Scroll of Ares

The "Scroll of Ares" is in-game literature. In conjunction with the "Scroll of Eris " and the "Scroll of Apoll ", it adds important information regarding the Last Great War to the History of NeoTerr and the Short History.

Original Text
Many thousand years ago, Ares came to Earth, which was a planet most interesting to him. The two dominating species tried to live in peace, but they always failed. Men fought men, Drekh'Nar fought Drekh'Nar, and of course men and Drekh'Nar also fought each other.

Ares was fascinated, but he doubted the sense of it all. People fought chaotically. Although his sister Eris, deity of dispute and chaos, tried to stop him, Ares showed himself to the people of Earth and gave them rules for war. He also told them to stand on their own feet instead of being used as toys by the other gods. Eris watched this with jealous eyes.

After centuries, people found a way to preserve peace. If there was a conflict with no other solution than war, men and Drekh'Nar bound themselves to the rules which were given to them by Ares, and some men started to worship Ares as "god of peace in war".

This worked for a long time. Conflicts became less, and while in former times people had worshipped Eris and prayed for her support, many now preferred Ares---or no god at all.