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AABN:  47606
Title: a book entitled, "The Abridged Writings of Gisco the Necromancer"

 It is said the Dentin created all things, but there is one thing He did not
create. . .the demon world of dread and darkness.  It is merely the byproduct
of His creation, the point in space where the disembodied souls of mortals
happened to collect in those early days of chaos when there had been no such
place yet prepared for them.  More and more desperate souls congregated in
that aeon to avoid the solitude of wandering the primal dimension alone--
space buckled and warped in protest, and the shadow world came to be.  Evil
Immortals found the plane. . .made it their own. . .[and] invented magics,
experimenting on the wretched spirits, preying on their desire to do anything
to rid themselves of their ghastly state by subjecting them to the most
horrific and unimaginably perverse spells.  They created powerful spectres
and wraiths in their demented workshops and raised entire armies of both
demon and undead.  True, the Evil Ones' plans were frustrated by the Forces
of Good, but their failure no longer matters, because this place, the
elemental plane of darkness, will forever remain theirs.  The Wards keeping
their creations in exile continue to weaken. . .and soon they will be upon us
again...

  That place, that other world, the realm of darkness, is not some faint echo
of our own, nor is it coexistant with it. . .it is distant, so far that the
light of the greatest of suns has not yet breached the gulfs that lie between
it and other worlds. Nor shal[l] it for all the eternities [that lay] ahead.
. .Light is the key. If you go, bring light of fire with you, and cast the
darkness from the the foul skies of the place [and] the malignant Void that
hangs over it all...

  The dread Order of Oblivion, the calling of Tal, rules in absence of their
dark Masters. . .Some are imprisoned on this world, some trapped between one
world and another. But a few are free. Creations of Darkness, blendings of
the blood and thoughts of Gods with Mortals, Unhallowed, Abominations, they
seek to corrupt the hearts and souls of Men and bring them to the shadow...