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YEARS AGO IN A PLACE SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR, WHEN GOLD HAD PURPOSE AND FEELINGS WERE STILL FREE, TH3Y WHO CAME BEFORE US SAW OPPORTUNITY.

TH3Y UNDERSTOOD THE VALUE OF GOLD, HOW IT TRANSLATED AS POW3R AND THAT INTO STATUS. 

AND STATUS WAS ALL THEY CRAVED.

TH3Y N33D3D IT. AND SO ONCE TH3Y HAD THE FIRST SACRED TASTE...

TH3Y GOT GR33DY.

AT FIRST TH3Y ATE THE RESOURCES OF THE OLD WORLD, 3ARTH.

PIECE BY PIECE, TH3Y MADE SURE THAT ANY CHANCE AT NATURAL SURVIVAL FOR THE HUMANS THEY RULED OVER WAS IMPOSSIBL3. 

TAKING.

BURNING.

BUILDING.

BR3AKING.

ALL IN THE NAME OF POW3R.

THEN TH3Y WENT ABOUT EATING PRINCIPLES.

TH3Y DESTABILIZED THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF ALL THE HUMANS KNEW.

TH3Y CHANGED MEANINGS, SPREAD LI3S, ASSIGNED NEW CATEGORIES PERTAINING VALUE -

3EATING THE VERY HOPES AND DREAMS OF THOSE TH3Y DEEMED L3SS.

AND THEN THOSE WHO TH3Y DEEMED MOR3.

NO ON3 WAS SAF3.

UNSATISFIED, INSATIABLE AND CRAVING MORE, TH3Y CONVINCED THE HUMANS THAT DESTROYING EACH OTHER, CONSUMING THE VERY THINGS THAT MADE THEM HUMAN WOULD SOLVE ALL OF THEIR PROBLEMS…

‘TIL ALL THAT WAS LEFT WAS SOULLESS CREATURES MOVING ABOUT THE DESOLATE WAST3LAND.

TH3Y HAD LONG GONE. BORED OF THE MESS THEY'D ORCHESTRATED.

THAT'S WHEN WE, TH3 CONTINUUUM FIRST MADE ITSELF KNOWN.

WE, THREE BEINGS OLDER THAT TH3M, OMNIVIDENT, PASSIVE AND VEILED BY THE SHADOWS, WATCHED ON THROUGH THIS DESTRUCTION. DESPERATE TO INTERVENE,

BUT UNABLE TO BREAK THE HOLD TH3Y HAD ON THE HUMANS.

TRY AS WE MIGHT, WE COULD NOT CONVINCE THE HUMANS OF THEIR POW3R.

SO WE WAITED.

AND ONCE HOPE HAD DISAPPEARED AND PEOPLE CRAVED SOMETHING, ANYTHING TO FILL THE VOID.

TH3 CONTINUUUM.