Scriptures of the Paladins, chapter 2

# **The Second Scripture**

*1- Avzaya has told me the events of the beginning. He, Avzaya, rested in the Astral plane, and his archenemy Roh rested in the Underdark. They were there, and they lived in their planes.*

*2- Indeed, six astral deities stood out from all others, they were Asha, Hasar, Sarmati, Kuzar, Havakhat, and Amurada. They were the best ones in goodness and righteousness. And thus Avzaya granted them entry in his domain, and he gave them power and might. The astral deities formed the forests and the lands, and the hills and mountains. And truly Sarmati came unto earth and drank of its waters and ate of its soil, and indeed she conceived of it. And she gave birth to He and She. But indeed the She had the image of Sarmati and her characteristics.*

*3- Our earliest ancestors they were. Titans whose heads reached the lowest of clouds. The male, Azara, had purple eyes. The female, Saraya, had Golden eyes. They were capable of climbing the highest mountains from which they could reach the moon in a single leap if they wanted to. They were born in the lost garden of Daera. The birthplace of earth, for it is the first place that was formed on it.*

*4- The Titans gave birth to giants and humans, both divided into five groups; the green eyed ones, the blue eyed ones, the grey eyed ones, the red eyed ones, and the purple eyed ones. All groups except the ones with purple eyes wandered away from the garden, and when they wished to go back they lost their ways, And so they travelled east and west, and north and south. Until they gave up and chose to settle in the lands they had reached after venturing for a long time. Those with green eyes inhabited the lands of Forta. Those with blue eyes inhabited the lands of Valea. Those with grey eyes inhabited the lands of Zokhara. Those with red eyes inhabited the lands of Afraja, and the ones with purple eyes were ordered to stay in the Garden. They lived there for several hundred years.*

*5- The titans stayed in the garden, until one day they bade their children farewell and told them that their time of death was near. When their descendants asked them why they were doomed to die they told them that they had chosen so out of their own will, and that they wanted an eternal rest. They had fulfilled their duty to spread their progeny on earth, and so they gave their descendants a last piece of advice: “Oh my children, live in peace and harmony, and do good to receive good”. Then they instructed their descendants what to do with them after their deaths. They told them to wash their bodies in water, and to cover it with roses and leaves. After that they were buried in an unknown place.*

*6- Then came a day where Avzaya descended to the earth, and due to him being the manifestation of the element of light, the entire garden was filled with brightness that illuminated the deepest of caves it had. He landed on the peak of the garden, a mountain overlooking its beauty, he rested on it for a few hours, and occasionally he moved his head to look at certain parts of the garden. In his hands he held grapes, a fruit that did not yet exist on earth. He slowly ate them, throwing the seeds around him. Then when he was done resting he stood up and spoke to the inhabitants of the garden, he said to them: “I shall teach you the way of life.” and so the people gathered around him.*

*7- For seven days he taught them the laws of Anum, which they were ordered to implement on earth. In those seven days giant grape trees grew from the seeds he threw, their branches reached the clouds and some even higher. The people accepted the laws of Avzaya and they lived by it. Some of these laws have survived, and some have been lost in history. And this oh people, is the message I deliver.*

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