Myth of the First and Last Breath

The Myth of the First and Last Breath is an ancient, all-but-forgotten story from the Age of Possibility about the goddess Fricka and her response to the first Human ever to die. It may be related to the goddess Achlys, sometimes called "the Last Breath of Death."

Summary

Fricka, Beyond the Beyond, carved this world from her own. From her life she Set herself apart, tore pieces of herself to create her siblings: her third eye to make The Fates, her second mouth to make Prometheus, the fifth chamber of her heart to make Gnotan, and so forth. From those pieces grown to godhood, more creations poured forth. Cronus spread the sky and Sisyphus laid the land. Prometheus pulled energy from aether, and the Fates wove magic from time.
All the world lacked were Souls, with the Spark of Life, to praise the Gods and reflect their power back unto them, as the Moon to the Sun. So they made them, each in turn: Gnome and Dwarf and Human. They grew and learned, and made a world in the image of the gods' realms rooted in time-bound soil. But bodies wither, though Souls may remain. And in time the first Man to die took her Final Breath.
Fricka wept. She knew her dear creations could not last; but time was too fleeting, too precious. She had given too much of herself to keep Man on this Plane for as long as the other gods' creations. She had loved too deeply and given too much. So she gathered from the air this Final Breath, her own dear spark of Loss, and carried it up with her to the realms of the gods.

Date of Setting

Early Age of Possibility (see Ages of History)