The Shining Wyrm 13.ii

13.ii

They said to each other, “Co, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Co, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make court with the stars and hear their words clearly!”

And they did build the heaven’s gate calling on the stars to hold its foundations, a spire to the vault and so did they follow the will of the gods most closely after, and so all the people who did not bow to the heaven’s gate were made accursed by the gods.

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To speak, look, and act as beasts and mongrels of n for refusing to kneel to those that held the stars beside their kings.

So did they write their undoing and the undoing of all that would follow them into the world in their sin. For this beast tide did later fall upon the heaven’s gate and all their works were toppled with a fury that cracked the vault itself in two.

-On the Cynocephali by J.