The Story of Creation
From the chaos of the outlands, Alfee sacrificed his noble stead and from her corpse formed the world with the Hand of Creation. The sources differ on what Alfee's noble stead was. Northern Wind howl states in verse that is it was a griffon. With the wings forming the sky, the claws and beak being the mountains, and the ground from the bones. Scholars south of Windhowl write that it was a serpent from which the world was anchored to. Far a across the ocean, it is a dragon whose body forms the world. From the chaos they made order. This order was named, Winfo. With an order time had meaning and so Oss'so formed. Alfee formed the Plane of Energy, that would later become the positve and negative planes, the Ethereal plane, that was saturated with energy, and the four elemental planes within the Ethereal plane. Lastly the mortal plane was made from a mix of all the following planes that preceded it. But there was no life, Alfee's creation was static and unchanging, but it was not dead, for that which never lived can never die. It was at this point that Alfee abanded this creation, leaving Oss'so and Winfo to wait for Alfee's cupbearer. Or as the carvings in the Island of Creation reads: "I will go, you and you will stay. Bow to no one save the the bearer of my cup" Why Alfee did what they did is up to much debate among their few priests, and is one of the greatest mysteries.
And so Oss'so and Winfo waited, and grew close. But then one bearing the grand cup of Alfee came, and it was Edgar. Edgar took up ruler ship of the static creation that Alfee had made. And this displeased them, on how static it was, but Edgar saw the potential in the plane of Energy and waded into it and prepared a cradle of silver. Edgar, with their sworn sword bearer at their side, Nuloff, waded to the farest place from the cradle. And, there in the place that would become the alter of the first death, with a voice that shook all of Alfee’s creation down to the pillars which lifted off the wasteland far below, Edgar commanded that Nuloff would cut out their heart and carry it to the cradle of silver, rerecorded as being "Nuloff, Nuloff, slay me, and take my heart, my core in to the craddle of silver which I had made". Nuloff refused four times, but on the fifth time of hearing Edgar's demain Nuloff gave in. As Nuloff weeping for Edgar, cut deeply in to his masters chest and took their heart. The weeping turned to pained grief cries as covered in Edgar's essence, he placed the heart in to the cradle, Cyanti was born, the first life in all of Alfee's creation. Cyanti's birth, broke the plane of energy in two. Dividing the two newly formed planes, was the Peaks of Twilight, preventing crossing by all but the most powerful means.
As Cyanti breathed life in to the world, Kon'rel was born from the same cradle that Cyanti did spring from, and as he wandered the lands seeking to better himself plants and animals sprang up. From Cyanti's breath deities did arose to rule over the many parts of creation. Hurn the survivor in a godly dual did claim the water, her birth place as her own. Jarfon ruled over the mountains, stone, metal and crafts in time. Many more did arise in time such as Melorn, Selulon, Zeffon, Eiko, Sabin, Tryan, Arvis, Urgon, Rythonos, Solur, Yehon and Bohar each taking up their godly domain. Even in Edgar's deathly state, the new life and change that they had brought pleased Edgar greatly.
However mortals had not been made in any forum, yet until Hurn formed the Tritons to wander the waves. But in there first form they had no minds of their own, and so Hurn went to Cyanti and ask for a boon, to give the Tritions minds. Cyanti said that to do such a thing Hurn would have to make great river that flowed from the silver cradle of the faewild to the alter of the first death in the shadowfell. Using the blood of Edgar and the tears that Nuloff shed for his slain lord, and her mastery over water, Hurn made the Sea of Souls. As the sea flowed under the mortal world where the mindless Tritons did dwell, Cyanti with Edgar, did fuse the first lesser souls of mortals that they had made as Hurn made the Sea of Souls, with the Tritons giving them minds of their own. The Tritons where the first to live as mortals in between god and animal.
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