Fire ascends from the earth. Wyrms, perhaps. The Nameless One and his followers were said to have come from the Womb of Fire in the core of the world. He underlined again. Light descends from the sky. The meteor shower. The one that had ended the Grief of Ages, weakened the wyrms, and granted strength to the Eastern dragons. Too much of one doth inflame the other, and in this is the extinction of the universe. A warning of disparity. This theory posited the universe as yoked to the balance of fire and starlight, weighed on a set of cosmic scales. Too much of either would tip them. The
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