[中文]世界初生之时,并没几个人知道它被称作庇护之地,也极少有人知晓天使和魔鬼的存在,而正是他们创造了这个世界。艾纳利尤斯、迪亚波罗、拉斯玛、墨菲斯托与巴力——这几个强大而可怕的名字——还未得以在凡人的口中传诵。
彼时鸿蒙初开,没人知道高阶天堂与燃烧地狱之间在进行着一场永恒的战争,那时的世人只顾着挣扎求存、繁荣兴旺、生老病死,根本无暇顾及两个永生的种族正垂涎着他们的潜能,并由此引发一场长达数个世纪的冲突。
在那段鲜为人知的历史中,庇护之地的命运可谓骇人多舛,而狄俄墨得斯之子乌迪西安•莱-狄俄墨得,则可谓传说中最为无知的一人。但即使他无知透顶,全世界的秘史学家都会记录下他那段神秘的历史——原罪之战。而他,就是这场战争的中心人物。
这场战争的主题并不是人类手握武器互相砍杀——尽管这也是其中的一部分——更像是一场对灵魂的考验、试炼与掠夺。它即将改变庇护之地,改变人民单纯的状态,改变世界的一切。就连那些一无所知的人,也无从避免。
一场胜利的战争……也是一场失败的战争……
摘自《卡兰之书》
第一卷,第二页
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The world was young, then, and only a few knew it as Sanctuary or knew that not only did angels and demons exist, but some of them had caused Sanctuary to be in the first place. The names Inarius, Diablo, Rathma, Mephisto, and Baal—to name a powerful and often dread few—had not yet been whispered on mortal lips.
In this simpler time, ignorant of the eternal battle between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells, people struggled and prospered, lived and died. They could not know that even then, the eyes of both immortal sides would soon covet their potential and thus begin a conflict that would spill over into
the centuries to come.
And, of all those most terribly ignorant of Sanctuary’s awful destiny, Uldyssian ul-Diomed—Uldyssian, son of Diomedes—could be said to have been the most blind. Blind, though he would be himself at the center of what scholars of the world’s secret history would come to call the Sin War.
It was not a war in the sense of men-at-arms—though there were those, too—but rather a trying, a testing and taking, of souls. A war that would forever eradicate the innocence of Sanctuary and those inhabiting it, changing all, even those not aware.
A war that was both won…and lost…
From the Books of Kalan
First Tome, Second Leaf
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