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The Wind and The Mountain is one of the few Dokkaran tales that is still left completely to interpretation. High Clerics throughout the centuries have always had their own spin on the tale, as have other members of the Clergy and other Dokkarans. Most have interpreted the story with the Mountain being arrogant and prideful, and incapable of bending the knee or acknowledging a force greater than itself. Others have interpreted the Wind as the Villain who asked the Mountain to break it's moral code, something it would rather die than do. Both interpretations are relatively non-conflicting, as they deal with two different aspects of the story (The different points of views of the characters)but the first interpretation is the prevailing one.

''A world that is not our own. A star that is not seen... The Last was given shelter upon Paradise by the Goddess, after it had arisen from the ashes of the World That Was. The Last grew alone, such was the way. As age took it, memory was robbed as well, until the Last could not even remember it's own name, even less the name of the Goddess that offered it shelter. When it died, The Last deposited a single seed beside it, and with the help of the Goddess, the seed grew into the grandest of all that  

know the light of the Goddess, The Lady. A time will come when The Lady too will become, The Last, but her children will know her, and she will live on in them, and so shall the cycle repeat.''

Poorly written and all in all a tad confusing, The Last and The Goddess occupies an important if widely ignored place in Dokkaran mythology. It foretells that The Lady is the last of her kind, and that the Dokkarans (her children) are destined to take over her legacy. As Dokkarans cannot as yet reproduce among themselves, it makes little sense that they should live on without The Lady, at least in their current state. The last verse is the most important, as it states that Time is a wheel, and that while certain events and archetypes arise in every cycle, those with individuality have free will, though all (Some way or another) work towards an inevitable end that only The Goddess can know.

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