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The Legend of the Soulsong

During the time of the God-Kings, it was known that each crafted from their own blood and sinew weapons to help them maintain their power and control. Oengus Arawn XXI created for himself the Soulsong, a baton of such power and beauty that none could rival it. It was held that it could be a wand or a bow, whichever the God-King willed it to be at any given moment and that he was capable of great feats of combat or magic so long as he held this resplendent artifact in his hand. With it, he ruled over his people, filling their minds with his Song and commanding them from his seat of power in the Land of the First Sea. Crafted from electrum and platinum, steeped in his very blood it was bound forever to his service. Were it not for the interference of the God-Stealer, it may well have been used to bring ruination to those mortals that would become the Seven. The God-Stealer held a place of affection in the heart of God-King Oengus and through cultivation, this father of tricks drew the God-King out of his vanity and into a romance. For one full year he would go to the God-King and spend the night with him, allowing the God-King's love to deepen even as the God-Stealer watched and waited. He knew not where the King hid his most prized weapon and so night after night he went to his chambers in the hopes of discovering the secret. Treacherous and greedy for his own betterment, bitter from his denial of a place among the God-Kings, he patiently waited...waited...and then the truth was revealed. Upon the second-to-last night of their union, he beheld the God-King conjuring a hidden box at the head of his bed with a word. What word it was is unknown but the next night, as Oengus lay slumbering, the God-Stealer reached up to the head of the bed and spoke the word to reveal the treasured wand.   Seizing the weapon in his hands, he slipped into the darkness and hid the thing away with its two fellows, the weapons of the other God-Kings. It was said that upon his awakening to find nothing but an empty bed and treachery, the God-King Oengus ripped apart the entirety of his palace from the highest chamber to the lowest prison--and it was during this mad tirade that the Seven stormed the seat of his power and overthrew him as they had the other two God-Kings before him. Where the God-Stealer hid the weapons is known to no one but he--even Alutice in his knowledge of all things hidden and secret cannot learn of their whereabouts. And so they, like their masters, sleep. Pray then, all mortals of this land, that their dreams remain undisturbed.

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