The Test of Time
The year is
But this dangerous world is changing. Slowly but surely, this world is changing. The snows come a bit later, the summer stays for longer and melts more of the ice and snow. As the world changes, so does humanity. This slow warming will not just provide more ways of gathering food, or expand hunting lands, the slow warming of the globe will start a revolution - Agriculture - that will allow humanity to settle, grow from village to town to city all the while expanding their minds as well. The slow warming of the globe will allow humanity to progress beyond simple tribes and start testing their ideas, but the true test - the Test of Time - has already begun, and though many groups will fail this test and be forgotten, some lucky few will pass this test, and lead humanity not only across this globe, but across the stars.
One day, Great Aztan Kazos was travelling his island.
As he traveled, he happened upon a group of men, cutting trees.
Kazos spoke to them, "Men, why do you clear these trees? You are far from your village and have no use for clear land."
"Great Aztan", spoke back one of the men, "we labor to clear these trees so we can plant where they once stood. The our plants can grow, and we can feed our people"
After speaking to the men, the Aztan continued through the land of his people. The next village he came upon was surrounded by fields of grains. He traveled through the fields into the village.
In this village, he saw prosperity. Children played in the streets, being well fed, men and women talked in the village center, occasionally biting from loaves and drinking grape juices.
Kazos continued his trek, and came across one final village. The grains were dead, dying, briwn, and covered in locusts. He traveled to the village.
Here, starved children sat outside their houses, too hungry to play. Men and women were wandering, starved and angry at each other.
The Azatn asked a villager, "Why do you starve?"
The villager responded, "The souls of the grains were not pleased with us, and invited the locusts and blight. We starve because of our hubris, we starve because we though we owned the earth."
The Aztan completed his trip around the island, and when he returned to his village, he spoke thus: " If man must plant, he will grow strong. But when he forgets his place, he will grow weak. Man must be balanced!"