Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Arigonean Creation Myth

From the Luminatus, Chapter 2:

There were four in the beginning, and there was balance. Those four were Arigon, father of light, Draconis, lord of darkness, Layla, mother of life, and Charvix, bringer of death. The Sea of Stars ran its eternal course above, and the Chaos whirled below. And Arigon made his domain among the Stars, and called it the Sun, and it was a world of light. Layla made her realm of the elements from the Chaos, and it was a realm of life. Charvix crafted his world from the shadows between the stars, and his kingdom harbored the spirits of death.

But Draconis had no domain to call his own, so he made a secret world between the Chaos and the Sea, between the land of life and the kingdom of death, and he called it Primus. And he shaped this secret world and hid it in his darkness, and the rest of the four knew not about it. He brooded in his realm and grew distant from the other gods, resenting their decisions and hating their servants, and his world became tainted and dark.

In time, the gods grew tired of Draconis and his open resentment of them and the Old Law which bound them. They cast him out of their council chambers, and he plummeted into his realm. When he fell, he broke into pieces, and these pieces became the first of the Dragons.

Over an age, the darkness around Primus cleared, and the gods forgot that world. In this age, the Second generation of gods was born. Golond, and Lena, and Vrojk, and Vivec, and Fargoth, and Icthareon were they. And Golond took interest in Primus and dwelt inside its stones. He made from them his children, the Dwarves. And they worked the stone of Primus.

And Fargoth saw the dry stone and filled its valleys with water, and called it the Sea, after the Sea of Stars into which he had been born. And he ruled the sea as Golond ruled the stone, and
his children were the peoples of the sea.

The realm of life and the kingdom of death were close upon Primus, and from the land of life came the beasts of the world, and the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea. And the peoples of the land of life also came to Primus, and they were called the Elves. And death spirits came from the realm of death, and the dwarves and the elves knew mortality.

The gods in their realms took little notice of Golond and his kingdom, and the dwarves and the elves and the Dragons lived and flourished. But from his citadel, Vrojk looked upon Lena, and he was filled with desire for her, and his need consumed him. But she would not requite him, so his desire bred in him anger and hate. He waited for her to be alone, and he came upon her and knew her, and she grew with child.

But the hate of Vrojk corrupted the child, and he was born with conflict in his heart, and Lena called him Man. She was afraid, for she loved the child, but Vrojk hated him, so Lena hid Man in Primus, where she thought Vrojk would not deign to look.

And Man flourished and multiplied throughout the land, living among the Elves and the Dwarves...

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