Prologue pt3

Prologue (part 3)

“I am nathius Parag,” the old man began his voice sounding stronger and full of pride, “I was alive when mans troubles began and when he won but the small victory, the results of which we have enjoyed for generations. I have travelled the world many times over and have realised that the true history of the world has never been written. Here then is that history, I cannot speak of the things I don’t know. I don’t know where we came from or how the world came to be, but the things I shall say are a tale unlike any other. So write as I tell the reader of things from the earliest of times. The world existed when I came to be born so I know not how it arrived but the facts I do know is that there was one race of people, we the humans were all that existed of intelligent life. We lived peaceful lives. Some of us were hunters finding and killing animals for food and clothing, Some were farmers who worked endlessly to farm the land and cultivated it. That is how we had lived for generations, yet we only filled a small potion of the land. One day though all that changed, beyond that day, when the sky lit up, things would never be the same for us humans. On that day a great fire was seen spreading across the sky, in the middle there was an object that crashed into the ground causing devastation and chaos amongst us. As we approached the object we noticed that it was not ablaze as it had been in the sky, it looked like a massive winged creature though it was lifeless and stiff. A doorway opened in its side sending fresh panic among everyone and a metal gangplank extended from it, down the gangplank two beings slowly descended. All of the villagers present ran for an kind of hiding place though me and my three brothers stood where we were, more out of fear than of bravery. The beings stood close enough for us to hear them yet far enough away to not be in any danger of an attack. At first they made many strange noises which could neither decipher or understand, then they said ‘we are here as friends please come closer.’ The way they held themselves and the sense of safety that came from them left us with no fear and so we approached these beings. After a small time exchanging pleasantries with them we invited them to the village. At first people were cautious to come forth and meet them but before long the whole village had overcome their fears.
That night we learnt many things as the creatures explained about our world, how the land as we knew it was but a small part of the world and that across the water were other lands like this one, even bigger! They said one day we would learn to travel across the oceans and visit these other islands, but more than that. Just as our world was made up of many islands they told us that the sky was full of many worlds. Many could not believe that but still stayed to listen to there story. It was from one of these other worlds that these beings came from, they said they had come with a warning though. A mountain was going to fall from the sky and strike the ground with terrible power causing a great disaster killing many people and animals, worse still was the fact that the land would be wounded and start to die. That was why they had come, not to stop the mountain because nothing could stop that, but to show us what we needed to do to survive and also to give us something that would heal the land and help us rebuild the planet.