H.E. The Ortus (A Prologue) by Frank Carentz

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The first few days were of utter chaos, as the enslaved masses eagerly served their new master and tore apart all of creation. Many tried to flee the Earth, but only a few made it away alive. Those others that stayed to fight the dark menace of the Everstone were quickly vanquished. It personally devoured the leaders of the great nations, as all looked on in horror. No army could stand against this final evil. One by one the great nations of the world feel and within three months time the formerly proud people of Earth had been utterly enslaved, and came to call their new master His Dark Presence.

Those who left earth swore never to return. Even those as close as the moon abandoned their homes in fear. The inhabitants of Earth written off as casualties of a great disaster. The "Praefectus", as his General's were called, served as the representatives of His Dark Presence. Slave Masters of His Dark Presence, presiding over his armies and teeming masses of the enslaved populace. The immortal and mindless acolytes were they.

Great machines were built, for purposes that none could understand. They belched smoke and ash into the skies, turning all into perpetual night. No revolutions were thought of, no hope was to be had. Humans were now animals for His Dark Presence's pleasure. A type of cattle, kept for sustenance and amusement. That is what humanity had become.

In the beginning of his dark reign, His Dark Presence delighted himself and his time with experimentation upon the teaming masses of the world. His depraved and twisted visions brought into being entire new sects of beings. He toyed with the dark arts of the dead, re-animating the dead, constructing new skeletal structures and muscle configurations, thus giving birth to the Mortus-Sancte. He married flesh to machine and gave birth to the Homines-Mechanicus. He altered more slaves in attempts to mimic the lesser of the life forms found on Earth, reversing joints, increasing senses while deadening others, these life-forms were to be known as the Ani-Corpus. These are only to list a few of His Dark Presence's experimental lineage's, his children as he called them.

The first creation from each of his experimental races was given a great nation to preside over, with a consignment of Praefectus, while His Dark Presence ruled them all. The insane children plunged the people of Earth into a new hell, a hell that before now was unimagined.

Humans were bred to continue the work of His Dark Presence and to provide him and his children sustenance. All hated and feared His Dark Presence, even his "children", much to his delight. All would remain as such until the time known as the "The Turning".