Formatted by YuSaKu (FookDemonoidcom) Exclusively for Demonoid.com MAGICIAN’S GAMBIT
who has the enduring grace to put up with Eddings men,and for Wayne,
for reasons we both understand but could never be put into words. PROLOGUE
Being an Account of how Gorim sought a God for his People and of how he found UL upon the sacredMountain of Prolgu.
-based upon The Book of Ulgo and other fragments
AT THE BEGINNING Of Days, the world was spun out of darkness by the seven Gods, and they also created beasts and fowls, serpents and fishes, and lastly Man.
Now there dwelt in the heavens a spirit known as UL who did not join in this creation. And because he withheld his power and wisdom, much that was made was marred and imperfect. Many creatures were unseemly and strange. These the younger Gods sought to unmake, so that all upon the world might be fair.
But UL stretched forth his hand and prevented them, saying: “What you have wrought you may not unmake.
You have torn asunder the fabric and peace of the heavens to bring forth this world as a plaything and an entertainment. Know, however, that whatsoever you make, be it ever so monstrous, shall abide as a rebuke for your folly. In the day that one thing which you have made is unmade, all shall be unmade.”
