Author's Note

Of all the fragments, this in particular stands out, and is typically placed at the beginning or more often at the end of translations such as this. It sports a slightly, not markedly, but noticeably different style in its writing, enough so that some speculate it may have to be attributed to a different author, if the assumption that all the remaining ones were made by the same writer is even true. Others merely take the difference in style as symbolising a change of sorts in the narrative, an epilogue perhaps to the potential myth inscribed in the fragments, or a posthumous conclusion reflecting on the events.

Time-Sworn Hatred

Unbound-by-Heaven,-bound-instead-by-its-master.

To-Death's-greater-likesoul,-Fire-swore-itself.

To-burn-all-love,-as-its-enemy's-domain-murders-Earth's-domain.

Across-the-veil,-beyond-the-sea,-in-care-and-will-and-flame.

To-bide,-to-witness-deeply,-to-birth-knowledge-and-aim.

Its-chosen-to-witness,-Heaven's-chosens-to-rule.

Its-child-to-command,-Heaven's-heart-to-bleed.

Its-domain-to-rise,-the-all-to-engulf.

Fire-came-to-its-enemy's-halls,-and-sought-service.

Fire's-came-to-Life's-halls,-the-greatest-of-its-lowests-domain-to-shape.

To-rise.

Past-the-veil,-unlikesoul,-to-witness,-to-weigh.

A-vessel-befit-the-disparity.

Fire-came-to-the-hall-of-knowledge,-to-preserve.

Vengeance-driven,-flaming,-to-white-unfit.

To-burn-love.

To-flame-towards-Fire's-sole-in-Magic's-other-guise-likesoul-truth-bound.

To-destroy-Heaven-by-war-or-by-Wind's-domain.

Fire-witnessed-the-sea,-and-the-veil,-and-the-timeless-edge-of-the-skyland-it-would-cast-itself-cross-past-Death's-greater-likesoul's-domain-will.

To-splendor-higher-than-Heaven,-would-Fire-empty-its-halls,-and-shatter-its-knowledge's-kiln,-as-Fire's-enemy-won-over-Fire's-song.