Chapter 132
“Can any of you tell me, what are the great taboos that have incurred the wrath of the Goddess, in our long history?” Gabriel asked, grabbing his book, while he leaned in front of his desk.
“No one?” He asked again, when he saw not one of the ten students raising their hands.
“Celia, can you tell us?” He looked towards the girl, like a teacher who would appoint the student he favored in class. If she did not know the answer to his question, then none of them knew.
“The seven great taboos committed along history are the acts collectively known as the “Peccata predecessores” or ” The sins of the predecessors“, they are the only times a mistake made by a particular creature made the Goddess take actions with her own hands.” Celia answered easily.
“Thank you! Indeed, as we all know, each and every creature under the rule of the Goddess, whether we are talking about vampires, witches, werewolves, fairies and so on, all have free will. Which means that, as long as one does not commit one of the seven sins, generally the Goddess will never intervene in the creatures‘ lives.
But in our history, unfortunately, these seven taboos have been broken at least once. Well there will always be some idiot who will think the Goddess will not intervene, but She did in some way or
another each time.
Can any of you enumerate them for me?” Gabriel inquired again and, seeing that no one dared again, asked Celia to answer.
“Celia, can you enumerate them?”
“Yes. Having been assigned Latin numbers, the “Peccata predecessores” or ” The sins of the predecessors” are:
I (ūnus) The eating of the flesh of mermaids, which grants eternal life to the eater.
II (duo) The stealing of a black dragon’s inverted scale, which grants the stealer ownership of said
dragon.
III (trēs) The creation of artificial werewolves, or commonly known as a lycans, which granted a human the powers of a werewolf.
IV (quattuor) The stealing of the ashes of a phoenix before it could revive, which granted the stealer the power of regeneration, even healing him on the brink of death
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(quinque) The use of black magic to summon a demon by a witch, which granted the said witch 3
wishes
VI (hexa) The creation of more than a hundred ghouls by a pureblood vampire, effectively creating an undead army.
VII (septem) The killing of any ruler of any type of supernatural creatures, directly appointed by the Goddess.” Celia said, finally sighing relieved, as she finished the enumeration. Thankfully, this was one of the things she reviewed the day before.
“Yes, thank you very much. That’s an accurate description. Indeed, any of those particular facts will undoubtedly incur the wrath of the otherwise gentle Goddess.
And one of the proofs of incurring her anger is the killing of the queen of all the dragons, by the white dragons.” Said Gabriel to prove his point, and the fact that the seven taboos were real, not myths, as they were rumored nowadays.
“Teacher I didn’t know there are white dragons, I thought there are only black ones.” Asked Liam, a
fact known by all of them.
“Correct, there are no white dragons now, but there were before, long ago.
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In the past, the Goddess informed the dragons of the identity of their future queen, who was until
that point a normal village girl.
A bit naïve and easily controllable, the young girl was lead by the white dragons into their palace, teaching and actively transforming her in a puppet ruler, instead of grooming her as an actual
leader and showing her how to really use her power.
In time, Nyx, the queen fell in love with a black dragon, and one of the dragons who had
disapproved the white dragons‘ use of their queen for their own purposes.
The frictions between the two factions led to a terrible war between the black dragons and the white
ones. A war which ended in tragic deaths, as the queen of the dragons lost control of her powers in grief for her lost lover, who had fallen on the battle ground moments earlier, effectively decimating alone more than half of the entire population of dragons and herself in the process.” Gabriel
explained a part of the general history.
‘But I don’t understand, why do you say the Goddess intervened, if the queen killed herself, and did not die by another dragon’s hand?” Jake asked, intrigued by the story, which seemed more like a fairytale rather than actual history.
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“Because the dragons more or less indirectly participated in her loss, and because to maintain their Superiority on the battlefield against the black dragons at that time, they had feasted on the queen’s
ings which had the ability to continuously regenerate their wounds.
They spilled her blood and caused her harm, without a care for her wellbeing, up until she lost control of her powers.” Gabriel fervently explained, glad that he had managed to capture the students‘ attention. In fact, history was his favorite subject to teach.
“As such, they committed the seventh taboo, they killed their own ruler.
This incurred the Goddess‘ anger, and their total annihilation. Although, today there are still black dragons alive, you will never find a white one. The moment the queen died, all the white dragons, even the ones that had not participated in the war, fell ill and died soon after.
