A fragment from Wesnoth
<p>I did some writing I&#8217;m feeling rather proud of today.  It is storyline text from a <a href="http://www.wesnoth.org">Battle For Wesnoth</a> campaign I&#8217;m working on.  I&#8217;ve decided to post it here as a teaser and let my readers have the fun of deducing the kind of context in which it makes sense.</p>
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<p><b>&#8220;WHO ENTERS THE TOMB OF AN-USRUKHAR?&#8221;</b></p>
<p>&#8220;I..I am Delfador, a mage of Wesnoth.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>&#8220;I am the will of An-Usrukhar, greatest of mages, he who bestrode Irdya in the morning of time, who sleeps now in a death beyond death until the unmaking of the world.&#8221;</b></p>
<p>&#8220;I am only a man, a living man seeking a way home from the house of the dead.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>&#8220;Living? &#8230;I see that it is so. Your breath stirs dust that has lain untouched since the Primal Aeon. And it was foretold that one like you would come.&#8221;</b></p>
<p>&#8220;Foretold?&#8221;</p>
<p><b>&#8220;Foretold in the Primal Aeon, years past beyond your counting. An-Usrukhar the Great, he of whom I am but the tiniest shade and fragment, foresaw in the Mirror of Evanescent Time that a living man would come here to be tested. AND I AM THE TEST!&#8221;</b></p>
<p>&#8220;I have felt the coils of prophecy on me before. I am beginning to dislike them.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>&#8220;It is only given to the small not to feel the hand of fate on their shoulder; the great must suffer its weight whether they will or no. Delfador, mage of Wesnoth, ARE YOU A SERVANT OF THE LIGHT?&#8221;</b></p>
<p>&#8220;I serve my king and my kingdom.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>&#8220;Your king will die in an eyeblink and your kingdom in the drawing of a breath. Delfador, I ask you again, ARE YOU A SERVANT OF THE LIGHT?&#8221;</b></p>
<p>&#8220;I serve my people and my land.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>&#8220;Peoples vanish and lands wither under the pitiless gaze of eternity; the true matter of the world is deeper. Delfador, I ask you a third time, and on your answer hangs your life: ARE YOU A SERVANT OF THE LIGHT?&#8221;</b></p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8230;I serve life against death. Love against fear. Light against darkness.&#8221;</p>
<p><i>(There is a momentary, brilliant flash of light.)</i></p>
<p><b>&#8220;IT IS WELL. Take up, O servant of light, the Staff of An-Usrukhar. The trials before you will be great. So is its power.&#8221;</b></p>
