(2023-07-15) Cultish Communication

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Author:	OzmaAsimov
Summary:	A hooded messenger hand-delivers a sealed letter to Thalstan. The seal bears the sigil of a hammer with bat-like wings. The contents, though, concern all of the Cobalt Blade.
Rating:	T for Teen

Arc: The Cobalt Blade

My friends,

A good mystery is irresistible. It took me some time, but I have finally fully translated the manuscript of Damina Krawse.

I thought I'd read everything about the Seed of Eternal Endings, but Krawse's last few entries mention it again! What's more, there are notes in the margins by a different hand. Someone else was translating the manuscript before I got to it.

I have transcribed Krawse's words here.

"I dreamed of colossal beings who walked the earth of Azeroth in primal days. Wherever they went, they planted seeds and life sprung up all about them. Tree and grass, river and ocean, deer and wolf. Even men of stone and metal, who constructed great temples to their gods.

"Then I saw the Old Gods, disgusted by what these World-Seeders had done. So they reached into the darkest parts of the Void, where thought and sanity are as inconsistent as milk in water.

"From that blackest shadow, the Masters gave the Void shape: a seed. The Seed of Eternal Endings. I understood at last: it was a weapon, to be used against the Old Gods' enemies.

"In my vision, the Seed was taken into one of the World-Seeders' temples, and there planted in their mechanisms. Its roots sprouted and reached out through the Great Dark Beyond itself to the World-Seeders to infect them with its power.

"So touched by the Void, the World-Seeders could at least be destroyed by our Masters."

Fascinating, isn't it? But that isn't even the most interesting part. As I mentioned, there were someone else's notes, someone calling themselves "A.M.". These notes made mention of Krawse's ritual. The one designed to curse someone's entire bloodline. The writer was convinced they had devised a way to modify the ritual to use on these "World-Seeders" themselves! Such a wild fantasy, eh? Who knows what catastrophe they might cause if they tried? It's a good thing they'll likely never get their hands on the Seed of Eternal Endings, right?

I am, as ever, at your service. Be well, my friends, and Masters be with you.

— G. B.