The Texts of Manuel

### Foreword

At the time of your perusal of these *Texts of Manuel* you are discerning the best current interpreted account of the current discovered and recovered texts. The texts are under constant review and are subject to corrections as the arduous process of interpreting ancient scripture has the potential to introduce minor errors. New text may be written, text may be subject to change, and text may not always appear in the same order as exhibited before. Nonetheless, as you observe these documents you are viewing the most current and most well regarded version of the *Texts of Manuel*.

### Exordium

For as long as any can remember, there has existed some degree of good and evil in the world. Now whilst this has varied through the ages, the ultimate factor in this is that there has never been a time period that has not had, or has not been preceded by, a force of good or a force of evil.

Many believe that these forces of good and evil are simply the results of human choice, but this human choice that results in negative or positive outcomes is guided by the illusions of free will and the perception that everyone acts according to the thoughts that have originated from their own minds through their own excogitation which is true but only to the extent of ~ people.

In the start, or to say in the start of the time known as history to the wight beings of our realm, there was a great land of promise. It is from this land the future of humanity stems. The recovered accounts of this time, this beginning, here are documented in my following documents.

### Section One

In the earliest accounted day, there existed a small space among the landscapes and hills. In this space lived two deities, Eilikrinís and Sousanna. Life was peaceful for a time. Their world was brought into being by two of the known ancients. Prior to the creation of the world, it was pale and cold. To this void, the Elder God created heat from the wisps of death and created the sky by bringing together himself with the pale void. To forever together, the Elder Goddess took the gift and joining with it turned into the ground by making Earth from her life and the heat provided by the Elder God, and as his equal she became the moon holding down the ground and he existed as the sun lifting up the sky. Two beings, consumed into pale nothing, joining together to breathe something into the nothing. This lasted for a short time, something with nothing in it cannot exists at rest and thus numerous forces generated from the residual void, and entered the world.

As the forces amalgamated into the world, conflict broke between them. Not all of the original forces survived the first several Eons of the world, but those that did grew in power and eventually manifested themselves. The first force to achieve manifestation was a force known as Sousanna. Sousanna, at the time of manifestation, was the strongest force of the time and found boredom with the loneliness in the world. Wind and Earth was all to see in this new world, and Sousanna grew bored. One day, Sousanna picked up a clump of dirt. An idea came over her and she began to build mounds with it. Soon the plains around her were filled with mounds, and a great darkness took over the land. Nothing could move, nothing was heard, and after an extended amount of time light returned. Everything was the same except, there were no mounds. Instead animals filled the region and large bipedal hairless primates staggered in the landscape.

As time went on, the animals strived in their new lands and there was peace. With time more and more forces manifested, the strongest of which was Eilikrinís. Eilikrinís quickly scoured the physical world, and one day discovered Sousanna. A large fight broke out between the two, but before either was able to conquer the other a realization came over the both of them. Why fight? Eilikrinís and Sousanna quickly grew to enjoy each others company and Eilikrinís began to create in order to appease Sousanna. Eilikrinís gave the bipeds and animals life, and they began to think. Life was no longer filled with lifeless being, but now the creations of Sousanna were able to reason, think, and soon learn to speak. Although, now, beings everywhere had the capacity for intelligence, the only truly intelligent beings were Eilikrinís and Sousanna, as well as the numerous other forces that still had yet to manifest themselves.  As time progressed the physical world went on in relative peace, but in the space between the air, the forces were at constant war.

### Section Two: Forces

While now, after the sacrifices of the Elders, the physical world existed with life, the void still survived by existing within the spaces between all things. In the beginning the space between all things was empty, but the forces began to inhabit it. This space, referred to as the Mesial, existed within the physical realm, known as the Apoapsis, the two spaces existed completely separate from each other. The forces could not see into the Apoapsis and the manifested within the Apoapsis could not see into the Mesial. While at the start the Mesial was devoid of all things, except for a few forces, all of the dead of the Apoapsis entered into the Mesial and lived among the now thousands of forces that were present there. The Mesial, due to to now extremely large amount of forces, became extremely violent and all things were always at war with each other constantly killing and during all the war in the Mesial, the Apoapsis remained peaceful and empty in comparison.

What exactly are these forces that have been mentioned in the earlier parts of the document? The closest thing to a force, in the realm of the Mesial, is an idea. A force does not have true mass, but it is powered by the strength behind it. When a force consumes another force, it typically increases the power of the superior force and occasionally can lead to influence the ‘idea’ within the superior force. These forces do not live in happiness, but they are sentient ideas bound within empty space. Each force is like a lobotomized man, they all almost remember emotion and feeling but are incapable of it. Because each force innately knows of feeling and life, each one desires it but cannot gain it without amassing enough power to cross over into the world of the Apoapsis and as the amount of forces in the Mesial grew, it became exponentially more difficult for any to cross the threshold into the Apoapsis as the threshold was thought to increase with the amount of forces populating both the Apoapsis and the Mesial.

Although the manifests of Sousanna and Eilikrinís were among the first to cross the threshold into the Apoapsis, they were not the only ones to ever cross into it. Numerous others eventually managed to cross over, and many of these manifests are accounted for in the later sections. As time went on, though, the forces had to struggle more to cross the threshold and thus their power in the Apoapsis varied at their start. While in theory all of the manifests could potentially amass infinite power, they are restricted by what I believe is a system of underlying forces, where each manifest is empowered by the strength of their force and their forces desire to survive. Certain time periods can be associated to differentials with the threshold and in these times the manifested that cross over typically hold immense power or bring undesirable aspects into the Apoapsis with them after their crossings.

### Section Three: Introductions

Sousanna and Eilikrinís existed for an undocumented amount of time and the world faces little threats from the outside forces. As time went on, and the threshold gradually increased, another force was able to cross and manifest. This force had struggled among the other forces and had barely been able to gain enough strength to join the world of the Apoapsis. This force would come to be known as Rótrik, the firstborn. Rótrik, due to his struggles while manifesting, entered the Apoapsis with disfigurements and Eilikrinís and Sousanna took pity upon him and aided him. The triplet soon became what could be described as acquaintances.

This trio soon began to develop and as time progressed, they grew bored with humans. Slowly they progressed into different parts of the Apoapsis. They experimented with their surrounding and eventually began to favor certain things. Eilikrinís enjoyed the crystals that exist within the ground and even created new ones. He used these crystals and metals to create. He utilized their powers and collected them in a large structure constructed by him, his home. In this structure, Eilikrinís collected his crystals and worked on creating. Eilikrinís showed little favor to the creatures that he had blessed with life, but he grew an interest after seeing them make efforts to extract these crystals from the ground. Eilikrinís taught select humans how to use these crystal and metals and how to shape them, he found company with these humans but soon grew bored and retreated to his work in his structures. Although having worked with the humans, Eilikrinís very rarely teaches new ones but his earliest teaching have been passed through the generations.

As for the case of Sousanna. She wandered the landscapes of the Apoapsis and collected oddities that fell into her path as she ventured. Sousanna had always found interest with the creatures that she had created, and frequently exchanged oddities with these creatures. As Sousanna grew more and more interested in these oddities, she began to offer more than physical objects in exchanges. In the case of a woman near a cherry forest, Sousanna found that the woman was in possession of a device capable of producing odd sounds at various pitches. At this moment Sousanna had no offerings to give the human in exchange, but instead of stealing the object Sousanna offered the human a wish. The human thought long about the offer and eventually asked for power. Sousanna then took the instrument from the human and left, after having left the woman’s features began to rapidly change and accentuate. She became taller, stronger, and more accentuated. The woman also gained ------------, and was given an additional -- years of life from Sousanna.

Sousanna took her new instrument with her, and for a large time it was one of her prized possessions. Eventually she came across Rótrik, and exchanged the instrument with him for a rare crystal. Rótrik found an extreme attraction to the instrument and soon mastered the ability of playing it. He constantly obsessed over it, and pestered Eilikrinís and Sousanna about finding new instruments for him. Rótrik was frequently interactive with the human creatures, and would preform for them with his instruments. During his interactions with these humans he would also frequently offer them wishes in exchange for a price to be paid. These wishes were typically corrupted by Rótrik and he found amusement from deceiving the creatures who accepted his offer. A man one day came to Rótrik and begged him for long life for his sickly wife. Rótrik happily obliged and the man returned home to find a large spruce tree in place of where his wife had been.