Post by Drunken_Shinobi on Oct 30, 2013 20:42:26 GMT -5
In the beginning there existed only the Divine Siblings, the God Ramael and his Sister Cosmos.
Cosmos, saddened at how empty the realm seemed, brought forth the idea of creating a world to fill that void. It was with this that she created the first of her children, the Celestials, and Ramael his Demons for he believed that for there to be good so too must there be evil. Thus began the first age of Xanivus (High-Celestian word. Literally translates to "Bauble of the Gods"), a shapeless world where lived the first races.
As the siblings looked upon that empty template, they agreed that it should be given a form of which its denizens could enjoy. Thus the Wardens, painters of the world, were created. The Wardens immediately set about their task of creation, forming the mountains and the seas, the forests and the plains, the very beginning of nature itself. Ramael grew bored with the still young world and turned a blind eye to his Demons even as they took enjoyment in destroying the work of the Wardens and in time even began to hunt the landscapers for sport.
As the numbers dwindled to the last ten, the Wardens realised that the could not defend themselves from their destruction and returned to the first tree of creation. It was in front of this great tree that they pooled their collective lifeforce, forfeiting their own existence in order to create a being whose existence would purely be to protect that which was unable to protect itself. Thus was born the great Druid, Genesis, guardian of all the nature in the world. An individual welding greater power then any mortal, but far from the Divine Siblings.
Cosmos and Ramael both knew that Genesis alone could not inhabit the earth, locked in eternal battle with the Demonic forces. The world needed life! With that realization the siblings set out to designing the Mortals.
This proved an arduous task, even for those welding infinite power. Many difficult choices presented themselves at every step for the Gods. Which qualities would these mortals be capable of possessing? This question lead to the creation of the first Proto-Mortals. The Emotional Avatars. Beings who wholly represented one single aspect of their Creators. Love. Hate. Anger. Sorrow. Happiness. Lust. Greed. Apathy. Courage. Fear.
These individuals were left to their own devices while the siblings watched over them and evaluated their interactions, deeming all of these qualities necessary for a truly whole being. Though the faces of the Avatar's have changed since their creation, these beings still walk the very Earth we call home.
Cosmos looked upon the formed earth, pleased at how beautiful it had become, though in her heart she felt that the young world was still far too empty. Thus she began giving life to the goodly races, from the elves in the forests to the dwarves in the mountains.
Ramael looked upon her work and created the races that would be their counterparts, from the small but vicious goblins to the war hungry orcs. Knowing the damage that Ramael's demons had done, Cosmos appointed a guardian for all that was good from amongst her first children, the Celestials. Thus was the creation of the first Arch-Angel, champion of the Goddess and of the mortal races.
Ramael was highly amused by this and selected from his own races a champion of his own, an agent whose sole purpose was to spread the seed of chaos and eventually to challenge the Champion of Cosmos.
With the world formed and the races created, Ramael and Cosmos created realms to call their own and retreated to them to watch over the young world and exert their influence upon it, that of life and death, light and darkness, order and chaos.
However, recent tales have begun to emerge claiming that the gods themselves have taken to walking the mortal coil...
Cosmos, saddened at how empty the realm seemed, brought forth the idea of creating a world to fill that void. It was with this that she created the first of her children, the Celestials, and Ramael his Demons for he believed that for there to be good so too must there be evil. Thus began the first age of Xanivus (High-Celestian word. Literally translates to "Bauble of the Gods"), a shapeless world where lived the first races.
As the siblings looked upon that empty template, they agreed that it should be given a form of which its denizens could enjoy. Thus the Wardens, painters of the world, were created. The Wardens immediately set about their task of creation, forming the mountains and the seas, the forests and the plains, the very beginning of nature itself. Ramael grew bored with the still young world and turned a blind eye to his Demons even as they took enjoyment in destroying the work of the Wardens and in time even began to hunt the landscapers for sport.
As the numbers dwindled to the last ten, the Wardens realised that the could not defend themselves from their destruction and returned to the first tree of creation. It was in front of this great tree that they pooled their collective lifeforce, forfeiting their own existence in order to create a being whose existence would purely be to protect that which was unable to protect itself. Thus was born the great Druid, Genesis, guardian of all the nature in the world. An individual welding greater power then any mortal, but far from the Divine Siblings.
Cosmos and Ramael both knew that Genesis alone could not inhabit the earth, locked in eternal battle with the Demonic forces. The world needed life! With that realization the siblings set out to designing the Mortals.
This proved an arduous task, even for those welding infinite power. Many difficult choices presented themselves at every step for the Gods. Which qualities would these mortals be capable of possessing? This question lead to the creation of the first Proto-Mortals. The Emotional Avatars. Beings who wholly represented one single aspect of their Creators. Love. Hate. Anger. Sorrow. Happiness. Lust. Greed. Apathy. Courage. Fear.
These individuals were left to their own devices while the siblings watched over them and evaluated their interactions, deeming all of these qualities necessary for a truly whole being. Though the faces of the Avatar's have changed since their creation, these beings still walk the very Earth we call home.
Cosmos looked upon the formed earth, pleased at how beautiful it had become, though in her heart she felt that the young world was still far too empty. Thus she began giving life to the goodly races, from the elves in the forests to the dwarves in the mountains.
Ramael looked upon her work and created the races that would be their counterparts, from the small but vicious goblins to the war hungry orcs. Knowing the damage that Ramael's demons had done, Cosmos appointed a guardian for all that was good from amongst her first children, the Celestials. Thus was the creation of the first Arch-Angel, champion of the Goddess and of the mortal races.
Ramael was highly amused by this and selected from his own races a champion of his own, an agent whose sole purpose was to spread the seed of chaos and eventually to challenge the Champion of Cosmos.
With the world formed and the races created, Ramael and Cosmos created realms to call their own and retreated to them to watch over the young world and exert their influence upon it, that of life and death, light and darkness, order and chaos.
However, recent tales have begun to emerge claiming that the gods themselves have taken to walking the mortal coil...