The Despised

There were some who protested the treatment of the elves at the hands of the gods.
These were the elves who had not wished to challenge the gods to begin with.
They stormed the Heavenly Path and threw themsevles before the gods, crying, "Why must you punish us when it was not we who drew our swords against you?"
The gods answered, "That is true. But that is not the only sin."
The elves asked again, 'What do you mean by that, O gods?'
The gods answered back. "Very well then. When your brethren raised their swords against us, where were you and what were you doing?"
To that, the elves replied, "We were at the altars praying to you, our gods. We prayed that the foolds who disobeyed you would receive divine punishment."
The gods retorted, "Were you not merely praying that your own lives be spared?!"
The elves' faces turned red and they could not reply.
Suddenly the gods showed their anger, "You are more foolish than the fools who do not know their place! Lower even than the humans! From this day on, you shall wear a mark showing your supposed innocence and piety!"
And just as this thundering judgement was made, each of the elves that gathered at the Heavenly Path began to transform. They grew tails, and their beautiful faces turned into those of beasts.
When they saw how they had changed, they screamed in shame and disappeared to dark corners of the world.
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