The Shaggy Saga

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The Lodestone was fostered, deep in the Wolken, like a bairn in the womb, over long time. In time, the Wolken called to the Twayne, to their marrow, so soft and still it called to them. And they were drawn as if blind into its mistryne, going by feel only, and the murmuring of their blood, toward the Lodestone, a long and wayward faring through the Twyrymet. They neared its stead, in the midstead of the Wolken, and it was made known to them that this great madhom was not theirs to have, but they must bring it to the Allwight. So they together lifted it from its seat and set it in their heads, and sought the Allwight in the Myrkwood where he lived wild and free, frisking about the Edhli at play, diving in and out of body-shapes of all life-kinds in endless frolic, falling from one to other as samen-flowod flows twixt them, as it flows about the whole knit-working of the Edhli. He had learned all there was to be known of the whole of life, the hungers and fears, and winning in gladness and losing in sorrow, in all his kinren, his bredhern. He was beloved child of the Wolken, free to play as he would, but never straying far from its hearth.

When the Twayne came to him, he saw that the worsening Dilgoth meant that he must cherringe to something never seen before, and that he must fare forth from the life he had known, but he could not. But the Wolken spoke soft and still to him and he saw his way ahead and took the first step.

The Twayne, who bore the Lodestone inside them, came themselves to him, one to either side of him, and he bowed to anfon their gift while they raised their hands to clasp about his head, and by the will of the Wolken the Stone was dubbed into his brain and settled there, thorough-melding it. Now much that was worked over long time in the Wolken now worked quickly in his brain, edmaking his ferth, bringing his being and knowing and life-drang under a new mynt, to fight the Dilgoth so that the Edhli could live on, that all life could live. And when this Cherringe was fulfilled, the Allwight had become the Drygand, Halleth of the Edhli, and so to the Twayne now, he dubbed back the Lodestone to their brains, and there was something to it now of the Drygand, so that as it melded to their own selfness, it edmade it to a greater Self, a Eormen-self of the Edhli-mind of Wolken and with the new mynt of the Drygand. And Wildiar and Bilewit, for so they were named, became free Thanes to the Drygand, his first Drygandalfs, helped always by the Lodestone to fight for the Sake of the Edhli, and for the new Menning, the only hope for Edhli and Man.

And so these three went everywhere, offering to gift the Lodestone to everyone fit and willing to undergo the Cherringe, to wights of the lands and waters, and alfs, and to men, who then became Drygandalfs. They told man-kind of the Dilgoth and of the Edhlifrith Sake and of the new Menning to come.

That is how this great Cherringe of Wyrd began, out of fearsome plight and need, to stop the Dilgoth, to make a new Menning of Edhlifrith on Eorth, so that Life may live.

Wolken= the cloud-being of all Edhli (=living Nature) which wraps the Earth.
Mistryne= mystery.
Twyrymet= a melding of Edhli and Wolken in a liminal consciousness-space.
Madhom= a treasure-object.
Samen-flowod= the shining life-fluid that runs throughout the Edhli; the misty mind-stuff of the Wolken.
Kinren= creatures.
Dilgoth= the current Extinction Event.
Cherringe= change, conversion.
Anfon= receive, accept.
Ed-= 're-' in Old English.
Ferth= psyche.
Drang= force.
Mynt= an aim, intention, purpose.
Halleth= heroic warrior-savior.
Eormen= vast-entire.
Wildiar= wild animal. Bilewit= simple, pure, sincere, just, gentle, gracious; a good wight.
Sake= a cause, claim.
Menning= a culture-civilization.
Edhlifrith= Nature-peace, -protection; 'Ecology'.
Wyrd= the trend of things.
Plight= danger, risk.