How it All Began

I would like to invite all of you to sit near the fire and open your mind to the spirit world as I tell the tale of how 'The Arconian Codex' came to be…

From my earliest memories, I had been haunted by dreams that could not be easily explained. Faint images of figures and scenes that seemed so real, I felt as if I had to have lived it somehow…some other time…some other place. But it was all too fantastic to be true…and so, as most mortals do, I cast them aside as an overactive imagination. But that was the furthest thing from the truth… As my age began to grow, it brought me many answers…and unlocked the secrets that lie unknown within me…

As I searched out the truth for the questions about my life and spirit through history, philosophy and art…the dreams began once again, and this time they were more vivid than ever. Instead of just faint images, the memories began to return…as too did the Muses that, I know now, guide our earthly inspirations.

As the Muses began to guide me once again, my existence became filled with the myth and lore of the ancients…those who led us long ago, in a time that we have since forgotten. That is when my life was forever changed…the poet had returned, the artist had come back to life…the philosopher had broken the silence…and that is when it all began. It was but only one night that I had laid down to sleep…the last night that my spirit would wander aimlessly…and as I slept, it all came back to me…the stories and the wisdom meant to guide all living things back to their true path of natural order…their destiny.

When I awoke, the world had changed…and so had I…no longer bound by the enticements and mirages of the physical realm, I began to see past all that…and into the realms where the real truths lay waiting for us…and so I began to write.

That is when this journey began, as I stepped foot upon the path of my own destiny…to bring back the knowledge and wisdom of the ancients…to tell the story once again that has shaped our existence but has slipped away from our memories…I accepted the task that I was offered…to be the messenger of the Gods…and my name is Hieros.