The World of the Child-Prophets
But now I am alone
Abandoned by the gods I served
Feared by the younger races
Buried in the depths.
So sings the child in “Song of the Child-Prophet.” The child encased in amberite is a relic of a by-gone age, a being created by his gods, the empire-building Highborn, for the specific purpose of world domination. These child-prophets did not speak but could sing across the whole spectrum of human emotions, inducing fear or pain or ecstasy in their listeners. At their worst, the singers could reduce whole civilizations to madness and chaos.
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