Great Devouring
The Great Devouring is a Teme-Rasadan myth detailing the creation of the Beast of Temekus and prophecying the eventual and inevitable destruction of reality at its hands.
Summary
In reality's infancy, it is said that only two forces existed: Temekus and Rasadan. Temekus was the still, dark void of space and time, and Rasadan the crackle of magical energy that pulsed throughout. For a while, only the pair existed, seperate and equal, in perfect harmony with each other, until they were no longer content to be alone. When that time arrived, they together granted life to six deities: Aapeli, Kielo, Milja, Valjof, Kaisu, and Aaniki.
As these newborn gods came into being, the divine energy weaved reality around them, creating the planes themselves. Curious and excited, the new gods explored these vast, wondrous halls, generating powerful beings in the wake of their footsteps. Much like the gods themselves, these first powerful beings possessed awesome powers of creation, adaptibility, and cognition. As time passed, these beings created and reproduced again and again, bearing several new generations of life.
The most adaptable among these were the children of Kaisu, who came to eventually inheret the material plane. These children were also intelligent and observant, and as time passed, they noticed a frightening trend. As more of reality took shape, and more generations of creatures were born as time went on, each new generation of being was progressively weakening. They were capable of less incredible feats, they could endure less before their bodies wore out and eventually broke down, and worst of all, they felt further from their gods and from Temekus and Rasadan themselves.
They brought their concerns to Kielo, and together they discovered a disturbing truth: the voidstuff from which they were all born was diminishing as reality expanded, expending the divine energy of Temekus and Rasadan themselves. As a result, subsequent generations were born with less of a connection to the divine, naturally evolving into simpler, less adaptable forms as a means to conserve the void material from which everything came. Reality's days were numbered - at some point, the divine energy woul be depleted, and reality extinguished forever.
Saddened and afraid for the future, Kielo's people begged him to speak with the other gods and create a solution. After meeting with Temekus, Kielo came back to the material plane offering this prophecy:
There would indeed come a day when all matter they were made of was stripped and drained of its divine energy, and there would be no more resources left with which to continue. When that time drew nigh, Temekus vowed to send down a fearsome beast, strong and capable enough to devour reality as a whole. With a voracious appetite, the beast would eat until nothing but itself remained and, full with all of the matter of the universe, it would explode, recycling the divine energy and allowing the universe to start anew.
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