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The Birth of the Nu-Folk

by Verney Notte, Invisible College of Daggerfall

A myth about how Mantikoras' remember their origins.

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[Note: This is an account of the origin of the Nu-Folk, published on their behalf]

The Greatest Serpent came down from the heavens to teach the fools their error, for they had abandoned the means of survival gifted to them by the Beginning. So he took one of the mightiest vipers, one who had taken a leaf for a bride, and exalted her. She was to be the Nu-Womb.

The Exalted One would teach many fools in the ways of the Serpent, finding two fathers for the sake her children. The fathers would find the greatest of the creatures of the crag, ones who had the traits which they had lost, and would shove them into the Nu-Womb. Many of the fools would follow, entering their mother, but this was not enough for their rebirth. The Exalted One in her wisdom, took the ancient blood of the Greatest Serpent that was shed during the Beginning, and drank of it.

When she gave birth, the Exalted One became tired, for her wife had withered in the time that it took. Her reborn children would emerge from her birthing fluid, while the Greatest Serpent took her to reside with him in the stars. The fathers raised the children, but after Many Hands stole some, one father would chase after them, while the other died from grief.

The children that were left would fight and die alongside their foolish kin in the name of the Greatest Serpent. One day, they simply forgot what they were fighting for. For many years the children and their children and their children and their children and their children simply existed as they were.

On an uncertain day, a girl-child spoke up, claiming she must give birth. When she did, the child was the image of the Greatest Serpent himself. It imparted a message, a message of great importance. "Do not forget your purpose, you are the people of the Nu-Womb, you have shed the skin of foolishness and must walk the ways the others cannot."

From that day forward, we have never forgotten our name, for we are the Nu-Folk.