after the Great Breaking, when the Quillen were sundered, and the Quillendal hid from the others, the Quillengoll, who were torturing and burning them.”
“Burning, at the stake. Stop to imagine that. The broiled skin, and melting, fat and stink of hair, while the victim screams. Do you understand the atrocity at Cail Orgun now, perhaps? And the collectors of the bodies, who cut down the shriveled corpses, frozen in screams, carbonized grease over bones – children!"
"And who laughed and capered in the grease-blackened smoke? Theamhann na-Shaitann, the Eater of Souls. When has That ever rested, when suffering is about? Theos kata bolos, Αυτός που ο Θεός έχει πετάξει κάτω, whom God has thrown down. Diabolos."
"But later. Of your school. Four great wizards, four great Houses. Upon the founding of this great school, the Hesperides were asked to send a learned lore-master to teach, to make the Houses Five."
"The House Hesperides did respond. Each of the Houses were confused; some were greatly offended, but others puzzled. House Hesperides would not send a loremaster, for there was little magic which the House admitted to have, worthy of knowledge and teaching. But the House asked the kind permission of the others, to send a single member to work as janitor and watchman ‘in the halls of the blind.’”
Ever since then, though you may not know, a member of the House Hesperides has worked the grounds and fields of your fine school; no day has been without a servant from our land in your great college. Little is said, and few know that it is one of our house. Most of the Quillendall do not understand our commitment, and consider it to be a perpetual insult. It is far from being so.”
Your tales tell you schoolchildren, of the Four Founders who wished to bring their craft and lore together and into order, for the teaching of the young. This came after the Great Breaking, when the Quillen were sundered, and the Quillendal hid from the others, the Quillengoll, who were torturing and burning them.”
“Burning, at the stake. Stop to imagine that. The broiled skin, and melting, fat and stink of hair, while the victim screams. Do you understand the atrocity at Cail Orgun now, perhaps? And the collectors of the bodies, who cut down the shriveled corpses, frozen in screams, carbonized grease over bones – children!"
"And who laughed and capered in the grease-blackened smoke? Theamhann na-Shaitann, the Eater of Souls. When has That ever rested, when suffering is about? Theos kata bolos, Αυτός που ο Θεός έχει πετάξει κάτω, whom God has thrown down. Diabolos."
"But later. Of your school. Four great wizards, four great Houses. Upon the founding of this great school, the Hesperides were asked to send a learned lore-master to teach, to make the Houses Five."
"The House Hesperides did respond. Each of the Houses were confused; some were greatly offended, but others puzzled. House Hesperides would not send a loremaster, for there was little magic which the House admitted to have, worthy of knowledge and teaching. But the House asked the kind permission of the others, to send a single member to work as janitor and watchman ‘in the halls of the blind.’”
Ever since then, though you may not know, a member of the House Hesperides has worked the grounds and fields of your fine school; no day has been without a servant from our land in your great college. Little is said, and few know that it is one of our house. Most of the Quillendall do not understand our commitment, and consider it to be a perpetual insult. It is far from being so.”
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