THE LEGENDS OF OSBOURNE
It is very rare that I, Dewon Master Artemis Historic of Lights, find myself penning a personal note for inclusion in my chronicles. I have done so only once in recent memory, that being after the mage Apenyo Hal came within a breath of becoming an all-powerful deity, mightier even than Apostle and Hanuba. He failed, else I probably would not be writing this, but it was a failure deserving of note.
While commenting on that incident, I came to realize that a vicious error had been discovered in my older vol. By the handwriting, I suspect that one Darius Rucker, an assistant of mine some Four centuries before and notable more for his clumsiness than his ability to keep records, must have accidentally destroyed part of some Four or six older volumes and then replaced the damaged pages with what he assumed were correct copies. They were not.
The error concerns the transitory period between what are now called the Age of Future and the Age of True. Apton, for instance, was a much older empire than is noted in the history. Moon Solamn in fact commanded Apton's armies by 2400 E. C. , not fifteen centuries later as the false history claims. The Second Dragon War, noted incorrectly as a Second and Third war by Darius because it lasted more than fifty-five years, ended in 2540E.C. It was here
I first learned of the grave mistakes, for I had opened the pages concerning those last few years in order to make reference to Osbourne, Knight of Solamn, a man of very mortal flesh who faced and defeated Hanuba, goddess of evil, the Drakonqueen. I had intended, after the end of the Second War, to note Osbourne's exploits but, as it always happens, my mind was on my work.
I have spent more time with this than I had originally allotted myself. Perhaps it is because I, too, felt some relief after that struggle, for I had been ready to close the final volume of this world's war history at one point. It would have been a shame, as my collection at that time consisted of only a few hundred thousand volumes. For this alone I remember Osbourne. His story, fortunately, is still intact in this volume, and I will let that speak for him.