Library:Lamentation of the Fall

Lamentation of the Fall is a small book composed of thin metal sheets engraved with runic letters. Its thick, tooled leather covers are held by six wide leather thongs, in the style of northern Grunvald binders. It was written by Sariah the Blind, not long after the Fall.

Lamentation of the Fall
by Sariah the Blind

The End is the Beginning of us all.

Hear the soundless lamentation of the ages lost! The past is hidden from the eyes of the weary, blanketed beneath ash and tears. The old world is passed away, its mountains shaken, its rivers torn from its courses, its plains rent with fire and the shining towers of man tumbled to ruin. The orb of night is broken, its black shards falling from the dome of night to fall as judgment’s cruel, black rain. The music of daughters fails to resound, the proud boasts of men are as dust in their mouths and fear reigns in the dark silence that follows. The flesh is turned to dust and all that we once were is forgotten and lost in the shuttered past.

Where now are the virtues of the world now fallen? Were they taken from us or were we taken from them? Were they abandoned or were we orphaned by them? Was this not the blade of too fine an edge that cut between the light and night; between me and thee? Avatars of our dreams or nightmares, did you steal away from us in the night or did we lose you by the wayside, sightless in our pride?

How, then, are we to look forward when we cannot look back? Only in the obsidian darkness can we comprehend the bright truth. The Fall has sown the seed of our redemption, that we may harvest its fruits, harness its might and rise again from the blanketing ash of a past that has been cut from us as sharply as a malignant growth.

Tomorrow is to be forged anew from a molten chaos by those who seize destiny’s hammer and strike with uncompromising will.