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CHAPTER ONE
THE GREEN SUN PRINCES
They are the nightmares of the gods given hateful flesh.
In their footsteps is the end of Creation foretold. They
represent that which was once a monument to everything
heroic and good and noble in Creation, now twisted and
perverted into hideous mockeries of virtue. To look upon
them in ignorance is to feel an intense, illicit longing for
what you know in your heart is wrong. To recognize them
for what they are is to know the dreadful despair that comes
with inevitable corruption and ruin. They are the Infernal
Exalted, the heroes of Hell, the Chosen of the Yozis.
No mere akuma are these Exalted. No, they are wicked
princes, blindingly radiant in the awful glory of Ligier, the
Green Sun of the Demon Realm. They constitute the Honor
Guard of the Ebon Dragon’s betrothed. In the Yozis’ names,
they will wrest Creation from the usurper gods who stole it
and the caretaker Exalted who continue to squabble over it.
Soon now, the Green Sun Princes will put right what time
and treachery have allowed to go so wrong.
They have already put their plans in motion.
WICKED GENESIS
The origin of the Green Sun Princes is no great mystery.
During the Primordial War, the gods empowered the Exalted
and used them against the Primordials to usurp Creation,
Yu-Shan and the Games of Divinity. Although they were
beaten, broken, defeated and imprisoned, the Primordialscum-Yozis
were nonetheless impressed by the elegance and
power of their conquerors. As soon as their damaged, deranged
minds cleared enough of the hatred and self-pity that had first
overwhelmed them, they sought a way to use that power for
themselves. Such was their broken nature that they could no
longer conceive of a way to build something new and better
on their own. All they remained able to do was to change
that which already existed to suit their needs.
They did so many times in lesser forms after they were
imprisoned. They reached out to mortals in dreams or to
Exalted during summonings, offering otherwise unavailable
powers in exchange for unwavering service. Thus did they
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