"Let me sing you a song of fire and water,
A tale of two brothers born,
One embraced the path of brightness and light,
The other fell to darkness and scorn.
Let me sing you a song of fire and water,
A tale that should be heard by all."
-The Tome of Mysteries, "A song of Fire and Water."
A Song Of Fire and Water: Prologue
Chapter one
The Multiverse!
A place of myriad possibilities, of countless endeavors. A place of infinite stories…
Stories. A thing I know much about.
In the cold darkness of space, a large craft can be seen speeding through the void. It has no predetermined destination or goal, it just floats along the ethereal waves.
A large ship, made up of the technologies of a thousand worlds, many of its parts are unknowable to any but from whose world the part originated from. Various clicks and whirls, whistles and other, stranger sounds emanate from the solitary craft.
Inside its massive frame, stacked from ceiling to floor, and wall to wall are all forms of books, papers, parchments, magazines, pamphlets and other written forms of cultural history. If one took the time to search any length of time, one would see the histories of many worlds, some dead, some still living. Amongst the many papers, the strange lights that flash and blink, and the strange alien sounds made by the spacecraft, a large padded chair is positioned in the epicenter of the books.
And in the chair, slumped slightly, is a figure. Whatever gender or of what species it belongs to is obscured by the layers of clothes that it wore on its being. Each piece was a another piece of a world's history and culture. Many different styles and colors clashed, creating a cacophony of designs and colors, so never before seen by mortal men.
But such was the way of the Noctum clan, and it's small number of members. A number which grew smaller as the ravages of time took its toll on the different beings of the clan. Soon, another would join the others that came before, and died before.
But this one, it had one last tale to chronicle. One last history to read. One last lesson to teach.