Eon Dream: The Seven Sojourns Of Au Syen On

It was a dream...a dream of darkness...a dream of light. 'Tis a tale beyond any mere human histories. Yet, too, it whispers deep through the heart of all humanity. Before the beginning of Creation there were two Spirit the Zaan and the Aeyas. Like gods, they were the keepers of life and all Creation.Yet, in time, they began to think apart and quarrel over the meaning of existence. But, when it grew old, their quarrel broke into a series of terrible wars which theatened to tear apart all Creation. Now, it came to pass from the ravages of these Primaeval Wars that one spirit, the Aeyan Father Audon Niyth, dreamt an awful dream. Perceiving only sorrow and suffering, he thought to save Creation from all its pain. His thought, grown dark with much time, was to extinguish all things and lull them to a final rest and peace. Niyth's first attempt to "save" Creation was a million-year war of universal genocide. It failed. So, Niyth turned away to an ancient A mystical entity known as the nylladiom. Anyone who possessed this could destroy not only all things but even existence itself. However, Audon Niyth was kept from obtaining the nylladiom, and he was cast away into the very heart of Creation. From there --the hell his evil works had fashioned for him-- Niyth would dream to bring the nylladiom to the emptiness of his blackened spirit. So ends the dark prelude to Eon Dream. But, where it is a nightmare born of profound sorrow, it becomes as well a hope of ultimate redemption. For, against the black designs of Audon Niyth, Creation brings forth a child whose heart's innocence will overcome all evil. On one level, Eon Dream is the story of one small life --that of the Zaanman-child Au Syen. On a deeper level, it becomes an allegory for the human condition. The stages of Au Syen's individual life symbolize those formative experiences c