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From the void grew chaos and law.
Chaos and Law mixed, and produced Imagination, who was Dargotten.
Dargotten took Chaos, and used law to shape it into a vast ocean. He scooped mud
from the bottom of the ocean and created land. His misty breath formed the clouds and the winds.
Dargotten grew lonely, and started creating companions. First was Bewresha,
who became his wife the Nurturer, the Keeper of the Balance. Into Her hands He
gave the power to shape the Weave of Time to balance all things.
He next created Faeterna, the Tree of Life. Her limbs were huge and her leaves silvery.
Faeterna was given the power to shape Chaos directly into Life.
Dargotten then shaped the Grey Lady with the gift of Death and H'roathyll with
the gift of Entropy, and He directed them to snip the threads of the Weave where
necessary to keep the balance. Above all the others, He set His wife, who directed
each in their tasks.
Bewresha spoke to Faeterna, and from the base of her trunk sprang multitudes of
creatures, all the creatures that walked the land and flew in the skies. The
earth was nearly overrun, but the Keeper and Nurturer then directed the Grey Lady
and H'roathyll, who caused the bindings of law to break away, and the creatures
died and returned to chaos.
The creatures began to complain that they could not see. Dargotten started a fire
in the sky, and thus was born Day. He then took His eye, and created a light for
the night. He told the others that they might sacrifice a part of themselves for themselves.
The Grey Lady and Brewesha declined, but Faeterna broke off a large knot, which became
Faeterna's Harp, and Horathyll broke off his shadow, which became Shadoweye. Then
they discovered the meaning of Dargotten's words, for as their moons rose, so too
did their power; sacrificed of themselves for themselves.
From the vast morasses of Law and Chaos spun another being, who was Dargotten's
Brother. Wrythanistan looked from high above at his brother's Creation, but lost
his grip, and fell to the earth. His form vaporized, and settled about Dargotten's
Creation, becoming a source of energy. The gods...
 ... quickly learned to grasp this energy,
a source of power that did not come from Dargotten but enhanced his creation. A
part of the mist coalesced into a small green ball, that floated high and began
circling the other moons in the sky. It became the Wandering Moon, the piece of
Wrythanistan's spirit that still strove to find a place from which to view his brother's creation.
Dargotten was satisfied, and left the Balance in the care of the Bewresha. He
journeyed on, and each star is another of his creations, and in the constellations
can be seen the path he wandered. When he is finished he will return here, to his
first and best world.
Bewresha sat beneath Faeterna, and began singing a song of joy to try to cheer
herself for the loss of her husband. Faterna shivered, and some of her leaves
fell. When they struck the earth, Elves sprang up, dancing to the tune. Being
part of Faeterna, they were part of chaos and so drew on imagination even as
Dargotten and the gods did. Thus was created the first intelligent race.
The gods mused at this and watched the elves. The elves learned of the Song of Life,
but their power was much diminished from Faeterna's. Their intelligence allowed
them to tap the vapor that was Wrythanistan, and they grew in power and numbers
to cover the earth.
The Grey Lady and H'roathyll began complaining that they could not keep up; the
elves learned to avoid sickness and dangerous areas and were not so easily killed
as non-intelligent creatures. The gods deliberated, and acted.
Each creature that then sprang forth was a part of Faeterna as the elves were, and
so had intelligence and magic. Pieces of bark fell to the earth and became the tough
dwarves. Drops of sap became a race that no one remembers and is now lost, though
their fluid nature made their magic strong. Twigs became the wiry goblins. Buds
became humans, weak but full of potential. A branch fell and broke into pieces,
each piece becoming a ss'tiss.
Each race spread out to claim the earth, and the Grey Lady and H'roathyll were
satisfied. With the resulting wars and conflicts, here was the way to contain the
intelligent races.
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