It has been an age since the Interloper reduced Shadrath to a pile of dust by cleaving the mountains asunder, so that light could reach that place.
It has been an age since the Warriors of the Wastes began building farms and then great, bustling towns.
It has been an age since anyone has heard of Blasphemy or Kuluck. The god they worship is called Cassandra Colour-Bringer.
This world is very old now. It is one of the oldest. It is not even a planet, but a flimsy diorama made of cardboard; a floating continent surrounded by a void of impossible space.
The end starts with the screeching of otherworldly metal. The ground trembles and tilts sideways, throwing people to their knees. People cry and clutch at things. Others stand and stare at the sideways horizon trying to understand what is happening.
Huge black monoliths, aflame with blue light, extrude from the earth as the sky shifts into a writhing, alien mist exposing the Ether.
And then, the world falls: forever.
Explanation:
Inspired by The Interloper, a novel(la) I wrote in 1998.
In it, a world is plunged into darkness by the eponymous Interloper. Unpublished stories go on to detail the Interloper’s road to salvation, including the restoration of the world he once destroyed.
Notes:
The Interloper (Scott Dyson) is an easily manipulated man from a reality-adjacent world.
Blasphemy is Lucifer’s daughter and the Queen of Molten Hell.
Kuluck is a vampire who is immune to the sun.
Cassandra Colour-Bringer is the protaganist from another 20-year-old story called “I See Rainbows”.
Trivia:
I agreed to let a Christian prayer group in the USA distribute copies of “I See Rainbows” amongst their congregation.
Links:
The Interloper
Scott’s Dream
On the Queen Named Blasphemy
Kuluck’s Way
Husband and Wife
Juan Pablo Hernandez
The Shrine of Insanity 