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None can deny the omnipotence of the natural order.

Can mere mortals stop the rain from pouring onto the grasslands, or the sun from baking the burning desert sands? Can mere mortals, in their ignorance, maintain their lives in a desolate world fraught with peril from both man and monster? Can mere mortals stem the tide of time and prevent age and decay from adversely affecting their fragile shells?

Of course not.

How can they hope to compete with the hypothetical "fourth dimension"? All moves forward, and nothing can last beyond its set life span. People, places, things... All suffer the same fate in the end.

Even suns die.

Thus states the Ministry of the Dark Sun. This philosophy glories in the passage of time and fate, devoted to understanding and achieving the ends in which all are destined to reach at their given time. It does not seek to halt the progress of that which nature intends. Instead, the tenets honor and cherish the fact that all ascend beyond their mortal shells at the end of their spans, that all becomes something more, something greater, than shown by previous existences.

The Dark Sun devotes itself to counting the blessings its acolytes share, the enjoyment of existence in the now, and the promise of more glorious times to come when the shackles are broken. All who dwell beneath the Dark Sun shall rise above their weaknesses and become, in essence, immortal. Nature does not deny those who adapt, and those who honor and promote the natural order shall prove strongest, and therefore more worthy to carry the mantle of promise and prosperity.

Even suns die.

Yet their deaths, and their remnants, hold still greater power and influence over all around them.

Glory to the Dark Sun.

~An Excerpt from "The Ministries of the Eclipse,"
~Penned by Dameon Vinsfeld

The classic struggle, or so they say throughout the dimensions, is the titanic struggle of the forces of good against the "loathsome" and "unclean" powers of evil. The duty of the peoples devoted to the "light" is to eradicate and annihilate the forces of "darkness," who, according to the writers of history, seek to take the world and twist it to their own "malicious" ends.

How often do we, as mere observers, gaze upon this conflict without asking the necessary and proper question of "why"? Are the forces of light correct in their self-righteous assumptions that they are the true inheritors of the earth and all that resides within its influence? Are the "forces of evil," so named by those who battle them, truly focused on the pursuits for which they are attributed?

There are simple answers to these questions, and I shall provide them here and now for all to parouse and consider at their leisure. There is no "good" and there is no "evil," and the "struggle" which has been called upon by those in power merely camouflages the paranoid, power-hungry pariahs who fear and despise that which they do not understand. Those who do not wish to lose their grip upon the power-base they have so painstakingly obtained and maintained have invented connotations for necromancy, a mere tool that many use for survival. They capture and kill all who they see as a threat to their authority, and do not even attempt to consider the extenuating circumstances in which their victims might be living and suffering.

The forces of "good" are merely intolerant, fearful, pitiful wretches who cannot open their hearts and minds to other possibilities. There is no "evil," yet we who are believed to practice such things, albeit wrongly accused, see the antagonists for what they truly are. Yet we forgive them, and we also ask them to open their own hearts and minds to possibility rather than live forever in intolerance and rigidity.

Yet do not mistake us. We will defend ourselves if attacked. We will protect our own, as well as those who are oppressed and enslaved by the "light." We will give hope to those who despair of their lot. A new sun will rise, and the dawn shall change the world forever, shedding new light upon those who seek and demand change. Those who follow shall be infinitely prosperous.

Those who deny our followers their god-given rights shall be denied themselves.