![]() ![]() I have had the same nightmare for the past month. An Exploration of Ancient and Modern Myths, by Mordove Senia Amare fell in love-as he was frequently wont to do-with Moritas, and his visits resulted in the births of Formidite and Caldora. He brought her gifts from the living world, rays of sunshine bundled in baskets, fresh rain in glass jars. But Amare, the god of Love, took pity on the young, dark-hearted goddess. Moritas was sealed in the Underworld by the other gods. ![]() ![]() A witness’s account of Queen Adelina’s siege ![]() There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.” But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She nodded to her Rainmaker, and he descended from his horse to plunge a sword through the dying soldier. It is a sound I shall never forget as long as I live. I don’t know what he saw in her expression, but his muscles tightened, his legs pushing against the dirt as he tried in vain to get away from her. He trembled on the ground, but his eyes stayed on her. “She paused to look down at one of our dying soldiers. As if the goddess of Death herself had come. Where they went, the sky dimmed and the ground cracked-the clouds gathered behind the army as if a creature alive, black and churning in fury. Her other Elites followed and then rows of white-robed Inquisitors, wielding the white-and-silver banners of the White Wolf. “She passed through our village, through fields littered with dead soldiers after her forces overwhelmed the nation of Dumor. ![]()
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