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always filled the pantry of a Chapel that existed at the foot of Hill Candelaria. Such Chapel, that
had been constructed to the indicated purposes remained locked most of the year and was only
visited by the Lords of Tharsis who went there to pray in the major loneliness: therefore, they
took adventage of it to deposit the victuals in a small hindquarter, which unique door guided to
the Hillside. The Inititates descended there furtively, in night preferably, many times in the
year to provide themselves of food. Normally they found a sumpter in the adjoining farmyard,
which they used to carry the lumps up to the secret entrance and that they liberated later,
because the animal returned meekly to the hedge. But in other opportunities the Lords of
Tharsis awaited in the Chapel entire weeks until they coincided in some of those nocturnal
visits: then, in the middle of the joy and reunion, the Noyos and Vrayas received news from the
House of Tharsis; specially they inquired about the young members of the family, if one of
them prepared seriously for the Test of the Cold Fire and if they noticed possibilities that he
could overcome it. Nothing worried more to the Men of Stone and Kâlibur Ladies than to not
be replaced by other Initiates, that the Wise Sword remainded without Custody. The Lords of
Tharsis, by their part, inquired to Noyos and Vrayas about the mystical visions: The Lytic Sign
of the K'Taagar has not manifested yet? Have they received a message from the Liberator
Gods? When, O Gods! When would come the day of the Final Battle? When the Total War
against the Potencies of the Matter? When would they abandon the Infernal Universe? When
the Origin?
It always occured in a similar form until then. Because since the Castle of Aracena was
finished, some tens of kilomenters from the Hill Candelaria, a threat halo seemed to be spread
through the entire region. Was necessary then, to extreme the precaution measures to supply
the Secret Cavern and were reduced to minimum the meetings with the hermits Inititates. In
that time dwelled in the Secret Cavern three Inititates: an old Vraya, woman of more than
seventy years, who for fifty years never abandoned the Guard; a Noyo of fifty years, Noso de
Tharsis, who until the thirty years was a Presbyter in the Church Our Lady of the Grotto and
now was officialy dead; and a young Noyo of thirty two years old, Godo de Tharsis, who realized
the function to supply the Secret Cavern. But Godo, son of the Count Odielón de Tarseval, was
not an improvised in risk issues: taken since he was a child to Sicily by one of the aragonese
Kinisghts who served in the court of Frederick II, he was a page in the Palace of Palermo and
then shield bearer of a Teutonic Knight in Holy Land; named Knight as well at his twenty years,
he entered to the Order of Teutonic Knights and fought for five years in the conquest of
Prussia; since seven years ago he was in the Guard of the Secret Cavern, although he passed for
being still fighting in the North of Germany. He was, an expert warrior, who knew how to move
with precision in the battlefield: his incursions in the Chapel were carefully studied, seeking to
not be discovered by the Enemy. I clarify this to discard the case that this negligence was the
responsible of what occured later.
The truth is that the Enemy knew such place and this was not ignored by the members
of the House of Tharsis: according to the familiar saga, indeed, in the place where was the
Chapel of the Hill Candelaria, the immortals Bera and Birsha had killed the Vrayas 1700 years
before. Since then the Lords of Tharsis thought to change the provisioning point; but the
intense surveillance that they maintained in Aracena not revealed any movement in direction
to the Chapel and all remained as this for the next four years. Every three or four months the
Noyo Godo descended from the mountain range by surprise and unpredictable and proceeded

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