-Antioch “Jabriel” Orion appeared out of light & legion onto the outer promenade of Ved-Jhohrr EL via an ancient sliver in starlight from the Rainbow Ring. Ved-Kundr?’L is the capital & city state of the whole of the N’Ved-Ra Empire; a garrison of cities carved out of, onto, and into the cliff faces (Mountain top, side, belly & back) of a range that spans the length of the dark continent (North to south). Ved-Kundr?’L is also the largest metropolitan or metropolis in the entirety of the 7 Planes. Its every construct, creek and corner, carries majestic motifs of the Horse Lords and or the Rainbow Giants accepting surrender from the Storm Gods.

  … … …

  He’d returned to his homelands and to the Knolls of Knowledge, at the behest of the Gleaming Goddess, to ascertain the truth of long forgotten prophecy. The Child of the Eclipse!

  “My Lord, Protector!” Brother Jor’Ra announced.

  Orion was met upon arrival by two quadrupedal clerics of the high halls. They both knelt before him and then led him into the opening and closing main chamber doors (Which were 150 ft. high and as thick as a curtain wall).

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  The Knoll Library complex is the greatest and most comprehensive collection of information on the Mother World. The hub of history, hubris, and humanitarian efforts, the Great Knoll is most remembered as the home of the Rainbow Records, where the first and last words are (& shall always be) forever recorded. From on high and afar, the Eye of EL’Astar is oft mistaken as the Midnight Sun at dusk or the refractive moon in broad day. Darkness by daylight, brightness when moonlit and iridescent in the spaces in between them both; the Rainbow Records are a titanic tome (Towering over any known Thran-made feats), with neither a cover nor back, but rather an omnidirectional spine (God’s Gold, Quick Silver) & pages of clear opal (Radiating & reflecting every assortment of color known). The Gigantic grimoire perpetually oscillates like revolving doors, painting the evershifting skies in the 7 celestial shades of the heavens or hells, from dusk until dawn year-round. Each day and night there is a season lived, as dawn brings the long spring and dusk shepherds in the (Lavender light) winter world until the morning star rises (With red rays).

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  “How may we assist you, Lord Protector?” the Pryor prodded.

  It was morning and, thus, it was high spring as a vacuous eye of abyss opened and closed before the halls of Horse Lords, shepherding their newly minted Lord Marshall as it did so. The cleric whom spoke to him was his rival, as a youth, oft times challenging his place among the warrior-in-training colts (Due to his unique bipedal nature).

  “You may clear the room, cleric,” Orion retorted, coldly.

  Jor’Ra clenched his jaw & closed fist before smiling & kneeling, as he backed away from the altar of the Eye, and ordered all of the devotees from the great book hall before parting ways. Orion approached the colossal, central statue, beneath the Eye of EL’Astar. The magnificent monument was a motif of the Rainbow Giantess, six armed and horned to wield & represent the 7 Rainbow Relics. The regal Rainbow reciprocal of the titaness sat cross-legged with a crown of Phoenix feathers and a book as big as a boulder in between her legs. The statue sat so high that her intersecting ankles were archways to the polychromatic pedestal within. As he stood upon the rainbow ridge, the three outlying gold rings around it rose into a Dyson sphere, inlaid with half a dozen or more geode types. Blazing lights & lasers reflecting on and from the titanic tome he stood atop, created an encompassing tetrahedron as light, matter, space & time bent all around him (Until they’d completely vanished).

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  [Night of the Strawberry Moon]

  -Orion took up the celestial sword, which sang true songs & spells, simply from being swung about.

  “Star Steel, once unsheathed, cuts through both planes unfettered by will, wizardry or resistance of any kind,” the gleaming goddess gleaned to him.

  She pulled the blade in, into her own hand, tossing it about and spinning it to expose either blade end.

  “Star Steel slices through literally anything that its blade strikes. The right side shears through gods & ghosts, alike, and the left side splits through realms to fast travel,” she bespoke to the Horse Lord.

  This process is highly detectable by Rainbow Bloods or Dark Ones, however, rendering it nigh useless for stealth incursions.

  “With this weapon, wet like ink with quill, thou art able to reveal, reverse-Mayhaps, rewrite whole holy chapters of destiny.”

  The solar saber catapulted back into his freed hands, blinking & blinding like the high noon sun as it set and settled in his grip.

  “Starborn, Moonchild of Rainbow rays,” the Aeon evoked.

  Sigils, unseen until that moment, lining the sword from tip to pommel became visible and then blinding. The Horse Lord exhaled deeply as he surveyed the weapon and the woman god whom wielded it first.

  “Darkest day! Brightest night! Flaming sword,” she said next.

  The crossguard of the Soul Sword burst into a symphony of 5 flames (Six and then seven thereafter).

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  There are only two Starborn prophecies, and the other speaks of no Moonchild or Rainbow Bright! The latter Starborn prophecy spoke of a people born from stardust as much as man is made shape from the clay which forged them (Or Thrandish and the mana which molds them). The Starborn began with the Star Bomb, which reduced what was into the Infinite Void of the cosmos in its wake. In this wake, time & space began, and after much of them both, the stars cooled and begot the Greater Planes. Before the First Planes of the Great Well emerged, however, the Starborn emerged within “the great in between.” Their pre-Ring civilization quickly reached its biological & technological apex, creating the D’Koda device to seed all life within the realms with their own genetic template. Each sentient species was an amalgamation of the Aeonic gene & a native species, of which 18 major civilizations persist to this very day from use of the D’Koda device. Many Aeons “walked” amongst their proto-civilizations, incidentally, breeding worship & “heroes” abound. Worship & belief not only powered the ascended beings, according to their tales, but also their promised lands and heavens.

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  The Starborn prophecy foretells the coming of the Midnight Sun, when the days become nightfall and fiery light retreats from the earth onto the heavens.

  “I remain ignorant of your true designs & machinations, great one! What does this truly mean?” inquired the unicorn eunuch.

  Her polychromatic curls became nimbus clouds that swallowed her holy form whole as a tree larger than a mountain grew up out of the earth beneath. A great, rainbow bolt struck the tree like a meteor, splitting it asunder. The grand pyre of thistles became ashen sky, and the blackened & broken trunk of the tree became the tallest mountain in the 7 Realms.

  “Star Steel! A second sun! A lunar liege!” Her voice echoed as it faded away.