//------------------------------// // Apocrypha: Heresies of the Unlidded Eye // Story: The Book Of The Lore // by Jaycren //------------------------------// Below You Shall Read That Which The Unlidded Eye Has Decreed False, Has Decreed Foul. Unconfirmed Messages Of Our Ladies Three. Blessed Be The Mother Of Adam That Hath Also Birthed Cain. Let All Know That These Verses Are Forbidden, Are False. But Must Be Included Lest They Be Forgotten, For Though We Hope That We Are Right And That This Knowledge Be False, We Dare Not Risk Losing Even That Which Has Never Been Repeated. Three, Three, Three. All Numbers Are Three Three, Three, Three. All Numbers Are Three Three, Three, Three. All Numbers Are Three The Fourth Is Sheilded Heart Winter Falls Before Their Eternal Fire The Fourth Is Violent Lust Born Of Their Death's Will Be Flurry's Protector The Fourth Is Love's Birth For Only Kindness And Chaos Can Birth Love From Them Shall Come Those That Shall Save or Destroy Us All Bless These Final Words And Keep Them Hidden Lest The Enemies At The Root Of All Things Find The Guardians Before The Guardians Are Prepared But Never Forget, For Those That Wait Those That Corrupt Those That Seal Those That Freeze Those That Enforce Those That Hunt They Will Never Forget In Forgetting We Fail In Forgetting We Fall These Are Those Heresies That Appear Alongside The Red Laments. They Have Been Spoken By Only One DIscordant Oracle. One That Does Not Know The Glory Of The Three That Are One. No Others Have Spoken Of These Things. No Others Have Called Them Into The Darkness. But He Has Never Been Wrong, Even Though We Hope That Just This Once He Will Be. The Nameless One, The Prophet Mentioned Above, Also Differs On One Other Matter. Bless These Words, Even As You Fear Them. For They May Foretell The Rise Of The Child Of Rage And Lust. Please Let Him Just This Once Be Wrong. For We Can Not Trust Such A Child With Such A Precious Treasure One Of Blood Sired The First From The Mirror Gate Beloved Of The Self Exiled Daughter One of Knowledge Lost The Second Is Held In The Crystal Castle In Her Remembrance Is He Found. One Of Shadow Sired The Third Is Held In Coldest Heart Feared By Her Summoner To Friendships Home They Shall Gather He Laughs upon us all, this Heretic of Our Order. We may not silence him, for the Ladies forbid it, for Luna, Celestia, and Discord forbid it. For The Head Of Out Order Forbid It. What Hold Does He Have? That Those Most Sacred Of Beings, That Even Order And Chaos Move Not Against Him. But He Has Never Been Wrong And His Words Have Been Decreed To Never Be Forgotton, So Shall They Be Remembered. So Shall They Be Recorded. He Differs As Well In The First Part Of The Red Laments, Those Called The Bloody Laments For The Tradition That They Always Be Written In Red Ink To Honor Them First Being Written In The Blood Of The First Oracle To Speak Them. Upon Her Very Skin. In Her Own Hand. So Of Course He Writes Them According To His Whim And We Are Forced To Record His Version As He Has Decreed It. As He Wrote His First "Installment" So We Write It. What Happens When The Elements Die When Loyalty Falls To Envy When Laughter Falls To Wrath When Honesty Falls To Greed When Generosity Falls To Gluttony When Kindness Falls To Sloth When Forgiveness Falls To Pride When Magic Falls To Lust What Is Called Then? How Shall These Broken Heal Equestria After All Others Have Failed? Who Shall Heal Them That Heal Us? For All Debts Must Be Balanced As All Must Be In Harmony What Can Be Done When Loyalty Betraying Is The Father Of Obsession Twitch That Shall Be Known As Suspicious Bystander, The First To Be Born Of Three Parents What Can Be Done When Friendship Isolating Is The Father Of Eclipse Eclipse That Shall Be Known As Obsidian Nightshade The First To Be Drawn From Changeling Brood. What Can Be Done When Laughter Is The Father Of Insanity That Shall Be Known As Thus Shall The First Of The Seals Shall Be Broken On The Deaths Of Those That Wait And Those That Corrupt. Their Names Known As Oblivion Their Names Called As The Wyrm Thus The First Of The Seals That Keep All At Bay Shall Fracture And In The Victory Of The Called Shall Be Freeing Of The Doom. This He Will Mutter And No More. We Know That He Sees Further Ahead, But He Scorns Us, Yelling Of Spoilers. He Scorns Our Ladies As Well. He Scorns All But Celestia, Luna, And Discord. He Is Loyal To Them. He Is Loyal To Equestria Or So He Claims. He Has Never Been Wrong, Nor Has He Ever Lied. But Please By The Ladies Be Wrong Just This Once. For This Reason These Are Declared Heresies, For This Reason They Are Recorded. For In Forgetting We Fail, In Forgetting We Fall