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Creation of the World Known

In the beginning, there was peace. In the infinite abyss, there was eternal silence and order. In the midst of this emptiness, Eternity existed. Eternity, when it perceived itself, did so simultaneously in the past, the present and the future, not being limited by this perspective. When this happened, the order was disrupted, so Time was created, which trapped Eternity and changed it in the past and erased it from the future. Then Eternity became Existence and it gained consciousness in the present. Existence looked around, unable to see anything in the infinite order or hear the total silence. This did not please Existence.   It decided not to be alone. And it happened. Air, Water, Earth and Fire appeared next to it. Existence smiled and then gave each of its new friends a bit of itself. This is how the Elemental Spheres came into being.   Existence looked around a second time. It decided to break the original rules that had prevailed since it could remember. It looked at Peace and Order and then decided to create Chaos. And it happened. This is how the three Reality Spheres came into existence, and the first contradiction was created in the universe.   Chaos, waking up, did not look, that is why it remembered darkness. Therefore, it then began to scatter the darkness around it. Peace formed brightness in response, wanting to stop the newborn. Order stepped in between the contention of the two, thinking that each had its place. Then the Reality Spheres collided, merging in the same place. The collision was so strong that it also attracted the Elemental Spheres to each other. The merging of these many different energies resulted in the creation of the Creation Sphere, which was later named Ferdlan. The Elemental Spheres returned to their places and then began to observe Ferdlan from a distance, circling around it. The Spheres of Reality were not so quick to settle the dispute, so they bound themselves to Ferdlan, each wanting to prove their point on him, and became different reflections of him. Existence watched from afar, pleased that the new inhabitants of this once-empty place had created something together, however reluctantly.   Ferdlan awoke simultaneously with the ten inhabiting minds. These consciousnesses took on different bodies that reflected their perceptions of themselves. Thus were born the Ten Races: Humans, Elves, Lowlanders, Goblins, Firbolgs, Orcs, Dwarves, Giants, Dragons and Cherokees. Years passed, the first settlements and communities began to form, and the races began to understand the workings of the world, gaining power and strength. From each race a single individual stood out, amazing and powerful in its own way. Existence noticed them and decided to give them insight into the true nature of the world. Along with this knowledge, they were endowed with even greater power, which they later called divinity. Meral, the Fire-haired Human, was endowed with power over magic. Ev, the Red Elf, was endowed with power over the natural order. Kilion, the Rainbow Dragon, was given power over life. Mino, the Black Nydus, was given power over death. Juon, the Blind Halfling, was endowed with the power over giving. Tawar, the Crippled Goblin, was given the power over receiving. Quarith, the Last Firbolg, was given the power over love. Yrareal, the Lonely Orc, was given the power over hate. Howith, the Black-handed Dwarf, was given power over creation. Oural, the Greatest Giant, was given power over destruction. Each pair of opposing new gods was also endowed with small Spheres, which subsequently became the domains of their power.   This is how the Ten Gods came into being, and since their ascension, they have exercised authority over Ferdlan and the other Spheres.   The Ten Gods visited Ferdlan, descending to its surface and sharing their power for fourteen millennia until an idea was born in the minds of the Gods. They decided to manifest themselves on Ferdlan simultaneously for the first time since their ascension and to strengthen their influence in the Creation Spheres to a level they had never reached before. What even they did not know, however, was that the power of Existence that had accumulated within them had torn the shield of Ferdlan separating it from the other Spheres. The essence of the other seven Spheres began to pour into it, causing changes on an enormous scale. The Gods gathered together in the realms, now called the Divine Lands, and used their power and authority to renew the Ferdlan barrier. They accomplished this, but at a cost. The Ten Gods used their power to draw the other Spheres away from pouring into the Creation Sphere, so they cut off their access to its interior.   This event is known as the Godsdoom, from which the Ten Gods lost direct influence in Ferdlan, forcing them to send Demigods carrying their power into it.

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