<span style="font-style: italic">"Hush! Listen, listen closely! Do not think just listen! Alric of the gods, blessed with understanding, given gifts by your father.... you are powerful.... more powerful and important than you think. Danger lies at every turn if you are to live you must find others like yourself. Yes those born of gods and demons, even those born of humans and demons, who knows what else. I have little time..... would you stop resisting me! Gee you can settle down, you aren't making this any easier on me! Thank you. Now where was I..... oh yes. Now I am Yuvine, heard of me? No? Well that is indeed shocking.... but all the better for me. Now I have a 'sister' Named Altine, she is the goddess of Judgement and order. Not even Zeus would disobey her. Her power is beyond that of the gods..... I am what they call the goddess of chaos, of evil, of imbalance! They blame me for the demons.... it isn't my fault I lost control! I just wanted to make the gods stop fighting! I thought if I made helped they would get along..... unfortunately things didn't turn out well and now everything is my fault. So not fair..... now me and Altine used to be one and the same, balance and harmony in perfect order. But things changed over time and after the demons she split me from herself...... that was when she sided with the gods and sealed me.... Altine would have wiped out all of mankind and even the gods if it hadn't been for some who were loyal to me! A treaty was made Altine would sleep and the gods would learn to rule well, mankind would live in peace and the demons would be removed. The gods were given 10,000 years to complete this task..... and no that was not too much time! We are nearing the end of it now! And look at mankind the gods and the demons! We are running out of time fast and Altine is waking up! There are three ways to wake her up.... One is after 10,000 years, if the gods cannot get along and war breaks out across the heavens, the earth and the deep, or if one sings the song of release. Alric..... my power is fading fast, I am sorry but you are the only one that can awaken me! You must awaken me with the song of release! If Altine wakes any other way the world is over! This is the only way I can help! Find others like yourself Alric.... tell them the tale! And whatever you hear please believe me! I am not evil!</span><br/><br/>Alric sat up straight..... he looked around..... that dream.... it was so real! Alric replayed the words in his head. The mark on his wrist burned. Alric shook his head and tried to ease the pain by humming a song. He always sang..... it was his mothers gift. His real mother that was..... who he never had known! His father was a demon he later learned..... all of this spun around in his mind. Living like this had taken its toll on him.... something though was urging him to move.... he wasn't safe and something was calling him to someplace..... he knew he needed to follow it and get away from this terrifying presence that was slowly growing.<br/><br/>Alric stood up and left the small glade he had found and walked through the trees heading north. Something was moving..... something in the very earth was stirring.