Brotherhood

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“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death.”
-Plato

Fear the night for at the fall of day, as the light becomes shadow and shadow deep darkness, they wage their war. Destruction and death from the black. Bloody violence and pained screams in the night. Cities have fallen, nations have died. The end draws near, you have but to survive it.

They do not cease, they do not show mercy, they do not die...

...and during the day they rest...amoungst us.

-an extract from chapter "Lessons for the Children" from the chronicles of the Brotherhood.

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"Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings."
-Horace

Who are they to decide the fate of man? The Five, dedicated to death and the near extinction of us. Meticulous in their destruction, violence and slaughter. They have a path and unlike pale death...it is not impartial.

-introduction to chapter "The Five" from the chronicles of the Brotherhood.

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"Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!"
-Pliny The Elder

It was by chance, they survived. By negligence, they were not contained and by incredible luck, they wiped out all the records of the drugs production in their escape.

Shame unto those, who tried play Creator, woe unto the world for their arrogance.

- extract from chapter "Creation of the Five" from the chronicles of the Brotherhood.

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"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment."
- Thomas Carlyle

"Pray, do not forget, that upon the conduct of one, depends the fate of all. We will either find a way, or we will make one. In the end, the world will know our reasons.

But for now, it is time, for we Titans to rise and begin our war."

- Ares convinces the Brothehood to begin the War.

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"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."
-Cato The Elder

"Behind those porcelin masks, they reveal only their eyes...

...and they are ever watchful in their wrath."

- witness notes.

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"He who does not fear death, dies only once."
- Giovanni Falcone

Quietly and slowly, he spoke as if not an ear was listening, "We are brothers of thought, not blood. Brothers of one mind and action.

Blood may be thicker than water but none can stand against this power. Brothers of blood fail each other, but the bonds of our brotherhood will never break and never fall. Those that stand against us will perish in pain and fire.

Bathed in the blood of our foes, we will walk from the ashes of this war. We will not rest, we will not flee, no surrender, no retreat. The wicked will be educated in ways of pain that even the blackest souls cannot fathom."

A long silence lingered as he looked upon the ruin of the city, their battleground at dawn and in a feint whisper we heard him say, "Darkness falls on the bones of this day, time for the brotherhood to play."

He paused then and turned to look on a crying child in our midst, "Do not weep for those that will fall, it is their time. Death will be quick for some and slow for others...

...it is pain that will embrace all in the end."

- witness notes from chapter, "Hades and the Fall of Washington."

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"The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. "
- F. L. Lucan

...and the world of the weak rallied beneath their religious icons and their corrupt but sheltering governments banners.

Those blind, fearful and petty many, chose lavish slavery to their gods and elected masters. Their cruelty grew with this comfort in numbers and their arrogant voices rose louder, that they where right! and those that disagreed where wrong! and being wrong, they where evil and must be silenced.

And into this maelstrom of war and hatred, entered an emissary, accursed by the masses before even a word had been spoken, and he angered them greatly, striking a chord of fear into the hearts of his audience, reminding them of their craven and wicked ways as he told of the approaching darkness;

"This world, is not yours alone, and yet you have plagued it with your hatred. Believing yourselves superior, believing your faiths to be truth. Your religious and racial intolerance's toward one another, ends now! You will unite or you will fall before the coming darkness. For from the rising shadows of dusk, the Five will come and your world of slavery and hate will end and an age of equality and freedom will rise from its ashes. The world will breathe anew and man, less in number, culled of its weak, will be stronger."

-unfounded account from chapter "Between Chaos and Order" from the Mysteries of the Brotherhood.

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"I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. "
- Charles Maurice

He had not spoken since their creation. He did not have to, for amoungst his brothers, they needed only to look upon him to know his mind.

The darkest of the Five, the black cloaked. The one who would lead his brothers in war. Chronos.

"Your time is drawing to an end, mortal. Flee now and tell the world of our coming. For next we meet, you will know. That your time is over."

- extract from chapter "The Five" from the chronicles of the Brotherhood.

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"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."
- Confucius

"And a silence fell upon the earth as the fires blazed across the night skies. Many watched in awe as the solar flare struck, lighting their dark night in colourful beauty. Oh how naive so many where, looking upon the sight with such affection."

- The Coronal Mass Ejection.