An excerpt from the Chronicle of Remembrance, a section of the Cult of the Illuminated's holy writings dedicated to recording the notable deeds of the "Illuminated Ones."<br/><br/><em>Remembrance Chapter 17<br/><br/>And lo, did it come to pass that a Dragon of Flame and Beauty came to Nexus, in the Riverlands, and there she met the Shimmering Lodestar, beacon of hope to her kind.<br/>And such was the Shimmering Lodestar's mercy, that she did not strike the Dragon down for her kind's betrayal, but invited her into her home.  They feasted on succulent delights, and spoke long into the night.<br/>"Do you not see," the Lodestar said, her every word as a drop of honey, "that our rivalry is without merit?  That we must forsake our hatreds and oaths of revenge, and serve our greater oaths to Creation itself?"  <br/>Thus the Dragon was struck by her words, and the seed of the light was placed into her soul.<br/><br/>When the Dragon returned to her brethren, they asked her many questions about the Lodestar, demanding to know the secret of whether she was one of the Illuminated.<br/>The seed of light blossomed forth at that moment, and she misled her brethren, telling them nothing of the truth of her Illuminated nature, but only the truth that she was a noble and remarkable woman.<br/>But the other Dragons were suspicious, and cast out their web of spies, and discovered the truth.  In their wroth, they assembled a mighty host of Dragons and men, to hunt the Shimmering Lodestar, and snuff her.<br/>The Dragon of Flame and Beauty could not bear to see such a blasphemy occur, however, and raced with all her power, bringing warning to the Lodestar of the doom approaching her.  <br/><br/>But the gods may grant succor even as they bring endings; word reached the Lodestar and the Dragon of a great Circle of the Illuminated, and other mysterious beings beside, who had driven the black children of Oblivion from Chiaroscuro, the City of Glass.<br/>Fleeing before the Host, they travelled across river, field, and hills, through desert, jungle, and mountain.  At long last, they came into the city, and Shimmering Lodestar presented herself to the Circle.<br/>She offered them her knowledge, her power, her light, if only they would accept her and the Dragon amongst their number, and shelter them from the army that even now gathered to strike.</em>