"And it shall come to pass that Talingard's light shall fade at the end of an age of broken and lost omens. From within the fair kingdom a darkness will arise to consume it from within. Six are the heralds of Talingard's doom, souls condemned and forsaken.
The First, drunk on the power of his dragon lord's blood, comes to crush the righteous under his mighty assault as an unholy vanguard and make all fear the might of the dragon.
The Second, corrupted by grief and hatred, will fill her empty, bitter heart with the screams of the dying and the death of a kingdom.
The Third, outcast scion of Talingard's nobility, shall consume the nation in the fires of his hatred, twice-damned by blood and by deed.
The Fourth, a soul of darkness bound in a form of light, sows the seeds of lies and hollow inquity and the kingdom shall reap madness and despair and welcome oblivion's embrace.
The Fifth, cloaked in fear and shrouded in murder, shall move amongst the populace as a specter of death, separating life from limb and leaving terror in his wake.
And the Sixth, prodigal son of a benighted people, rises from the stygian depths desecrate the hallowed dead and bring ruin to the sunlit realms.
When the Six come, the hearts of many shall be tested and found wanting. The weak of heart shall be swayed by the wicked and join in the unholy crusade, willing tools of the Six.
And lo, the dead shall rise with the wicked, their hearts bound by thorns, to challenge the righteous upon their thrones.
Talingard shall weep, lo shall it weep until tears turn red with the blood of innocents.
And thus, shall darkness reign forevermore in the once great nation under those who have walked the Way of the Wicked." -Words of the Prophecy of Thorns spoken by the Exalted Sibyl of the Ice Elves
