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Fates EXTEND

A new age is now beginning here in this grand and vast scape; an age that speaks of the darkest things we have yet to see, an age that speaks of an end to meet all ends, an age that speaks of a death of an advent. These whispers have left us all with a feeling of unease. As I make my way further and further of this stagnant battlefield, as most of the comrades I once stood by have long since claimed there Fate, where as mine seems to extend – across these many ages. Unlike before however, I can now feel it nearing – it is beckoning closely from above, much like the greater forces which have now begun to awake during these peaking and darker hours. They too, feel the chaos begin to rise once again, they too feel the panic that has now settled in the air, the panic of knowing that soon ends will be met.

The state that I have now been left in is a state of separation, a state of isolation, of sorts. This is not like the times before, where days of vanishings took place – but instead, a greater mission now stands before me. A mission that speaks of knowledge and secrets I have yet to know, a mission that whispers words of divinity and destiny that I have yet to claim – but even now such words do not provide enough direction, for this place is of infinite space. During these darker and shadowed nights, I can see the very blackness that is festering within my own being. There are times that I become it, scumming to the worst of what I become, turning to the monstrosity that I had always feared would take control of me. Before these day’s of fates were known to me, you were the one which held all of this chaos together, you were the one that maintained order in this all – but since those day’s, wild fires have sought to spread in the night, and I know that soon – they must.

What awaits immediately ahead are the trials of the night that seek to break me to my core. They seek to build violently upon the very foundation that once was reconstructed throughout these ages past. This long and winding, yet final trial that lies ahead will surely guide me to the final answers that I seek, and the divination that I have desired since before I can remember; while all at the same time, guiding me to the Fates that have extended beyond greater reaches than I could ever imagine – guiding me to this definite end. And now as I set out once more, leaving those who have fallen behind, further widening the separation, the hourglass is turned for it’s final time.

Intro The Trial of the Night

We have drifted further and further from who we were meant to be. Our drifting, speeds up as we come closer and closer to fates that were never meant to thrive.

Blinded by speckles of speeding lights, and a darkness so voided, I can feel the essence of emptiness devouring me, collapsing all that is within me.

These Trials and Tribulations that shall come with these darker knights, are of struggles that will summon final fates. 

No longer do we exist in the time of prologues and interludes, for what stands before us now is indeed the path to the end.

These trials that shall commence as these darker grow darker and colder are trials that shall seek to ignite every last ounce of fear that remain within my bones.

This darkness is blinding, and this flame is violent, but I know the two go hand in hand in making this journey possible, whilst also in bringing such ends closer.

Long since has our separation occurred, and even longer since has this knight fallen; and what remains of what I once was holds little to no trace of telling to what I will become.

We are now drifting in these darker times, as a challenge awaits us that will mark our ends. We know what war is coming, and we know resistance no longer plays a role in this.

For Lords much greater than we could ever imagine have now grown restless, and such forces shall now force us to bend to the will of a dying Advent.

The Ends That March

These lands are beginning to grow. They have somehow become, much more infinite in essence, if I may say that. The heights that I peer upwards to during these times to strife are like looking at lines that were never meant to be mine. While traversing this place, hope has been all I have ever known. But even now, the hope I have known for so long is beginning to turn into a more distant friend, a mere pipe dream at best; especially now, as the shadows march in their vicious array, bringing darker order to these lands. I feel that now, I am a mere nomad of sorts. I have left the pact that I have once known, and even now, this feel much more like how this all started in the beginning.

This age that I once knew as the bringer of shadows has long since made it’s course. The shadows have long since risen, and they are now apart of this grand place, in a much larger way than I could ever imagine. They have become one with many, devouring them without any consent, bringing about now, a darker age than we had all ever seen. I will not hold back during these darker trials that await me during this much darker period. I know that this darkness in here to stay, and the fragmentation and separation that is happening within me will not cease. For in this coming age that will bring about the ends that are marching towards us at a steady and beckoning pace – I know that the chaos and echoes will know of no rest, and shall not hold back.

A Twilight Fate

We are now drifting out of an age that saw the rise of Shadows, as they marched to claim this land, as well as claim us all. We are now moving into an age of end; an age where the light that had once shined so brightly across these landscapes has now burnt out, an age where the blackest of nights will soon find their way towards us – an age that starts with us at the bottom, following falls much greater than we could ever imagine. This war we have waged has been lost. We have been beaten and broken down by shadows of our own, shadows that now seek to claim the last of any echoes that remain – for soon all will be lost.

The last of what divine light I used to know so well has now been stowed inside of me. It burns me to my core, with it’s very essence being violent in nature. This very light eats away at what I am, for with each and every passing day, the void grows wider and wider as the darkness chips away at each and every inch of light that reaches the surface across this grand and ancient place. The trials and tribulations that have been bestowed upon me within this place are not yet finished, for now as an ending much greater than I have ever been able to bear witness to is ahead. I know a much darker test awaits behind this introspection that which now must take place.

When I lay my tired and sore body at the end of every Twilight, I know that soon I’ll finally breathe easy. For the forces in which I have now adopted shall give birth to a prince of a different light, a prince of a brighter light. I know that in time, the battle which must occur to bring life to this prince will certainly occur, and I know even more so that is may very well mark the end of all that I am. But the ripples and waves, flames and echoes of what is to ensue during the dawn of these darker nights, will most certainly bring about the ends of all that we are.

Whispers of the Dying Light

All traces of the divine light that I once knew have all begun to fade. The amount of time that I have spent drifting throughout this vast and grand scape has now left me clueless and ignorant to the happenings that have unfolded in the skies, happenings that have now changed the course of all things I once thought to be true, all things that I once thought to be destined.  The violent that has been brewing from behind the clouds has been locked behind an age that whispers of an unspeakable darkness. once that longs to bring about treacherous strife – and shimmering lines that shall see us all questioning all that we once thought to know, looking directly into the eyes of destiny. But I for one, have been fed such lies before, and even now as this war wages on as this cloaked like becomes dimmer and dimmer – I know the only truth that awaits us all is the darker age that will soon devour us all.

I have since taken my fall, and I have since begun to drift. Through this darker introspection, this darker look, and deeper glance at this mystery that now awaits on the other side of this hand; I know that I am no longer that boy who once traversed cavern walls. Nor am I the man I have longed to become for so long. Who I am now, and who I am becoming is something much darker than I’ve ever known. Something that has been brewing within me since the dawn of my time has now begun to wrap around my entire being – with who I once was now lost to the echoes. Who I am now is nothing more than a phantom of sorts, a cell in-between phases, a force in-between two separate worlds that long so strongly to collide with one another.

Now I know what must lie at the end of this road, for I know that final fates will soon be chosen and the infinity that awaits me will soon be determined. But I also know that now, this war must evolve. I know that now, this darkness must grow, and that now this light must die. With it’s remaining fragments to be split and held within that still remains of me, between these two worlds. This dying light speaks of vengeance and a fire more violent and treacherous than I can ever imagine. For now, flames have been started within me and shall hopefully become a fire that will be my guiding light through what is to come onward. For this Twilight that lingers above has now reached it’s last day’s, as it speaks to me it’s ever so fleeting wisdom and memories. 

A Brief Respite

We will soon move, for at this time we wait one day for the chaos to catch up. We will soon come face to face with our remaining fears, our hopes, our dreams – and we may watch them devour and war with each other, almost as if none were ever meant to be. We will soon see a sky so bright, that the light will surely be forbidden by the lords that beckon over these lands, a light that seeks to spread chaos and war – while at the as time, inadvertently opening up a path to something new. We will soon clash head on with the shadows that burn so violently, as they spread fear like a disease across this land. 

But even while the chaos and war will ensure, we will soon start chaos of our own. For we will soon take flares towards fates and mix them in two. We will stand watch and harness the embers they make, as it festers, as it grows into a weapon of our own. I may not know the consequences that will come with such actions, no – no longer do I have the energy, nor patience, nor time, nor interest as to ponder what will come about following such actions. For as soon as we discover what we once knew before – one must fall in order for the flame to rise again. But this hyper force knows not of right from wrong, it erases as it feels, and claims what it desires – with no second thought, no regret beforehand – or to follow. Our fate is up in the air as death grows near, it creeps in while we sleep, it seeps in where we dream. And so as the last of these short and bitter dawns begin to break and crack, letting in a final light to dangerous, so violent. Our brief respite, now comes to  a close.

Life Lines

We’ll never truly know when this is all meant to end. We walk and walk days at a time in hopes to position ourselves in a optimal form to take on the shadows that war upon us on a daily basis. Our army is of dwindling numbers, for some have been lost to the echo’s and others are now beginning to see nothing but uselessness in attempting to stay in the fight. I am still warring in all of this, but I too have grown tired of this endless cycle of pain and fighting – but even still, it seems that this was all I was meant to know. Could it be all I truly desired?

During this time I have begun to think back on the Cavern walls, and how during that time being sheltered in that treacherous and dangerous place seemed to be in essence, worse than hell itself.  Little did I know that here, outside in this grand scape, there is a violence much more sinister brewing that what had gone back back then, inside. With this in mind, I have quickly begun to think back to colder days, days when all I once knew felt distant, yet still in reach. For now, all that feels distant is either fading or has long since been no longer in reach. What curse have I fallen into? What waves will seek to devour me now?

Even during an hour like this, where the morphing’s begin again above, sheltering the violent and blinding brewing of a dangerous twilight – I sense that this incoming force matched with the growing aggression of these shadows will prove nothing but fates for us all, yet still we pursue against these forces. But as I make my way back to my feet after witnessing fading’s from all around me, I now realize that those who remained still hold tight to the life lines that are yet to be erased, the life lines that are yet to be cut loose, the life lines – I know longer have.

The Equality of Light & Dark

We are drifting in and out of time yet again here in this place. We’re no strangers to it, and while this happens we continue to fight our battles, day by day – accepting each defeat that is given to us; retreating with the hopes that one day we will be able to walk away from this all forever – that one day this war will be nothing but a lesson for posterity. We have learned to know nothing but loss here, and while you begin to seek flames of legend we now strive to start our own, against the very shadows that burn whilst marching against us now.

These shadows have grown bold, even during these brighter hours that scream of an era of twilight, that loathe this age of shadows. And now that the sun is dimming across this grand scape, they too know of a nighter much darker than the ages have seen – for it is then that a bend within this reality must take place to force the fates that must be made to finally settle in. Everything is like a blur to me now, I can feel the pain, suffering, yet see the hope and a newer light every now and then as beacons call out to me. 

Though I know that all of this must take place again, for as the cycles make their way in again – only one trial remains. My acceptance towards such potential sinister outcomes has now hit me like the same tidal waves which swept away all I once knew and held close. And though I will fight these battles and continue my place in this war – I will soon no longer be binded to the chains that has been forced upon me, nor will I accept to be held down by the darkened forces whose power dwarfs us to greatly. For I am the fallen. 

Prelude

Such a strange time that we dwell in now, you now at the forefront of your own crusade and the pain in your heart pierces like it never has before, your very soul burning full of desires that the shadows have once stole, and now I seem to find myself in seemingly the same position. It is a grand place here, this scape seems to be of infinite and never ending land, though, the shadows that march here seem to span even further – how that is even possible I have yet to find out. But it is with all of this in mind that I prepare myself for the violence that is yet to ensue once again, and these skies have begun to turn of a shade much more sinister than the blackness of the shadows that burn across these lands now.

Now I can see the hope fleeting from your core, I can see the fear fading from your mind, whilst all at the same time I can see the acceptance of a Fate all too familiar beginning to make it’s way in. The fates that dwell throughout this place also speak of an end to me that is wrapped up with lies and cycles, a sinister course with a hidden promise of what I have been searching for – but who now can I even bare to trust? Those who once proved to be close have long since been devoured by the seas, and those who would rise from the ashes of dark nights and early trials have now started to fade, fade much faster than I am able to reach them.

I now walk within a path of shadows, a trial that spews nothing but vicious memories, echoes of failures, and trials much more difficult than any I have once faced before. It bestows upon me a time in Twilight where all I had once fled from is brought to the forefront, where all I once fled from has now joined the army in which we are actively fighting against now. It is this very path that seeks to bring about a night that seeks to bring an end to all things, a fate which I have resisted for so long. It longs to see my dreams fade, and nothing but the void to replace them.

A Burning Shadow, The Fading Soul

These trying day’s are now on their last breaths, for as this war wages on within these grand scapes, so does a fading which has now begun to take place. For while it is still unknown to me and my nature, I know you knew more about it that I probably would have liked. You have retreated back to core and now soon you seek to vanish into the being you once more, as you reconnect with the longing in which you’ve suppressed for oh so long.

My weapons have now begun to dull here, for the various enemies I have slain throughout all of this time has not only taken a toll of my weakened and tired heart, but also on the very tools which were made to keep me safe.  And now, as we begun to march upon the shadows which have spread violent flames throughout this place, I now see that the violent rays beaming from skies above seek to start chaos of their own. Though we may be in this war and this age of shadows as a whole, I still am a lone traveler. I still seek stars that hide from the normal eye, and I still long to reach that bend, that drift that shall provide me with the answers that I seek. I still dream of dangerous cycles and past exiles which have shakened the very foundation I had once built myself on.

But now, a shift which feels oh so familiar, yet at the same time much more sinister, much more foreign has begun to settle in. It is a shift that speaks of burning shadows of the past that will start fires which will lead me to the end. It is a shift that knows how with every passing hour I wander, the further I wander from who we were meant to become. The failures of the past have now begun to latch to me, it is a plague of this place, and now I can hear the echoes once more calling out to me. And now, though there is acceptance in the Fates that very well beckon over me, there is also desperation, a last hope, for a line that will lead me to where I long to be.