Y Wednesday, April 22, 2009
11:04 pm
Light and Dark were two sides of the same coin. In that very same vein, no one side completely dominates: each has a role to play. A balance has to be maintained. For years either side has tried to usurp the other, each with the best of intentions, but culminated in the deadliest of results.Communism? A product of Light in an attempt to 're-moralize' human beings to live together without killing each other. Stalin was not an expected byproduct.
Neither was the rise of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
But where humans were concerned, it was nothing more than a precious tete-a-tete between the two sides. No, they remain blissfully ignorant of this war that has spanned centuries. Before the Crusades, before Genghis Khan.
Nobody recalls how it all started.
We are the Others. Beneath the surface we call 'reality', exists another realm. A living, breathing parallel universe where the impossible happens, where there are no boundaries. The rules of reality are rewritten to one's whims.
The Twilight.
But it comes at a price. The Twilight shapes itself to the user's will and feeds off the user's strength. The Twilight is greedy, and will not stop until there is naught to consume. Many a careless Other have become one with the Twilight, forever lost.
We may serve different masters, different ideologies but no matter how we choose to delude ourselves, there is one undeniable truth that has taken root in the hearts of every one of us.
Light and Dark must co-exist.
Thus the Watches were born.
Night Watch, where Light watches Dark when the sun ceases.
Day Watch, where Dark watches Light when the night is scattered.
The Taoist symbol of Yin and Yang: Balance. Without this equilibrium we are lost.
I am an Other. This, is my story.