Document #4: On the Subject of Titans

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Scholar

The first accounts of the Titans go back to nearly two thousand years ago.  Traveler and politician O.S. Chevron is widely regarded as having written the earliest story in which someone claims to have encountered these beings.  However, Chevron’s language often alludes to even older tales.

Widely viewed as an allegorical parable meant to discredit a political opponent, Chevron’s account details their experiences with four individual entities they describe as Titans.  Much of the particulars have been lost to time and various translations, but each is said to embody a distinct facet of primordial existence.  The beings are said to be nameless, genderless, predating the very existence of such pedantic concepts.

In their description of one of these Titans, Chevron is vivid and particular with their language:

“Locs of molten rock, cascading in fractal coils down the Titan’s back.  Cracks along its carapace like the deepest fissures of the earth.  Steam rippling along its rocky hide.  This is the Titan of Power; the embodiment of resilience, of earth-shaping forces of change.”

The vivid nature of the wording has left many subsequent scholars scratching their heads while trying to deduce Chevron’s precise meaning.  Certain arcanists studied in cryptozoology claim such Titans may theoretically exist, but the general consensus among learned circles has been that beings of such immense size and power would be unable to evade notice.