All Chapters of A QUEST OF GODS: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

PROLOGUETHE PATIENCEHis feet were powerful as iron and brass as he tramped upon rocks and leaves and into water, and scaled over mighty logs and boulders, growling as he descended the great hill. He it was, apparently, whom the prophecy of the Berhas had warned about. The Traitor. It was greatly astonishing to realize. He near-perfectly fit the description of the prophecy. He did not look over his shoulder even as he ran. The darkness kept him safe. His eyes were bright as fire in the darkness. By the river (to which he was headed) were a woman and a girl, waiting for him; both weeping, both retched-ly beautiful, both hidden in shawls of grey pelt. His eyes lifted and beheld the river as it came into his view. So many names had the people and their predecessors for it. The river of birth. The river of life. The river of death. The river of power. The river of good and evil. It was, in any case; his destination. He was nearing the boundary called Suori; the barrier betw

After Sovrnaan was known to have rebelled against the race of mankind, and shortly before the First war, there were divisions amongst his descendants. For many were against him and many were afraid, suspicious of an onslaught against them to wipe them out, as their father had done to his brother's lineage. So at once they were scattered abroad,  many fleeing from the portion of the world which till that time had been inhabited an owned by their kind. These found refuge in the lands and societies of other generations and remained there, trapped by the Suori in strange and foreign lands after the war had ended. And they soon multiplied, becoming a small community of their own, which was called the 'Cursed people', or the 'Forest people' in the South, where they inhabited the Southern forests. Many of these ones had the gift of soothsaying and prophecy. They were called Berha (Beh-rah) which meant 'Prophet', and were taken as children from their people by the blackbloods, to the h