Do not unleash yet another EVIL

Cease your fear-mongering by spreading lies as the ultimate truth. You are no better than the Glommites, than this "evil" you so despise. Nothing you have written here is based in fact.

As long as Fiona is about, and Miranda not, the world will come to ruin. If you plan to oppose us, you had best come up with a plan to force the Greater Good back into her own prison. I doubt she will go willingly as long as you flounder about, failing to save the people in front of you due to some petty grudge against the Darkness. Get off your high horses. Evil does not wish to see the world destroyed. You are confusing us with Chaos.

Do not fight our only chance of salvation if you have done nought to find another way. You have passed the point of no return by awakening Fiona. Your choice has already been made.

Cyfihi of the Ebon Hound, Champion of House Tenebrous

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I do not appreciate this dissent without understanding; forming opinions on half truths, baseless assumptions and unconfirmed claims. I told this story to the Mage's Guild when this became a point there and I feel it is necessary for everyone who feels their righteous behavior is justified.

Long ago, when the fey and dragons and immortal races walked the ground we now stand upon, there was no such thing as The Weave. There was no such thing as magic, at least as we know it today. In those times past, when the dragons and fey were called away to the astral realm by the Anastazi, for fear of their servants becoming tainted with good and evil, we did not have the powers we do today.

They fey did not want to leave this world without helping the young mortal races. From the two crystal mountains at the poles of the world, a network of strands sprouted out in colors of yellow, blue, red, orange, green and purple, creating a network of colors across the land. This structure became the weave. And with this weave, the fey taught a mortal man by the name of Necrophitus Arcane how to utilize these strands to summon powers not before known to mortal kind. It was he who learned the powers of the spheres contained within those strands. What the fey had learned, however, was that mortal beings could not fully master all eight spheres of magic, and so they found seven others to teach the ways of magic. These eight students in turn, taught others, forming an academy where all mortal kind could unlock the secrets of the weave.

In this time, the fey imparted one more gift to the mortals. They showed the eight students of the academy how to utilize these strands to accomplish higher magics through the creation of a focus crystal, and thus was born the arts of sorcery. The fey had taught the mortals everything they knew, and so they left the world.

Necrophitus was greedy for power. He wanted more than what they had taught him, so he locked himself away within his tower and began to experiment with the combination of spheres. What he came to discover was that by combining the spheres that cancel each other (fire and water, earth and air, wizardry and enchantment, illusion and warlockery), the spheres would decay, releasing a dark and twisted negative energy that he could manipulate. He had created the dark magic of Necromancy. Normally when magic is used, it releases back into the strands, continuing the cycle of magic that flows through the two poles, this however, only destroyed the spheres and returned nothing back. It was cancerous to the weave.

But Necrophitus did not stop there. He continued to bend and break the weave to his will until he began to snap the strands, causing them to turn black, rot and decay, releasing the same kind of energy, but in much greater quantities. This was how he created the art of Black Sorcery. This was the art of shattering the weave to utilize the negative energy that came from it into powerful, but monstrous rituals.

The others had caught wind of Necrophitus and his necromancy students, so they confronted him, led by the only other student strong enough to stand up to him, Lucindra. Unfortunately, he could not be beaten, and instead fled away, but his damage was done and the dark arts of magic were being spread. Lucindra had to find a way to stop the destruction, or the weave would surely not last. It was incomplete and finite. She came to understand his research and experimented ways to counteract it. With the use of positive energy, she learned to create new strand's of the weave. They would be born of a magnificent white energy that would release off the strand. This energy could be used to cast incredible rituals of purity and light, while the white strand would fade into one of the six colors and embed itself into the weave. She had created the art of white sorcery and it would combat the devastation of Necrophitus.

Since then, the necromantic mages and black sorcerers have wrought destruction upon the weave while the white sorcerers have repaired what damage they could. It was only recently that the Arrantir stones were placed into the pillars in which they belonged, finally completing the full cycle of magic between the two crystal mountains, allowing the weave the replenish itself. The ultimate purpose of the white sorcerers was completed with success. The weave from then on, could not be destroyed.
This is the history of The Weave and Magic.

Miranda, at some point during all of this had been locked away within the weave, though the weave was not created for this purpose. The gate to her prison lay in Vardemir, only accessible by the true Guardians of magic, the Pentirr Knights. Why she was locked away has been lost to time and history. To my knowledge there are no records of what she had done to earn her imprisonment.

This story is much of what I know regarding magic, the weave, black and white sorceries, and the basics of where we stand.

Miranda may have been the enemy of the Fiona Argentis. For what reason I do not know. She may have been wrongfully imprisoned. Only those who bore witness could tell.

Fiona, the Greater Good herself and leader of the Fiona Argentis, needs the help of her sister.

Do any of you truly have it in your heart to, without mercy, kill the people you have grown to know and care for?
Do you have the resolve to kill your friends and comrades, knowing there is a chance you will never see them again because of their death at your hands?
Would you stand against what is currently our greatest chance of success?
This is the simplest route to survival.

To All:

For a lot that talks about balance, apparently none of you understand what this means. Did you all forget the creatures on Amanthyre? Only having been given stories and what I have read, it was obvious that these creatures on that island were corrupted by Fiona's presence. This had happened while she was asleep. Imagine what happens when she is awake. She is asking for us to release her sister. I believe she would not have done this if she believed that there was a way to do it without her.

We were previously educated by the reveal of the secrets that the sisters, Fiona and Miranda are the embodiment of Good and Evil, not as a moral construct but as a power source. Just because the names Good and Evil are used to describe these power sources does not mean that they are on the level of things we have ever witnessed. It can be assumed that their goals and motivations are far more complex than these words and to try and make them fit the confines of what we have experienced is foolish.

If not utilizing Miranda is really your goal, then one should start considering how to put Fiona back to sleep. This is not a pick what's easy for us situation and to assume that Fiona can do this alone or with substitution , even when she urges the people to release her sister, is also a foolish thought.

If your morals and uncomfort at this situation would dictate you to ignore facts laid right before your eyes. If you would rather ignore everything Fiona says. If you would rather hide in a room with your eyes closed shut and your hands over your ears to ignore truth then so be it.

What must be done is not palatable to all but there are us who will do what must be done to save the world.

Remember that Miranda helped imprison the Nulls the first time and it was not her, but Fiona who put them at risk because she stopped to save one life over doing what needed to be done..

-Ava

The Null are not here because of something mortals did. Do not think you are anything more than a speck of dust to them. They are here because the Anastazi have decided to create a new world, and their observation is complete. Either that, or they have finally - after this many ages - managed to chip away enough at the efforts of Fiona and Miranda to free the Null from the monolith, because Fiona and Miranda were locked away and unable to lend their energy to maintain it.

Do not fool yourself into believing that Fiona's slumber is best for this world. Without any comparable power as foreign to the Anastazi as Good and Evil, the Null will consume everything. The Light will not put herself willingly to sleep unless you can trap the Null without her - which, as a mere mortal, with all your powers known to the omniscient Creators, you are incapable of. She will not leave us to our own devices while a clear and present danger to the world remains. Other Astral beings might be able to stand their ground, but their hands are tied, as slaves to the Anastazi. Not that they really care about this world, anyway. The ones that did are long gone.

Besides, Fiona and Miranda are just humans. Beacons of Light and Darkness, sure, and perhaps the origin of such, but they are just as human as you or I. Their power is our power, in its purest and most concentrated form.


Cyfihi

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Caldor,

People seem to forget that this was a problem since our fight with Balfurious. During that Fight I watched, Orophin and Morwenne try and fix the break in the monolith. When it became obvious that the powers of Black and White Sorcery were not enough, Orophin and Magnus then tried their powers as paladins to fix it to which it was also not enough. It is my firm belief that even if you are to gather all the good in the world and all the evil, it will not amount to the power that Fiona and Miranda contain as all of the power of paladins, their champions, comes from them. They are the power sources and all are small and insignificant compared to them. Paladins only access a drop in the well of their power.

If a proposal comes that is on the scale of their power level I would be willing to listen, however so far from what I have personally witnessed, creating an alternative at that power level will take more time than we have.

-Ava

Don't mince my words. We are raindrops in the ocean of their power. Collect every Paladin that exists in this world and we would still only equal a fraction of it; but even that small bit is muddied. If you pick sand off a beach grains at a time, perhaps you will come up with a pure result, but in the time we have left, with the tools you would have to use, your shovels would unearth dirt and rocks and shells and crabs that simply waste space in the grand scheme. I simply encourage others to realize that this is their world, and this is just as much their problem as it is ours.


Cyfihi

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You are claiming things that are blatant lies to persuade people against this. Releasing Miranda will not destroy the Weave, and it never would have. She was put there as an after thought, like the swamp lord said. Opening a prison gate does not suddenly make that prison any less real.

You claim that Miranda wishes to "defeat" you. That is the most idiotic thing I have read. She is the only reason this world still exists. Fiona is the one who risked its destruction. Fiona knew they could only do it together, and still Miranda had to work twice as hard to compensate for her childish actions. Don't you think the world would have fallen to the Nulls in the first place if she didn't want it to be saved?

You are not entitled to claim that you can have your own opinion if you are spreading that idea as the ultimate truth. You may feel that Miranda will destroy the Weave, destroy the world, but you are just incorrect. Stop acting so mighty when you are indeed making baseless assumptions that ignore the actual truth. Those who walk the path of Darkness are not the same as those who are immoral, who wish to destroy the world. Again, you confuse us with Chaos. Turn your hate towards what is actually trying to destroy us, not what is trying to help you.


It's good to know that you all feel your honor is worth more than the lives of every person on this world. Are you seriously risking the fate of the world on a difference of opinion?

Cyfihi

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