MORTALITY - 1350 CE

Part 1:

In the untamed expanses of 1350 CE North America, long before the sails of colonial explorers dotted the horizon, the land thrummed with whispered tales and sublime beauty. A realm where the spirit of Coyote, renowned for its cunning and trickster ways, weaves its essence into the cycle of life and death. These stories resonate through the ages, echoing the enduring myths that once flourished across the ocean.

Within this tapestry of native lore, Ska, a seer and the knowledge-keeper in training, hears whispers of a more ominous figure surface as a long-kept secret. Her elders, tasked with retaining the oral history of the tribes, inform her of an entity known as Zushakon, the Harbinger of Decay—a spectral thread in the narratives of the people. An essence dark and inextricable from the inevitable truth of human mortality. One that arrives with few ways of warning and even fewer ways of resolution.

So on the day when the skies above turned a sickly yellow, Ska saw that it was heralding an era of horrors. The very earth itself began to yield skulls, grim relics summoned by an unseen force. They broke through the soil, empty sockets gazing in a silent, eternal vigil. This macabre landscape beneath the tainted heavens served as a stark reminder of the harbinger’s looming presence, casting a shadow over the land.

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Part 2:

Sensing the profound disturbance in the land, Ska is convinced she needs to interfere. Her visions, filled with ominous scenes of a world ensnared by despair, compel her to venture deep into the heart of the wilderness and seek out Coyote. But here, amid the dense, rustling woods where ancient entities linger in the air, she senses shadowy figures whose very presence defies the laws of nature.

Armed with the wisdom passed down by her ancestors and driven by a fierce desire to restore balance, Ska approaches a site pulsating with a palpable energy, ignoring her instincts that scream at her to run from what is an inevitable end. However, amidst the echoes of eldritch power that seemed to seep from the ground, she comes face to face with the source of decay. The formidable presence of the harbinger overwhelms her senses, presenting a gateway to truths long shrouded in the mists of time and obscured by the corruption it fosters.

Part 3:

On the desolate plateau, under a festering yellow-stained sky, Ska's destiny is unveiled at last. Powerless to act, she stands frozen as the ominous energies merge with her soul. A cosmic revelation unfolds: the source of the land's blight is not some external force. She realizes that Coyote itself, revered trickster spirit, woven into the fabric of countless tales, is an avatar of Zushakon, a deathly beacon reborn through the ages, guiding humanity in its eternal dance with mortality.

Ska’s body and mind are transformed, a vessel for the harbinger’s ancient will. The land remains under the shadow of a sickly sky, a constant reminder. Once a seeker of wisdom, she now wanders the land as her own harbinger of the end, embodying the truth that Coyote's tales were mere veils for a darker purpose in the cycle of life and death.