PART II

DEMESNES OF NIGHT AND FOREST

THE YEAR 2,223 OF EVERON
THE MONTH OF TRUTHMEN

As the armies of man defeated the Skasloi, the saints defeated the old gods. With their defeat, the ancient sorceries of the Skasloi were greatly diminished, but not destroyed. It was the Sacaratum—that most holy crusade that brought the blessings and wisdom of the church to all the kingdoms of Everon—that finally purified the world of that evil. The only lingering of it are phantasms that exist in the minds of the ignorant and heretical.

—FROM THE Naration Lisum Saahtum: The Proclamation of Holy Law, REVISED IN 1,407 E. BY THE SENAZ MAIMS OF THE CHURCH.

Niwhan scalth gadauthath sa ovil
Sleapath at in werlic
Falhath thae skauden in thae raznes
Af sa naht ya sa holt.
Evil never dies
It merely sleeps
Shadows hide in the demesnes
Of night and forest.

—INGORN PROVERB