Sentari Bible

The Sentari Bible is a text documenting the founding myth of Dawnstar.

= Sentari Bible = Many Winters ago, in the hills of the Sparwood wilderness, there sat a peaceful village, whose name is long forgotten. In those times, it was the only settlement within five days travel through the forest.

Despite its remoteness, children of the village played in the forest without fear, and their parents worked as farmers and loggers. They lived in peace, far separated from the great conflicts of the South and West. Things began to change, when one quiet week in July, a dark cloud passed over the land.

Villagers noted record low temperatures for that time of the Summer. Wild foxes native to the area became more hostile, and even began to snatch children from the forest, and babies from their cribs. Crops froze in the cold nights, and seldom was there a sunny day. The villagers felt a stone drop deep inside their hearts. In the old tongue, they called this feeling Dolorem-Mortus, the kind of sadness that causes a man to take his own life.

In September, two weeks before the beginning of the Autumn harvest, a storm swept in from the North. Great spears of light and fire fell upon the village. The people could only attempt to flee as everything they knew was destroyed. Screaming children ran burning out of houses, permanently scarred. Many who were not burned in their houses were struck down by the terrible lightning, which crashed into them as waves crash against the shore in only the most brutal of winter storms. Then, suddenly, the world stopped. The clouds, which once commanded might and fury, were pacified and withdrew back to the North. The fires of chaos were quenched, as if a burning coal had been tossed into a lake. From between the clouds, the sky opened up. A voice called. It said, "My strongest of children, my purest of heart. You have survived the greatest of trials. I am Sentora, the Star of Dawn, bringer of feasts and maker of wine. You are the Sentari, the chosen people! Your descendants will bring upon the world a new light when darkness once more takes over.

The villagers fell to their knees, and bowed before their savior. The voice from the sky, the one who called himself the Star of Dawn, commanded them to persevere, and to rebuild. Heartened by his praise and talks of greatness, the people of the town, newly christened "Dawnstar", for their savior, brought through the strength and will to build a city that could be matched by no other in that part of the world.