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'So, do you know anything about the Millennium Moon?'
[EIKN] "Ah, of course I do. I lived through it. You don't remember it?"
'...I'm not sure I... actually lived that long myself.'
Eikn opened her red goat-like eyes at me again. She seemed honestly surprised.
[EIKN] "Well, golly, you're a youngun then. Well, me wee Lambkin himself is only about a thousand years by now too. Maybe you were born after it happened. Well, if you don't know much, I can tell you."
Eikn beckoned me over. She led me across the hall of the celebrations and to a throne Ludwyhn had in the tavern hall near the hearth. Above the fireplace, there was an artwork hanging on the wall. It was done in a Shengesian style, oddly enough. It depicted a calm, cold landscape, where above an eerie shape of a flaming sphere hung over.
[EIKN] "The fiery moon. That which was to be the end of the world. It is common to depict it now like this."
'So... it was a literal moon?'
[EIKN] "Aye. One thousand years ago, this moon fell towards Hainei, flaming as it descended through the sky. It was thought to be the end of the world. No prophecy had ever predicted it. It was poised to crash into Kalaheimr, the former realm of Vymla. She was slumbering with Bedolfir on Aflheimr the day and night of the Millennium Moon's arrival. Nobody knows what happened... but there was a great flash of light in the north pole. The Moon was gone, exploded. Then, all the world came to find that Kalaheimr had been shattered. That is why it is the "Shattered North" now."
[EIKN] "The date of the Millennium Moon's near impact is used as the divider for the New Beginning and the New Eternity. The Emperor decided to end the New Beginning on that night and retreated to Heaven, never seen since. Lord Sarakha took over and issued the New Eternity's beginning. That was exactly one thousand years ago following the Emperor's reign of four thousand years. Well, almost, we're at the cusp of the date's change. Soon, it will strike five thousand at new year's eve. With how crazy this year has been, who knows what happens next year on year five thousand."
[EIKN] "Maybe another moon will come. Maybe the New Eternity will end.... Spooky, isn't it? Hehehe!"
