Swissempire
Poet Jester
Divine Intervention
Its quite amazing really, how golden rings glint even when there is no light for them to refract off of. In a world of seemingly engulfed in darkness, a small boy of no more than 14 years named Ore walked down a path of quicksilver. His footsteps rippled the substance as if it were a river, but something this precious could not be mere water. For years it seemed he walked this path through nothingness, driven by some will for greatness or perhaps just meaning. Whatever the reason, he just kept walking, and walking, and walking.
Then, in the middle of this blind eternity was a small golden light, and as Ore walked towards it, it grew larger, and larger and larger. Ore began to jog towards it, and then run, and finally he entered an inhuman sprint towards it. Finally, the path reached this light source. It was a large oval of pure gold. The polish of this oval reflect Ore's features back upon himself. He wore tattered rags. He stared at himself for what seemed like an eternity, and disgusted by what he saw, he tore off him clothes and let them fall into the darkness, where they combusted in a blue fire and disappeared.
Now naked, Ore looked upon his body in the golden mirror. His undefined body, his undeveloped features, they all disgusted him. In Oplury the boy cried to the infinite "You are not me! I do not accept this!". This would not due. And so he stared into this reflection and willed in to change. His hair grew blond and lengtehned to his shoulders. His body grew half a foot. His arms began to bulge with muscle. His face was no longer gaunt like a peasants, but full like a Gods. His stomach now rippled with abs like nuggets of pure gold. His man-sword lengthened and grew. His legs became swifter than the tigers. Ore looked triumphantly upon himself.
And from then the fabric of the mirror stretched, as one large hand stretched through as grasped the boy. Ore was pulled through this mirror and awoke face down in a sea of golden coins. He looked up upon Wellth, the god of Wealth, Patronage and Precious metals. This giant sat upon a throne as large as a mountain, made of twisted silver and gold. He looked as a man does, but made out of fluid gold, his eyes like giant emeralds and his knuckles deadly rubies. His mouth was studded with pearls and his nose a sapphire of the purest blue. He held in his hand a mighty silver staff, made a spear by the diamond atop it. Ore was awed into silence and immobility by this god.
"Rise, human" Wellth spoke inside of Ore's head. As if lifted by magic, Ore did as commanded.
"Do you like what you see?"
Ore had no answer, no control over his body in the presence of such granduer
"Of course you do, your desire brought it upon you. But this is but a taste of my power. Clear your mind's eye and gaze upon this future."
Ore willfully compiled, and his back arched as his body floated into mid-air. His mind filled with images of a vast land of walled cities and grand Cathedrals. A land of wealth and splendor, of prosperity and wealth. The image began to zoom upon the grandest city of them all. In Oplury written with the Kanese Alphabet, a Grand Arch proclaimed this was "Luxur, Capital of the Luxete of Opulenth". Ore's mind eye flew into view of a great palace that was one of the most magnificient things he had ever seen.
But the spell broke, and Ore slumped and plummeted to the coin-strewn floor. Paralyzed in a prostrate position, the words of Wellth once more filled his head.
"If you pledge to worship me and my children, then all of this shall be yours and your successors. You shall be the wealthiest people of Inowe[1] and your name shall be remembered for ever."
Ore lay there, and fought a mental war against his awe. Finally, the silence of eternity was broken by a forceful pledge.
"I swear that Wellth and his children shall be my only Gods, and that i shall reap the rewards of your patronage, your holiness"
The pearls of Wellth opened to reveal a flash of diamond teeth.
"Excellent. Now we begin...."
To be Continued....
[1] Place of Men in the language of the Gods. In Oplury it would actually be Humenth or something like that, but Wellth revealed this secret to Ore and it stuck
All of this takes place before the update... and will be continued.
