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Now I am become writer, the creator of worlds!

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Before you lies a book bound in a hard leather-like skin protecting the treasures within. You open to read the first page, the foreword. There's a letter attached at the end of it addressed to the one and only Inkpot Star, the famous pony mythologist. Yet you wait and skim the page first.

The Silencing of Rimuaeli
A classic folk epic translated from Rho to Equal by Inkpot Star

Rimuaeli. Also known as “demons” or “risen” or any variant thereof that civilizations deemed to call them. Those who fell to the dark and came back as something else. No more mortal, but not quite divine either. Monsters, predators honed to perfection. ~ A folk tale from the collection 'Concealed by Light'

Inkpot Star, the translator's note:
"I was just a fresh graduate of cartography when me and a colleague of mine got the crazy notion to explore the great wide unknown beyond Equestria and the known nations. With appropriate preparations, we would soon find ourselves blown out of our comfort zone. Since then my life has been filled with one adventure after another.
One such adventure would bring me to Trylm Slopes, green mountains far to the east of our beloved country. They're also the homeland of the sheepfolk. Without knowing why really, I've spent the last thirty years of my life there, later working on my life's work. I studied their culture, their lands, and the sheepfolk themselves, though I was but a lowly cartographer.
It happened on my forty-third birthday when one of my dearest sheep friends gifted me their family's heirloom—an old tome filled with tales passed down by word of mouth for generations until one clever scribe, and a predecessor to my friend, decided to write these fables down. Not one for old tales, especially written in old fashioned language and in the form of poetry, I put it aside until one late evening when I found myself bored and without work. Imagine my surprise when I found a name familiar to Equestria's history in one of the stories. Quickly fascinated with it, I set out to translate it into modern Equal for my own and everyone else's enjoyment.
The whole tale is obviously meant to be played by a troubadour or a bard, as there are often changes in perspective that can be quite jarring to a reader, but would very well by understood by the troubadour's acting and music. However, I have decided not to change this into a more comfortable reading experience as to preserve the experience of Grogar's fascinating tale as it was meant to be. Bear in mind that it indeed is only a tale, also mayhap changed many times before it was finally written down.
But also bear in mind that there's always at least a bit of truth to every story."

The last words linger in the air. The letter attached to it seemed to be a hastily written directions to someone unknown. You decide to read the letter before delving into the book itself...


Takes place in the Ternion of Kings universe.
Proof-read by McStuffins
Dark and Tragedy tags because we all know the final fate of Grogar the ram

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Now, here's a little taste of something I've worked on for some time, but have put aside for the time being and it lay in my folder for so long now, gathering dust. I thought it would be a shame to let it stagnate like that, so here's what I have so far.
This story is an experiment and a first time for me, as I tried my hand at writing an epic poem. I researched it as much as I could in the time I have, read up a bit on classic epics like Beowulf and Gilgamesh to get the feel for continuity, structure, and syntax. I can't possibly ever give such time-proven epics justice, but as many people say. You don't know until you try. I can most certainly say that it's been fun to write, though incredibly arduous and time-consuming. Still fun, and that's what counts the most, doesn't it?

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