Dawn of Younger Races
The Maker and the Creation of Life
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Long after the first Giant and the first Elf had walked Sanzeia, the time came that the other gods saw how the power of the mortal races prayer elevated their fellows and they grew jealous. Combined they came before Hedir, the crafter, and beseeched for races of their own to be worshiped by. Hedir annoyed at the interruption and seeking to be rid of his fellow divines, bid each god to seek out an object with which to imbue each creation.
For a hundred years and a hundred days, the gods sought objects worthy of creating life. And, much to the god of craftsmen's dismay, they all returned, eager to put him to work. Hedir had heard tell of their coming, and hastily set to work fashioning life from the clay of the earth. And fine though his crafts were, they lived no more than any statue. In frustration, Hedir threw the figures from his window. It so happened that the figures landed where Maredeth, the goddess of storms was bathing. She flew into a rage at seeing the figures that had grown squat from the impact of their fall, and when the power of earth and storm struck the figures they sprang to life. Impressed by the resilience of the new creatures, she returned them to the maker's forge. They gods named them Dwarves and agreed to shepherd the new mortals for the part they had in their creation.
The first of the other gods to return was Throndar, who laid before Hedir the bodies of the 10,000 monsters that he had bested. At the same time, as if by luck, Luciel, returned from her wanderings. She bore nothing but stories of her adventures. Hedir took the blood and bone of mighty monsters and forged the orcs renowned for their strength and gifted with the curiosity and desire to explore of Luciel.
Shivad'ress returned to Hedir, her body adorned with all the jewels and precious metals of the earth and laid herself at Hedir's feet. He fashioned for her beings of incomparable beauty, but Raz'ka had brought with him a great serpent, the only being to match his boundless hunger. The serpent devoured Shivdress's golden children, and from its eggs sprung the Ap'thi, their scales made of liquid gold.
Although, knowledge of the Banished Ones was intentionally lost when Ulmark struck them from the annals, some fragmentary references suggest that the Forgotten One brought a treasure of incomparable value and the The Betrayer brought a great shell or perhaps a great feast upon a shell to Hedir.
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