{"id":666,"date":"2008-12-08T00:20:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T05:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=666"},"modified":"2008-12-08T00:54:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T05:54:49","slug":"a-fragment-from-wesnoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"A fragment from Wesnoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did some writing I&#8217;m feeling rather proud of today.  It is storyline text from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesnoth.org\">Battle For Wesnoth<\/a> campaign I&#8217;m working on.  I&#8217;ve decided to post it here as a teaser and let my readers have the fun of deducing the kind of context in which it makes sense.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;WHO ENTERS THE TOMB OF AN-USRUKHAR?&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I..I am Delfador, a mage of Wesnoth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;I am the will of An-Usrukhar, greatest of mages, he who bestrode Irdya in the morning of time, who sleeps now in a death beyond death until the unmaking of the world.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am only a man, a living man seeking a way home from the house of the dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Living? &#8230;I see that it is so. Your breath stirs dust that has lain untouched since the Primal Aeon. And it was foretold that one like you would come.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Foretold?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Foretold in the Primal Aeon, years past beyond your counting. An-Usrukhar the Great, he of whom I am but the tiniest shade and fragment, foresaw in the Mirror of Evanescent Time that a living man would come here to be tested. AND I AM THE TEST!&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have felt the coils of prophecy on me before. I am beginning to dislike them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;It is only given to the small not to feel the hand of fate on their shoulder; the great must suffer its weight whether they will or no. Delfador, mage of Wesnoth, ARE YOU A SERVANT OF THE LIGHT?&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I serve my king and my kingdom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Your king will die in an eyeblink and your kingdom in the drawing of a breath. Delfador, I ask you again, ARE YOU A SERVANT OF THE LIGHT?&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I serve my people and my land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Peoples vanish and lands wither under the pitiless gaze of eternity; the true matter of the world is deeper. Delfador, I ask you a third time, and on your answer hangs your life: ARE YOU A SERVANT OF THE LIGHT?&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8230;I serve life against death. Love against fear. Light against darkness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>(There is a momentary, brilliant flash of light.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;IT IS WELL. Take up, O servant of light, the Staff of An-Usrukhar. The trials before you will be great. So is its power.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did some writing I&#8217;m feeling rather proud of today. It is storyline text from a Battle For Wesnoth campaign I&#8217;m working on. I&#8217;ve decided to post it here as a teaser and let my readers have the fun of deducing the kind of context in which it makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}