Frostborn: The Shadow Prison (Frostborn #15) by Jonathan Moeller

Author:Jonathan Moeller [Moeller, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Azure Flame Media, LLC
Published: 2017-04-30T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17: Corrosion

She had once been Imaria Licinius, daughter of Gareth Licinius and the sister of Constantine and Aelia. Now she was the Shadowbearer, and she even thought of herself by that name. In some ways, in many ways, Imaria had died and been reborn as something else, something better.

Something that understood the truth of reality.

For reality itself was a prison, and the whole world was in bondage to it. Time and matter and causality were the chains of the prison, but Incariel would break them. That was why it had rebelled against God so long ago, why it had been imprisoned on this world before the first humans had ever been called into existence, before the high elves or even the dragons had been born.

Imaria would free Incariel.

Incariel would then free them from all laws, all constraints, all consequences, and the world would exist in madness and chaos evermore. Screams and laughter would be as one. Pain and pleasure would be indistinguishable from one another. Mothers would laugh and kiss their children even as they wept and stabbed their sons and daughters to death. Men would kill one another as they gorged themselves on food, only to rise again to continue to slay. For what was death in a world freed of all consequences?

Incariel would give mankind that, would give humanity and all kindreds total freedom from all law and all causality. Never again would there be any restraints. Never again would there be anything to hold back the will of mankind from achieving its desires. Indeed, even sanity and logic would be defeated, and the freedom of eternal madness given to humanity.

Imaria knew that not all of humanity would appreciate these wonders as she would. Indeed, most of them would recoil in horror, for they were small and limited, their minds circumscribed by the prison of reality and time. So, she and Incariel would give them freedom whether they wished it or not. Of course, they would scream in madness as the Black Mountain cracked and the shadow of Incariel’s power poured forth, but in madness and horror, they would learn that joy and agony were one and the same.

It was strange. Imaria had started upon this path because of her grief over Aelia, her rage that Ridmark Arban had failed to save her older sister. Tarrabus had shown her the way of the Enlightened. Tymandain Shadowbearer had welcomed her and given her power. And as the whispers of Incariel filled her mind, the truth, the glorious truth, had dominated her, and she had discovered a madness that transcended even her hatred of Ridmark.

In the end, Tarrabus and the Enlightened had been small and petty. They had thought to transform themselves into gods. They failed to realize the truth that Incariel would free mankind from the need for strength and intellect. Tymandain Shadowbearer had known the truth, but even he had failed at the moment of crisis.

Imaria would walk the path of the Shadowbearer to its end.

A scowl went over her face, the shadow of Incariel hissing in the vaults of her mind.

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