Shadowrun - Novel - 18 - Worlds Without End.pdf

Shadowrun Caroline Spector - Worlds Without End
to exist only in fairy tales. The stuff of legend.
And buried deep within the Awakening was a
mystery from the past.
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Foreword
A time so far away from present events that only
a handful of people knew the truth.
About how the world once was. And how it might
become again.
When magic was as much a part of life as breathing,
or eating, or seeing, or feeling. And how the
world was made full of heroes and troubadours, and
mages, and wild things the modern world could not
fathom. And how the very magic that flowed
through this world also drew the greatest evil to it.
And when that evil came for the people, one great
race understood the futility of fighting this new
plague upon the land. The Theran Empire promised
a way to survive the hundreds of years this Scourge
would last. They sent the people of the world into
deep underground kaers where they would live magically
sealed against the invaders until the time when
they could come back to the surface again.
But such generosity of vision always has its price.
However, that is another story.
And now we have come back again to the magic.
And to those who would guard the world from the
horrors of the past.
Those who have lived through it all before.
Prologue
Let me tell you a story ...
Once upon a time there was a woman.
Sometimes, in the story, her name is Pandora.
Sometimes it's Eve. And sometimes it's Lilith.
There are more names for her.
It all depends on who's telling the story.
At any rate, at one time everything in the world
was wonderful. Or so you're supposed to believe.
There was enough food for everyone to eat. Enough
water to drink. No one had to work.
In short: Paradise.
Except for one thing.
The woman.
You see, in this story she's at the root of all the
trouble.
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