Book of Four's

Prologue:

We were here,
We were there,
We are everywhere,
We are now gone.

Hidden from most of mankind is the realm of Fae where magic is still practiced. Long ago they retreated from the world of man by casting spells to deceive our senses. Shrouding magical creatures’ great and small, the kind, the gentle to the fierce and out right evil beings they did this all in an effort to keep them from the savages of mankind.

Yet from time to time mortals would tell tales of faerie sightings and magical creatures keeping legends alive.

The kingdom of the faerie is phased just out of reach of our sight and understanding but they are there never the less. Most of the sightings take place in pockets spread all over our planet; scattered over our world where the veil of their spell is weak. Such weak places are prominent in our world and are such places as The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, The Great Wall of China, The Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu and Stonehenge are a few of the many crossovers. The spell the Faerie cast those long ages ago also took from our landscape places of wonder. The Isle of Atlantis, Castle Camelot, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Mausoleum of Maussollos and of course Avalon lost to us either seemly destroyed or separated by the rift in time and space caused by their powerful spell. So powerful was the spell they cast that even today we lose places to their magic; Mount St Helens, Twin Towers are examples of recent losses.

Many cultures of our world such as the orient consider the number two as lucky; in the western hemisphere it’s the number seven. It is no coincidences that faerie have lucky numbers and why sometimes mankind deems them unlucky.

In Fae the number one stands for unity, four stands for “everything done as wished” and thirteen represented the natural number after 12 and before 14. It is the smallest integer with eight letters in its spelled out name in English. These are considered lucky by all faerie.

We kept secrets,
We hide ourselves,
We look in splendor,
We look afar.

Chapter One: The Book of Four’s

In a glade underneath the tree of life was the altar of Fa”dum which was surrounded by a circle of magic. The tree of life and the altar of Fa”dum were located in the ether of the circle. Carefully placed within the boundary of the circle were four megalithic stones: The eastern stone had a carved out hole in its center, thirteen lines were etched laden with gold representing the light of the sun. Opposite the sunstone stood the western stone; its center was a hole in which a silver hoop was inserted to represent the moon. The northern stone bore thirteen carved vertical lines filled with orange amber to represent fire. Opposite the firestone was the southern stone in which a four peaked wave was carved in it center filled with sapphires to represent water.

Set upon the altar Fa”dum laid the “Book of Four’s” in its pages all the secrets of the faerie are contained its a sort of guide to understanding their realm.

The “Book of Four’s” is square in shape and is leather bound. On its cover a silver hoop was embedded, inside the hoop were four thin bars of gold forming yet another square, its edges countering the placement of the megalithic stones. The corners of the square bore the following symbols. A green leaf representation of spring, a sunflower was opposite representing summer. An acorn was the representation of fall and opposite this was a white snowflake representing winter. Counting each side of the book and continuing towards the center count each item and any sides see that the numbers one, four and thirteen can be found.

There are many tribes of faerie also called houses each of the houses adopted a flag to differentiae between the houses. Faerie also wear silver necklaces with their house emblems attached, which is a powerful source of their individual magic.
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The number four and multiples’ of the number offer balance to the houses of which there are sixteen. Each house contains a subset of four groups thereby maintaining balance. That is not to say that within the subsets the multiples’ need be taken in to count for their overall population. Their counter balances can be seen in their choices for house groupings; spring, summer, fall and winter or east, west, north and south. The counter balances have an impact on spells that are cast. By adding members from polar opposites they are able to intensify the spell. Spell casting by the entirety of Fae is uncommon.
It is responsible for the cataclysm, a separation of their world from our own. Aeon ago in an arrogant attempt to hide from mortals all the magical beings they cast the “Separation Spell” the end resulted a dimensional displacement of their world, which is quite apart from our own.

The separation spell caused outrage among the magical beings they placed blame on the Fae causing an out right war. The other spell casting species demons warlocks, witches, wizards and elves each group for their own reasons attempted to undo the magic of the Fae. Their anger took on the adage of good versus evil their differences of views all but assured a wanting to cast a spell for only their own kind. But for all their attempts the best that could be managed was a weakening of the original spell.

As the centuries past it became apparent to all that the “Separation Spell” did achieve a goal of keeping their species alive, the warring nature of mortal men would have diminished or perhaps cause their extinction. The magical creatures were constantly reminded of mankind’s savagery as man conducted hunts of different species such as witches and unicorns. Mankind also took to killing of vampires, dragons and werewolves’ any time they happened upon them. Even to this day the sightings of magical creatures that cross the boundary or fall through veiled cracks caused by the reversal spells ends in mankind taking its savagery out upon the magical beings.