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Kabok the Prophet
Of the Calamity that Befel Yun-Ilara by the Sea,
and of the Building of the Tower of the
Ending of Days
Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith
Of How Imbaun became High Prophet in Aradec of All
the Gods Save One
Of How Imbaun met Zodrak
Pegana
The Sayings of Imbaun
Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King
Of Ood
The River
The Bird of Doom and the End






Preface


There be islands in the Central Sea, whose waters are
bounded by no shore and where no ships come -- this is the
faith of their people.





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In the mists before the Beginning, Fate and Chance cast lots
to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode
through the mists to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI and said: "Now make
gods for Me, for I have won the cast and the Game is to be
Mine." Who it was that won the cast, and whether it was
Fate or whether Chance that went through the mists before
the Beginning to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI -- none knoweth.