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Chapter the First: The Siring
1 In the beginning, there was oblivion: a nexus within the vast emptiness of the cosmos. A being dwelled within the oblivion, and it named itself the Thayne.
2 From its hand, it created all it could touch. This material world was one the Thayne called the Firmament. The Firmament gave birth to a child; its antithesis.
3 The child was elusive, and mocked the Firmament. This became known as the Antifirmament, a realm of grey hollowness, an empty shell that still mirrors its mother realm.
4 The Great After was born of the Thayne's mouth, a place of revelry and jubilation. The Great Nether was born of the Thayne's foot, a plane of ultimate torment and suffering. The entrances and exits are such that they can only be opened by the Thayne.
5 Then, nearly as soon as it was created, the Thayne's creation began to die. The dead built up, and there was nowhere for them. They raped the Antifirmament, which was mirrored in the mother Firmament.
6 And so the Thayne blew a great breath, and created the Lands of Judgement. A great Pyre stood in its center, the measure that would determine a soul's next path.
7 But still the Thayne's child struggled. Its breathing was labored, and its heart weak.
8 This world was known as Bakh'Thayne: the first child after the Thayne.
9 It was then that the Thayne understood that one being could not control everything that it had made, and that its creation exceeded its own power in greatness. This angered the Thayne greatly.
10 In order to better control its new child, the Thayne ripped itself apart in its frustration. Thus, the holy word of Thayne no longer has a singular connotation.
11 It divided itself into seven entities, known as the Elder or Core Deities.
13 Draconus was the first. Ancient and armored, entropy would never take him.
14 Khal'jaren was second. A sage and scholar, ignorance would never repel him.
15 Jomil was third. Wise and mysterious, not even Khal'jaren could ever understand her.
16 Hromagh was fourth. Strong and fearless, another's prowess would never subdue him.
17 V'dralla was fifth. Charming and fair, age would never mar her.
18 Y'edda was sixth. Mercurial and cunning, the greatest snares could not slow her.
19 At last, there was N'jal. She was the slag, the cosmic leftovers after all the Core Deities had taken their form. She was the Nemesis. The divine anger that still burned against the first child.
20 N'jal coerced the others to believe that the child had to be punished, and brought on a great reshaping that lasted nearly a cosmic year. Such an Age has been termed the Days of the Torrent, or cosmic rebirth.
21 Realizing what evil had been done in their name, Khal'jaren spoke. "For good to flourish, that which is evil must be contained."
22 Hromagh, the strongest of them, unable to contain his own anger in N'jal's presence, raised her above his head and hurled the Great Woe, the Wicked One into a prison: a globe of rock, lit then with a fire struck by the heavenly forge.
23 N'jal scarred Hromagh then, and upon the scars were written the words "I shall return. Rejoice, O Al'Thayne, as time to rejoice shall be fleeting."
24 The Nemesis swore to bring anew the Days of the Torrent, and destroy the Thaynes' second child.
25 This second child is known as Al'Thayne, our world.
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