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The tales of the seven
Offspring are interesting ones and we shall expand
upon them here.
Of Anake, you know. The first murderer, he slew
his own mother after she refused his advances
and was later slain by his father.
After the death of Anake, Lysithea yearned to
bring him back. She was contacted by Lorielan,
who now rules over the Kx'Khrah. Lorielan promised
that she could bring Anake back to life if Lysithea
would simply bring her the two pieces of the Divine
Rod that she now had. Lysithea, knowing she could
never again enter Ceylon to gain the other five
anyhow, agreed and was brought to Lorielan by
one of her Kx'Khrah agents. Lorielan had lied,
as is her nature, and upon the arrival of Lysithea,
the Offspring was forced to give up the pieces
of the Rod to Lorielan, and, being stranded on
a foreign plane with no way to return, was forced
to serve Lorielan forever.
Ledo was always the silent recluse; the solitary
hunter. During a hunting trip in the Vashnar mountains,
he disappeared and never returned. It was later
discovered that he had been attacked and eaten
by a lesser dragon.
After the death of his mother and the resulting
grief and then madness of his father, Carme took
over leadership of the budding human race. He
yearned to explore and was lost to Achaea when
he ventured into the great northern wastelands,
and never returned. The others mourned his loss
greatly, for he was a natural leader of men. Over
the centuries, however, legends have filtered
back to the civilized portion of Sapience that
a lone man has occasionally been seen, accompanied
by humanoids that look very much like Tsol'aa,
in the polar regions.
The mother of mankind's eternal fascination with
the ocean, Himalia sailed off to the west in a
small boat, by herself. Searching for lands rumoured
to be on the other side of the world, she did
not expect to return, and indeed, she did not.
Her fate is unknown, though much speculated upon.
After Lysithea was lost to the Crystal Plane,
Elara began searching for an entrance into it.
As she was experimenting with opening doors to
other planes, a great scaled hand reached out
from a doorway. As Himalia and Ledo looked on,
helpless to do anything, Elara was dragged screaming
through the doorway and was never seen again.
Last of the Offspring to remain in Ceylon, Pasiphae
died a natural death after many hundreds of years
of life. Imithia delivered her eulogy at what
is considered the first formal function of the
Church.
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