Captains Log,
Newest entry for the new exploits of my endeavors. Endeavors which have seem to submit myself to Legend among the people of this world known as Gaia to them. Though where do legends begin? Do they begin when the legend becomes known or does their birth signify the birth of legend. If destiny were to exist then that would mean yes would it not? How can a legend be born from pure luck if it were not fate that begun such a legend. If a the purpose of one was predetermined from birth then would that legend begin at birth?
How can we be sure to know the birth of a legend if we can not preform such a task as to know what cause that legend to be born. For instance a hero fighting for what they believe in, would not their past determine their line of thought. Would it not be the reason that they have decided to become a hero? A drow warrior fleeing his home of Guallidurth could he be a hero? His people would label him an Exile some may have even allowed the Spider Queen her self transform them to the worst abomination known to the drow race.
So where does this sense of heroism come from, and why are heroes in the world of the drow nothing but murderers?
Many years ago nearly half a century in the and little over half the age of a humans life expectancy Guallidurth was given a child. The first born son in a line of a lowly house with in its settlements. A house which in and of its self was plotting for it assent to the hierarchy. Unlike other drow settlements in Faerun, they took it by taking a house of higher power. All they would need is to slip into the rank of another house.
The Matriarch of the house had hoped for a third daughter before she bore any sons. To her disappointment she bore a son a child to early. This proved to spoil her plans at this time she had hoped that her third daughter would allow them to move quicker in taking the third houses position on the hierarchy. However she needed a son as well, only the third son was allowed to be sacrificed to Lolth the Spider Queen. This male child was lucky to be the first. She had named the child Drisdril and she had hoped to make him a warrior.
Yet was this birth the birth of a legend? Was it already pre-determined what would happen to the young boy over the years? If it was known what would happen to that boy then why would he have to be born to such a life? Was it the life he were to have a head of him be the ingredients that would form a legend? Was it this moment and the place he now would call home that would someday create the drow that he would become? Questions that may never be answered or are they already answered? Is it even worth the question to even think to ask? Why then do these questions fill the minds of every growing mind, drow or not? So then what is the birth of a legend and when does it begin?
 Captain Jessie Hawk · Sun Nov 16, 2008 @ 06:40am · 1 Comments |
