An old legend, often told to scare children to sleep at night.
Time of origin: unknown.
Truth: unknown.
"On the edges of the world, past the boundaries of normalcy and order, lays a great beast.
Many will call this beast a serpent, but its true form is unknown, along with how long it has been there.
Some speculate it created the world itself, while others choose to believe it came from elsewhere.
The only thing we know about it with any certainty is that it was only with its blessing that we were safe from the nightmares of the void; the eternal darkness that lies beyond the border of its holiness.
Nonetheless, a being of its magnificence can often forget its own might.
As such, once every 300 years, the serpent decides to move. This movement shakes the world.
Thus, every 300 years, a grand hunt of sorts was organized to convince the serpent of its best path.
The strongest, bravest, or perhaps the most foolish men and women gathered for this hunt.
At first, the necessity of this venture was clear in the minds of all who attended.
Over time, however, people grew arrogant.
So long had it been since they were reminded of what lies beyond the body of the serpent.
So many millennia passed in the same way.
Those who remembered the origins of the hunt had long passed onto the pages of history.
Many have since been lost even from those.
But really, who can blame those "hunters" for their complacency?
They were the strongest and smartest of their times; many of them undefeated in their craft.
Long had it been since the importance of their venture was clearly presented before them.
Long ago had these grand, three-century cooperations turned competitive.
But these brave souls believed to have remembered the importance of their deed, even if they couldn't remember why it had such importance.
Nonetheless, no preparation could have prepared them for their final hunt.
That day, for a reason no one knows, the serpent finally turned its great eyes onto the world.
And those hunters lost themselves in the endless light and wisdom which fill those eyes, the light and wisdom of thousands of wandering souls.
So lost were they, that they missed when the serpent moved.
They missed when we lost the blessing of our God.
And so it was on that day that our new world was born."