Creation Myth

**In the beginning, nothing existed, and yet everything.**

**There was only the Elemental Chaos. Everything was there, but nothing had formed yet. Everything was everywhere, and the Elements were fighting one another for dominance. For how long this continued no one knows, for Time itself did not exist. And so they continued to fight.**

**Until Earth and Water made a pact. An allegiance against the other two Elements. Thus was the World created, the first thing to exist within the great Emptiness. Earth provided the land, and Water nestled itself on it, to form rivers and seas and oceans. Many beautiful things they created together; trees and flowers and all the animals to inhabit the newly created World.**

**When they saw this, Fire and Air were enraged. They let go of their anger against each other and they too made an alliance, and a promise to destroy all of it. Thus was the Sky created, the Air high above the world with the Fire from the sun and stars blazing in it. But they created one more thing. Fire and Air combined their powers, and created the very first Dragons.**

**And the Dragons flew forth on the Air, and unleashed their Fire onto the World. They burned the trees and flowers. They killed the animals. They scorched the Earth and evaporated the Water.**

**The War of the Elements continued. Many horrible monsters were created in that era, and many disasters struck. Somewhere then, the sky decide to rain fire onto the world. Fireballs and comets shot from the air and tormented the ground. A fireball as big as the Royal Palace in our city of Si-Tahna struck the mud between the Water and the Earth. Suddenly, one thing happened no one could have expected, for that one moment all the Elements were together once more.**

**The explosion that followed killed everything within a hundred miles. For several years the land was uninhabitable. Then, the way the Phoenix arises from its ashes, something crawled out of the mud and grime. The elements beheld the very first Man.**

**Adam looked around himself and saw the desolation. He saw and He realised. He fell onto His knees and cried out toward the Elements: “Why? Why this destruction? Fire, what hast Water done to unleash thy fury? Earth, what hast Air done to invoke thy wrath? Cannot we live in harmony? Look at me. Look at what thou can create when thou worketh together. Cannot you see?”**

**And the Elements saw. They saw the Dragons and the Leviathans and the Golems and the Spectres, and all the terrible destruction they had caused. And above all they saw Adam on his knees, their beautiful creation who is the impersonation of all the Elements together.**

**And they decided to quit the war. They also decided to reward the one who gave them this new insight: Man. They combined their powers once more and pulled the second Human out of the dust from which Adam had been born. But this was not a Man. Adam was born from violence and in times of war. This one not so. And while it lacked the strength and brute force of a Man, it was beautiful and graceful far beyond comparison. This was Eve, the first Woman. Adam saw her and immediately fell in love with her. And they married and Adam built them a house on top a hill, and Eve gave birth to many children. And so Mankind populated the World. They were the creators, the inventors and the builders. After the War, the world finally found peace.**