Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes

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    Commentaries on the MysteriumXarxesby Mankar Camoran

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    Book One

    The first book read by initiates to the MythicDawn cult

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    reetings, novitiate, and know first areassurance: Mankar Camoran was once likeyou, asleep, unwise, protonymic. We mortalsleave the dreaming-sleeve of birth the same,unmantled save for the symbiosis with our

    mothers, thus to practice and thus torapprochement, until finally we might throughnew eyes leave our hearths without need orfear that she remains behind. In this momentwe destroy her forever and enter the demesneof Lord Dagon.

    eader, this book is your door to thatdemesne, and though you be a destroyer youmust still submit to locks. Lord Dagon wouldonly have those clever enough to pause; all

    else the Aurbis claims in their fool running.Walk first. Heed. The impatience you feel isyour first slave to behead.

    nter as Lord Dagon has written: comeslow and bring four keys. Know that then you

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    are royalty, a new breed of destroyer, whosegarden shall flood with flowers known andunknown, as it was in the mythic dawn. Thus

    shall you return to your first primal wail andyet come out different. It shall this time beneonymbiosis, master akin to Master, whoseMother is miasma.

    very quarter has known us, and nonebore our passing except with trembling.

    Perhaps you came to us through war, or study,or shadow, or the alignment of certain snakes.

    Though each path matters in its kind, the prizeis always thus: welcome, novitiate, that youare here at all means that you have theworthiness of kings. Seek thy pocket now, andlook! There is the first key, glinting with thelight of a new dawn.

    ight follows day, and so know that thisprimary insight shall fall alike unto the

    turbulent evening sea where all faiths are

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    like red-drink. That I mention it at all istestament to your new rank, my child. Yourname is now cut into its weight.

    alace, hut, or cave, you have left all thefog worlds of conception behind. Nu-mantia!Liberty! Rejoice in the promise of paradise!

    ndlessly it shall form and reformaround you, deeds as entities, all-systems onlyan hour before they bloom to zero sums,

    flowering like vestments, divine raiment wornto dance at Lord Dagon's golden feet. In hisfirst arm, a storm, his second the rush ofplagued rain, the third all the tinder of Anu,and the fourth the very eyes of Padhome. Feeluplifted in thine heart that you have this firstkey, for it shall strike high and low into the

    wormrot of false heavens.

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    oaring I wandered until I grew hoarsewith the gospel. I had read the mysteries ofLord Dagon and feeling anew went mad withthe overflow. My words found no purchase untilI became hidden. These were not words for thecommon of Tamriel, whose clergy long agofeigned the very existence of the Dawn. Learn

    from my mistake; know that humility wasMankar Camoran's original wisdom. Comeslow, and bring four keys.

    ffering myself to that daybreak allowedthe girdle of grace to contain me. When myvoice returned, it spoke with another tongue.After three nights I could speak fire.

    ed-drink, razor-fed, I had glimpsed thepath unto the garden, and knew that to informothers of its harbour I had to first drown myselfin search's sea. Know ye that I have found myfleet, and that you are the flagship of my hope.Greetings, novitiate, Mankar Camoran was

    once you, asleep, unwise, protonymic, but AmNo More. Now I sit and wait to feast with thee

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    on all the worlds of this cosmos. Nu-mantia!Liberty!

    Book Two

    The second book read by initiates to theMythic Dawn cult

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    hosoever findeth this document, I callhim brother.

    nswers are liberations, where theslaves of Malbioge that came to knowNumantia cast down their jailer king, Maztiak,which the Xarxes Mysterium calls the Arkayn.Maztiak, whose carcass was dragged throughthe streets by his own bone-walkers and

    whose flesh was opened on rocks thereon andthose angels who loved him no longer diddrink from his honeyed ichors screaming Letall know free will and do as they will!

    our coming was foretold, my brother, bythe Lord Dagon in his book of razors. You areto come as Idols drop away from you one byone. You are exalted in eyes that have not yetset on you; you, swain to well-travelled toshatterer of mantles. You, brother, are to sit

    with me in Paradise and be released of allunknowns. Indeed, I shall show you His book

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    and its foul-and-many-feathered rubric so thatyou can put into symbols what you alreadyknow: the sphere of destruction is but the milk

    of the unenslaved. I fault not your stumbling,for they are expected and given grace by theOils. I crave not your downfalls, though withoutthem you might surpass me even in thecoming Earth of all infinities. Lord Dagonwishes you no ills but the momentous. And asHe wants, you must want, and so learn fromthe pages of God this: the Ritual of Want:

    hisper to earth and earth, where themeddlers take no stones except to blood, asblood IS blood, and to the cracking of bone, asbone IS bone, and so to crack and answer andfall before the one and one, I call you Dragonas brother and king.

    ides of dreugh: 7 and 7, draught of Oil,1 and 1, circles drawn by wet Dibellites: threeconcentric and let their lower blood fall whereit may, a birth watched by blackbirds:

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    Book Three

    The third book read by initiates to the MythicDawn cult

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    he Tower touches all the mantles ofHeaven, brother-novitiates, and by its apexone can be as he will. More: be as he was andyet changed for all else on that path for thosethat walk after. This is the third key of Nu-mantia and the secret of how mortals becomemakers, and makers back to mortals. The

    Bones of the Wheel need their flesh, and thatis mankind's heirloom.

    ath-breakers beware, for their traitors

    run through the nymic-paths, runner dogs ofprolix gods. The Dragon's Blood have hiddenascension in six-thousands years of aetheriallabyrinth, which is Arena, which they yet denyis Oathbound. By the Book, take this key andpierce the divine shell that encloses themantle-takers! The skin of gold! SCARAB AE

    AURBEX!

    oe to the Oath-breakers! Of the skin ofgold, the Xarxes Mysterium says Be fooled

    not by the forlorn that ride astray the roadway,for they lost faith and this losing was caused

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    by the Aedra who would know no otherplanets. Whereby the words of Lord Dagoninstructs us to destroy these faithless. Eat or

    bleed dry the gone-forlorn and gain that smallwill that led them to walk the path of Godheadat the first. Spit out or burn to the side thatwhich made them delay. Know them as theMnemoli.

    very new limb is paid for by the under-known. See, brother, and give not more to thehydra.

    eader, you will sense a shadow-choirsoon. The room you are in right now will groweyes and voices. The candle or spell-light you

    read this by will become gateways for thetraitors I have mentioned. Scorn them and fearnot. Call them names, call out their basenatures. I, the Mankar of stars, am with you,and I come to take you to my Paradise wherethe Tower-traitors shall hang on glass wracksuntil they smile with the new revolution.

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    hat is your ward against the Mnemoli.They run blue, through noise, and shine onlywhen the earth trembles with the eruption ofthe newly-mantled. Tell them Go! GHARTOKAL MNEM! God is come! NUMI MORA! NUMDALAE MNEM!

    nce you walk in the Mythic itsurrenders its power to you. Myth is nothingmore than first wants. Unutterable truth.Ponder this while searching for the fourth key.

    nderstood laws of the arcanature willfall away like heat. First Tower Dictate: render

    the mutant bound where he may do no moreharm. As God of the Mundus, alike shall be hisprogeny, split from their divine sparks. We areEight time eight Exarchs. Let the home ofPadomay see us as sole exit.

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    HIM. Those who know it can reshape theland. Witness the home of the Red King OnceJungled.

    e that enters Paradise enters his own

    Mother. AE ALMA RUMA! The Aurbis endeth inall ways.

    ndeth we seek through our Dawn, all

    endeth. Falter now and become one with thewayside orphans that feed me. Follow and Ishall adore you from inside. My first daughterran from the Dagonite road. Her name wasRuma and I ate her with no bread, and madeanother, which learned, and I loved that oneand blackbirds formed her twin behind alltime.

    tarlight is your mantle, brother. Wear itto see by and add its light to Paradise.

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    Book Four

    The fourth and final book read by initiates tothe Mythic Dawn cult

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    ay the holder of the fourth key knowthe heart thereby: the Mundex Terrene wasonce ruled over solely by the tyrant dreugh-kings, each to their own dominion, andborderwars fought between their slave oceans.

    They were akin to the time-totems of old, yetevil, and full of mockery and profane powers.

    No one that lived did so outside of thesufferance of the dreugh.

    give my soul to the Magna Ge, sayeth

    the joyous in Paradise, for they createdMehrunes the Razor in secret, in the verybowels of Lyg, the domain of the Upstart whovanishes. Though they came from diversewaters, each Get shared sole purpose: toartifice a prince of good, spinning his likenessin random swath, and imbuing him with

    Oblivion's most precious and scarce asset:hope.

    eathlessly I intone from Paradise:

    Mehrunes the Thieftaker, Mehrunes Godsbody,

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    Mehrunes the Red Arms That Went Up! Nu-Mantia! Liberty!

    eny not that these days shall comeagain, my novitiates! For as Mehrunes threwdown Lyg and cracked his face, declaring eachof the nineteen and nine and nine oceans Free,

    so shall he crack the serpent crown of theCyrodiils and make federation!

    ll will change in these days as it was

    changed in those, for with by the magic wordNu-Mantia a great rebellion rose up and pulleddown the towers of CHIM-EL GHARJYG, and thetemplars of the Upstart were slaughtered, andblood fell like dew from the upper wards downto the lowest pits, where the slaves withmaniacal faces took chains and teeth to their

    jailers and all hope was brush-fire.

    our Dawn listens, my Lord! Let all theAurbis know itself to be Free! Mehrunes is

    come! There is no dominion save free will!

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    uns were riven as your red legionsmoved from Lyg to the hinterlands of chill, alegion for each Get, and Kuri was thrown downand Djaf was thrown down and Horma-Gilewas crushed with coldsalt and forevermorecalled Hor and so shall it be again under thetime of Gates.

    nder the mires, Malbioge was throwndown, that old City of Chains, slaked innewbone-warmth and set Free. Galg and Mor-

    Galg were thrown down together in a singlenight of day and shall it be again under thetime of Gates.

    othing but woe for NIRN which hasbecome The Pit and seven curses on itsDreugh, the Vermae NI-MOHK! But for it theCrusades would be as my lord's Creation, Getby the Ge and do as thou wilt, of no fetters but

    your own conscience! Know that your Hell is

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    Broken, people of the Aurbis, and praise theNu-Mantia which is Liberty!

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