The Dark Sun

[Vinsfeld]

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.