Eden Blues

An epic romance of interplanetary horticulture

As transcribed into 21^st Century English by Meighan Chimera

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A collection of source documents concerning

the incorporation of the K’ntasari of Eden into the Skarsian Matriarchy and

The Investigation of the Lords of the Inner Vent under the direction of the Combine of Sentients

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Edited by Tara del D’myn, Ph.D., Marquesa of Dolparessa, Empress of Sideria and Matriarch of Skarsia and

His Most Sublime and Eminent Radiance, Ailann Tiarnan, Archon of Skarsia, 10^th emanation of the Atlas Tree, first body of Ashtara

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Quotes from the Pseudepigrapha are public domain and can be found at www.gutenberg.org

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A Note from the Editors

Translator’s Note

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The First Trial: Dermot McRath and David Gannon vs. the Combined Emanations of Atlas and Goliath Representing the Will of Ashtara

“Look at this cave that is to be our prison in this world, and a place of punishment! What is it compared with the garden? What is its narrowness compared with the space of the other?”

“…But now we do not see as we did: our eyes have become of flesh; they cannot see in like manner as they saw before…What is our body to-day, compared to what it was in former days, when we dwelt in the garden?”

Pseudepigrapha: First book of Adam and Eve, Chapter 4 (Malan and Trumpp trans.)

Exhibit 1: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia.

Exhibit 1a: Transcript of Audio Recording 2nd Workday of Fireside, 3608

The Testimony of Manasseh

Exhibit 2: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

The Testimony of Aran

Exhibit 3: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

The Testimony of Ailann Tiarnan, Archon of Skarsia

Exhibit 4: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

The Testimony of Donovan Chase

Exhibit 5: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

The Testimony of Sir James Maonach

Exhibit 6: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

The Testimony of Hurley O’Niall

Exhibit 7: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

The Testimony of Valentin

The Testimony of Ari

The Testimony of Thomas

Exhibit 8: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

Exhibit 9: The Testimony of Malachi (as transcribed from the datapad left in Tara’s stateroom)

Exhibit 10: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

The Testimony of Davy Gannon

Exhibit 11: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

The Testimony of Patrick Fitzroy

Exhibit 12: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

The Testimony of Ross Adare

Exhibit 13: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

The Testimony of Sir Kaman Rafmin

The Testimony of Clive Rivers

Exhibit 14: The Transcript of the Restoration Day Speech of His Holiness the 2nd Archon of Skarsia; the subsequent press conference added as an appendix

Exhibit 15: Communication from Elma’ashra, Cantor of the Apple and Rose Society to Wyrd Elma, High Prophetess of the Matriarchy

The Testimony of Dermot McRath

Exhibit 16: Letter from Tara del D’myn, Matriarch of Skarsia

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The Second Trial: Ashtara Representing the Nau’gsh vs. the SongLuminants, Representing the Combined Will of All Advanced Sentient Species

Because—whereas until this time they had been in the garden land, beautifully planted with all manner of trees—they now saw themselves, in a strange land, which they knew not, and had never seen.