Charanth - Heretic's Arrival
Feb 20 05:29:23 2003

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| "... It has been said that knowledge is power... |
| ... we seek answers to ever more complex questions... |
| ... But, some questions, perhaps, should not be answered... |
| ... lest we risk unravelling life itself..." |
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As the chimes of midnight echo throughout the library, a lone figure pores over tome
after tome. With quiet mutterences he scribes his research on a roll of parchment:

Our kind have spent countless ages in the persuit of knowledge,
drawing our strength from our three sources of power; the TriForce.
Yet Wisdom, Power and Courage, prime though they are,
are but sources of /individual/ strength...
powers that do not shape reality as a whole.
It is to these higher powers that I have devoted my research,
in an effort to divine the very nature of existence itself.

But whereas 'Wisdom, Power and Courage' were innately pure symbols of strength...
There is no such assurance that existence is governed by anything so benign.

I must see how these forces merge in our lives...
And knowing that, determine what they might do...

Chaos... Fate... and Soul.

Either fortunately or unfortunately, his peers were not very receptive to the ideas
he posed. They exhorted him to recant his arguments and retire from the study.
Yet the grip of heartfelt truth is like none other, and the man found himself utterly
unable to abandon his beliefs. It gripped him, twisted him, to where all logic and
reason flowed from his hypothesis - a theory which to him became as Fact.

Thusly was Charanth branded a Heretic, and by decree all aisles of learning related
to the sacred TriForce closed to him. For the greatest fear among the scholars was
that he might somehow have uncovered some new Truth, one that might supplant their
own... and moreover, one that could threaten all that they had labored to build.

The Fools! They couldn't see, WHY couldn't they see?
Can they honestly believe that Ultimate Power could be limited to such a small scope?
Yes, they can and they do... they've ample precedent to point to, to debunk my claims.

So I'll have to /show/ them... yes... I must to pour my Soul into the Chaos,
and see what potential Fate will produce from the maelstrom... I will prove myself
through the very truths that they deny!

Several years have passed since his explusion, and the Hylian Charanth hardly appears as
he did before. Travel and seeming coincidence have bolstered his faith, to the point where
he is adorned with visable marks of the power he claims to exist. Unbeknownst to the
scholars, their hasty actions have proven to be the worst they could have taken; they
have forced him to take an active role in proving himself. And so he wanders...
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