The Birth of the Gods and the World
In the beginning of there was Kaos. It was nothing and everything: an infinite spread of roiling, orderlessness. Everything and nothing briefly winked into existence before tearing itself apart again in the lawless void. Then, something created itself that thought. And it thought it didn’t want to be torn apart; it wanted to continue to exist. That will was the first law. Over time, it willed itself to know more, to be more. It’s will was so powerful and so contradictory, it fractured into different entities. These created themselves minds and forms. They were the First Gods.
For unknowable aeons they built and grew themselves, at first in isolation, unaware others existed. Then, when they could, the met and grew with each other, excited to find entities so different from themselves.
There came a time when they had nothing left to make of themselves. They grew bored, they fought for eternities for want of a new experience with allegiances shifting, ever changing.
When then had tired of this, they once more came together. They had grown all who they could be. To go further, they would have to create something outside of themselves. Matrixia created from herself Magic. The gods played and investigated, creating rules and structures to manage magic.
All but one. Kek abhorred the new structure that had been created. He wanted to return to the nebulous Kaos from where they had been birthed. In his rage, he tried to destroy the new creation. The other Gods, furious at this turned on him and Narda destroyed him in turn. He died, his body shattering and breaking into the base things from which it was made. The gods ordered these into the Elemental Planes. Where those planes overlapped, they created Ara. Duantis used his bones for the rock, his skin the earth.
Mercannan took his blood or ichre for water and flooded the land of Duantis. Duantis rose his land above the water, sculpting it higher and higher, favouring the mountains to avoid Mercannan. Being a trickster at her heart, the Degdia took Kek's last breath to form the air, and in the air created rain, so Duantis could never fully escape Mercannan.
Brigantia channelled the water shrugged off by Duantis, sending it back to Mercannan, creating the fields and the plains. Silvanus sprang green life from the land, creating the forests. Gobnin, impressed by the work of Duantis, tried to forge more mountains from fire, the remaining warmth from Kek's body. He created volcanoes, and burned away some of the green of Silvanus. Enraged, he tried to bury some of the volcanoes deep in vegetation.
Then the Energies entered the world. Belnias and Oloch brought light and darkness, from Kek's remaining hope and despair.
Together, they all contributed to this new creation.
Variations & Mutation
Most variations of this tale told in Ara since the time of Ancient Alagria (Akhret) remove Kek from the story, with the Elemental Planes created by magic. Kekian Doomsday cults were heavily suppressed and efforts were made to ensure the god itself was forgotten.
Related Organizations
Comments