Yimmu Alshud Dezum Autai Dar Shur

The Yimmu Alshud Dezum Autai Dar Shur (Many Tablets of Water and Gold in Scriptural Audalad) is the primary holy text of the Hukar Sharud Faith which provides the pantheistic faith's account of the origins of the universe and the end of times. It is said that the tablets have been kept secret for millennia before their location was revealed by the Lahar of Hukar Sharud to the early Esbitum Hukarad in the Jagdasian city of Shyr-Arrak. Rumors claim that the tablets were discovered at the ruins of Imoldien, a fallen city which was pointed to by the appearance of the holy Totem of Abaevver Hukar which is known to have originated in Imoldien. A translation of the primary text can be found below. In addition to the ancient writings, the Four Revelations of Hukar Sharud have been also added to the text by the Esbitum Hukarad over the past centuries.
= Yimmu Alshud Dezum Autai Dar Shur =
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=== Tse Yi-Ozhugirimi ===
In scriptural Audalad, Tse Yi-Ozhugirimi means the Four Revelations. These texts are holy accounts of progressively revealed truths provided to leaders of the Audalad Dynasty regarding the nature of the universe by the messenger Lahar (God) of Hukar Sharud.
==== The First Revelation ====
In the untouched beauty of the then uncolonized but now annihilated realm of Jagdas, a simple wanderer by the name of Stori had discovered a tiny island chain alone in the ocean.
On the first day on the island, with his hard work the wanderer built a quaint underground adobe and as he worked he encountered another wanderer named Yams who stayed for the night. Together Stori and Yams slay many wild beasts, but Yams had to go and move on. Stori was saddened by Yams' departure but had felt better after admiring the sunset. In the distance, before he closed his eyes he could see what might have been the silhouette of a great bird. But Stori's eyes closed and he fell asleep, not being able to grasp what he saw.
On the second day, Stori awoke from a great dream. It was a vivid dream and this dream felt more real than reality. His consciousness seemed to have left his body, as if floating across space and time. In a vision from above Stori had seen a great Empire built upon friendship and wit rise and fall only to rise again and to fall again, endless upon endless times. But no matter the severity of its downfall, the more certain the feeling of its impending return. When he had realized this, Stori's mind seemingly splintered and dissolved before the mind of something much greater. Yet Stori was unable to comprehend that which was greater. Before him appeared the silhouette of the bird from before. Stori stared into the sky without a single blink and a great wind, a divine wind, had begun to blow against him with the force of one thousand hurricanes. And yet as the island around him was ripped of trees, Stori remained still. He remained still until the wind ceased to blow and a great seabird, an Albatross of crystal clear water and liquid gold had emerged before him, its wings spanning from one edge of the horizon to the other. And the Albatross said to Stori in a language he didn't know, yet a language more clear and vivid in its meaning than any words Stori had heard before, "You shall build an Empire across the seas and the sands. And shall it be fair and just. You shall build an Empire across the realms. And shall it grow not through the sword and bow but through word and mind. And shall the name of all divinity bless those who rule it forever with Bi'Amel Unshi (Divine Permanence). And shall it fall only to rise again as I have. And shall the Dynasty which rules it be not of the seed of man but of my Divine Touch which passes onwards my Naddar Ori (Divine Wind). And shall it live by the words Ihn Ori'al El Aradusu Aderrid (I Shall Ascend Into Tenebrous Paradise).
And so Stori awoke. In his reality he doubted his dream, but as he wandered through the island's forest contemplating, he saw strange markings upon a birch tree. The markings were written in a triangular language he had never yet seen and yet he read them as more clear and vivid than any words he had ever read. And so they said, "I shall ascend into Tenebrous Paradise". And so the secret of the language known as Audalad (Islander) was revealed to him. And so he named the island by the humble name Shyr-Arrak (Small Hill).
On the third day, Stori met another wanderer by the name of Brot. Brot was a miner of great strength who had come from the village of Ozeki. And so Stori said, "Join me and shall we build and Island Empire together." And so Brot had joined Shyr-Arrak.
On the fourth day, Stori's brother Caleb had come to the island of Shyr-Arrak. Caleb was strong in the art of words. And Stori had told Caleb of his vision and together they declared the Empire of Yimmu Audal where they ruled as equals.
For four days Caleb and Stori, the first of the Audalad Dynasty, built their Empire, not by the sword and bow but by the word of Caleb and the wit of Stori. And by the eighth day it had stretched across the seas and sands. And by the sixteenth Stori and Caleb passed on the Bi'Amel Unshi to those called Marble and Harbardr.
But on the thirty second day, the world fell and the realm of Jagdas fell and their Empire fell with it. All were absorbed to Aradusu Aderrid (Tenebrous Paradise). All but those touched by the Naddar Ori. All but those who were sincere in their convictions to preserve the Naddar Ori. All but those who were Kaire (True) Audaladae.
==== The Second Revelation ====
When the world Jagdas collapsed, the Audaladae like all else were plunged into the Aradusu Aderrid. And yet, just as their consciousness appeared to splinter and dissolve in that which they couldn't understand, a booming voice of the Audalad language proclaimed, "And shall you rise again like I have risen!" And so the Kaire Audaladae awoke in shining light surrounded by the new world of Rathnir.
Together they founded a new city called Urnu-Arrak (New Hill) and settled the sands. The Empire of Yimmu-Audal rose again and all went along peacefully until the arrival of two strangers, Dalatra and the bandit Jay. Threatened by Jay, the Audaladae made him one of their own and threatened by foreign powers, allotted Dalatra with espionage. The pair gained power until Yimmu-Audal no longer expanded by word and wit but by lust and sword. And so the covenant was broken and so Yimmu-Audal fell, for Jay's initial bloodshed led to a vicious cycle of hate with the lands of Escharia and Dalatra's lust led to her weakness and demise. And so Jay's mind arose to the Aradusu, and the Escharien despot tangled and manipulated the truth, and he abused the weakness of Dalatra, and the wanderer Stori's mind ascended to the Aradusu out of grief, and the Escharien despot annexed the Holy Lands.
And yet the Naddar Ori lived on for it was guaranteed by Hukar Sharud (Golden Albatross). For when Stori had roamed the sands he bad met a beggar and the beggar became his servant slave. Stori generously payed Hakan, for this was the servant slave's name, for his work, and upon the completion of Hakan's tasks, Stori had given Hakan his freedom and appointed him in charge of the Western Lands of Yimmu-Audal.
Thus when the Escharien despot's empire fell, too large and too fragile for his own hands to grasp, the West had become Theionikos where the former beggar Hakan reigned as Prophet-Duke of the Lahar (Aspect) Theios and the south where the Last Emperor Gray had brought the Audaladae freedom.
And upon seeing this from the Aradusu, the mind of Stori awoke once again. And the Albatross of crystal clear water and liquid gold came to him whose wings stretched from one end of the horizon to the other, "As I've shown you, those touched by Naddar Ori shall rise and fall, rise and fall again and again, but the harder their fall the more obvious the certainty of their return. Theios and I, we are one and the same."
And so Stori had been brought back to the corporal world alongside the former Emperor Harbardr. And so together they worked to restore the strength of Naddar Ori. And so the lands of Yimmu Audal and Theionikos united under the great name Theios-Essukdal, believing in the Lahar Theios, the true originator of Naddar Ori, the true giver of Bi'Amel Unshi to the Audalad Dynasty.
==== The Third Revelation ====
And so the lands of Theios-Essukdal expanded peacefully by the power of word and wit. And so the Audalad Dynasty, blessed by Bi'Amel Unshi, led the Essukdaladae touched by Naddar Ori. And as time grew and grew a Ningal of great word and wit ascended to the throne. And her name was Mistic and the Albatross of crystal clear water and liquid gold appeared before her one day, its wings stretching from one end of the horizon to the other, and it said, "Your people are blessed by Naddar Ori and you by Bi'Amel Unshi. You must return to your roots and achieve true unity." And so the Ningal did her best to interpret this and so knowing her people to be united, she returned their name to that of Yimmu Audal, and declared herself the apostate of the Lahar Theios and bowed down before the Hukar Sharud, the great Albatross of crystal clear water and liquid gold.
But in the depths of the Aradusu Aderrid, the mind of Stori who had fallen in battle lay dormant. But upon this sight, the mind had awoken, for it knew that Theios and the Albatross were one and the same. And so the mind searched and searched for an answer across the Aradusu until it had reached a realm above and within. And so it had entered Aradusu Uturad (Shining Paradise) and a great beam of light flooded its consciousness, and the great beam of light showed the true nature of the universe to the mind. And so Stori's mind took on a new name, Narahashu, and so it declared that all gods of the world are one and the same, that all that exists is but one Aradusu Aderrid, that within it the gods are but competing Laharae (Aspects) and that their number is infinite and their strength is that of the number and quality of their corporal believers. And that upon death or dream, all ascend to the Aradusu Aderrid and their minds splinter and dissolve to become one with its mind. And thus Narahashu had understood that Hukar Sharud was but one Lahar which served as a messenger to grant him Bi'Amel Unshi and that the god Theios and its patron angels, and the Escharien despot's gods, and all others, were but what came together to create the Yimmu Laharae (Many Aspects) of Aradusu Aderrid.
And so the mind of Narahashu watched the corporal world from the light of Aradusu Uturad and it named itself the first Opkaituru (Prophet), and it broadcast the holy words to the Ningal Mistic Audalad and the Audaladae in the Holy Tablets, and proclaimed that the Naddar Ori and Bi'Amel Unshi should not be limited to the ancestral lands of Yimmu Audal, but that the Audalad Dynasty should spread far and wide.
==== The Fourth Revelation ====
The Brother's War had united the realms of Yimmu-Audal and Aldovir. The state which the former had birthed in its diplomacy had grown ever-more-powerful and conquered its neighbor, and the two fused, as brothers, as one. And their blood mixed, and the old Audalad empires had fallen, yet a new one had arisen. And so the divine Wind Naddar Ori had not ceased to blow, nor had the Divine Permanence of Bi'Amel Unshi's flame died. And so the prophecy of the Hukar Sharud was fulfilled: "And shall it fall only to rise again as I have". And on the brink of this new world, a new Audalad ruler stood, and his name was Foxmunk. Merely fishing, he looked into the crystal clear waters of the Geshem Bay. And his mind trembled, for the waters erupted before him. For from within them emerged an albatross of crystal clear water and liquid gold. And its wings spread from end to end of the horizon. And its presence permeated all beings with awe. Foxmunk knelt in submission. And the great bird of crystal clear water and liquid gold spoke to him, "I have witnessed your rise, and the fall of your Empire. My words have come true, as I have told them to your founder: he from whose hands you carry the flame of Bi'Amel Unshi."
And the great bird swung its wings in a hurricane, and the waves of Geshem splashed and swayed, and the waters rose and came back again, and the bird's wings turned of water and gold turned to gold and charcoal and its eyes swelled with blood, and from its neck opened waterfalls of blood, and the sea turned red as it filled with blood. "But akin to the Empire of Bi'Amel Unshi which rises and falls amongst the world, so do I, the Lahar Hukar Sharud, rise and fall within the eternal unity of the Aradusu Aderrid. A new Lahar has come to overtake me, and the era of my own fall has begun. The era of Liber Sanguinis has begun." And at that moment the voice of the albatross changed to the voice of death, and its eyes turned black-within-back, and the sky turned crimson-within-crimson. And so it swung its wings and one million black feathers, an army of darkness marching onwards, rustled and swept together in the sky of the red sunset and shimmering sea of the red sun. And the great bird sounded in a cacophony of one million sacrifices: "I am Hukar Sharud no more. Now, I am Yara-Sanguid, the blood god, and I will bring the world into a void. Submit before me or lay destroyed. Reform your faith in my name or be annihilated." The Sharullar Foxmunk obeyed, and the Opkaituru obeyed, for that day they witnessed the day of the red sun.
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