STRUCTURING AN EMPIRE Jump back to the beginning: section one Meanwhile, out upon the fields of the Third Age, chaos reigned, for those sephiroth and shayatin who had stayed on Midaerd following

    OF THE THIRD AGE Jump back to the beginning: section one Foolish mortals. They had no idea that the war of all wars that was about to befall them. As you know, politics abhors a vacuum, and

  THE RISE OF MORTALS Jump back to the beginning: section one With unending infernal histories I will not bore the reader, for they have little practical impact upon his life. Of more direct concern

  AN ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND AGE Jump back to the beginning: section one During the Second Age, each of the seven planes of the Heavens were reordered according to the hierarchy of the elohim by the

AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST CREATION Text continued from: section one The “Lost Age” or “Lost Epoch” came prior to the rest of creation. Az formed a land of primeval beauty and piquant idealism, casting the

It was in the predawn of creation that evil was born. Evil itself was neither of my making nor of my choosing. I only mastered it. I, Azmodeus, created (as I was), archangel of logic and strategy—for which

The monastery grounds were dark, except for a lonely torch burning low and red by the main door of the temple. The evening’s silence was broken only by the steady purr of crickets, toads, and other