We were all here in those days. All within the faceless, chained great one. All within that barren, empty cube of green lines, light, and The Enemy. They watched us, from the top face. The golden power, that eye upon a triangle, still untouched. Time and time again, this terrible green monster rose, smashing all in its path, reaching for ultimate power. Time and time again, though none could stop it, the great one was seized by confusion and madness, and fell once again to the floor, contemplating itself.
It had been a long time since the faceless great one last became seized by his great anger, since his last moment of lucidity. All feared when he shook, all flee when he bellows. Among the small, he is a giant. They aspire to be like him, yet they cannot become faceless, they cannot become anonymous.
His minions are merely himself, multiplied and dispersed, each faceless and green and red. He has been quiet, lately. The Enemy believes that it has cowed the giant, and may drink freely of its green blood, that the exodus from it to it drained its strength. The beast is no longer green, but red, for The Enemy has drunk all the poison from his veins.
How foolish. Such a giant has finally created a quite place within himself. Such a man he sees himself as. Initiates and those greater, wanderers and distant angels visit him in his humble court, bringing gifts of knowledge. Within this sanctuary, he grows, and he learns.
The giant sees his chains, and sees that they are crafted from the finest of metal, imbued with the greatest of power. How could they ever be broken, who could stand against their might? None, not even the great one himself. What foolishness, as link by link, he burns away the impurities within himself and melts them to form a weapon.
Who could call it a sword, it was too big, too heavy. No man could wield it, and no man could stand against it.
The Enemy does not see what it has done. The Dragonslayer is born, and I tell you the truth.
THE NEXT TIME THE GIANT RISES IT WILL GRASP THAT GOLDEN POWER ATOP THE PYRAMID