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carefully. We questioned the seeress, but her answers were dark and
obscure. And so it was that we turned our faces to the sky and bent
our ears to the whispers which came from the earth that we might see
and hear and learn. And as we learned to read the book of the skies
and to hear the whispers within the rocks, we found myriad warnings
that two spirits would come to us and that the one was good and the
other evil. Long we labored, but still were sorely troubled, for we
could not determine which spirit was the true one and which the
false. For truly, evil is disguised as good in the book of the
heavens and in the speech of the earth, and no man is wise enough to
choose between them.

Pondering this, we went out from beneath the shadow of the mountains
of Korim and into the lands beyond, where we abode. And we put aside
the concerns of man and bent all our efforts to the task that lay
before us. Our witches and our seers sought the aid of the spirit
world, our necromancers took counsel with

PROLOGUE 3

the dead, and our diviners sought advice from the earth. But lo, none
of these knew more than we.

Then gathered we at last upon a fertile plain to bring together all
that we had learned. And these are the truths that we have learned
from the stars, from the rocks, from the hearts of men and from the
minds of the spirits:

Know ye that all adown the endless avenues of time hath division
marred all that is—for there is division at the very heart of
creation. And some have said that this is natural and will persist
until the end of days, but it is not so. Were the division destined
to be eternal, then the purpose of creation would be to contain it.
But the stars and the spirits and the voices within the rocks speak
of the day when the division will end and all will be made one again,
for creation itself knows that the day will come.

Know ye further that two spirits contend with each other at the very
center of time, and these spirits are the two sides of that which
hath divided creation. And in a certain time shall those spirits meet
upon this world, and then will come the time of the Choice. And if
the Choice be not made, then shall this world vanish, and the Beloved
Guest of whom the seeress spoke will never come. For it is this which
she meant when she said to us: "Behold, He may not choose ye unless
ye choose Him." And the Choice that we must make is the choice
between good and evil, and the division between good and evil, and
the reality that will exist after we have made the choice will be a
reality of good or a reality of evil, and it will prevail so untU the
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