{"sf1_id":298300,"sf2_id":"ve3jKOp1","title":"Psalms for a Frozen World","author":"Kodyax","words":211,"posted_at":"2011-10-21T07:05:00.000Z","tags":["Fantasy","M/F","No-Yiff","Prologue","Winter"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/298300-psalms-for-a-frozen-world","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ve3jKOp1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/4c/59/4c5937e7-1146-41c6-8e9b-30a3b998052a","description":"","content":"Psalms for a Frozen World  \n  \nthe elves say our world was green once  \nThe dwarves tell of times when it was warmer  \nBut now only the rivers of smokeless fire are warm  \nCaverns of green are maintained by elven magic  \nConstructed in stone by dwarven ingenuity  \n  \nHumanit in its arrogance summoned Elder Elvils from beyond the stars  \nThe hubris of man that they wer so beloved by the universe that they could do  \nNo wrong and that the gods would protect them from thwir own stupidity  \nBut in enacting such profane rites these children of the gods  \nAssumed too much and were left to their fate  \n  \nLife and heat were sucked out by these Elder Evils  \nUntil our world was cold and lifeless  \nBut the Champions of Nature banded together to stop the desecration  \nEven as they were transformed into beast folk  \nAnd exterminated the remaining humans and their kin  \nTo put an end to the madness  \n  \nBut the damage could not be undone  \nOur world in a perpetual age of ice  \nAll due to the mad hubris of mankind  \nRemember these lessons well children of man\n\n\u0026nbsp; For the invaders are not dead but merely dreaming  \nPray they never awaken from their death like slumber  \nIt would doom us all  \n  \n\n"}