The Tale of Creation

Many millennia ago, there was only What Could Be. What Was and everything else with it had faded into nothingness, only the echoes of past thoughts, memories, feelings, and energies were left to remain in the vast empty expanse left behind. All of this, both the echos and emptiness, was What Could Be. Time was immeasurable as the echos drifted through void until eventually the echoes of conjoined. While those that were discordant bounced off one another and went their separate directions, those that were harmonious coalesced to form What Is.

What Is formed the very basis of all things, what gave the world its resonance, duality, and order. However, with everything being in perfect harmony, there was no life. Although in the farthest reaches of what was left of What Could Be, as more of What Is formed, echoes that would not join willingly became trapped. These discordant echos were eventually forced to combine with each other just like the others had until they became not dualities like the rest but extremes, primordial forces that had existed long ago in What Was.

These primordial forces were so powerful that they could not be contained forever by the peaceful and stable dualities that surrounded them, and so, soon enough, they violently broke free. First came the darkness with its inky mists that shook everything that had come to be with its escape and washed over all of What Is like a stifling blanket of fog, stretching out far and thick to fill in even the farthest reaches that remained of What Could Be. Now enveloped in this darkness, the dualities became very still, their vibrance dimmed until the darkness surrounded all of What Could Be and What Is, touching what would be its rival, the second primordial force that now existed from What Was. At the touch of darkness, light was stirred as its opposite and exploded from its confinement in sharp beaming rays, the edges of which were keener than the best honed blade. Such a force carried with it the energy the likes of none has since been seen, cutting through the blanket darkness and invigorating the previously inert dualities so much that they could not sustain such a calm form and radiated this energy between each other until the first physical forms came to be.

From the combined energies of the dualities, these physical forms combined and collected until they became stars, suns, planets, and moons, all gathered closest to their most compatible sources, securing their places and powers in What Is. The darkness and light did not fade from their initial freedoms though, instead they seeped into these creations. In some places like stars, the light was more powerful than the darkness and so the stars shone with its victory. However, in other places the darkness was too thick for the light to cut through and so it remained as a blanketed body, calm and devoid of energy. On certain planets though, those closest to the strongest dualities, the battle of light and darkness began again, sparking life in the Divines, beings of creation and destruction.

These Divines, their names now lost to the sands of time, looked at all that had come to be and learned. They were not like the bodies that had formed from the primitive battles of light and dark. No, they were unique woven beings of every success and loss there had been, brought to life by the resonating energies that formed all of What Is. Just like the celestial bodies and their placements in What Is, the Divines had their aspects and specialties, never one being just the same as another. From their differences they came together upon a planet with the perfect balance of light and darkness to sustain themselves and fascinated by the means in which they had been created, attempted to create things of their own. Although, they did not have the power to create something out of nothing. Not even What Is, What Was, or What Could Be did as they all used the energies and echos. So the Divines used what was already created and shaped it into both dramatic landscapes and calm harmonious life of plants and trees. However, these things were too calm and so the darkness began to creep over the land. In order to keep the balance they had so meticulously created, they created animals which covered the planet and invigorated it again. But in the end, the energy of the creatures and the stillness of the plants and earth became turbulent once more. The Divines pondered and watched before coming to a conclusion. They needed something like themselves that would secure the balance and ensure no one side eventually won.

After many days of careful shaping, they formed the perfect being out of light and darkness, of the stillness of earth and the fire of animals, of peace and war then carefully set it upon the land. And thus, people came to be.