DUCK HISTORY 2 - First age, The Poenants Sect

From: Sérgio Mascarenhas <sermasalmeida_at_mail.telepac.pt>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:13:39 +0100

Hatching
Before time began there was a durulz called Kenkekculz that was one of Eurmal Best Friends. Once he meet a strange entity, a minor god or a powerful spirit shapeless and with no name. When the power crossed Kenkekculz it laughed and that laugh was like a spell to the duck. Kenkekculz became stranded and lost.
When Yelm rose again in the sky, Kenkekculz understood: ducks were broken and cursed but there was hope. They could be forgiven if they repented and through penitence. Then certainly the
sun would receive them in its realm.

Growing
So Kenkekculz wandered all around Dragon Pass prophesizing the return to Yelm's kingdom for the faithful. But when ducks asked him how it would happen he could only answer with meaningless riddles, silly questions, and broken premonitions. Most ducks would laugh at that and Kenkekculz became the full in durulz's jokes. Only the simple of mind, the lonely or the wicked followed the new Prophet.

Apotheosis
When the First Council broke and the Second Council was formed, ducks withdraw not wanting to associate themselves with things behind their abilities and understanding. The exception was the Prophet Kenkekculz that saw in the
association of the Second Coucil with the powers of the sun a good omen to his how hopes.
When the Prophet acknowledged the intention of the Second Council of creating a new god, he rejoiced and said: "If a God can recover his body and be whole again, a durulz can recover his wings and be whole again." When the Prophet saw Nysalor he exulted because he recognized the strange entity that he had met before time. Then Yelm stopped in the Sky and the Prophet, filled with joy, said to the faithful: "The time is met, we are clean now. Leave your body and come join Yelm in the sky." After that the Prophet and the faithful drunk the seed of death to join the Sun.

Aftermath
When Yelm started moving again, ducks everywhere laughed at the deceived/deceased Poenants. The followers of Kenkekculz that didn't find the courage to follow him were so ashamed that they abandoned their former beliefs. It didn't take long before the Poenants Sect was past and gone.

Anonymous note written by a god learner: "Did this Kenkekculz really meet Nysalor's spirit in the Great Darkness? Is there any connection between Poenants Sect's failed riddles and the riddles of the illuminated? I don't know and I will never know. All I can say is that there is no record of
an illuminated duck. And that ducks seem to have a special ability to turn the riddles asked by illuminated people into meaningless and inoffensive jokes. Like when a peasant exposes the courtesan and its affected manners into ridicule."

Note: the name 'Poenants Sect' seems to be of God Learner origin.

Sergio Mascarenhas

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