The Ulangar: Book III, Part 1

This is the start of Book III of the epic I wrote between 1991 and 1996.

Argument: This is the Book of Immortals, concerning the finding of the Ten and the beginnings of the new universe. It also tells of the refining of the religion Necoism from the teachings of Enki of the Rose.

One prisoner Diomedes asked of the poet these words

"At the beginning you mentioned ten brothers

and that you were one of them

What ever was the fate's will

upon their unearthly flesh O poet and keeper"

These things having been sent through the airs to open ears

Lamaraz responded by drinking ambrosial wine and wholesome bread

and these words "Patience my fellow inmate

you have not listened long enough to answer your question

Now pay attention and your questions shall be filled

After Ulangar forged his tempered steel armor

upon which light glittered off a rounded helm

of a skull and brow reinforce and upper and lower bevor

and rondel and the silvery gorget plate

each four gauge steel hardened to immortal strength

and off of decorated breastplate and its lower

depicting the pinpoint flashes of suns gobbled up

by the black monsters which were then depicted

upon the glittering one gauge backplate

as eating each other off the same platter

and it winked off steel skirt with rump guard

each consisting of sixteen plates riveted with golden spokes

and to these with light of stars glimmering from their rosy heart

the tassets of mysterious steel were hung with the rough hide of Fire Giants

slain in the slaughter of the surface land

and it also flashed reflections off of a shirt of mail

showing beneath the skirt and between the tassets

a coat of mail wrought three-ply with tiny links of gold

and off of the pauldron connected to the breastplate

which then allowed the cowters and vambrace with its cannons

to be hung by golden axles and the gauntlets of well forged tempered steel

and it also shown from the legs of the cuisse and poleyn and greave and sabaton

and thus it shown off the armor whole

he felt his head spin and reel

that feeling of ūser again

So by no natural pull of his own

he led himself to his observatory

where as before Ulangar spied Universe with spinning eyes

but no item save that void of blackness could he detect

Yet that tingling persisted

urging him ever closer to his view

when through the nothing something knotted and twisted

moving silently and waiting

Ulangar wove a net about this knot

and pulled his catch into his moon

When finally the knot was retrieved

a man appeared of familiar shape

Enki of the Rose

Ulangar gave greetings and informed his guest

of the home deep below the surface

Eventually Enki was shown to a bedding chamber

and Ulangar left the brother's side

to pursue untiring in the Void

for signs of other strings