“It is fire, it is water, it is the earth, the air, and the 
sea. It has all the qualities of stone and passion, and it knows 
the change of truth to lie. But there is one thing it is not; it 
is not love.
     “No love.” he appeared to slump, though his dignity was 
strong and his posture was bright and polite. i wonder if he 
would have cried, had he too the quality of stone and passion, 
but he did not. his cold reasoning and fiery speech were built on 
the foundations of solitude and premeditated oration, not on 
runes and strong emotion. perhaps his nature was entirely 
different than he pretended it to be, but on with my tale.

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In the beginning Christ walked with the newly born children of 
Ubuttrus after the dark age of tyrannical Elite rule, and the 
children of God were returned unto the ancient citadel of their 
ancestors. A generation has passed, twenty-eight for my race, and 
not many still believe. The story is now considered legend, and, 
in their hearts, all the people still seek for what it contains 
but no more than a few will yet dare insinuate the tale as truth.
I was born in the 1973rd year of the New Regime, and it is now 
the year 2000. These are my tales with the brave Erin Jake, 
Rythmmaster and kinetic, now proven to be Worldwalker as well, 
who has come to Ubuttrus to love us as our saviour Christ loves 
us, but, more specifically, to have a good time doing such.
There are many things that could be said to the purpose of 
explaining that we have met, but there is no true merit in this, 
and we shall have done with it. Instead, i shall say that Jake 
(as he prefers to be called from among his many other aliases) is 
a very persistent and stubborn man, willing to break his neck for 
the good of what he loves. And he is nosey, very nosey. Many men 
have these qualities, i am made certain by experience, but Jake 
is devoutly applied to expedient use of these skills in ways 
unlike any other man or angel i have known of ever. Jake is an 
honest man, forced to be such by the fact that any lie he might 
tell is inexplicably obvious, which often brings him great mirth, 
and so he does lie, but for humor's sake alone. No, i am wrong; i 
have witnessed him lie in seriousness; i can only speculate as to 
why, and my speculation is that he in some small way knows the 
sentient nature of curiousity that is found among obvious lie.
That is why he brought the seven Terrans to Ubuttrus, i believe.
During the Fringe War, the war which began the Elite's second to 
last struggle to retain their stifling power (followed 
immediately by the Purging War and Banishings), most of the 
disdained Elite were killed, among them were innocent Elite 
children and guilty Elite children, women Elite, men Elite, and 
the reputed demon-Elite. Banned were the psychic and magical 
skills of Resurrection, Archiving, Assassination, Worldwalking, 
Voidwalking, Mentalism, Psychokinetics, Dimensionwalking, and all 
forms of action which could be or were imposed on the people of 
Ubuttrus during the Elite rule, also known as the Old Regime.
This, however, does not mean that children were not born with 
these skills, neither were children hidden from knowing of the 
Elite rule, nor of knowing the stories and personalities of 
several of the key members of the clans in the Old stories and 
personalities of several of the key members of the clans in the 
Old Regime, if they chose to learn such. The last may have been a 
foolish idea, some are beginning to think.
The children born with these skills have been easily trained upon 
discovering their skill; the teaching of the Old Regime lifestyle 
is a good lesson to learn by, both morally and strategically; but 
apparently no one had considered that one, such as Crosley, might 
attain feelings which i am hesitant to call love for one of the 
dead, yet not unresurrectable, Old Elite. And this may not have 
been such an entirely bad thing had Crosley not also had the 
power of Resurrection, the strong will to elude training, the 
want of great evil for our society, and not-understood power to 
hide his actions from the Will.
Crosley has a twisted sense of justice, so it should have been no 
surprise when he felt sympathy for the most bitter member of the 
recorded Elite, the one who believed herself most persecuted 
although the one who persecuted her was herself. Yenoi could have 
been very powerful and happy had she not chosen to see her 
brother's popularity as a reason for hate. And, had the Fringe 
War not occurred, it is believed that she would have embittered 
herself to the point of destroying completely all her own powers. 
As it happened, she had been dropped down in the ranks of Elite 
and only not entirely dismissed because of the skills which she 
once had, but then was killed in the opening skirmishes of the 
war. At any rate, Crosley apparently also felt that she had been 
wronged in their Elite society, but that he could make a plan to 
enable her to be treated fairly. And so, out of love Crosley 
murdered five Will members to weaken their ability to monitor, 
stop, and punish him, then resurrected Yenoi who immediately 
proceeded to kill another 30 members, crippling the Will with 
every intention of finishing the job once she regained her full 
strength.
Of course, this action of multiple homicide did alert the Will to 
danger, but, unfortunately, they were mostly unprepared to 
compensate for such a great loss in their number unless several 
years were given to them--which they were certain would not 
happen.
I don't know how Jake found out about these goings on, but his 
first course of action was to run out and fight Yenoi in her 
post-murder weakened state. This, from what i have heard, became 
a fiasco in short order, through both obtaining their mark in 
magical and psychic melee. Jake fled to Terra with what could 
easily have been a mortal wound, and, though i tend to think his 
site of arrival on Terra was planned well in advance, 
miraculously managed to secure the type of aid he needed to save 
himself.
It is obvious that those who saved Jake's life must have been 
chosen in advance because Jake immediately set out to bring them 
back to Ubuttrus in order that they might aid him in killing 
Yenoi before she could kill anymore of the Will and/or secure 
another Elite hierarchy. Naturally he did not tell the Terrans 
any of this situation before he had them convinced that they were 
stranded on Ubuttrus.
Here i feel i must quickly defend Jake on three points. The first 
being that Jake did in fact connive to murder Yenoi, which it is 
no longer believed that he actually did; Jake would rather have 
killed Yenoi than see many millions of others be killed, and he 
wanted to be the one to do it so that no one else would have to 
face ethical mental problems over it. Secondly, there was 
trickery involved in bringing the first batch of (five) Terrans 
to Ubuttrus; this was because he felt the matter too important to 
risk the Terrans deciding not to help us. And lastly, something 
which is obvious in an obtuse way, is Jakes constant use of the 
illegal skill of Worldwalking; Jake's skill has never been 
detected on Ubuttrus, even though he did eventually get caught by 
other means, and has only been used for the betterment of 
Ubuttrus, not Jake. All are weak defenses, but i would not feel 
right leaving them unmentioned.
At any rate, Jake brought the Terrans to his inn, The Flametail, 
for 'dinner', and summoned me. I happened to be on leave from 
Surutt Institution and, being a Rimerook, i have obligations to 
the public and the public has obligations to me. The public has a 
very willing obligation to supply me with my needs, should i ever 
be without, and i have an obligation to save all of society 
should i be called upon to do so. Jake was calling upon me to 
help him do so.

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