Garden
the Paradise Lost
Garden is a mythical land, a place of happiness and delight at the beginning of the world. Three accounts of this legendary place exist in ancient texts, the Epic of Can, the Urzan Papyrus, and most importantly the Sacred Codex.
The Sacred Codex give the best account of Garden itself, describing it as paradise at the beginning of time. In the Codex, Alu creates Aldern, plants Aterleg, and the Daemon people to living in it. Three tribes of daemon are created, the Adaite, the Alumite and the Jaraite, each dwelling in their own lands of Garden. The Adaite dwelling in the 'Cool Meadow' west of Aterleg, the Alumite in the 'Rolling Hills' to the north, and the Jaraite dwell in the 'Quiet Forest' to the east. Garden seems to be interchangeable in the Codex as both the entire land around Aterleg and specifically the region under the great tree's branches with the three other regions both under and extending beyond. The internal region, under Aterleg is described as a land of eternal light, lite by the Nura orbs of the branches above. Aterleg's light is said to bath the land is warm welcoming Magic energy.
The Epic of Can gives a similar account of Garden, the creation of Aldern by Alu (which the Epic called Arith), the planting of Aterleg and the creation of the deamon. The Epic does not give a description of the land like the Codex does, but it does give details of where Aterleg and Garden might have been. In the Epic of Can, if given account of Garden being south of 'Wat Qu Waten' (the World Above the World), a name often used by the ancients when speaking of the modern Cutting Mountains. A later reference in the Epic claims the Canite traveled south of Garden along the edge of a great body of fresh water that the Epic calls the Edin Sea. Lake Bemused being the largest body of modern Jerain, and relatively close to the Cutting Mountains has led some to assume it is what the ancient called the Edin Sea.
Though Garden is never mentioned in the Urzan Papyrus, Aterleg is. The Papyrus instead describes the lands as nations of tribes living in three regions around the tree. Enish, a land of flowers to the west, the Hills of Aradu to the north, and Jarid full of trees to the east. This has led to a clear correlation to what the Codex called the 'Cool Meadow', the 'Rolling Hills', and the 'Quiet Forest' respectively. An insight into what names were given to the lands of the prehistoric world.
In all three accounts it is under the branches of Aterleg that Alu creates the daemon people. Though none of these three account describe anything beyond the daemon people, later myths would tell of the daemon from creation being the source of later life. It is they that would branch off into the Elf, Dwarf, and Human peoples.
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