Chapter 1 – Once upon a time in Limbo

The landscape of the plane of Limbo was difficult for Tel to describe. The ground was splintered with irregular jumbles of earth resulting in everything from dangerous spikes to high cliffs and smooth earth. This was all on an island sized landmass which was floating around in a strange sky which contained every colour of the rainbow that was changing constantly. Throughout the sky other floating islands of earth could be seen spinning extremely fast or staying entirely still. Pockets of air, water and fire could also be seen floating about, resulting in pockets of wind creating random small breezes and disastrous hurricanes and candle sized flames to huge firestorms. Bodies of water in a variety of sizes were also floating about reflecting the multicoloured light from the sky like a diamond. Piles of rubble were situated about the landmass on some of the more stable ground. But these piles were in fact the homes of a race known as the diabolus. These creatures seemed to have built their houses with an incredible disregard for the common laws of structure or defence. Beams of metal and timber were protruding at odd angles from inclining stone walls. Diaboli were walking from place to place going about their daily discord lives.

Tel drew a breath and began singing about a new scene inside one of the strange houses. A diabolus was sitting in the middle of a circle of candles and chanting under his breath, with its eyes closed. A diabolus resembles a human with a thin body and arms but that's were the similarity ends. It has goat like legs and a dark indigo coloured skin. Its head looked like that of a devil but with elf-like ears and two small horns from the top of its head. The diabolus sitting in the room had long white hair down just past its shoulders and had a short white beard. The diabolus was fairly short in height and structure due to its fairly young age of 20, but had huge muscles that popped out with veins. Tel decided to explain this diabolos' past before getting into the present.

Tel began singing a summary of it's past. When he was born he was given the name of Fihsaaa-krs which he shortened to Fih for social occasions. As he was growing up he was not required to go to school as it was believed by the diaboli people that it was most effective when one taught themselves. School was too lawful and the diaboli believed in pure chaos. Meaning they had no government, also known as anarchy, they had no schedule and there days were as disorderly as their environment. Fih however from a young age had found himself to be quite different and would do things in an order that made sense to him. He would eat at three equal intervals each day and would dedicate a certain portion of each day to learning about other worlds from books which he had found floating around the island. When his parent had found out about his lawful and orderly they punished him by strapping him to the floor and whipping him. His parents couldn't understand why he was so orderly; this was completely against the nature of the Diaboli. After that incident Fih became more determined to follow his own ambition and began training to be a monk with one of the books he had found which was titled 'Life is Law Monastery Guide Book'. This had taught him to be even more lawful but he had to act chaotic in public. For a decade he successfully did this but couldn't help but attract attention to himself on occasions. He had to keep on making excuses about why he was doing a lot of his training regimes or scheduled meals. Everyone was suspicious of him and he didn't have many friends. Even those he had thought were his friends were getting more and more distant and the rest of the diaboli became suspicious of being around him. He had heard several rumours about how the other diaboli thought he was a doggleganger who had come to spy on them, that he had the soul of a disgusting material plane monster.

Upon hearing the rumour about the material plane, he actually started believing that it may be true himself and he started studying his books about the material plane and realised that all the books had come from the material plane. He then spent days and nights in isolation as he studied his books to find a way to the material plane. But just as he was attempting to cast a spell that would take him there, his past caught up with him. Tel sung a sentence explaining that the past was over and that he would now resume the story where he had started. Fih was sitting in the middle of the circle of candles, when the door of his house creaked open. He hadn't opened that door in weeks and it creaked in debate of being opened after all that time. Fih jumped up and in fear began picking up the candles. But the person who opened the door was the Elder.

"What is going on here?" asked the elder.

"I'm leaving this world I don't belong here" replied Fih.

The elder spent a moment to think and replied "Okay goodbye". Then the door shut and he was left alone again. He suddenly remembered that unlike in his books there were no courts or law and therefore no punishment. But the other diaboli would have surely exiled him, it was just that he beat them to it. Fih made a sigh of relief and began preparing the spell again. He was worried that he would be hung or stoned to death, but that wasn't the case in this world along with no law came no punishments except on rare occasions and only for murder. As he and the other diaboli knew however there was no way he could belong in Limbo something had gone seriously wrong in his birth but he couldn't figure that out yet and he wondered if he would ever know. Fih finished setting up his circle of candles and began chanting as he closed his eyes and imagined a place in the material plane he had seen a picture of, 'The Elfsong Tavern' he decided. He could imagine the wooden table that were strangely standing on four legs and the walls that were actually straight. Although these things were strange to him they were eerily familiar at the same time and he knew he was finally going to were he belonged. His stomach jerked as he felt himself being yanked in a direction he didn't know existed.

Meanwhile in the Elfsong Tavern…

The patrons' were on the edge of their seats as Tel summoned a figure which looked exactly like the one from the story in the middle of the tavern. It looked real and Tel had even surprised himself with the spectacle. At the same time the wooden figurine of the beholder shattered into splinters and waves of light shone from the shelf and enveloped the illusion in a cloak of light so bright that the patrons had to shield their eyes. After the light finally faded the illusion of Fih remained. Tel broke his concentration deliberately to dismiss the illusion. The lanterns came back to full brightness, the setting of Fih's house on the wall behind the stage disappeared. But the figure of Fih was still standing in the middle of the tavern. "Hi everyone I'm Fihsaaa-krs and I have come from the plane of limbo there is no need to fear me".