The Story of Crindin-q'zedd

At first, in the beginning, there was just one race of inhabitants of the sun, the Illilandios, or in their language, the Wella. The Illilandios were a hardy people who took their task of running the sun with enthusiasm and delight. The ritual of swinging the beam of the sun daily across the dome of the distant world, called by some the Earth, was the highest of religious events, a source of inspiration, unity and purpose, and there was no discontent among the Illilandios.

But over time, there arose a sub-class of Illilandios, those who constructed the schedules of events, the refurbishment of machinery, the formation of the work crews, and other related matters. This class began to demand exceptions from the others, relief from the tasks that were difficult and demanding, and so they became the Q'vale, or the schedulers. The Q'vale established themselves in the upper regions of the sun and established great centers of learning and great scientific laboratories for designing and developing new generations of circuitry and equipment for running the sun. This class established a period of leisure, or the Ei-rind, during which they originally were to contemplate great things, but over time this period became a time of celebration and excess, and the Q'vale became further removed from the details of running the sun, which were now assumed by the lower class, the workers, or the Sind-joffe.

Now, the Sind-joffe, or in their language, the Rino-krich, were originally quite happy doing their tasks, and again, the daily exercise of swinging the beam, the religious sense, and the community event created no unhappiness. But after several Millennia, there arose the warrior Chin'so, who as a young man, spent some time working with the Q'vale, in the upper reaches of the sun, running messages and delivering the schedules which told the workers in the lower regions of the sun what to do. Chin'so observed the Q'vale during their Ei-rind and was greatly upset that there was no contemplation, but much excess. Chin'so decided to form a plan to topple the Q'vale. One day he received his schedules from the Q'vale and set out to deliver them, as usual. But instead, he opened the schedules and re-wrote them, to form the workers into warrior clans, and ordered them to take positions in the upper reaches of the sun where the Q'vale lived.

Now the Q'vale had a leader, who was Mindewban, but was called by the traditional name of Nazshumin by those Q'vale who knew the traditions. Mindewban saw the Sind-joffe arriving from below, the lower regions of the sun, and spied Chin'so, their leader, and began to determine what was happening, because Mindewban was a great leader, who could see things, it was said, before they even happened. Mindewban had developed a special ability to see the future, and arranged that the food of the Sind-joffe contain a special compound that would make their skin turn transparent whenever something great, or important was going to happen. It was said that each creature dwelling in the sun was connected to Unalow, the primal deity, and that when something great was about to happen that the life forces themselves would begin to channel a great and magical force through Unalow, that would result in the skin turning transparent. This was interpreted by the Sind-joffe as a purification before a great battle, and in fact the arriving Sind-joffe, dressed in rags and in whatever scraps of clothing they could find, all had the transparent skin which indicated to Mindewban that something was about to happen.

And so Mindewban, who himself was a great warrior, knew that he was to battle Chin'so, and so called for his sword, Hinlinvez, to be brought to him. Now Chin'so arrived to do battle with Mindewban, and saw that Mindewban was unarmed. Chin'so began to recite the Ved-lada, or the ancient prayer of his ancestors, to prepare himself for battle and to wait for the sword of Mindewban to arrive. But Mindewban was just receiving his sword as Chin'so began the Ved-lada, and used that opportunity to strike. Chin'so was caught unprepared and was wounded by Hinlinvez, the sword of Mindewban, but proceeded to engage Mindewban with his sword Oh-ree.

And so the Sind-joffe fought the Q'vale, and Chin'so, the leader of the Sind-joffe, used his sword Oh-ree to fight Mindewban, the leader of the Q'vale, with his sword Hinlinvez. And it was a great battle.

Due to all the fighting, the Sind-joffe began to neglect their ritual of swinging the beam of the sun, as it moved daily about the heavens. The great beam moved as usual, but the beam was not as powerful as it usually was, because one of the Sind-joffe, Fedclea, did not replace one of the magical power cells which cause parts of the beam of the sun to operate. In fact, it is said that Chin'so, in replacing the daily schedule of the Sind-joffe with the battle orders, spied the very maintenance that would need to be done that day, and recited another version of the Ved-lada, which is a general hope that unexpected things take care of themselves.

And now it so happened, during the great battle of the Q'vale and the Sind-joffe, that a hole opened up in the upper reaches of the sun, and that a great warrior from the sky began to descend into the sun. The story is told of the great warrior Crindin-q'zedd, who descended slowly from the nether reaches on a thread of the strongest material, which was likely taken from the web of the men-la beast, which lives the deepest parts of the sun, where no one that has ever gone has ever returned, and where there is no knowledge of events. Crindin-q'zedd approached a work party of the Sind-joffe, led by the lower official Brin-klirt, and asked for directions to the holy place of the Sind-joffe.

Now the work party had read of the arrival of Crindin-q'zedd, and recited another part of the Ved-lada, which was a general prayer for success in a difficult endeavor. The work party pointed to the holy place of the Sind-joffe, and the great warrior Crindin-q'zedd jumped into the void, arriving via the river Hinlad, and entered into the holy place of the Sind-joffe.

The great warrior Crindin-q'zedd, who it is said knows what needs to be done, carried the great lamp of illumination, bearing the magical cell of completion, the D-Cell, as it was written. Crindin-q'zedd said the final part of the Ved-lada, the prayer for completion, and then performed the maintenance that should have been done, before the Sind-joffe engaged the Q'vale. The great warrior Crindin-q'zedd then went into a trance, to await the completion of the battle.

Now, as the Sind-joffe fought the Q'vale, and as Chin'so, wielding his blade Oh-ree, engaged the warrior Mindewban, and his blade Hinlinvez, there arrived yet another warrior, who had seen many battles, but was a fierce fighter, and was called Allen-qriz, or in his language, Old Allen. The work crew led by the official Brin-klirt decided to climb the great web of the men-la beast, and came to the very hole in the sky from which the great warrior Crindin-q'zedd arrived, and so surprised the warrior Allen-qriz. But Allen-qriz, so surprised, could not fight with the skills of his youth, and was so captured and brought to Chin'so, to see what would be done with him.

Chin'so, as it will be known, carrying his blade Oh-ree, was in the final part of the battle with Mindewban, and his sword Hinlinvez, of which much has been written, and I will not tell of that battle again, because you, all of you know of it, and of the various moves by Chin'so, and of the counter moves of Mindewban, and of the replies by Chin'so, and how their fighting proceeded, and what was said by Chin'so to Mindewban, and his various replies, at the various parts of the fighting.

And so Chin'so slew Mindewban, as it is known, but that Chin'so was mortally wounded. Chin'so turned to Allen-qriz, and was asked by the official Brin-klirt what should be done with him. Chin'so replied that an expedition should be sent to the holy place, and that the great warrior Crindin-q'zedd should be found there, as well as some other materials. Chin'so ordered that the warrior Crindin-q'zedd be given to Allen-qriz, and that the two warriors should then return from where they came, but that the lamp of illumination should remain with the Sind-joffe, as they were now victorious over the Q'vale, and would need the illumination of knowledge to construct the schedules formerly written by the Q'vale, who were sent to the caves of the men-la beast in punishment, and from which none have returned. Chin'so then began to recite a portion of the Ved-lada, but did not finish, and then he expired.

The great warrior Allen-qriz, assisted by the official Brin-klirt, carried the warrior Crindin-q'zedd, who had not yet awakened from his trance, to the hole in the sky and disappeared, and the hole was closed, and it is said that it will never open again, unless the sun is again at war, in which case Crindin-q'zedd will again return.

There is peace now in the sun – the beam swings daily at full power across the heavens, and the Sind-joffe have again become the Illilandios, but call themselves the Wella, and are illuminated by the knowledge that comes from the great lamp from beyond, borne by the warrior Crindin-q'zedd, when the Sind-joffe fought the Q'vale, over the misuse of the Ei-rind, and when Chin'so, using his blade Oh-ree, fought Mindewban, wielding Hinlinvez.