Origin of Gods - The Creation Myth
by Dashiell Mitera
Once, before time, before fate, before light and darkness, there was only the infinite void. The void lingered for aeons, until, for reasons mortals will never perceive, it gave itself form and identity. This void was Morwen, god of creation and destruction, the dragon at the end of the world.
Morwen, in time, grew lonely in his existence, and decided to create for himself a companion. He reached into the void around him and shaped Tanith, goddess of the Abyss, and Morwen thought -- “Well, that was a fucking mistake.”
What--? You don’t--? Look, which one of us is telling this story?
Regardless, Morwen cast Tanith into the Abyss itself, and tried once again to create a companion. This time, he created Kelesta, goddess of the fate of all things. Together, the pair decided to build a world, and crafted other gods to help manage it - Akmon, god of the sun; Barasios, god of order; Caelus, god of stone; Fodla, goddess of plants and animals; Gorath, god of chaos; Loreali, goddess of water; Rhemnys, god of fire; Rhodena, goddess of air; and Tanith as goddess of darkness.
The gods performed their tasks for a time, but again, Morwen grew bored with his creation. It was his desire to create -- and to destroy. However, Kelesta knew that fate was not yet ready for the world to be destroyed. To keep Morwen from enacting his plans, she courted and seduced him, leading him to a place of her choosing to consummate their bonding.
It was, of course, a trap.
As Morwen lay asleep after their tryst, Kelesta slipped out -- and the doors of the unbreakable cage closed behind her. Morwen awoke, raging, trying desperately to free himself from the prison in which he had been locked, but it was to no avail. The power of all the gods was woven into the bars, and not even Morwen himself could open it. He rages there still, and will continue to do so until the day he is finally set free to destroy his creation.
Kelesta, on the other hand, was also changed from their coupling, and she grew heavy with child. Eventually, she gave birth to the divine twins, Nicodemus and Peitho, the god of death and the goddess of love. With their birth, so too were created the first sentient beings, for it is the chance to die and the chance to love that make the lives of mortals bearable.
With the creation of mortals, the older gods took on new aspects to their domains. Akmon took rulership; Barasios took law; Caelus, war; Fodla, home and hearth; Gorath, madness; Loreali, healing; Rhemnys, crafts; Rhodena, survival; and Tanith, depravity.
In time, some of the gods became couples and had divine children of their own. To Caelus and Fodla were born Lucetius, god of commerce, and Eriu, goddess of valor; to Rhemnys and Loreali were born Athesne, goddess of knowledge, Sephira, goddess of the night, and Steyfano, god of trickery. Through some manipulation of her own, Tanith convinced Akmon to lay with her, and from her was born Eosphorus, god of catastrophe, though he is now the god of revolution.
That’s that, then. That’s how the gods-- what? Oh, Kallias and Elowyn? Well, Kallias is the son of Nicodemus and Sephira, and legend has it that Elowyn was mortal once before she became the goddess of twilight. But, really... those are stories for another time, my darling.