The Holyar'den - A child's parable.
A little girl, just your age, came across a secret place by the river near her home. She was very smart, like you, and also very curious. Her mother often spoke to her of the dangers of leaving the farm without her brothers or their dogs, but she often simply nodded her head and wandered off anyway. She had lived all of her entire life by the river and its wilderness, and nothing at all had ever happened to her that had frightened her or scared her.
Her mother knew that she did upon occasion wander off, and it worried her so very much, because she too had lived most of her life by the river and wilderness, and she had felt the hurt and loss that carelessness could bring upon you.
It was bright day, the light of the sun warming her when she found this secret place. And, she knew it was a secret, because the light didn't go there, and she thought how strange. Strange that no light came into the place. Strange that a place of no light even existed. Mysterious when she looked into it. Inviting when she thought about exploring it.
She stepped into the secret place into the darkness, the cold, and the quiet. And, walked with her hands forward feeling the earth and roots and wet as she walked. She was so smart. She didn't need to see, because forward was one way and backward was another. Forward was new and backward was old. And, she knew that new things were better then old things. So, into the secret place she traveled never glancing back.
Eventually, her nimble and clever hands discovered the end of the secret place, and there was revealed to her a Fairy. It was small, bright filling the secret place with light and rainbows. It flitted to and fro around her singing songs it was so joyed to have met the little girl. It landed on her hand and sang:
Little Queen, Little Queen,
You have come into the Hold,
Little Queen, Little Queen,
Let open up the Fold,
Ask its name,
for it to tame,
And, release all Thirteen Old.
And, she did. The Fairy was so happy it jumped into the air and as it spun sending bursts of twilight and fire into the air twelve more Fairies appeared in the secret place. Each gave a gift to their Little Queen and each took a gift in return.
The little girl's mother never saw her again. She remains in the secret place, undying, unchanging, a shadow in the darkness. Queen of the Holyar'den; powerful but lost. How do we know this? Because the Holyar'den are no longer in the secret place.
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Her mother knew that she did upon occasion wander off, and it worried her so very much, because she too had lived most of her life by the river and wilderness, and she had felt the hurt and loss that carelessness could bring upon you.
It was bright day, the light of the sun warming her when she found this secret place. And, she knew it was a secret, because the light didn't go there, and she thought how strange. Strange that no light came into the place. Strange that a place of no light even existed. Mysterious when she looked into it. Inviting when she thought about exploring it.
She stepped into the secret place into the darkness, the cold, and the quiet. And, walked with her hands forward feeling the earth and roots and wet as she walked. She was so smart. She didn't need to see, because forward was one way and backward was another. Forward was new and backward was old. And, she knew that new things were better then old things. So, into the secret place she traveled never glancing back.
Eventually, her nimble and clever hands discovered the end of the secret place, and there was revealed to her a Fairy. It was small, bright filling the secret place with light and rainbows. It flitted to and fro around her singing songs it was so joyed to have met the little girl. It landed on her hand and sang:
Little Queen, Little Queen,
You have come into the Hold,
Little Queen, Little Queen,
Let open up the Fold,
Ask its name,
for it to tame,
And, release all Thirteen Old.
And, she did. The Fairy was so happy it jumped into the air and as it spun sending bursts of twilight and fire into the air twelve more Fairies appeared in the secret place. Each gave a gift to their Little Queen and each took a gift in return.
The little girl's mother never saw her again. She remains in the secret place, undying, unchanging, a shadow in the darkness. Queen of the Holyar'den; powerful but lost. How do we know this? Because the Holyar'den are no longer in the secret place.
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The Holyar'den are 13 great weapons created during the Ancient's Civil war, before the Devastation. They were hidden in an lower dimensional space and discovered by the Paragon Dey-Sek, and then lost again. Each weapon grants powers at the cost of Breath.
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