The Legend of Thraat

Once upon a time in the land of the old kings lived the great beast
 Our forests, the water and the sky were protected by it
 It lived in a sacred swamp in the sacred grove far away from man
 Many say it was the curse of this beast
 That turned the old gods into the monolith people
 One day a village boy walked deep into the forest
 Sent by his mother to collect firewood
 On his way back it was dark, when he felt the pang of hunger
 So in the fading light, the boy sat down on a drift wood
 On the edge of a stream to fish
 Unknown to him it was the gravest mistake
 He would ever make and brought about the curse
 For the stream ran in the sacred swamp of the beast
 Untouched by humans
 With the distant sound of a thousand slithering snakes
 The Thraat emerged in the night
 The terrified boy confronted by this vision
 Lit a holy sage bush to scare away the beast
 It was then that the Thraat told him 9 tales
 The boy, the trees, the serpents and all the animals
 In the sacred grove listened
 Rule of Fifth, All Seeing Eye, Capital Vices, Valor
 Diablo Illumination, Quintus, Origins From Alpha
 When Anger Dwells, Anecdote
 These 9 lessons about the origins of the people
 Showed the boy that mankind will ultimately destroy itself
 Because of an insatiable hunger and greed
 It is said by the old ones that he and his village had turned to stone
 The Thraat has now returned, it is time to feed!