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==The Protemic Account== {{Quote|If what we can concretely say about the lost city of [[Uluk'sandria]] is limited, how much more limited is our ability to describe a world that was destroyed over 100,000 years ago? What information we do have is transmitted through oral history and cultural memory. ''The [[Protemic Tablets]] attempted to harmonize what was known of the ancient histories into a universal canon during the [[First Protemic Synod]], but that which could be agreed upon was necessarily brief. Zatur first appears on so-called "Tablet IV" along with the first mention of [[humans]]. Here the newly born Gods, the [[First Children]] discover the fully formed Zatur:'' '''''"And so the First Children alit upon the newly formed Zatur, the great Astral Terra, the First Plane.'''''<br> '''''Upon arrival they met Humankind, Firstborn of the Races,''''' <br> '''''And they said unto them, “From where do you come?'''''<br> '''''Who did form you? In whose image are you made?”'''''<br> '''''Humankind had no answer, for they knew not their creator,'''''<br> '''''Awakened innocent upon the soil of Zatur.'''''<br> '''''The First Children implored [[Lakana]] and [[Visaku]],'''''<br> '''''“Mother, Father, who made these people? Who made this world?”'''''<br> '''''But both were silent."''''' '''Tablet IV: 1-10''' ''Thus we see that even the Gods themselves are baffled by this creation, and [[the Progenitors|The Progenitors]] refuse to reveal their knowledge.'' ''After this, the Gods in envy of humanity create their own races, and Zatur is not yet mentioned again until Tablet VI:'' '''''"So formed upon the new Zatur, the many [[Planar Races]]'''''<br> '''''Spread across the surface of the world, each to their own nation.'''''<br> '''''In time they became numerous on the world, for [[Death]] had not yet been unborn.'''''" '''Tablet VI: 1-3''' ''This then reveals that the entirety of the known Planar races at one time inhabited Zatur, a peculiar situation that must have been if the account is to be believed. Furthermore, as is soon explained, the races were immortal! It is small wonder that what followed was the [[Undying War]], in the wake of which Death, [[Shivanyx]], is "unborn" by Visaku and soon threatens the extinction of all life on Zatur. We resume on Tablet VIII:'' '''''"Now did Lakana bring down her hand upon Zatur and the cosmos,'''''<br> '''''As one would strike a pane of glass, and the world was sundered.'''''<br> '''''Each of the First Children were banished, each to a shard of the world,'''''<br> '''''Each to take their created Races with them into exile..."''''' '''Tablet XIII: 3-6''' ''This remains a very troublesome text for the natural scientists, who attempt to square this passage with what can be observed of the nature of the [[Planes]]. What does the analogy of "...as one would strike a pane of glass..." mean? How does one "break" a world? This remains especially mysterious with what is known of the fate of Zatur as described on Tablet IX:'' '''''"Broken, Zatur the First Plane, lay abandoned by all but [[Xymbryl]], and the [[Stars]],'''''<br> '''''Who are both beyond the true understanding of any Race.'''''<br> '''''So then did Shivanyx return to the place of his first victory''''',<br> '''''Finding the cold star-lit realm to his liking, called by the Races, [[Shadow Vale]].'''''" '''Tablet IX :1-4''' ''So we are told that the Shadow Vale is what remains of Zatur. (See [[SHADOW VALE]]). There the narrative of Zatur ends, and the tale of the Shadow Vale begins.''| [[Rugen]], [[Fae]] Scholar from the entry "Zatur", [[Encyclopedia Planitia]], 14 ed.|}}
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