Bueno,he adquirido el libro a traves de una tienda online que me lo ha traido en 20 minutos,y...

Adoro esas tiendas online

Pero cuando dice que dominarán el multiverso lo hace en plan conquistador loco del estilo "Y cuando queramos podemos dominar todas vuestras tierras! Juas, juas juas!" o es un hecho de esos contrastados?

Se alinearán las estrellas en la posición apropiada?

THE WHISPERING SHADOW

Of all questions surrounding illithids, “Where did they come
from?” is the most mysterious. For an answer to this riddle,
scholars are limited to scraps of clues from a handful of ancient
texts. The clearest reference is found in The Planetreader’s Primer,
a book of primeval knowledge published (reputedly) in the
great city at the center of all, Sigil. It speaks in certain terms
of an illithid empire that spanned worlds in a time predating
memory. So mighty was this empire that its expansion
threatened to consume even the eternal Blood War before it
was turned back.
The Astromundi Chronicles, a text of ancient yet unknown
origin, speaks of the illithids as “a race of monstrous spawn,
hidden beneath the world by their progenitors.” No clue is
given as to the identity of these progenitors. The text suggests
that the illithids hated their creators with such passion that
they lashed out against them and destroyed them utterly,
leaving no trace of their existence for the modern scholar to
examine.
The most archaic of all sources is a set of stone tablets known
as the Sargonne Prophecies, named for the city of disturbing
ruins called Sargonne. The crumbling tablets contain passages
so cryptic that they have been interpreted as prophecies rather
than as history. Each bears a central likeness of what is unmistakably
a mind fl ayer. The inscribed runes present a troubling
aspect to the observer. They tell of an illithid world “bathed in
eternal night” that is destroyed by some fi ery cataclysm, from
which the illithids fl ee in fl ying ships.

From these fragmentary glimpses into the dim past and
the oral histories of several long-lived races, scholars have
concocted the following “history” of the illithid race.
Its origin is simply unknown. Wherever they came from,
in time so ancient that no record of it exists, illithids ruled a
vast, worlds-spanning empire.
This empire, built on a foundation of slavery and domination
over whatever other races existed at that time, dwarfed
everything that has come since. At some point, certain of
those enslaved races developed a degree of resistance to the
psychic shackles of the illithids. When they had gathered
suffi cient power, the slaves revolted. How it was done no one
can say, but the slaves succeeded in toppling their masters and
winning free. The age that followed was one of unrelenting
revenge as desperate pockets of illithids were hunted and
exterminated.

The freed slaves were not free of strife, and they fell to
warring among themselves. This had two effects. First, the
feuding branches of ex-slaves became what are now known as
the githyanki and the githzerai, who make war on each other
to this day. Second, the illithids that eluded their vengeance
were able to regroup and escape to defensible fortresses
deep underground, where the gith races chose not to pursue
them.

This account is basically true in its outline but is fl awed in
one astounding respect. While the rebellion of the gith did
indeed take place in the past—about two thousand years ago,
to be precise—their mind fl ayer masters had themselves just
arrived in that era from the unimaginable future.

At the very end of time, the mind fl ayers faced extinction at
the hands of some unknown adversary. Caught in the throes
of defeat, harried in their crumbling capitals and universities
(lesser outposts had fallen eons before), the surviving illithids
concocted a desperate plan. As their last bastions were
assailed and their psychic defenses breached, the mind fl ayers
sacrifi ced countless ancient, potent elder brains to produce a
psionic maelstrom of unimaginable proportions. The ensuing
cacophony of energy demolished the very laws that support
the structure of time. The illithids and all that remained of
their decadent civilization were hurled backward across the
ravaged barriers separating the ages to arrive in the present
world, but thousands of years ago, as recorded in the Sargonne
Prophecies.

The illithids’ staggering gamble paid off. Upon arriving in
the human world of several thousand years past, they quickly
enslaved the humanoid race known as the gith, seeking to
reestablish their empire in their new age. After centuries of
servitude, the gith successfully rebelled against the mind
fl ayers. Much of the knowledge and wondrous magic brought
to the distant past from the illithid empire at the end of time
was destroyed in this rebellion, and for long years the mind
fl ayers were scattered and disorganized in its wake.
While the rebellion of the gith was a great catastrophe, the
mind fl ayers are a patient race. They need only wait in the darkness,planning, correcting foreseen mistakes, and gathering
strength for the time when they return to ascendance.

In the impossibly far future, when stars are reduced to
pale, red cinders fl ickering coldly over somnolent worlds,
the illithids will rise from their subterranean dens to face the
languid twilight and establish once more the empire they lost.

They will be stronger, crueler, and hungrier than ever, and all
hope will die.