The First Day and Night
Long ago when the world was new and the land and sea were young, brash Akadi and playful Istishia argued over which of the two siblings should be responsible for creating the sky. Akadi believed as the titan of air that she had dominion over the sky, where wind blew and creatures flew. But the water titan Istishia argued that he should create the sky, which was filled with clouds made of water. The two decided to settle their dispute with a competition to see who could create the most beautiful object in the sky, and the winner would have dominion over it.
Akadi snuck into Muspelheim and stole molten magma from her brother Kossuth, the titan of fire, which she combined with her elemental winds to create the sun. Meanwhile, Istishia took silver from deposits beneath the land, swirled it into ebbs and eddies with his elemental tides and tossed it into the night sky, forming both the stars and the moon.
Proud Kossuth learned of the competition and was furious with his sister's thievery. He poured his anger into her sun, which flared with bright light and brought the first day to Divostra. Grumbar, the titan of earth, who had been admiring the twinkling of Istitshia's stars before the daylight made them impossible to see, reached for the sun to try and push it below the horizon. It burned his hand, so he was only able to set the celestial body into rotation, which began the cycle of day and night.
In the end, all four Titans found beauty in both the day and night, and Akadi and Istishia agreed that they would work together to create the sky, combining air and water to create clouds, weather, and the beasts that flew between.
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