The Saga of asdf -- 1.1.2 The Dispute that Ensued

As discussed in Chapter 1.1.1, the once-renowned scholars, then discredited by their intolerance towards their own theorizing, had not given up on fighting for, as they saw it, what rightfully belonged to them. In their shame they proclaimed that the unnatural forces affecting them came not from their irresponsible hypothesizing, but from the certain curse that was passed down, originally, from the Northern Ancestors. They claimed that since they were about to discover the true nature of the curse, it had inflicted them in order to disable their search for its alleviation. Such claims created the very chaos that we see now amidst conflicting historical interpretations and misplaced facts.

However, as seen throughout the course of history, not once has chaos won over order, be it good or bad. There has always been some kind of resolution at the end of the turmoil, a conformation, and a submission by the people to some common ideal, advocated by certain heroes who were impersonations of strength and character in the eyes of the people. Thus when the brawling of the historians reached a climax, and tension began building in the general public in fear of an actual curse placed upon them for their realization, a hero of the people stepped forward and accepted the challenge: this hero, our hero, decided to undertake an excursion to the deserted Northern Lands, and find the true origins of the Northern Prophecy, within which there are two particularly strange entities that he hoped to demystify: asdf and jkl;. There had not been any other historical mentioning of such entities in existence from any other source, and no scholar had been able to associate such names to significant occurrences or people in the Northern Lands, or anywhere else. Although it was possible that the prophecy had never been realized, the picture it painted was certainly a gloomy one. The hero had resolved to change the course of history, be it past, present, or future, to prevent the realization of such a prophecy in the land where he considered home.