[ArchangelGabriel]: 21.The Norns of London.V0C00 - Prologue

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*HD*The Norns of London
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Prologue*/HD*

Important for the opening:
Make the reader aware that the world goes beyond rules and reason
Explain the role of the author
lay out what will happen


In every generation there are events and people that change the world. Sometimes it is a seemingly ordinary event, sometimes it is a seemingly ordinary person, and yet the passing is enough to change everything, for better or worse.
As the book-keepers it is our task and duty to record and preserve this history, for without history, we are lost. The choices of the past must be our guide when no other experience can compare. Our calling is to record the past, and pass its message to the future.
Ours is not a job of accuracy. We are not historians, we are artists. We do not record the world as it is, but its soul.


My first task as book-keeper is to record the events that have led up to this day. Outside, they are all waiting. As the apprentice to the book-keeper, one day it will be your task to write the new chronicles but today it is mine. The only advice I can give you for when your day comes is the same advice that was given to me by my master and written in the prologues to all the other volumes. Sadly, with the destruction of those volumes, the writings of the past have been lost. For this reason I will include as many of the old stories as I can remember, although the details are faint, I will do my best.
The advice is to tell the story as you remember it and to write it as it should be passed on. It’s not important to record the facts, but the truth. Remember the people, and remember them as people. Do not be afraid.

And so, my master-piece. With this work I cease to be the apprentice and become the master. I bring it to you in three volumes.
Three is an important number, it echoes through time. Three little pigs, three gorgons, three wishes, three witches, three norns. It is with the norns in particular with whom this trilogy concerns. The three women who sit beneath the tree of life Verdandi, that-which-is-becoming. Urd That-which-is. Skuld, that-which-should-be.
The Ancient Greeks called them the Moirae. The first would weave the thread of a persons life, the second would measure it and the last would cut it. The Romans called them the fates.
The past, the present, and the future. What would be more fitting than for me also to begin with this seemingly magical number?

In the house of Limbo, the line between story and reality is a blurred one