Post by wolfram on Apr 12, 2009 0:25:50 GMT -5
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The Legend
Long ago, in the time before men rose out of the wilderness and claimed civilization as their own, there was nothing to distinguish the lowly man from the wild beast. They lived together, in harmony, and all was well with the world...
Then, man discovered sentience. He clawed his willing way out of the wild, and formed with his hands fire, metal, machinery. All things new and shaped for the man's benefit, and all things made in spite of his former home, his fellowship with the wild things and the wilderness they still thrived in.
Man grew to manipulate his surroundings, not work with them, and all the while man was growing stronger, more complex and industrialized, the wilderness that once spawned man was being cut down. Devoured whole to make room and raw material that would be man's new empire.
Man was advancing, his strides turning to leaps as he bounded into the new age of technology and society. But, still deep in the wild, man's long lost brethren, the wild things, still existed, and still worked within their wilderness homes in their ancient and primordial ways.
Man had forgotten the wild things, but the wild things had not forgotten man. They were long in remembering, just as man was forgetful, and, seeing their world divide into not one unified place, but two: The wilderness, and man's new dominion. They did as they always had done. They adapted.
They changed...
From the archaic lives of the wild things arose a single desire. The desire to persevere. As their world divided into old and new, wild and civilized, so too did they that felt the need to survive. They took on not one nature, but two. The nature of the old world, sealed into their natural bodies, and the nature of the new world, personified by the very things that had the power to divide the world: Men.
Henceforth, some of the creatures born from the wild developed this split nature, and this split gift, enabling them to be of either the old world or the new. Either man, or beast.
We call these creatures the Dias, or the double ones. They, and only they, can walk the line between the heritage of the world, and its becoming.
And, maybe, only they can seal the rift forged by those that would bound forward, and those that would stay behind...
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The Legend
Long ago, in the time before men rose out of the wilderness and claimed civilization as their own, there was nothing to distinguish the lowly man from the wild beast. They lived together, in harmony, and all was well with the world...
Then, man discovered sentience. He clawed his willing way out of the wild, and formed with his hands fire, metal, machinery. All things new and shaped for the man's benefit, and all things made in spite of his former home, his fellowship with the wild things and the wilderness they still thrived in.
Man grew to manipulate his surroundings, not work with them, and all the while man was growing stronger, more complex and industrialized, the wilderness that once spawned man was being cut down. Devoured whole to make room and raw material that would be man's new empire.
Man was advancing, his strides turning to leaps as he bounded into the new age of technology and society. But, still deep in the wild, man's long lost brethren, the wild things, still existed, and still worked within their wilderness homes in their ancient and primordial ways.
Man had forgotten the wild things, but the wild things had not forgotten man. They were long in remembering, just as man was forgetful, and, seeing their world divide into not one unified place, but two: The wilderness, and man's new dominion. They did as they always had done. They adapted.
They changed...
From the archaic lives of the wild things arose a single desire. The desire to persevere. As their world divided into old and new, wild and civilized, so too did they that felt the need to survive. They took on not one nature, but two. The nature of the old world, sealed into their natural bodies, and the nature of the new world, personified by the very things that had the power to divide the world: Men.
Henceforth, some of the creatures born from the wild developed this split nature, and this split gift, enabling them to be of either the old world or the new. Either man, or beast.
We call these creatures the Dias, or the double ones. They, and only they, can walk the line between the heritage of the world, and its becoming.
And, maybe, only they can seal the rift forged by those that would bound forward, and those that would stay behind...
Our Button in HTML...
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<img border="0" align="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzaFzBQl_TM/SdwJfzqqyyI/AAAAAAAAApI/2bYW27eJTiY/S1600-R/to+be+wild+mini+banner.png" alt="" /></a>
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