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dgate history and lore
OROS

Soros - Table of Contents
:: The Saga of Soros ::
:: Soros & The White Dove ::
:: Kyria & Poindexter ::
:: The Fall of Soros, pt. 1 ::
:: The Fall of Soros, pt. 2 ::
:: Is He really Gone? ::
:: A Flerian's Tale ::
:: More on Soros ::
:: The Power of a Word ::
:: A Hint of Soros, Pt. 1 ::
:: A Hint of Soros, Pt. 2 ::

HISTORY & LORE

The Saga of Soros ...

[The following is a transcript of the tale told by Monilea Callifera on April 4, 1997.]

This is the story of the disappearance and return of Dazrada Soros, High Priest of Taath.

This age is does not yet have a name, for it is yet early, though some have suggested it be called the Age of False Gods.  But I shall call it This Age of Ours.  The age before this is called the Age of Revelation.  The end of the Age of Revelation was marked by many cataclysms, one of which was the Great Conflagaration.

The details of what happened in the Great Conflagaration are lost.  But this much is known: In the office of the Priesthood Guild, the High Priests of all the gods had gathered to discuss something, no doubt of great import.  Then there was a great roar, a great explosion.  Fires roared through the city.  When the faithful arrived at the Priesthood Guild, they found it, to all appearances, untouched.  But the door to the office where the High Priests had been meeting was welded shut, as though by high heat.  And when the people of the Spur were finally able to pry open the door, there was no sign of the High Priests.  It was as though they had never been there at all.

What made the High Priests disappear, where they were taken, none can say for certain.  It was presumed that all had died.

But they did not die.

The first to return was Aremaia Starling, High Priestess of Rinanni.  She returned nearly a hundred years after she had disappeared, and it was said that she had not aged at all.  If Aremaia ever spoke of where she had been and what had happened to her, it has not been recorded, or the records are still lost.

Now, among the citizens of the Spur at that time was a Muatana-al named Esteban Lovecraft-Dubois.  He was an assassin, in fact the master of the Guild.  He was also a devout follower of Taath.  As a Muatana-al, he was old enough to remember the Great Conflagaration, and to have had dealings with the High Priest of Taath.  A Psycian named -- and I believe this name will be familiar to you -- Dazrada Soros.

It galled Esteban that Aremaia, a servant of Rinanni -- goddess of love and peace and knowledge and all things hateful to Taath -- should be the first to return to the Spur.  So he invested all of his time, and all of his considerable resources, in researching ways to bring his High Priest back to the Spur.

Now, also dwelling in the Spur at this time was a San Elf named Hex ChunChan.  I say he was a San Elf, for so he appeared, but in fact he was something rather more.  He was a... a dhuvghal -- I hope I pronounced that right -- sometimes known as a recursive.  The dhuvghal serve a mysterious lord, and work toward mysterious purposes.  All that is known for certain is that they are evil.  And no matter how many times a dhuvghal is killed and his body destroyed, he will return to the world.  It may take years, decades, even centuries, but they will return.

The full purpose of the dhuvghal Hex's presence in Spur will probably never be known.  But one of the purposes was to effect the assassination of one of his enemies, a Usilin named Strangeangel Sondemiroir.  It seems Strangeangel had gathered a collection of artifacts, a group of amulets, which Hex needed for his own purposes.

To destroy Strangeangel, Hex hired the services of another Muatana-al -- this was during the Time Before the Bane, when Muatana-al traveled freely in the Spur -- one named Witold.  To Witold Hex gave that most dreaded of weapons, that abomination that causes the permanent death of any who feel its touch.

A red glass dagger.

A Fang of Rhangkhorre.

Witold found Strangeangel praying at the altar of Rinanni, and plunged the Fang of Rhangkhorre into his heart.  Hex captured Strangeangel's soul in an obsidian mirror, and disappeared without a trace.  But before Witold could flee, he was set upon by a group of brave Leuian warriors, who killed the Muatana-al and wrested the spent Fang from his hand.  One of these Leuians, a Lord Kyle Ferdain, kept this Fang in safekeeping, away from Hex.

Esteban learned of these goings on from a small group of -- what, more Muatana-al? -- who had their own reasons to seek the death of Hex, and had come to Esteban to ask his aid.  Upon hearing that Hex had dared to bring a Fang of Rhangkhorre into the Spur, he struck a deal with the young Muatana-al.  He agreed to waive his usual fee -- five hundred thousand gold, which might have bought the entire Spur at that time -- if they would bring him the spent Fang.

The Muatana-al approached Lord Ferdain, and the noble Leuian handed over the remnants of the Fang despite his misgivings, for he himself had reasons to desire Hex dead.

Esteban lived up to his end of the bargain, for within a week the head of Hex ChunChan adorned the altar room of the Temple of Taath.  Of course, Hex has since returned to the world, probably many times by now, but but to anybody's knowledge he has never since come back to the Spur.
Some thought Esteban a hero, a savior of Spur, but certainly that he would not prove to be.  For there at the altar of Taath, under the watchful gaze of the dhuvghal's head, he brought back that creature who would eventually prove to be a mortal threat not only to the Spur, but to the entire world and to the Gods himself.

The High Priest of the god that Esteban so loyally served.

Dazrada Soros.


Revised: September 02, 1998.
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