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Myth of the Bond

Religious Myth

Cree was an ancient king. Powerful, he ruled over a great empire with great wisdom.


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There were decades of peace and prosperity. His people loved him and in their gratitude, they had a statue carved of him that was an exact likeness down to the last detail. But when the king saw the statue, the king didn’t look happy, in fact he looked sad.

 

When his people asked him why he replied that it made him realise that he would never know company as great as his own. That he was alone. He had no one he could speak to as an equal.

 

To please the king Cree his courtiers gathered the greatest scientists and magicians in the Kingdom. They asked them if they could bring the statue of the king to life and if that it could be as intelligent, witty and strong as the king so he could know the company of an equal.

 

Only one courtier objected to this plan – his name was Kondo.


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He said that it was not right to bring the statue to life and that it could not be done without everyone involved sacrificing their souls. The others outlawed him. Their leader was a woman called Ranoleen.


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Ranoleen said that he was ungrateful and didn’t recognise the debt he owed his monarch. Kondo was banished by Ranoleen and the other courtiers to the desert.

 

The years passed and the scientist and magicians worked on the statue. But their work was beset by difficulties. They had to overcome one problem then another and each one demanded a higher price. Each one demanded that they pervert nature a little further. Meanwhile as they struggled, the years passed by, and the king Cree looked less and less like his likeness. It remained young while he grew old and weak. Finally, decades after they had begun the courtiers succeeded in finally bringing the statue to life.


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When they presented the statue to the king he was delighted. It was a marvel he said, a miracle and worth all their sacrifice. The king had the statue move in with him to a great tower. At first the two got along brilliantly but after a while, as the king, Cree, aged further, he began to resent the statues eternal youth and unfading abilities. The king grew suspicious of the statue and the technology and magic that had created it. The statue sensed the king’s resentment and fearing that he would have him destroyed or broken up he killed the king and declared himself the new ruler of the kingdom – the reign of the Stone King had begun.

 

The Stone King ruled without mercy to his subjects and created the greatest army the world had ever seen. The people of the Kingdom feared him and in their hour of need they turned to the one man who had warned them all along that they should not tamper with nature – Kondo.

 

Kondo returned from the desert and led his army against the Stone King.


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The armies fought and fought but the Stone King was impossible to kill. Finally, Ranoleen the courtier who had banished Kondo to start with, now came to Kondos desert fortress. She convinced Kondo that he would have to use the same infernal technology and magic to defeat the Stone King that had been used to create him. Kondo agreed. Ranoleen and her magicians and scientists built the Cargothen – a powerful device that used infernal methods in its creation.

 

Kondo challenged the Stone King to meet him on the plains of the desert for a final decisive battle and the Stone King accepted. As the armies clashed it was the Stone Kings forces that gained the upper hand but then Kondo unleashed the Cargothen.


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Then the sky cracked open and poison fell from the heavens, the earth cracked open and fire spewed up into the sky. The whole earth withered and died.

 

Amongst the ruins of the earth the only survivors were Kondo and a small band of his followers. At first they lived in caves and natural shelters.

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Kondo made them swear a bond that in the future humanity would not meddle with nature, they would have their bond with it, living in harmony and balance. They must make sure that nothing as evil as the creation of the Cargothen was ever necessary again in the future. That was how religion of The Bond began.