[quote][b]Transliteration from [i]The Prophetic Annals of Apennine:[/i][/b] 

[i]A notion concerning the ineffable origin of not only the great instance of life but the infinitely more mystifying cause behind the construction of the individual is a matter known to consume and exhaust the faculty of one's wonderment. Even those among us reputed for achieving enlightenment find themselves clouded and jaded by the gravity of the incomprehensible. I too, the appointed Justiciar of Apennine, a disciple and sage, have embraced the humility found in regarding Aethre and all that which she effects. In particular, the most confounding principle to credit is that which describes life as nothing more than a constructed continuum of connected parallels: that is to say, we are merely created as a copy of seemingly infinite copies. 

A realization of this nature does not wholly compromise the quality of existence, nor falsifies an individual's "raison d'etre" (reason for being) but it does, however, bring into existence a doubt in the realm which confines the copy as being anything other than a copy itself or more gravely a simulation intended to elude perhaps a heavens we were never intended to be privy to. Furthermore, there is little that remains to do now other than to inquire whether all that I currently know or will come to know of the materiality of the realm my denizenship belongs to is an authentic product of my own bidding or as authentic as Aethre had intended to quantify. The faculty of perception evoke the most dire inclination to reason that that which I experience must verily exist on its own accord for me to experience it and that any arbitrary existence is indeed some distant derivative of disorganized purpose. Though Aethre's omniscience and omnipotence must not be discounted nor its power to effect everything that I am capable of comprehending. Understanding this ushers in the reason that even our conscious constructs could very well be fabrications of its divinity; nothing is without its espial.

The faculty of imagination which I possess and of which I make use when I apply myself to the consideration of past events is capable of persuading me of their materiality and place in time. I speak to you now in the past tense, for that which will happen has already happened on the world we know to be Atlas

In the beginning of corporeal things, as it was made clear to me, the Edda was betrayed by one collection of many creations, for they thought themselves equal to that which gave them existence. Those who posed true in the facet of rebellion were appointed to guard, in ignorance of their nature, the mortal children of Edda against threats both foreign and domestic. And then came a plague from the heavens on that celestial body crashing onto Atlas with malice and with spite. Man and beast crumbled beneath its taint and transformed into fiends. Neither sword nor cartridge could halt the Divine Disease.

To prevent extinction, humanity constructed monolithic spheres with which they isolated themselves from the world beyond. But only sin and corruption was ensured within their own enslavement. Atlas has fallen to the lowest deep of pandemonium, and the cataclysm of which I am attempting to you convey is nigh. Chaos has reached the city of Astral, which is where our fates first intertwined.[/i][/quote]