The War that Never Ends
"And there was a war in Heaven, where angel fought against demon, ang demon fought against angel. A war that waged long before the stars sparked into existence, and will last even after the last pathetic star has guttered out. A war that encompasses all reality, all realms, on and on, forever..." - Abel 14:7-9
The War Eternal
Stories of angels or demons inevitably bring questions some may find uncomfortable: Why do demons and angels war with one another? Why do they regularly seek to corrupt our world? Why us? The answer to these questions can be complicated, and admittedly our mortal minds barely comprehend the majority of knowledge about the subject. At least, those who are still yet sane. Those the church deem mad may simply be mad with knowledge. I have heard the screaming of a million, million throats gurgling horrifying hymns and songs of entire worlds bathed in blood. I have heard the wailing of widows and widowers in languages that do not exist. I have borne witness to miracles and calamities, my mind shattered into a thousand tiny splinters across my eyes. The demon und the angel war for reasons known and unknown. Sure they war because they at the end of the day represent entirely opposite concepts: order vs chaos, holiness vs defilement. However even they truly do not know why they war. That is why the Church has thrown me in this prison, pulled my finger nails and my teeth, cut my tongue out and blinded me with brands, but my mind cannot contain the knowledge for long. This war the wage, we aren't even a fraction upon their gazes, both angel and demon. We are dust motes in a storm of cosmological proportions, being thrown around for the entertainment of uncaring gods. This war has been waged before the world even came to being, before Tertara even had a concept of habitable atmospheres. The oldest stars are yet not as old as this war where Angel and Demon fight, maim, and butcher each other in horrifying numbers. The stories of demons running rampant during the Primordial Age? That was when the demons were able to keep themselves manifested in our reality, seeking to open a new battlefield in this game of war they play with angels. It was only with great sacrifice that the warriors of Caelum were able to seal the manifestation, but even that has not kept demons out of our realm for long. We are hopelessly conscripted into this war, for the angels won't allow any world to fall into the clutches of Jekkad. Their war has raged across realities and dimensions, countless civilizations, whose to say these demons and angels aren't just refugees of this war, fighting because that's the only single thing they know. What if it is just simply the games of uncaring gods in the heavens and the depths of hell, Simply playing this war as if it were a board game, where life is currency. The wailing of entire civilizations being burned and ravaged fueling a machine that never ceases to run. The Church will silence me for i speak the truth...
The gods and devils are indifferent to are death and wars, they have fought for eons across these stars, and our world won't even be a footnote in whatever terrible parody of a chronicle they write...
Transcription taken from a cell within the Churches dungeons, where it had been written by the insane prisoner in his own viscera and fecal matter. Though it was forbidden to record anything that was witnessed, a wizard made a magical copy in secret. When the church sent paladins to raid his house and bring him to justice, they found him hanging from a noose, seemingly having killed himself, and the book no where in site...
