The Four-Fold World - The Magicians' War and Old Bear

This is one of the many tales that is told of the Old Bear.

Long ago there were four groups of magicians who practiced different arts.  Their arts required very different ways to approach magic and they often disagreed on the best way to do things.  Mostly magic at first but then other things as well.  At first only regular words were thrown around.  But things slowly got worse and they went from regular words to magic ones.  From there it was a short step to war.  A simple word but the horrors of a magic war are impossible to imagine.  Many, many people died and the land changed in ways often unimaginable to us.

Old Bear found our ancestors frozen in a snow bank and licked us back to life.  No one knows where Old Bear came from.  Was he one of the four groups of magicians who had sickened of the death and decided to quit or was he one of magical beings who had never sided with the four groups.  Whichever is true Old Bear saved us as a people and led us across the war-torn land to safety in his den.

Finally the four magicians groups tired themselves of their war and they made peace.  The world was divided into four, each group getting their own portion and somehow they managed to physically separate the four portions.  Once this had been done Old Bear led us from his den and after an epic journey found us this valley to dwell in.

Created September 10, 2012.  Last updated September 10, 2012