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Chapter II. Of the King over Desh

Of the King over Desh is the second text within The Book of the High Priests.
Translated by Sir Bartholomew Athens Montblanc

The Beginning

Since the begining of Ages, there were many Kings on Earth-Kunbuga in Morsor-Sothor, Abonom of the River Kingdom of Nai Datul, Wanaewayin in Boyade and Agnofarganai of Psylometh. Yet these were the Kings Divine and all the days of each were three and one hundred thousand (3100) at least. In their times the following came to be:

When Kunbuga married the maiden Sila, she begoth a son, whose name was Sila and who was made King in Ombalanguor-Sadayam. Yet when the General Omsor (King Kunbuga) discovered that Sila be not his, yet of that King of the West^[1], he raised his arms and went into Ombalanguor and undone that blashpemy^[2] and then went West. What came to pass beyond, none knoweth, for Kunbuga never returned, his people waiting a hundred years. When at last the Kings of Other Lands saw through the treachery of the wax-made idol, who was placed upon the throne in the General Omsors place, so spaketh Abonom, the Admiral Kayjuluk^[3], to Wabaewayin, The Prophet Madajok

"Brother in arms, King Mighty and Grand, why must We, who art as brothers fight one another in our landsm, when the land of Our enemy is ripe and fresh for taking, for surely he had fallen to the sole King of That Land^[4] all those years ago."

And Wabaewayin spoketh unto the Admiral Kayujuluk

"Surely what thou saisth be true, yet in what deviousnes shalt we storm the castle Morsor-Sothor, for surely the Castle of the King of Kings^[5] will fall not to weapons of man, nor men divine."

And Abonom spake to the Prophet Madajok

"Weapons are not needed, for surely Mayfair wilt asist us, if he is woken carefully."

And to this of the Admiral Kayujuluk,the Prophet Madajok spoke

"Have thou lost thy mind? Remebereth ye not Aygil, Vonovir or Sapaerir? Knows you not of Mansaolwu the King and of Ikaehaim the Priest?"^[6]

And Abonom spake more unto Wanaewayin and he understood.

In six days time a woman, who could bear a child, was found out in Nai Datul (for there be no women in Boyade) and brought aboard a ship of one masterfull tree to the Edge of the World and left there, strapped unto a tree with iron. And when she cried for her release, the mountain, which was the last edge of the world, moved and soon towered above her like Allom atop a Half-God. And through his thousand mouths, within his face most horrible, witch bore no eyes, but further faces in their spots witch bore further faces also and so on eternaly, the Giant Mayfair spoke

"How be I smell but one, yet know of two?"

Then, witch a hand of swirling stumps of flesh instead of fingers, he grabbed the woman and devoured her within one of his mouths. He turned to the earth and covered his hundred limbs within it, yet when he fell asleep, he was awoken by a strange crying shrieking. He stood up and looked on all sides, yet coulld see none but the trees and the grasses that are the last things at the Worlds End. And even as he looked, the voice grew louder and louder, till he hit with blind fury on all sides and uprooted trees half the length of him, that grew since the begining of Ages, when the Mawahir came from Oxorgodd^[7]. Yet with every move and with every following year the screaming grew and grew, till at length the giant was forced to tears, that stroled as lines of mouthly fluid from his faces mouths and fell like rain upon the End of the World.

And so he suffered that he almost fell of the worlds rim, if not one of his hundred arms had not clutched at the worlds side.

And when his pains were the highest, so spoke to him a voice

"Be ye troubled, Mayfair Gó?"

And there he stood, the Prophet Madajok and spoke further as follows

"You shalt be free of theese pains, when thou destroyest the land of Umu, wherein, in Morsor-Sothor, King Kunbuga hast sent thee this present."

And the Giant, never faltering, stood upward and in greatest pain raced acros the World, to Umu, known as Um the Blessed in those days, and, stumbling foolishly within his pain, he smote the cities of Warskur, Mojja and Opad and demanded to be brought the king. And the people brought before him the King out of wax and he took this within hisn hands and crushed it into powder. Yet then he gullped the remains down and knew that he was wronged and so set about and crushed all of Morsor-Sothor, witch he took and ran with to the Worlds End, where he threw it from the Rim. And stil the pain ran through his mind, till a crow, sent to him from Boyad, told him that within him there be an unborn child, formed from the death-like union of the Giant and the woman, witch must be born, lest Mayfairs pains shal never cease. And Mayfair opened his thousand mouths and from one there came a young boy, whom Mayfair did not trouble to smythe, for he instantly went back to sleep. And this boy, for his 'father' and his features, was named as Mayfair the Fair.

Of this child the Kings, they that took the land outside Morsor, knew nothing, till, out of habit, and out of fear that he may stil hold some force, they poured their bloody libations to Astori, High Priest of the Living^[8], that the Old of the Ealdest House spoke to theese kings directly and said that there be a child, who shal rise as the greatest menace to the peace of the world. And they searched through the woodland regions close by the Worlds Rim, yet they found nothing, maybe of fear from waking Mayfair the Giant-not knowing that it was him at whom they must search, for when he slept, his son went through his innards and smothe him so in so many ways, till there be but a rotting hoard of flesh, that looked as it looked at all days living and within it, Mayfair the Fair dreamt.

The Death of the Cities

And 1050 years past and a new war came to be, for the 'Father of Ptharoth' sent his hordes to undo the living and take the Kingdom for his own^[9]. And the City of Angels^[10] fell, and the City of the Rivers Fell^[11] and soon all the lands but the Kingdom of Boyade, within Morsor-Sothor. But when all the cities of that land came to perish, the King - who was still the Admiral Kayujuluk (yet deprived by age of all senses- blind, deaf and mute, he was kept within isolation so as the moral of the people may not utterly die, but his place was taken by The Prince Ubaddok, son of The Senseless One) - ordered the fortification of the Castles walls, as it was the last, that the living had on Earth. For four centuries did last the siege, till at length the undead army began to rot and then went away^[12] altogether. But as the gates were opened by the few who still lived, the charnel waters soaked the earth and came to infest the inward land, so that the last living elder man took his daughter and son and flead into the uncharted waists, whitch reached as far as the Rim in those days.

New Generations

And the father and the children settled at the caves if Kuvaranka, wherein once dwelt the Giantess Mabha, before being devoured by Mayfair the Giant during the war against the Adversary^[13]. There the father wished to force the siblings into comunion, as he wished the world to belong once again to the living. Yet they wished it not to be and so they threw him from a cliff. As his body lay dead and wasting, an eerie wind blew the smell of coruption into farthest places, to the Rim itself, where rested Mayfair the Fair, who had consumed, in the centuries, nearly all of his father and now lacked fresh cadavers to consume. Then he felt the smell of death and went through the now dead forests, amongst fallen trunks of giant trees and all through the Great Wasze, till, at length he found the dead witch he sought.
Pleased, he sat and began to consume the brains and flesh, when he was startled by a scream- for the dead man's daughter, who had helped kill him was now passing by to prepare a grave, against her brother's orders. As Mayfair saw the creature, he knew that she must be the deads child, for the resemblance was far too clear. He rose and asked if the dead was her kin, his (the fathers) blood driping from his lips. As she stood, stuned and cripled with horror, there came forward her brother, and, seeing this malevolent being, with their former father's skin upon his dirt covered naked body, took a double axe and swang it in Mayfairs direction- yet the naked creature grasped his hand and riped it from him and then undone him all together, feasting delitfully upon what was left. He then rose and took the girl as his wife. And they had two sons and two daughters. The sons were named Ashora the Elder and Ephrai and the daughters Tautahery and Ninakarva. And they forced their children to intermarry: And the sons of Ashora and Tautahery were Plymy and Parathos and the sons of Ephrai and Ninakarva were Aiku and Psobeth, and the daughters of Ashora and Tautahery were Tottaba-ra and Sisima and the daughters of Ephrai and Ninakarva were Ijhala and Sowa.
It must be said what became of them: the woman wished such unions not and so she was put to rest^[14]. And the generations mated, till there were people in number six thousand-and they built the city. And it was in those days, that the firstborn^[15] came to the moon as a herald-yet the war did not begin until much later and so Allom^[16] bid him farewell. And then Anug-Ya gazed upon the world and went to earth and found none but the King of the West and his dying realms and then the city of people-and he came to the leader of theese people, to whomm he propossed. And the man, whose name was Ashora, accepted and Anug-Ya made him King and the land , in witch he was given to reign was named as "Desh" and they accepted Aanae, Anug-Yaldom, Anug-Sethom , Anug Yathom and the firstcoming .
And religion was given to Desh 7896 years before the Flood. And the King Divine became guided by the firstborn."

Notes

1. ^ 'The King of the West': A mysterious person, referenced solely within this chapter, identified later on as "Father of Ptharoth".
2. ^ Meaning that Kunbuga killed King Sila.
3. ^ The divine kings all had two names, by which they were laternativly called.
4. ^ The sole variant of the Wests king "West" - It was said this land possesed such a horrible nature, that even kings did not dare speak out its name.
5. ^ The Castle of the King of Kings - Implying tha Kunbuga recieved his castle from the Lord of the First Gods of Earth.
6. ^ Aygil, Vonovir, Sapaerir, Mansaolwu, Ikaehaim - Various references to characters from obscure, lost tales, however they are explained in the recently discovered ancient text Adaew Ioí (text) , speaking of the ancestry of the last king of Maalkaam , Adaew Ioí.
7. ^ When the Mawahir came from Oxorgodd: A posible link to the ancient origins of the First Gods of the Earth.
8. ^ Astori-the Half-God of Life, in this text referenced as a full-god.
9. ^ Meaning the "Kingdom of Earth"
10. " style="font-style: normal;">^ The city of angels - Meaning Psylometh, from witch the "angelic" beings came and in witch they all perished
11. ^ City of the rivers - Nai Datu
12. ^ went away - Meaning that they roted into nothingness.
13. ^ The Adversary - The unknown force that destroyed the First Gods of Earth.
14. ^ 'put to rest '- Killing a person painlessly
15. ^ the firstborn - Anug-Ya, The Firstborn Grandson of the Heavenly King
16. ^ Allom - The Heavenly King of the Moon