A Dark Prophecy

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A Dark Prophecy by Morthond

Inside the Codex of Oblivion is told a prophecy from the ancient deities worshipped by the original Cult of the Skull.

The Codex of Oblivion is a book written in a long forgotten language, from the first worshippers of Oblivion, thus compiling and translating all the ancient manuscripts is a task for thousands of years, all of which, I cannot unfortunately spare.

The Codex has been the object of my study for years, and the reason of my ingression in this Order. It is my personal belief that the Codex holds the secrets of the making of the universe, of the meaning of all power and predicts the arrival of the End, and knowing these secrets would be the source of Ultimate Power. There have been several translations of the Codex, made by other scholars. This is my own view of the issues accounted within, and it is somehow contradictory to the vision that built the base of the Knowledge and Teaching of the Order of the Ebon Skull.

My research took me to the Beginning of the formation of the Order, and I learned something about the Arch-Liches and the first members.

The Cult of the Skull was formed when a young man called Nizar, found in the depths of some Ice Caves (what would later become the dungeon Deceit ) an old tome written in an unknown language and an Ebon Skull. By touching the skull, he gained insight to the writings of the book and apparently started a cult that gained followers quicker than what I would think as ordinary. Practicing rituals described in the book, his cult brought many diseases and plagues, and gave birth to the Dungeon Deceit, their first Den.

I was lost again. It seemed evident that some Divine influence had been involved in the finding of the book and the expansion of the Order. The killing, the rituals, the disease, they all seemed too coherent and ordered to be practiced by a band of sadists. I have deep knowledge on the ancient and extinct races of Britannia, and the culture that originated the Codex was unique and unmatchable.

I found references to names that either have been forgotten or omitted from the present teachings of Oblivion, and fragments of texts that indeed confirmed that some conscious being or beings were behind the Dark Religion, but in what degree they were involved, was still a mystery.

Gholad, Ghurlag, Ghorlon, Grahad. These names were a riddle to me, and they were often mentioned in high standard, and it soon became obvious they were not members of the Cult, but the object of their devotion, the agents of Entropy, and thus, the personality I had been seeking for so long. But how did they get forgotten? The answer is simple. They were not forgotten. I was stricken by the sudden luminance that led me to believe that War, Famine, Pestilence and Death were actually the meaning of these names, and they had become Concepts instead of Deities. So, the puzzle was finally coming together, and the rest was not hard to figure out.

The leader Nizar, became the First Lich-Lord after his death. It is unknown if Lich-Lords that followed him are different entities or the same one, and I frankly have no resources on that. After the coming of Mondain, the Cult has gone through a period in which absolutely no entries have been written into the Codex, and it remained like that until the present time, when Azalin descended into Britannia to restore the Order. The new Cult, the Order of the Ebon Skull adopted the Principles of the Codex, but since it's now written in a dead language, I assume much of the original religion was changed or corrupted, or simply replaced with abstract and vague views.

It is my opinion that residing behind the concept of Entropy, and the great majority of things the word can define, from Evil, to Death, to Corruption, there is a conscience being, or more than one, planning every step of the journey to Darkness of several souls and their own demise.

The horsemen of Oblivion who were born from Entropy, would be no more no less than Avatars of these entities, who in the past were called Deities, and were adored as such.

My thoughts are, what if the Order has not reached yet the full comprehension of the power behind them? What if worshiping these gods is the key to understand their true objective? What if fulfilling their desire is the key to ultimate Ascension?

And then I came to an answer as to what comes after the End. Ultimate knowledge? Ascension? Redemption? Or even who knows, the power of a god? The Lich Lord is the commander of the Forces of Entropy. He is its tool and personification, but in the theory of Deities, one question arises. How much does he know? Perhaps he is waiting for the right time to unleash the power and the knowledge? To finally tell his children the truth about Entropy? Could that moment be the Birth of Oblivion?

It's told in the Codex, as a prophecy, that the arrival of the Avatar of Oblivion would be a new Age to the Order. Only questions remain as of now. But curiosity asks, will returning to old creeds be a step forward to discover the secrets of Oblivion?

Time will tell.

Morthond

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