That was an interesting story about a space faring race from far away, but how familiar are you with our own rich Cannesian heritage?

Our humble home world of Cannesia has its own unique tapestry of myths and legends that have helped form the fabric of our society.

Fun fact: many of our myths actually changed when the Manarians colonized us.

Just a few hundred years ago, the Manarians landed on our planet, Cannesia.

The Manarians are the whole reason why we know about such interesting tales as the Breegans and the Gher Cap.

That’s because the Manarians have been traveling space all over the galaxy.

Unfortunately, we Cannesians still have a lot to learn about all that.

Look:

When the Manarians came, they took our priests into outer space. They expected our holy men and women to throw in their scrolls and look to science for answers. Instead, what happened was, our priests started rewriting the stories.

That’s right.

A lot of our religious stories suddenly changed settings. This lead to some pretty ridiculous results.

Take this passage, for example. It’s an excerpt from the holy psalm, Enchantment of Diamond Blaze:

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When Merring was instructed

By Ram Gram Woole’s Messenger General

To tell the Sun to tremble in His Majesty’s Wake

Merring crossed the Nebula of the Green Horizon

With Celestial Jet Propulsion with the power of a Dwarf Star

And subjugated the Sun in chains

So that the Sun was no longer One

But Two

And his new Chief

Ram Gram Woole

Demanded Tribute…

Dwarf star. Nebula of the Green Horizon. The priests who went into space with the Manarians changed the nouns but kept the stories. As ridiculous as these changes are, now it’s part of our heritage.

It is common knowledge that all the modern fables tend to read like this, and throughout history, most of our storytelling has been oral.

In fact, very little has been written.

For that reason, it’s very hard to find much hard evidence of the stories as they were before the Manarians came.

Our historians have uncovered–and, over the course of years, deciphered–precious few of our original ancient written texts.

As they were.

These stories give us insight into who we used to be. It is important for us to remember where we came from, so we can maintain our unique identity.

One of the more famous of these texts, which is well-known to almost every Cannesian today, is the secular folk tale, The Legend of Crazyboots.

Here, then, is a lesser known tale. It is a rare original version of one of our modern galactical myths.

It is called The Murkhlings of Shandapidoor.