The Tales of Hydromancer Caligari

Prologue

Extract from the ‘Study of the Creole beliefs’ by Harry Noah

In the beginning, the moon and the sea roamed together, they walked the earth as mortals admiring its beauty and revelling in the love they felt for each other. The land was green and luscious, it was white and frozen, it was brown and barren, but they loved each part the same.

It is said that they covered every stone during those timeless years but after so much time together they began to argue. The Moon did not want to walk the earth anymore for she was tired of walking. She wanted to see the world all at once so she could enjoy its vast differences in peace. The Sea did not want to stop, he wanted to keep moving for the world was ever changing and roads taken were always different.

They argued and argued until the Moon slipped away in the middle of the night, leaving the Sea sleeping. She went to the heavens and set herself in the sky high above its surface. There she sat in peace and watched the earth display its beauty for her. So enamoured by the gently turning world she forgot about The Ocean.

Upon waking and seeing the Moon sat in the sky, he knew she had left him. He was heart broken. Unable to cope with the pain of this loss. He cried and cried. The loss he felt was so great he did not move from where she left him, for without her, there was no joy, no beauty left in the world.

Eons passed and the moon floated in peace watching the world slowly change, barren lands became covered with the deepest blue. In this colour she recognised the Sea and suddenly remembered the lover she had left.

For the first time she felt true sadness. The reminder of that love long past set her searching for her lover. She found him knelt on a small patch of land in the deep blue ocean, unmoved from the day he was abandoned.

Frantically she tried to go to him, but she had been in the sky too long, unable to remember how to go back. The moon watched him cry, his tears filling the ocean until the land was swallowed by the water. The earth would turn in front of her as she was unable to reach for her lover, slowly embracing him with every turn.

She panicked and panicked, pulled and pulled, but she could not reach him. The earth did not stop spinning, the water did not stop rising. Finally he was gone, submerged by the flood of his tears, fueled by his broken heart.

The Moon now grieves in eternity. Pulling at the sea trying to wake him, trying to bring him back to her. She shines her light searching for him in the hope her light will bring him back.

Sailors pray to the moon and the sea, for her light shines the way to the heavens, the ocean is the only place where the grief of loss is eternal, no sailor should be buried in the earth.

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