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// Pele asked if she could use this, but as of yet it hasn't
// been implemented in the MUD.  Therefore, this is not IC 
// information, at least, not yet, and probably never will be,
// considering how fast gods in Xyllomer change!



The Story of Selyra


I'm glad you want to know the story of our beloved Goddess Selyra!

Long long ago, in the days before recorded memory,
AO created the gods.  And he set among them the 
duties of populating the world.  Dualdin chose to 
create a race of purity and beauty, and cast them 
after the image of his beloved younger sister Selyra.  
And so the elven people were born.  They were a 
beautiful race, endowed with magic.  Because he so 
loved his playful sibling, he gave each elf a voice
which sang like the sweetest silver bells, each 
gesture and movement transformed into a dance, and
an innate grace and beauty suited for the arts.

But soon the children of Dualdin began to quarrel
among themselves; violence and hatred spread.  In
his anger at his children, Dualdin cast off the
rebels.  Bitterness and mistrust grew from the split, 
and both the high and dark elven people began to 
forget their peaceful ways of song, dance, and art
in the neverending quest for power and superiority.

And Selyra wept for the change, for the pain which
the elven people caused one another.  No longer did
they bring beauty and joy into the world, but also
hatred and conflict with each other, and even the
other races.  

Selyra beseeched her brother to end the conflict and
lift the elven curse which split his people.  But 
many centuries had hardened Dualdin's heart, and he
no longer taught his people the ways of peace, but
rewarded his faithful with magic and weapons instead.

And so Selyra set out on her own to restore beauty
and love to the damaged peoples.  For if there is but
one common bond which the people had forgotten, it
was the ability to love, and to spread joy and
tolerance rather than hatred and mistrust.  She
gathered this thread from both the highelves and
darkelves, and began to draw it out.  Some did not
hear the call, but others felt Selyra's touch, and
joined her, reaching out to others and adding their
strength to her call.  And it grew larger and larger,
catching and drawing in the peoples of other races and
beliefs, for love is something which everyone can know.

To this day, the thread of Selyra's followers continues 
to spiral endlessly for those who hear her call:  to love 
others, to heal our quarrels and wars, to pursue the arts,
and to find understanding within each other.