Tablet of Creation

The Tablet of Creation is a name given to a clay tablet found in the Great Desert south of Osternfell. It is the oldest text found relating to the gods and to Creation.

Current Date: 2^nd of Latsum, 1572

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Tablet of Creation

As translated to common:

^A:A;Birth

^A:A;First were Ruak of chaos change and Vash of order and law.
^A:B;Ever fighting but equals, clashing with terrible power.
^A:C;Through their fight Rhaan was the first to be born.

^A:D;With Rhaan inception light emerged and time began to flow.
^A:E;Seeing Ruak and Vash fight, Rhaan tried to halt them and as he stood between them he tore a piece of each.
^A:F;He then tried to sew the pieces back but Ruak rejected his offer.

^B:A;Vash took pity on her offspring, took both pieces and shaped them into a being equal to Rhaan.
^B:B;With a mother's love Nymm was born.
^B:C;Through Nymm, matter started to spread across the nothing, flowing freely, colliding and disrupting with itself.

^B:D;Rhaan and Nymm started to play a tune and as they danced together time and motion started spinning around them.
^B:E;Shaping and binding the elemental forces into their own domains.
^B:F;Law and Structure was brought into as the planes.
^C:A;As the elemental planes fell into order the two began to work together on Creation.

^C:B;Nymm commanded the elemental planes to create a singular, beautiful, endless realm.
^C:C;Rhaan created a sun to warm the land, and two moons, Baro and Idon.
^C:D;To control the tides and bid the water into seas and away from the land.
^C:E;Finally, Nymm covered the bare land with trees and flowers, creating meadows and forests.

^A:B;Soul

^A:A;Nymm took clay from the newly created land and began shaping it in many different forms.
^A:B;Rhaan put his light inside them, creating the first animals and fish.
^A:C;For eons they ruled together over their realm, creating more life and more land.
^A:D;Together they forged the First Souls to care for the realm.

^A:E;The First Souls cared for the garden and kept it in pristine condition, untouched and unchanging.
^A:F;Nymm desired to show their subjects how to create for themselves.
^B:A;Rhaan was curious regarding his creations potential.
^B:B;He agreed to give them the knowledge to change and create under supervision.

^B:C;They each took a small piece of themselves and forged them into a new being, Talador.
^B:D;Who shall oversee all the knowledge and learning in the planes.
^B:E;They then gave him the powers to fabric his own will into reality.
^B:F;Talador coated the planes with a weave of his own divine energy.
^C:A;allowing others to tap into his powers and thus creating the forces of magic.

^C:B;Talador teaches the First Souls how to build, create and change the land and gave them their own visions and ambitions.
^C:C;The First Souls worked tirelessly as they built magnificent kingdoms, intricate constructs and magical towers.
^D:D;Living in peace and prosperity under the strict law of Rhaan and the motherly guidance of Nymm.

^A:C;Chaos

^A:A;Extensive use of magic caught Ruak's gaze who saw its order and prosperity and sought to corrupt it.
^A:B;He managed to seduce some of the First Souls, and in exchange for immense power he changed them into the first Devils.
^A:C;The devils used the powers given to them by Ruak to open an entrance into the Abyss, summoning unspeakable horrors and demons.
^A:D;The demons rampaged the plane, decimating everything in their path, killing and corrupting the land Itself.

^A:E;The First Souls, incapable of standing against the creatures turned to Talador for advice.
^A:F;Talador convinced Rhaan and Nymm to both shed another piece of themselves to create another being, equal to him to guard their garden.
^B:A;The Gods agreed.

^B:B;Nymm and Rhaan each took another piece of themselves and forged them together into Eyre.
^B:C;Talador knew that a deity whose destiny is war and destruction would eventually turn on creation to conquer it for himself.
^B:D;During Eyre's inception he took the piece of Rhaan and cursed it to never achieve its full potential.
^B:E;Thus Eyre was destined to always eventually fail.

^A:D;Death

^A:A;Eyre and the First Souls were locked for eons with Ruak's forces in battlefields that stretched over entire continents.
^A:B;Never moving an inch, forward or backward.
^A:C;There was no death before the corruption, the torn souls were left wandering, free to grab.
^A:D;Both for demons and First Souls alike.
^A:E;Allowing lesser beings achieve great powers.
^A:F;The balance was been broken.

^B:A;Nymm saw her creations were massacred and brutalized.
^B:B;Tried to collect those she found and create them anew.
^B:C;Each time they were less of themselves and more like the devils of Ruak.
^B:D;Cruel and unforgiving, knowing nothing but ambition and desires.
^B:E;With great sorrow Nymm shed a tear that fell into the ground below.

^A:E;Sin

^A:A;A mage saw the tear fall and sought to find it.
^A:B;As she touched the tear she gained the omniscience and immortality of the goddess.
^A:C;But the tear did not contain a single drop of Nymm's motherly love.
^A:D;And the mage was turned and twisted into a terrible abomination.

^A:E;Unable to die but unable to live, she went mad with sorrow and pain.
^A:F;She began tearing and devouring the nearby souls of the fallen, in vain hope of regaining her previous form.
^B:A;Until she could do nothing but devour more and more souls.

^B:B;Ruak proposed the mage a deal.
^B:C;Wield the mind of a god and keep her sanity in return for opening the way into the realm for him.
^B:D;The ritual lasted a century when she managed to open a way for Ruak.

^A:F;Judgement

^A:A;Rhaan, furious of her actions, struck her name and appearance from existence and banished her from the plains.
^A:B;To wander the space around them, forced to guide souls to their rightful destinations.
^A:C;Allowed to consume only those that are completely beyond help.

^A:D;Talador convinced the other gods to participate in a ritual.
^A:F;Allow Vash to also directly intervene with the realm and balance of Ruak.
^B:A;Unknown to the other gods, Talador changed parts of the ritual.
^B:C;Trapping the gods and siphoning the four powers and Vash's power as she entered into the realm.
^B:D;planning on dividing the four gods' powers equally between them, making them true equals.

^B:E;Vash discovered Talador's plan as she passed into the inner plane.
^B:F;Clashing with Ruak left her powerless to stop the plot.
^C:A;Instead, she grappled Ruak and threw herself with him toward the outer planes.
^C:B;By doing so she tore a hole in reality itself.
^C:C;Dividing the realm into two separate and completely contrasted planes.
^C:D;Separating the elements themselves into their own domains.

^B:A;Punishment

^A:A;In place of the original realm a bubble was formed, littered with traces of both Vash and Ruak floating among the the garden's ruins.
^A:B;As the elements started flowing back into the sphere from both planes as they reform.
^A:C;emerging back but not as it originally was.

^A:D;One half was strange and wild and the other twisted and dark.
^A:E;Between them a circle of influence was created.
^A:F;The Souls who returned were also changed.
^B:A;now susceptible to time and the numerous diseases, plagues, monsters and other dangers who now share their domains.

^B:B;Vash was furious at the gods for trying to harness her power and as punishment she constructed the Wheel.
^B:C;The now equal gods were bound each to three spokes stretching out from the Inner Planes toward the Astral plane.
^B:D;Forming four separate domains.

^B:E;Vash banned them from directly intervening with their creations outside of their own domains.
^B:F;Finally she punished Talador by changing his Weave, putting a limit to the power of magic wielded by mortals and forcing the god to constantly watch over and maintain it.

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