SUPERNATURAL
AND FANTASTIC WAYFARERS ASSOCIATION
In the early
years
of creation, many Implementors left their heavenly homes and had
intercourse with any humans that they beheld as lovely, thus producing
hideous half-human, half-implementor monstrosities. These oddities
wrecked so much havoc upon Zork that the Control Character was
instructed to cause worldwide devastation upon the surface of the
planet in order to destroy not only all of these aliens, but to
eliminate all of the wicked mortals save a couple of each race. Once
the disaster had passed, all of the
offspring
of the fallen Implementors who dared to rebel against the original laws
and
commands of righteousness as handed down by The One through the Control
Character and down the spiritual hierarchy, were thrown into chains and
bound
up until the Final Conflagration. Their offspring, however, were
punished in a
most extraordinary way. Their bodies were destroyed, yet their
disembodied spirits
were free to roam. Bearing extreme hatred for the one who had done this
to
them, they went around deceiving the replenishing population all over
Zork by
naming themselves ‘Gods’ and claiming to have ultimate power.
These evil supernatural beings collected together
to rally against those
above. In order to govern and prevent this tremendous population from
corrupting all of creation, the Autoexec and The Powers That Be decided
to
delete them all. Belegur petitioned the Control Character not to
destroy the
full number of the spirits, saying, “Let some of them remain under my
control,
and let them attend to my voice. For if some of them are not left to
me, I
shall not be able to execute the power of my will over those wicked men
that
have given themselves over to iniquity. Let these be for corruption and
leading
astray.”And the Control Character, acting in accordance
with the will of Eru,
granted a tenth of these spirits to Belegur, and letting the other nine
parts
descend into the place of condemnation. In order to prevent these
spirits from
destroying Zork prematurely, the Autoexec and The Powers That Be formed
for
them an organization known as the Supernatural and
Fantastic Wayfarers
Association.
The
Association was fashioned in such a shrewd and crafty manner that it
was not necessary to force the congregation of disembodied spirits to
join; the entire horde voluntarily enrolled, save a few (see below).
These pseudo-gods, under the mutual non-aggression pact, were
restricted from fighting one
another or
from killing a mortal being outright. They were only permitted to
influence the decisions of mortals, or by indirectly aiding or impeding
them. Secondly, these spirits, each having already been imbued with a
limited range of supernatural powers, were able to lend measures of
these powers to mortals who placed their faith in their name. Any
spillage of these unholy powers that
was utilized by any mortal being would later
be called “magic.”
Thirdly, if these pseudo-gods wished to battle one another, they could
only do so by poising mortals against one another. Hoping to manipulate
these renegade spirits into obedience to the organization’s laws (of
which were the precepts of righteousness in guise), the Autoexec and
The Powers That Be formed an annual award ceremony, in which the most
duteous and respectful supernatural being could receive the Joseph
Campbell Award for Best Semi-Actual Persona.
Coming
to ravenously desiring to have this award, almost all of the
supernatural beings eagerly committed themselves to these rules, except
for a handful of renegades. While a fraction of these renegades are
mysteriously allowed to roam Zork even today without chastisement, many
were made an example of by instant discorperation. One of the most
infamous of these beings that was forsaken punishment at this time was
Morgrom the Essence of Evil, who would instill his evil upon the land
until the tenth century when the Control Character finally deleted him
(it was during this same year that the Autoexec was also destroyed in
his rebellion).Newcomers to the Association are known as Neophyte Probationaries.Most races of this organization were purged, or nearly purged to extinction from
all civilized regions during the days of the
Second Inquisition (in
the first half of the eleventh century).