The Rise and fall of Mu

The Rise and fall of Mu
An excerpt from codexa-ish-Troano of T'yog
In ages past when the world was young and gods still spoke to men, in the oceans beyond both Atlantis and Lemuria laid the land of Mu. In its early days, it was a land of plenty blanketed in lush forest filled with fruit trees and exotic game. And beneath Mu’s fertile soil lay yet more treasures, precious metals and gems that were said to be as common in Mu as stones, it was all of these things that called the Naacal to Mu. It was the Naacal who would build the first cities of Mu,  Mnar in the north, Ib in the south, Ilarnek in the east and Kadatheron in the west. These four cities who were blessed by the sun god and ruled by his priest and magi would signal the rise of Mu and the dawn of the Naacal’s clan wars. For 200 years the clans of Mu fought amongst themselves until finally the gods could stand it no longer and in the 7th year of the golden horse the sun god Ra’aa sent Taran-Ish reaper of the west seas and leader of the golden fleet to restore order to Mu.
Ra’aa had shown the land of Mu to Taran-Ish in a dream and declared that it was his destiny to conquer the warring clans of the Naacal and that he and his descendants would rule Mu for a thousand years. Taran-Ish heeded Ra’aa words as he was a pious man and thus he led the golden fleet east from Lemuria. The golden fleet would first arrive in Ilarnek where Taran-ish sought an audience with the priest and magi of the clans of Ilarnek. He spoke of his dream and the words of Ra’aa and offered them a deal, “Kneel before me and praise Ra’aa and you will retain your wealth and power, resist and you will all burn.” The priests and Magi mocked him as a mad man and decried him as a pirate. “You will have nothing from us” they snarled from their gilded thrones of ivory and silver and so it came to past that that the men of Ilarnek burned with their city, as the golden fleet sailed north and an army of freed slaves and wiser magi marched south. Taran-ish would make this offer to Mnar, Ib, and Kadatheron, only the city of Ib would yield to the might of Taran-ish and the golden fleet. The final city to fall would be the onyx city of Kadatheron in the west. The battle for Kadatheron was the fiercest as the magi of Kadatheron were the oldest and most powerful of the Naacal, but in the end the city yielded to Taran-ish and the golden fleet. As Taran-Ish prepared to burn the high priest of Kadatheron as an offering to Ra’aa he cursed Taran-Ish, “You have brought a long night upon Mu in the name of the sun and you do not even know it, but know this you will rule this island for 500 years in the name of the sun and as such you shale have no sons. Your god’s prophecy and your empire shall all die with you.”
With all of Mu united under his rule he declared himself the first emperor and began to rebuild the cities in the style of his home land of Lemuria. As the years past Mu would become a prospers trading city rivaling Atlantis in both its size and greatness and Taran-Ish, blessed by Ra’aa, would live many hundreds of years and take hundreds of brides over his reign,  yet the High priest terrible words would still come to pass and Taran-Ish fathered no sons. As he grew older, his strength faded and the lords of Mu began to quarrel among themselves, it became clear that he would not be able to control them for long. Thus Taran-Ish sent his fleet to search the far corners of the earth for someone who could break the curse and 10 years later they would return with an answer. Priests, who were exiled from the city of Babylon returned with the golden fleet and told Taran-Ish of their goddess the daemon Līlīṯu whom they summoned for Taran-Ish. When Taran-Ish told Līlīṯu of his problem she only laughed and told him that it was too late, he would father no sons and his empire would indeed die with him but for a price she could bare him a daughter who could unite the Naacal and his empire may yet survive. In exchange for laying with him and baring him a daughter that would save his empire, Līlīṯu asked that he sacrifice his other daughters and offer her their blood, this he did over the protest of his admirals and his magi. Taran-Ish now alone in the world offered Līlīṯu the blood of his children and lay with the daemon, yet by then he was too old and as he gave her his seed Taran-Ish past from this world leaving his only heir in the womb of the daemon.
Yui-ta-bakra became empress of Mu in the first year of the water lizard and initially was beloved by the Naacal. She had the ability to be all things to all people and to be in many places at once, she could hold court in with the admirals in Kadatheron, while hunting with the merchant princes of Ib, and at the same time brows the shops of Mnar and Ilarnek. All whom looked upon her saw a woman of unimaginable beauty and the lords of Mu swore themselves to her service, in the hopes that they may one day become her consort and thus the empire remained whole.  But as time passed her behavior became more and more eccentric, she would summon her soldiers and tell them they had the blessing of Līlīṯu and asked them to walk through fire to prove their faith; she would then laugh as her own army burned. On certain nights masquerades were held in the honor of strange deities and a bitter black wine was served. The virgin daughters of high lords were taken to orgies held in the slums of Mnar and she was frequently seen by her magi speaking to an unseen force, but still the lords of Mu swore themselves to her service and still the empire remained whole.
In the 24th year of her reign she began to demand human sacrifices. The lords of Mu were commanded to bring their youngest son and daughter to the palace in Kadatheron where they were butchered in front of their parents and then cooked and served to them as a delicacy. Sometimes she would take the skin of especially fair girls and have it made into a robe or sash so that a lord who sacrificed his daughter may still look upon her at court. This continued for 20 years until she began to demand sacrifices from the commoners as well as the nobles. The beginning of the end came when she had a woods men taken for an impromptu celebration during the summer.  Gin Ai was served to a visiting delegation from Mnar, who left his bones at the side of the road on the way to Kadatheron and this is where his wife Yoruichi Ai the priestess of the cat goddess found him. For 9 days she wept over his body and on the 10th the bees spoke to her, they comforted her with honeyed words and told her of others who had grown tired of Yui-ta-bakra.
This moment marks the beginning of the end of the Naacal, Yoruichi Ai led the cities of Mnar and Ilarnek against Kadatheron and Ib, for 20 years Yoruichi Ai and Yui-ta-bakra fought for the control of Mu, sacrificing many millions of lives in the process, one in the name of vengeance and the other in the name of madness. The war would end in the twilight of the third age when the senate of Lemuria sent a gift to Yoruichi Ai [Note: this part of the codex is missing no one has been able to locate it since it was discovered], from this gift she would create a prison for Yui-ta-bakra and finally end the war.  A year after the gift of Lemuria the city of Ib would fall and Yoruichi Ai would begin her assault on Kadatheron. Normally men of welth would abandoned their mistress under such circumstances, but so enthralled were the lords of Kadatheron that they fought the army of Yoruichi Ai willingly and everyone of them fought and died to keep her from the palace.
It is said that on that day when Yoruichi Ai entered the royal palace of Kadatheron, the dogs, the cats and, the rats of the city began to run into the sea, what exactly transpired is lost to all but Yoruichi Ai and Yui-ta-bakra but the end result was seen from as far away as Atlantis. The spell that Yoruichi Ai used to seal away Yui-ta-bakra required the anima forms of her entire army and destroyed Mu as it was being cast. The only thing that remained of the Naacal or Mu was a stone egg that held their empress and a stone that resembled Yoruichi Ai. As the third age ended and the forth began, the remnants of Mu drifted west, eventually being enshrined by the children of the rising sun before again becoming lost humanity….but not completely, it still said in some of the older parts of Japan that if on a quiet night in the country side you meat a beautiful girl, you should run the other way. For there is no spell that can contain the hunger of Yui-ta-bakra and though she has been weakened by Yoruichi Ai she can never die, for she was formed from Līlīṯu and Taran-Ish the reaper of the west seas and is thus the undying hunger that resides in the hearts of all men.