Albonium

Volume VIII - Weakness

Book XVI - Unfair Karma

I - Committee

Eight sat at a long table. There were those who attended them, who gave them ink and paper if requested, and they were the Fellic men whom had been converted. They were cleanly, them, by the standards of those who sat.

They were outside, and did so not out of convenience, but out of a newfound tradition. Four of them were others, and two were Orcs, and there to show representation, and two others were redeemed Second Romans, but the four were dominated by the power of the other four, who held more authority, and it seemed that what they said was right, and to think contrary was absolutely wrong, as one of the future thought in the worlds of the First Rome and the Mongols with their rapes. And of the future, whether it became better or worse, was called heinous by the past man, and glorious and true by the modern man.

"A great many idle funds have been left over," said the second orc. He had been treated with care, and so cared not for survival, for it was too easy to achieve, and now wanted power, but was far too clumsy, "hence, establish a clandestine hand, and keep everyone else poor, so as to ensure they are not filled with sin."

Yet it was then Bilgames, who asked, "But does that not put pressure on ourselves, for we are the only wielders of power, and if power is the greatest sin, do we not put pressure on ourselves?"

"Yea," said Mageor, "but even so, it is the only path, even if it is a dark one. For to give power to anyone else, to the people, or to an alien authority would create chaos and the Fell would fall, and so, as Tharizdun seems weak, we must rise in his absence; we must be our own heroes, and if we are faced with wicked corruption and power which eternally threatens to twist us, then we must remain strong, and be vigilant of any corruption and signs of degradation from sin, for this is the only way, as to do anything else would be to fall."

Yet, they were fearful of him, for he held more power than the others, and so was the principal judge of sin, although he was finite. He could not give up power without surrendering himself absolutely, and if he did so, would still be looked up towards as the savior of the Fell and so would always be in power regardless.

There was Mageor. What did he think, when so many depended on him? He began to develop a tyrannical soul, and lived every bit of virtue he could possibly muster, and began to punish those who did not, for they were full of sin, and a danger to his rule of absolute truth.

II - History

He pondered in the darkness, which he saw solely as a visible light. He had gained strength, and power, yet he was limited, for there were a great many obstructions. What was he? The rightful ruler of the Earth, the skies, the seas, who had been defeated twice by Man, and had only crippled him once, but even then, could not scramble quickly enough to defeat him.

There was Caesar, who led the men in unification. Anyone who emerged as a leader would have gained a cult, he mused. Yet there would be more than one, and so there would have been divided nation states against a united Fell. But Caesar laid waste to that, so he took Lucius as a pawn, and then Gnaeus.

And before then he had exploited Man, and used the greatest weaknesses of Man against it. Man was rotting, Man was at his peak. There were two empires of Man, and they were different until they had their singular, final moment, when Man ruled unimposed, and the two were of the first timeline, and the second.

In the first, Man was always united against a common enemy, they spread with a purpose of justice and pride to defeat an enemy, and over time, the message of the past generations came to the present, whom developed greater weapons and tools of war, and the message was always the same, that the Fell was the enemy, that Tharizdun was evil, and that Man was the true ruler of Earth. This came from pride, and from Man making faith to prove its own legitimacy, and thus Man rewrote history, and made doublethink, for if fate dictated that Man would win, then Man would not have to input any effort at all, yet the enemy was incredibly strong and nearly impossible to defeat, and so everything had to be thrust forward in defeating the Fell.