The Chariot of Fire

The barbarians of the Hordes speak of the day when Ragnorak breaks the seal of the prison that cast him forth into time and space and comes riding in through the Passage upon a Chariot of Fire setting alight to the world with blood and war.  The gods will descend to meet him upon the earthly battlefield and shall fall beneath his strides of wild fire, as mortals succumb to his minions and the world is torn up.

The Blood King shall lead the Hordes against the minions and cast off their fleshly binding to fight the greatest battle; thousands will die and the Great River will run red with the blood of the fallen to feed into the Blood Ocean and dance with its screaming remembering waters.  The Imperial Kingdom will fall apart, as a demon long forgotten but always controlling the Realms resurfaces in an attempt to defend its lands.  But, instead of victory, the screaming yellow beast sacrifices all its warriors in a bloody gamble to fight the unstoppable Ragnorak...until finally the age old yellow beast and its withered and broken fangs are cast into the Passage again.

And the gods--the real gods and not the false creation of Aur--settle their differences to combine as one force that walks the mortal lands again.  The Og turns his single ugly eye on Ragnorak, Tor raises his mighty hammer, Isabelle mounts her beast of many heads, Loki conjures his own demons, Feare begins the dance of one thousand deaths, and Graâg rises from the icy lands in royal battle gear...to the sounds of the end of times: the greatest battle each Cycle is fought when magick meets claw meets eyes of those that came from the skies and the very earth and heavens begins to slit apart.

As the battle threatens to destroy every far flung reality and all three Passages simultaneously open, suddenly the Bard shall appear as from nowhere, cast his eyes upon Ragnorak and the gods, and begin to Speak.  Upon an ancient hill in this ancient land the Bard shall tell a Tayle that cools the fires of the Chariot, binds Ragnorak again within his ageless prison until the ending of the next Cycle, and sets the world to sleep for a thousand years of forgetfulness.

This is the tayle that the shamans of the Hordes tell, as those mortals that survive until the Bard appears shall be raised unto the place of the gods to be a god in the next Cycle.

--Anonymous Monk