Tales of Destiny (OEX gaiden) gives us a Journey to the east Intermission!
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Yrsillar Wrote:When the men of the Golden Fields had come here, chasing tales of the gathering Dead, they had found them surely enough. Great mobs of ashen hunger, lashing out at all within reach. And yet, they had found something else as well. Towers, towers built all across the rolling hills of the furthest east, of white and blue mortared stone and brick, blooming with life and braziers of smokeless white fire.
There had been confusion. Words shouted between high walls manned by stern and dusky men and the fish scaled giants which walked among them, and the suspicious horse-borne lords of the Fields and their glittering banners.
But the Dead abounded, and so contact was brief. The lords wheeled their steeds and charged down the mobs of the Dead, the men of the towers descended on wings of fire and light and reaped great tolls with sun-fletched arrows.
And yet where men are, quarrels emerge. Once, twice, thrice, and more they clashed, scouts captured, fire exchanged, rituals interrupted and besmirched.
Behind towers, in warded camps, men spoke in two different tongues of expelling the barbarians.
But the Dead hunger. Always, they hunger. They are empty, and what remains to them is no patient thing.
For that all must be thankful.
For the legion which marched from the Grave of the Sun cared not for petty squabbles, and underneath the tread of countless millions of the Dead, all thoughts of living enemies were erased.
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