ConQuest 2009 - The Elements

The blessing of the Elements,
- a script of scholar Paloris
Source: Apparition of the Elements at the Northern Seal

I am Terra.
Eternal rock. Fundament of the world. Your fate lies on my back. The power of this country lies rooted deeply inside my existence. I wear the scars of a tortured body and bear them in silence. There is no power above the power of the Elements and no being exists without us. You shall be as consistant as the rock and face the waves of the Forsaken! Earth is power, endurance, consistancy and sincerity. But often, Earth is also inert and slow. Even if its rocks are grinded to sand and blown away by the wind, it rises again and forms a new mountain to watch over the world from another place.

I am Aqua.
The e ternal current. Spring of life. I make things blossom and in the same time, I sweep them from the face of creation. Everything flows into the endless oceans of my being in order to arise with new strength and new countenance. We are the original forces of creation and through our power, you walk this land. You have faced the scrutinies of the other Seals and paved the way for the Awakening of Mithraspera. Share your knowledge, for only in unity you can persist!

I am Aeris.
The eternal storm. Messenger of the sky. When I let my powers go and move the world, flash and thunder herald my arrival. No prison can hold me as I am omnipresent. Do not shut away yourself from the recognition that lies within yourself!

You are a part of all the aspects of existence. Our nature knows no other obligation than the one of being. All un-being is like a dark void inside our souls. This place shall not be left unfilled

I am Ignis.
Eternal flame. Spark of creation. My fire is burning in your souls and kindles the will to live. I give warmth and existence to the world. At the same time my passion burns the old to give way for the new. Eternal fight is my nature and neither I nor my children will stop to battle, because this would freeze the innermost part of our existence.

I am Magica.
The essence of all existence. The eternal power of being. Immanent in all of creation but free myself. As a part of the whole and at the same time part of every single being, magic is the universal power of creation. Created in the very beginning by the Genesis and thrown into an existence of chaos the only thing that is connecting us, is the contrast from which we were born. But from this contrast grew mutuality and so we formed this land. We are everything and yet we are one. Five brothers and sisters but just one soul. Life does not tolerate stagnation. In its cycle nothing but us is eternal. But be warned that you will meet those, who once put themselves above the Elements. In this way, wisdom turned into presumption. An end without a beginning was born. Those Forsaken, who dared to turn their backs on us and changed their existence into the foul opposite of our nature, are still lying in the dead arms of their own creation, waiting to reach for us. Their control will be tight, it will tear holes into our souls and the land will be suffering from their fist.

And so it began......

Dawn breaks, war looms, the evil Lord is gathering his armies to wage a campaign of destruction upon the free peoples of the world. It is up to I, Sir Maximilan Pegasus to stop him, with my trusted band of adventurers we must gather the enchanted sword of Tek, the Shield of Way-Lem and the amulet of Subsidence and together we shall slay this abomination! “TIME FREEZE” And bam, the fantasy world fades away, the enchanted sword of Tek in my hand is a rubber sword smothered in coloured ribbons with a laminated card cable tied to the hilt, I look down and I’m wearing plastic armour and unflattering heropants, and the magical world of my imagination washes away to reveal a field in Wigan, but you know what? It’s larp and I’m a larper, it’s what I do.
I started larping when I was 17, I’d never role-played before, I’d never played D&D or Warhammer, never played WoW or any form of online game, I’d never even read Lord of the Rings, I feel somewhat privileged that I hadn’t done any of those things, I think it gave me an untainted attitude towards what larp could be, I had no preconceptions about saving the maiden fair, slaying the dragon or smiting the liche, to me it was just a new thing to try.
It was cold, really cold, 10am on a September morning, the rain was battering down and I’d been given a faux fur tunic, a mouldy old sword and been pointed towards a man and told, “You’re monstering, there’s the ref he’ll tell you what to do.” I obeyed, I played wave after wave of zombies, orcs and various line monsters and to be honest, was cold, bored and hungry. That is, until lunchtime, the teams switched sides, I got into the kit I’d scrounged up, as with most first timers, a black trenchcoat. I took the mouldy old sword, stood with my fellow adventurers and it hit me, I’m a god damn hero!
Pow, there it was, a new larper was born.