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The Punishment for Hubris, Book 5
Timayame
In the course of the first two-hundred and fifty years, as Nemiisae searched for a way to open the portal and leave this place, Zanunder aged within his sleep, eventually dying. Bereaved of her husband she fell into a great remorse for having accidentally killed him. Her mind became clouded, muddled, perhaps even mad. Then her children came to her with reports of these strangers in their lands. She realized what had happened... The portal only shut on thier side. It must have been an act of God she beleived. Then she realized, it was a test! As God had tested the Four brothers, surely he was testing her and these others to become stronger. But her compassion would not allow her to let others fall victim to this trap she had unwittingly played a part in. re-open the portal, but she could close it from her side, sealing off both to the Verge and the portal withing it to the new world. Then she retreated back into her caverns, encouraging her children to live, breath, fight, grow stronger. Punish and perish the weak and live for themselves and for her, for it was the only way to gain God's favor. Then she left them to their own devices, her wishes for their future made clear. It was in this way that hubris was punished, and that the sins of those who came before was tested and they were proven guilty. Had these people physically gone to these lands, surely the curse would not have killed them all. But by passing through the portal of Hubris whish Nemiisae had had created, they doomed themselves and their kin. Other groups found the portal between the time Nemiisar realized what had happened and closed it off, but anyone who came through was doomed to to suffer and die. There was no hope for them as soon as they had passed through those portals into that world. But it is far enough removed that between the first settling of it and our time, no one has ever discovered it again. Beyond churning, Whirling seas, deadly islands leagues and weeks away from the settled by the four brothers, it would be impossible to reach without the assistance of a very strong force indeed. but perhaps it is for the best, that these ruins remain ruins, and skeletons go undisturbed, lest we awaken old evils...