VOLUME I - GENESIS OF REQUIEM
For many scores of years humanity resided there in Sumer. The soils were blessed by the gifts of the river and rains, and Otto III's creation lived in harmony and prosperity. The land's inhabitants need not toil, for crops of plenty bloomed without intervention.
They knew not of cruelty nor of selfishness, and thus were granted the freedom to enact kindness upon their kin without reservation. In time, Otto III supplied Sumer and its people with libraries of wisdom, such that they may glean knowledge of His world, should they so desire.
It eventually came to be that one of Otto III's servants became host to its own set of ambitions, and sought to subject humanity to its whims. So, the Serpent Ayn Rand introduced its own work into Sumer's libraries in secret.
Those who first discovered and read this accursed book were afflicted by the venom carefully woven into each word, which afflicted not the body, but rather the mind. So, the readers were entranced by corrupting whispers of false promises. The first copy of Atlas Shrugged had been penned, and its work set into motion.
Almost at once, a sickness took hold of Sumer and its inhabitants. The Empire's people came to know of selfishness, power, and greed. They divorced themselves from the transactions embedded within natural existence, and began to implement their own perversions of the primordial transactions, after Ayn Rand's designs. Thus was the creation of the first economy.
Otto III noticed the turmoil which now consumed His Empire of Paradise, and so He descended, and the people of Sumer cowered before Him as He spoke: "Why do you cower and clamor so, my children?" One Sumerian replied thusly: "We hide because we are but poor commoners, my Emperor." Otto III, now seeing plain the sickness which now plagued the hearts and minds of His children, then asked: "Who told you that you are poor?" The people then spoke of a book which provided unto them forbidden knowledge, and Otto III was at once able to see the mark of the Serpent upon its pages.
Otto III then brought Ayn Rand before Him, and stripped the creature of all its limbs. He then declared: "You shall walk the world no longer. For your transgressions you are to slither forevermore. You and all who follow your teachings will surely find their undoing." He then spoke to his people: "To you, my unfortunate children, I can offer only my forgiveness, for forgetfulness is too great a curse to inflict, even should it masquerade as a blessing." The most corrupted of His people would not accept Otto III's forgiveness, and thus left the land of Sumer to settle wherever they could find. So it came to be that the other river valleys of the world came to house civilizations of their own.
The most dedicated children of Otto III, though still afflicted with the wounds brought on by the Serpent's teachings, stayed behind in Sumer. Though, the land did not know prosperity as it had before. Man came to oppress man, neighbour came to distrust neighbour, and the meek were trodden upon by the strong. Still, the Sumerians continued to enjoy greater prosperity than those who settled in faraway lands, for they retained the faintest spark of the grace given by Otto III's divinity.
So, Otto III's people came to be divorced from His will and divinity. Fated were they to squabble amongst themselves, and be subject eternal to the tug of the existential forces: the love of their Creator; and the love of themselves. In this way, new, man-made empires would arise, and would in time to the same forces fall.