Ruwallah was the sixth son of a minor chieftain who blamed the vicissitudes of his family fortune on their household god. In frustration with that god's impotence or unwillingness to act on their behalf, he set out with a firm resolve to find and confront the avatar of the god, where ever it might be found.
The wise men of that place and that age, held that the vast desert which was created in a war between the states of Safasa and Khadasa, contained a portal to the heavenly kingdom. With no fortune to inherit and no power to risk, Ruwallah entered the Khard and wandered for the next forty years.
Finally, in the year 4875ey, Ruwallah the Lawgiver emerged bearing clay pressings of words which he claimed were found chiseled into the Obelisks. These Obelisks, he said, were the foundation stones of the world itself and were found in the midst of a Lake of Glass, from which the sun rose each day.
He claimed that the etchings he brought back were the Law Which Cannot Change and were written from the foundation of all things. Further, he dared to say that common men and Princes alike, would only prosper to the extent that they followed this new moral code. At first, Ruwallah was ridiculed where ever he went, for he seemed to be a madman, but he was able to answer the most learned men with aplomb. Many different diviners and astrologers recorded their encounters with him and while he died penniless and unappreciated as a common street preacher, his teaching had a toehold which would eventually bear fruit.
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