The God
There was once a being known as the God. The God was a being of pure magic that traveled between worlds as it saw fit, doing whatever it wished. It was immense and powerful, beautiful and unknowable. All magic that ever was and ever would need to be was contained in its body, pumped by its glowing Heart. Eventually, after infinity, the God died. Its body sat, floating in the void. The Heart was still pumping full of magic, however, and it pumped so much in the dead body of the God that it burst from the chest, falling forever into the formless ocean of the World. This is now known as the Fallen Heart.
The ripples that splashed out from the Heart became the ringed land that makes up the World, and the gaps between filled back up with water. The biggest splash, where the Heart itself fell, became the great mountain that we now know as the Heart of the World. It rested on the peak, pumping and beating magic out and down the sides of the mountain. This magic fell into the sea, creating life underwater. Waves crashed on the shore and sprang up life on the surface. The pools dried out and turned to rain, sprinkling magic across every stretch of the land. Life grew everywhere.
After many thousands of years of the World existing, magic became concentrated in certain beasts that roamed the land the Heart had made. These few animals among so many grew smarter and more capable, eventually becoming the sapient species we know and are part of today. It's thanks to the God and its Heart that we exist, and can see the beauty of our World.
Variations & Mutation
"The nature of the God, what it looked like, did before its death, and what its heart looks like now, vary in description based on the culture telling the story. To the lycans, the God was a wolf-mother, and they are her pups. In the legends of the Otus, the sun is the Heart trying to reach back up to the dead body of the God at the top of the sky. If you ask the bullywugs, they'd tell you that the God's body sank to the bottom of the sea and the Heart simply floated to the top. The true nature of such a powerful and magical being is most likely incomprehensible to those of us mortal folk, no matter how much magic does flow in our bloodlines. Perhaps we can simply put the God in terms we best understand."
-Selected text from a lecture by Dolek at the Luneburg Institute.
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