Pantheon (short story)
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| Author(s) | Guy Haley |
| Cover Artist | Mark Holmes |
| Released | December 2016 |
| ISBN | 978-1-78572-287-5 |
Pantheon is a short story by Guy Haley. It describes a meeting in the Age of Sigmar between Alarielle, goddess of life and Sigmar in Highheim, once the parliment of the Gods .[1]
Contents
Description[2]
In the age before Chaos, during a time of myth, the pantheon of gods ruled at Sigmar’s hand. As dark times return to the Mortal Realms, Sigmar beseeches the goddess Alarielle to heed a tale of those better years, one he hopes will restore not only her faith but the faith of all noble creatures. Heed then the saga of the mage Bayla who seeks the Realms' End, a mythic place believed to hold a great secret. Beseeching the aid of wise Teclis and dread Nagash, Bayla's desire for knowledge and the fulfilment of his quest blinds him to the danger in his midst, one that could imperil his very soul.
Synopsis
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Atop Mount Celestian, Sigmar gazes down on the Mortal Realms watching the new conflict he has set ablaze across them, he awaits the coming of the goddess Alarielle, whose friendship he once had but lost. Reluctantly she sends a projection, mindful of previous disagreements between them but also acknowledging his recent aid against the forces of Nurgle in her own Realm of Ghyran.[1]
Although they have forged a martial alliance against Chaos, Sigmar asks for a different kind of aid - for her to give the mortals of the realms a reason to live and a counterpoint to the offers of immortality that Chaos lay before its followers. To this end he tells her the tale of the mage Sanasay Bayla who sought the purpose of his own life, travelling through the various realms and meeting the gods of the anceint pantheon as he does so. On that long quest he discovers that what he has left behind is worth more than he finds.[1]
Quotes
| I wish you to invest in them a love of all that is natural and alive, to appreciate its power and fecundity. If they learn to follow the rhythm of life’s wondrous patterns, fewer of them will be tempted to fear its end. There always will be those who are incapable of fellow feeling, or whose greed outmatches their empathy, Many others can be saved by you.
'~Sigmar to Alarielle.[1] |
Sources
- 1: Pantheon (short story) by Guy Haley
- 2: Black Library - Pantheon (last accessed 11 December 2023)
Notes
Alos published in the Black Library celebration anthoology 2018
