Creation

## Regnum Caelorum

The Teluna Empire's Regnum Caelorum gives the following account of the creation of their world.

When the world was new, the Shattered God dreamed, whole and unshattered, in the void between the land and the sun. In the dreams of the Shattered God her fears and her hopes gave rise to the dark and the light, and those who dwell within each. When the Shattered God woke, she gave rise to her children she called the primordials who shaped the land, gave voice to the moons, and shut out the dark and the light in the void beneath the land. Here were the dwarves given form and purpose, and set to guard the deepest recesses of the earth. It was within the earth that the dwarves spoke to that which gave them shelter, food, and safety - "I am Borlum, the mother and the father both, and that which would hold and guard you against all the dangers beneath the world." Borlum, the primordial who had created the dwarves, spoke now to their children and gave them purpose and rest.

Then as the primordials shaped the land, the balance was struck between the earth, the sea, and the sky, and the elves were given dominion over that which was life, and set to guide this balance so the primordials could turn their focus elsewhere. As the elves spoke to the earth, the sea, and the sky, the sky in the night answered back with the voice of a mother. "I am here, little ones, and here I shall guide and guard you, and nurture you through all the long years of your lives." Aejuna, the Major Moon, would show herself to those she loved, and adopt them in her way from the fleeting attentions of the primordials and the Shattered God.

In time the balance of life gave rise to the first of humanity, in small tribes of the old ways. These first of humanity were weak and insipid, unable to wield a pen or strike a hammer. It was with spear and flame alone that humanity found its way, meeting with the dwarves who were first and clashing with the now ancient elves. Aejuna saw these creatures and spoke to the Shattered God on their behalf, praising them to be the representations of the balance of life between the earth, the sea, and the sky. The Shattered God saw this, and spoke - "It is good, these creatures, that they stand at the crossroads of all things. I will place them at the crossroads of all life, so they may show the rest how best to act." And so the Shattered God placed humanity across all the lands beside the sea and beneath the sky, and bid them to spread across the land as its rightful heirs.

From another land, then, outside of the bounds of our world, came the dragons. Great creatures, larger still than those today, flew astride the winds of the sky and hunted deep beneath the sea and devoured the great bounties of the earth. It was humanity that found their heart, and humanity for which the dragons would give their all. The great beasts and the humans worked as one, and found the faults in their hearts - For uncounted ages of life humanity had lain dormant. For uncounted ages humanity could not grow. It was the dragons who questioned the Shattered God, and for this questioning was the greatest of their kind broken. Seiberonov, the First Dragon, the father of their kind, was struck from the sky, shattered the earth, and rotted beneath the sea. For this transgression the humans and dragons both would ally, and against the progenitor of all things would fight to the last. The Shattered God raged against this rebellion, and struck further against those who would steal away her own creations.

Aejuna, in her wisdom, would hide away the greatest of mortals in his infancy.