 Lilith - The
story of the Linnorn is a biblical tale which appears in The
Book of Linus, one of the earlier books of the Cuthburtian bible
which speaks of events before the rise of man, and during his
early days. Linus
of Pyrragorrah was an early monk who chronicled some of Cuthburt's
teachings when He walked the earth as a mortal man.
LINUS 22:1
Before He set the wheel of time in motion, when the world still
cooled from His touch, the Lord created The Guff, and filled it
with unborn souls to populate his creation. Then
the Lord summoned his most beloved angel Lucifer, and took from
him a rib, and with it did create the Linnorn. A
beast of great size and fearsome temper, terrible to look upon,
with three heads which he named Yasewah, Meeghan and Daahl.
He
entrusted the great beast with wondrous powers, and did place it
as a guardian for The Guff. And it came to pass that the Morning
Star rose up against his Father to make war,
and thus the fields of Heaven were ravaged in conflict and filled
with the fallen and dying. The
Lord bade the Linnorn go out unto the fields and become an eater
of the dead.
The Linnorn did as commanded, consuming those from the light and
the dark. In this task, it also consumed those angels which
had not yet died, and in so doing took unto itself a measure of
their power, both of the light and of the dark, growing in strength. The
consumption of the dark allowed corruption to enter unto the beast.
Near the end days of the War of Angels, Lucifer came to realize
that as the Linnorn had been born of his rib, he retained a measure
of influence over it. He appealed to the Linnorn, using charm
and guile and deception. The
Linnorn, grown wise and prideful, had grown resentful of having
the Lord as its master. The lies of the Morning Star appealed
to its arrogance, and thus it did turn away from His blessed glory
and place itself under Lucifer's banner.
When he saw that the war was lost, Lucifer did strike out in bitterness
and set the Linnorn upon The Guff. The beast stormed the
hall, and for forty days and nights did feed upon the souls of
the innocent, ceasing its reign of gluttony only when it became
so bloated it could no longer move.
While Michael cast Lucifer down unto the place the Lord had prepared
for him,
the Lord appeared unto the Linnorn and was filled with sadness
over what his creation had done. He banished the beast unto
the earth, and commanded it thus;
Man has sinned and I have
cast him from my Garden. Go thou unclean beast unto the Garden
and consume it so that no man may stand amid that gift which I
have created and which he has shunned. Let not a single fig
tree escape your hunger.
The Word of the Lord. The
Linnorn did as commanded, and consumed Eden so that no sign of
it would remain.
As man lived in the world, so did the Linnorn. As man sinned,
and brought down upon himself the wrath of the Lord, it was the
Linnorn which became the instrument of destruction which the Angels
used. When
Sodom fell,
it was the Linnorn who brought about its fall. When rivers
turned to blood,
it was the violence of the Linnorn which made them thus. When
the first born of empires were
taken, it was the Linnorn's appetite which was sated.
And when the Lord was no longer angry with his children, and no
longer commanded Angels to punish them, the Linnorn remained. Powerful,
filled with rage and hate, and without a master to command it.
The Linnorn thus did turn its predations upon the innocent of the
world, and became a scourge unto them, and did consume their cities
and their peoples and spread death and disease. For a millennium
it was thus.
And then in the land of Flora there arose a knight. He was
a goodly man of faith and courage, and his name was George. He
met the great beast in single combat and did defeat it, and thus
was the first dragon struck down and cast from the earth unto Hell.
And in that realm of darkness and fire and hopelessness, the dark
nobility did greet the new arrival. Each
prince of Hell entreated with the Linnorn, bringing gifts and promises
and honeyed lies, for they desired that the beast place itself
under their banners. The
Linnorn rejected each, and earned their hatred. The Princes
feared the Linnorn, and defended themselves against its power as
best they could, making it outcast. Thus
was the beast condemned to a solitary existence, terrible in power,
damned to an eternity of loneliness, serving no master but its
own bitter pride |
