As it is told by the elders, written down by Thoronador, High Council Member of Radiant Fate
At the beginning of the fifth epoch, the time when Galeran Tarbius (inspired by Laanx) led the Xacha to Yliakum and the construction of the iron temple consecrated to Laanx began, a small group of people decided to worship neither Laanx nor Talad. They founded their own town on the first level to live together peacefully and without being influenced by the gods. Soon they realized that there is much knowledge spread among the inhabitants of Yliakum, but they were afraid it could get lost, if a older generation died and the knowledge of this generation disappears.
So they decided to establish a library in their town, where they wanted to collect all knowledge and preserve it for future generations, making it available for everyone. Because of the big halls where the shelves were located, they decided to call the library \"Halls of Knowledge\". The library grew very fast in the years that followed, and it had to be extended to several huge buildings in order to offer enough space for all the shelves where books and manuscripts were stored. One could surely say it developed to the most important and biggest library in whole Yliakum.
The \"Halls of Knowledge\" still continued to grow and prospered, and Laanx and Talad recognized the great potential and the possibilities of the library. Therefore Laanx tried to convince its people to worship her, and in return she would offer them even more powerful knowledge which was not known yet to any living creature. But as a downside she demanded that this piece of knowledge must not be shared with the followers of Talad, because Laanx was a bit jealous of the many people who followed Talad. With the collected knowledge in the \"Halls of Eternal Knowledge\" she would be able to wrest many people from Talad.
But Talad did not rest either. As soon as he found out about Laanx plans, he got angry, because (like any god) he did not like the thought of loosing some of his followers. After a while he had an idea how to undermine Laanx\'s plan and made a similar offer to the librarians, hoping they would decide against Laanx.
It was a hard decision for the librarians. Should they give up there former beliefs and worship either Laanx or Talad? No matter how they would decide, one of the gods would surely not like their decision. The were many controversial discussions, but finally they decided to decline both offers, because they still were firmly convinced that knowledge should be shared among all people no matter whom they worship.
Unfortunately, neither Talad nor Laanx were pleased with that decision. In there jealousy they suspected each other of sabotaging the other\'s plan. Nevertheless, they still hoped to be able to convince the librarians for their cause. All they needed to do was a demonstration of the unique powers they gave their followers and the librarians would surely decide for one of them - either Laanx or Talad.
But the ways of providence are strange sometimes, and after a while the fierce competition which had begun among Talad\'s and Laanx\'s followers turned into a conflict, a kind of war. Unfortunately that conflict also reached the town where the \"Halls of Knowledge\" were present. It is not known who started it, but suddenly the town was on fire. The flames spread quite quickly, since no one even tried to extinguish the fire; everyone was busy to defend himself against the attackers. Many inhabitants tried to escape from the fire, and most of them were successful, but unlike the people buildings cannot flee. So it happend that the \"Halls of Knowledge\" caught fire. Of course, the librarians tried to save the books, pamphlets and manuscripts from the flames, but the fire was quick, too quick. Only very few things were rescued as the \"Halls of Knowledge\" were covered in thick smoke. As the smoke vanished, only ruins and ash were left.
A deep feeling of sadness came over Laanx and Talad when they saw what has happened. They were shocked how this could happen, and they immediately urged their followers to stop the fight, because it was useless now that the \"Halls of Knowledge\" were destroyed.
After that the people in Yliakum began again to live together peacefully, and many years passed by, and many generations appeared and disappeared under the Azure Sun. And nobody remembered those days of the \"Halls of Knowledge\". Really nobody? Well, there still were the descendants of those who survived the terrible fire, and the story of the tragic event of past days was passed on from generation to generation. Now, right in this moment some of them bind together. Their aim is to collect and keep all knowledge in order to found a library similar to the old one. These people are now known as \"Radiant Fate\".
I must give the credit to Thor. He came up with this great story, I only helped to edit a few things. Soon we will have the story of a great hero, the one who gave his life trying to save the Halls of Knowledge.
