It was a calamity that none of us could have foreseen.
[Don't look at him with such hope, Elidibus. Emet-Selch closes his eyes for a long, long moment. Breathes, and tries to ignore the ache of a loss he has carried for millennia.]
It succeeded, and order was restored. Yet you know as well as I that a creation of such magnitude, of such might and magnificence would require an untold amount of aether to bring forth into being.
...Half of our number. All willing volunteers. That is what salvation cost us.
By His grace, the crisis was forestalled, yet the damage had been done. Our world was but a shadow of what had once been, desolate and uninhabitable. And so another half of the remaining survivors would give of themselves to see new life ushered unto the star.
Yet our sense of loss remained. We mourned the loss of family, friends, loved ones, a way of life which had so abruptly been seized from us. And so it was decided that we would again turn to Zodiark. In future, we would offer up this new life to bring back those who had so selflessly offered of themselves.
But some few of our people disagreed with this plan. They felt that Zodiark could not be trusted, that the sacrifice had already become to great. And so they created another god to serve as his shackles; to bind him. Hydaelyn.
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[Don't look at him with such hope, Elidibus. Emet-Selch closes his eyes for a long, long moment. Breathes, and tries to ignore the ache of a loss he has carried for millennia.]
It succeeded, and order was restored. Yet you know as well as I that a creation of such magnitude, of such might and magnificence would require an untold amount of aether to bring forth into being.
...Half of our number. All willing volunteers.
That is what salvation cost us.
By His grace, the crisis was forestalled, yet the damage had been done. Our world was but a shadow of what had once been, desolate and uninhabitable. And so another half of the remaining survivors would give of themselves to see new life ushered unto the star.
Yet our sense of loss remained. We mourned the loss of family, friends, loved ones, a way of life which had so abruptly been seized from us. And so it was decided that we would again turn to Zodiark. In future, we would offer up this new life to bring back those who had so selflessly offered of themselves.
But some few of our people disagreed with this plan. They felt that Zodiark could not be trusted, that the sacrifice had already become to great. And so they created another god to serve as his shackles; to bind him. Hydaelyn.