The three worlds in the dream should be arranged according to the order of time. The room he was in in in the first dream was probably Babel Fortress. The words recorded on the ancient parchment of the Mithril Society described the fortress as follows: "It is located in the center of the four directions of heaven and earth. Clouds float above the golden clouds. On the clouds are palaces carved out of gold and jade. Silver people in long robes walk on it. Bells ring in the clouds, hymns linger." Everything matched the scene he saw in the dream perfectly. The eleven tall and handsome humans should be the Divine People, but they could also be one of the Golden Race. Even though Babel Fortress was the City of Silver, there were still Golden Races. Even though in this era, the only Golden Race left was the Dragon Race, but in the tens of thousands of years before Babel Fortress was destroyed, there were many Golden Races on the land. Most of them were buried under the dust of history, just like the ancestors buried in Valhalla.
However, Brando still thought that the possibility of them being the Divine People was higher. The Divine People had black hair and golden eyes, which matched the description of them in the legends. Even though golden eyes were the most famous external feature of the Golden Race, black-haired Golden Race were very rare. As for the Mithril people, their eyes were somewhere between amber and agate, like a golden-red flame, not a pure color.
Moreover, according to what he saw in the later scenes, the Mithril people and the Divine People seemed to have a deep relationship.
As for the Truth Society mentioned by the tall and handsome humans, it wasn't the first time Brando had heard of it. Ovina had once mentioned that his authority was Inheritance and Truth Society, but she didn't say which power this authority came from. Later, when he occasionally talked with Dark Ko Hua, the eldest daughter of Échis inadvertently revealed some information about the Truth Society. Before the Silver Age when Babel Fortress was destroyed, and even further back, dating back to the first and second war with the Twilight Dragon, that was the era when the Divine People still walked the land. It was a glorious era. The Divine People and Martha created Wohnde and the Gods together and ruled this world. Just like the Gods in the Pantheon, the Divine People also belonged to several organizations. The most important of which were the Truth Society, the Tribunal, the World Tree Organization (he suspected that it was the predecessor of the Druids of the Ring of the World and the Ring of the Sky), the Earth Guard, and the Will of Gaia, which only existed in legends and had never been seen before.
However, Brando couldn't tell from the scene at that time whether the "Truth Society" mentioned by the tall and handsome humans was referring to "him" or "them." If it was the latter, then these people must be the Divine People.
The second world in the dream should be the destruction of Babel Fortress. During the Sixth War, the Azure Knight broke through the sky and caused the stars to fall to the ground. The gigantic dragon that stretched across the sky was undoubtedly the projection of the Twilight Dragon in this world. Although it was just a glimpse in the dream, it left a deep impression on him. The golden-red eyes above the clouds were so similar to the oppressive aura he saw above Fathom Harbor that day. He was almost certain that it was the will of the Twilight that attracted him at that time.
The destruction of Babel Fortress ended the era of the gods. Countless books and documents disappeared from this disaster, and the fragments of civilization were scattered on the earth. The Silver Generation trekked in the wilderness, and the civilization was almost completely shattered and destroyed. Ten thousand years later, a prophet led the Miirnas to re-establish their empire in the Black Forest. Although the Azure Knight was the first generation of the Darkness Dragon and left a very important legacy to the Miirnas, no documents mentioned what this legacy was. Today's mainstream historians believed that the Azure Knight should be the earliest Miirnas, and that what he left behind was probably the Golden Bloodline of the Miirnas.
In other words, long before the establishment of the Miirnas' empire, the Miirnas had already existed on the earth and wandered in the wilderness with other Silver Folk to rediscover the fire of civilization. This conjecture was also in line with the development and reproduction of civilization. The establishment of an empire could not be done in a day. Just like the Silver Elves and the Bugas, the Miirnas' empire also developed and grew in obscurity for countless years, and their powerful bloodline laid a solid foundation for the prosperity of their empire. That was why the Mardos stood on the land of Wohnde.
The third world in the dream revealed some secrets to him. These memory fragments may be divided into several different eras. Walking through the cloudy mountains should have happened before the first generation of the Miirnas fled to the Great Plains. After the destruction of Babel Fortress, civilization and order fell apart. The Miirnas and the Silver Folk fled, and countless seeds of civilization were lost in the wilderness. "The noble people forgot their noble and elegant past, and were lost on the earth. They hid in the mountains and forests, and after a long time, forgot everything in the past, and moved forward in obscurity and thorns." That was the passage recorded in the Pale Poem.
Then civilization sprouted in obscurity. He saw countless believers worshipping the altar towering under the sun. The birth of worship and superstition, the reverence for the gods walking in the sky, was in fact reverence for order. The seeds of civilization bloomed again in superstition and mystery after thousands of years.
But about this history, it was an eternal mystery in the orthodox historiography of Wohnde. Some documents from before the War of the Holy Saints, when describing this history, all mentioned the same word — prophet. "The Miirnas appeared on the earth, and a prophet led them across the Great Plains. In the wilderness of today's four-leaf clover, they established the first civilized empire after the gods left Wohnde. This was the Miirnas Empire, and this was the beginning of the era of mortals." In the Silver Elves, the Bugas, and even other races that existed at that time, there was no doubt that there were similar descriptions. In the legend of the Bugas, a planeswalker (Brando thought it should be a planeswalker, because the description was very similar to the legendary Matatanians, who had the ability to travel to different worlds) was teaching mortal magic in today's Silverflash Bay. It was different from the ancient string magic used by the dragons, the predecessor of modern magic.
In the story of the Silver Elves, there was the legend of the prophet 'Halodil'. This legend was even passed down to this day. Some legends described Halodil as an elegant stag as large as a mountain. So today, in the south of Cruz and Erouine, people still thought that the white stag was a symbol of guidance, and that it could lead lost hunters out of the forest.
These legends clearly pointed to a possibility that someone had artificially spread civilization in that era, and these people were likely to be the Druids of the Ring of the World, because Brando saw in the last few fragments of the images that they used the blood of gods to create monsters and the Miirnas. The Miirnas were the last Golden Folk of the previous era. Unlike the dragons and several other Golden Folk, the Miirnas' individual strength was far inferior to their predecessors. As Golden Folk, they had only two most obvious characteristics, which were the golden blood and the color of their eyes. The second was that after the body was perfected, they would directly enter the realm of Golden Folk.
However, the Miirnas' infant strength was extremely weak, and the average strength of the population was far inferior to the other Golden Folk. They also had a larger population, which once spread throughout the territory ruled by the Mardos Empire and formed dozens of legions. Such a population was beyond the reach of most Golden Folk.
According to the records in the Pale Poem.
The Golden Folk were born from the blood and corpses of the gods, created by the gods.
Then everything that followed could be explained.
The Druids of the Ring of the World were once the most important guardians of the world's order. They monitored the spread of the Black Forest on the border of the civilized world and planted the seeds of fire. According to the literature of the Mithril Society, after the destruction of Babel Fortress and during the War of the Holy Saints, there were two major splits in the history of the Druids. In particular, the latter split gave birth to the special group of Tree Herders. The Tree Herders once followed Odin and established a terrifying army of Tree Herders. After Odin's failure, they split up and went underground. When they reappeared in the world, they had changed into a madman organization.
Unlike the All for One Society, which was also a cult and the sworn enemy of the four Holy Cathedrals, the Tree Herders worshipped the power of Chaos, but that was only power. They were obsessed with stealing the blood of the gods in order to gain the power of the gods and control the whole world. That was why people thought they were a group of lunatics.
But speaking of which, when did the tradition of Tree Herders creating oracles originate?
The fragmented images in the dream seemed to have given the answer.
If the Druids had been using the blood of the gods long before the split, it could even be traced back to a time long after the destruction of Babel Fortress. Then everything made sense. The blood of the gods had been cut off after the destruction of Babel Fortress. It might have even begun to decline before that. Odin had the blood of the gods, but it was not pure. But at that time, the fact that a bloodline like his could still become the leader of the world of order was enough to show the decline of this bloodline.
The gods no longer appeared in the world, just like how the gods left Wohnde one by one. The decline of civilization forced the Druids, the guardians of order, to choose a different path: to use the blood of the gods to bring the gods back to the world. But it was easy to imagine how difficult it was. Even in the glorious era, the gods only created the Golden Race from the corpses of the gods.
From this point of view, the Druids could be said to have succeeded. They created the Miirnas — the most distinctive Golden Race. But at least they did have the blood of the Golden Race. In a sense, the Druids of the Ring of the World represented the authority of the gods.
This was what he saw in the third world in the dream.
But Brando thought that it was still a bit of a fantasy for the Druids to create the Golden Race with their own hands. He was more inclined to another guess: that the Druids were fulfilling the unfinished business of the pioneers. That was to say, before the destruction of Babel Fortress, the remaining gods might have already set out to continue their bloodline, but this experiment was likely to be interrupted or failed due to the invasion of the Twilight Dragon.
Judging from the age of the birth of the Azure Knight, he was likely to be the product of this experiment, the first generation of the Miirnas, and the most perfect Miirnas.
After the destruction of Babel Fortress, the fire of civilization and countless documents once stored in the Glorious City all fell apart. Some were carried out by the refugees, but most of them were lost in the thousands of years of exile of the Silver Race. Everything about the divine people's final experiment was also lost on the land. The surviving druids of the Ring of the World might have obtained bits and pieces of information about the plan through some unknown means, and only then did they complete the plan.
And the completed Miirnas were the Miirnas who built Mardos. Among these Miirnas, the blood of the Azure Knight had been passed down from generation to generation. It could be said that they were the purest inheritors of the gods until the fall of Odin, which announced the end of an era.
Brando remembered the scenes he saw of the monsters created by the Druids escaping into the forest. He suddenly remembered something.
The hidden paragraph in the Pale Poem was about the end of the Silver Race and the rise of the Iron Race. How did the Iron Race appear on the earth? He suddenly remembered this famous question, which was one of the most discussed questions in The Amber Sword. The Silver and Gold Races were all from the Hand of God, and now the Miirnas also had their origins, but what about the Iron Race? In the historical records, the Black Iron Folk were the subjects and slaves of the Miirna people when they were born. They were the barbarians of the forests and mountains at the beginning. Later, they were influenced by the Empire and had their own civilization.
This was the origin of the Iron Race recorded in history.
According to this theory, the Black Iron Folk should be the native species of the Dark Forest. Judging from the records on the parchment scroll, it seemed to be true. The Black Iron Folk were called hybrids by the Silver Folk and the Gold Folk in the earliest era. Because these barbarians that walked out of the forest had the same dark magic aura as the daemons and the Dusk species. In the eyes of the true beings of Order, they should be no different from the daemons. Especially when the Black Iron Folk of that era did not have their own civilization, language and writing. There were also humanoid daemons in the Dark Forest, and the barbarians did not look too different from them.
But the biggest difference between the Iron Race and the monsters was that they were true creatures of Order. They could sense the power of the Elements under the Law of Tiamat, ignite the fire seed, and develop the Elements. This was the most basic characteristic of the people of Order.
Facts also proved this point. The Iron Race quickly integrated into the civilized world in the later era, and took over the torch of civilization from the Silver Race's hands, and continued to this day.
But were the Iron Race really the original race?
Brando's mind repeatedly replayed the scene of the druids creating the Miirnas. Those powerful sages in robes, they created all kinds of monsters, giants surrounded by lightning, monsters with surging flames, and superhuman beings with all kinds of abilities. Hundreds and thousands of failed creations were immediately killed, and a few trembling Miirnas were abandoned in the wilderness. Some of the monsters who were lucky enough to escape wandered into the groups of civilized creatures, some caused wars, and some were worshipped as gods.
These monsters, they all had a common name, and they were called the Oracles.
It was like Scarlet, like he was an existence like himself.
Brando gently shook his head, and decided to filter these complicated thoughts out of his mind, because there were too many guesses, and some were simply impossible to judge. These chaotic thoughts seemed to rush into his mind as he woke up. He could acutely feel the shadow of the Blood of the Dark God behind him, which meant that this part of the memory came from the Blood of the Dark God. It seemed that the so-called Black Orb was not as simple as it looked.
Thinking of this, he raised his head and looked at Sidney.
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