THUS SPOKE AROALETA

“… and at the dawn of days was Wyrhta, the power that creates.

Where Nothing had reigned supreme, Wyrhta gave life to All;

shaped here and there, spawned now and then,

formed the one and in chorus the other.

And where attraction arose,

the wild thrived and multiplied …

… but out of the untamed Wielda appeared, the power that rules:

the power of willful violence, that bends here and there,

that curves now and then according to ideals and cravings;

that harvests the one and rejects the other.

With time, Wielda’s appetite grew,

and the birth was inevitable …

… because violence begets hate begets Wratha, the power that reacts.

Born of Wielda’s hunger for Wyrhta’s design, Wratha is everywhere and nowhere,

always close where mother meets mother,

always mounting in strength with the force of the violence.

The arrival of the black fruit is fated,

as inescapable as terrible …

… and it happens, has happened, will happen again,

that Wratha grows boundless, furious, blind in her hunger.

It happens that the blackness grows flesh and spirit and the sharpest of claws,

that the fruit sheds seeds that poison the first,

in the aim to suppress the second.

Then dies All …”