Thou shalt open thy eyes, for thy eyes are key

Thou shalt bind thy eyes, for thy brother is the way

~ Inscription on the Sabuth Ruins

       There is a lovely little church that sits upon the hills of Ipo. The church was built by the hands of a minister whose religion has long since been lost long ago. Many weddings and many funerals took place inside the small wooden walls. Legend has it that after he built the church, the minister fell in love with a young girl named Ipa, but she had a fiance. The minister dueled her fiance for her hand and although defeated, Ipa went with him anyway. This angered the fiance as he was a grand general and was a man of honor.

The minister seeked refuge from the man’s wrath and he went to Sabuth. The fiance’s army chased after the minister and laid siege to Sabuth. The fiance captured Sabuth, but the minister was nowhere to be found. Angered, he ordered the destruction of the looted city. After he was done, the minister taunted him.

The minister sent a letter by bird to the fiance and told him that god will destroy the fiance. The minister then told him to meet him on a little church he built. It turns out that the minister was hiding there the whole time with Ipa and was loved by the villagers, as he did all the services the villagers needed.. Sadden that his honor was sullied, the fiance committed suicide out of shame.

When Ipa heard of this, she immediately ran from the minister’s arms to the ruins of Sabuth, where she was first born. She didn’t believe it when the fiance would destroy her homeland and she hated both men when they treated her as a prize. Sadden and Enraged, she transformed herself into a being of unimaginable power using Sabuthian arts long forgotten.

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She impregnated herself and gave birth to the first beings we call monsters. Using her monster army, she went and murdered the minister and the villagers. The minister appealed to her, he wanted things to go back to the way it was, but was killed before he could utter his final words. Her hatred of humanity grew even more because the minister did not suffer enough. Using her army, she led the world into a new dark age where humans were on the verge of destruction. The final city in her path, Ikamaru, was the last bastion of humankind.

Desperate, the human king of Ikamaru told his mages to summon a hero using dark arts. After spending countless lives, the hero was summoned and he drove back the monsters and saved humanity. Ipa, now the mother of all monsters, was driven off into the unknown. What became of Ikamaru, the king, or the hero became a mystery that all scholars debate on what happened. Where did they go? What became of the city? No one really knows. The fiance, the king of Ikamaru, the hero, and the minister's name has long since been lost to time but many claim to be their descendants.

The lovely little church still sits upon the hills of Ipo. On the church’s walls, carvings of prayers and pictures of unknown or unnamed gods. No one knows why or how it still stands today, but it has been deemed by the Andtruvy Theocracy a holy site just a few moons ago. It is heavily guarded and only the pope is allowed to go in. Not even the guards can stand near the little wooden church.

Across the continent, a babe is born on the night of the full moon. Unnamed, the babe is abandoned.

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Author's Note

Story will be updated on Saturday the 8th hopefully, if not I'll try uploading the ninth.

Updates will be on Saturdays.

Spoiler: Poll: What do you think the gender of the babe is?