Sahul

## Creation

In the beginning there was nothing. Not a word, not a sign, not even a thought. Only an empty void filled with mist was there at the beginning of things. The mist flowed and swirled violently in a maelstrom, and eventually condensed into the biggest drop of dew that ever was and ever would be. This dew drop fell further and further into the coldness of the void, slowly freezing into a solid drop of ice, but in the heart of ice just enough liquid remained to hold a tadpole, the first being called Az. This tadpole grew and grew, nourishing itself of the ice around it until it became a giant toad, bigger than several worlds, and broke from his icy home.

The toad floated happily in the nothingness it had found, letting the water in its body cascade down into the void. From this rain new life was formed: First two fish, then two lizards, and finally two man. These where the first gods, Tenno and Konsulh. The two gods swam in the waters they where born in, hunting the fish and lizards inside, but they desired somewhere to cook, somewhere to rest, somewhere to call home. So they began to swim upstream, higher and higher until they eventually discovered the source of the water, Az. The boys climbed on the toad, making their homes on its back. At first they where happy: they had food to eat, water to swim, and a place to rest. But they just didn't feel at home.

Az however didn't make it the two gods easy either, every time they began a fire he would begin to shake. Konsulh, the more juvenile of the two, was amused by the temperament of Az, but Tenno, who saw himself as the leader, got more and more frustrated with each twitch and jerk, until he finally had enough, and slaughtered the beast. With a great thrust he stabbed his spear into the temple of the great toad, slaughtering it. Then he went to work to make himself a perfect home: from its eyes he made the sun, called *Wuriun*, and the moon, called *Indeko*, which would forever follow each other in a strict order. From its warts he made the stars, and from its brains he created the rest of the gods. His brother Konsulh asked if he could also create something, and Tenno lacklusterly agreed. From the skull of the frog Konsulh made a case, around it he wrapped the flesh which he turned into continents, and the dimples and irregularities he filled with the water that once rained from the beast. Konsulh was proud of his work, even if it was less impressive than the stars, the celestial bodies, or other gods that Tenno created.

Tenno, Konsulh, and their new gods went on to create the rest of the this plane, and eventually the mists above, which they turned into islands., creating the primordial world and the dreaming world.

## Cosmology

Scholars in Sahul state that the universe is an endless cylindrical tube covered at the top by a thick mist and filled with absolute infinite darkness.

In the upper section of this tube are a series of floating islands collectively known as the Dream. These islands are home to the spirits of the dearly departed and to the mysterious beings known as the leviathan. The spirits of the living can visit the dream as well when they go to sleep, returning to their bed in the dreaming world as if they had just woken up. The Dream is always bathed in a mysterious light yet everything around it is clouded in eternal darkness. Never do those inhabiting the Dream feel the joys of a warm sunny day or the lost sight of the night.

Far under these islands are a collection of slimy little orbs, known as stars. These stars reflect the light of the sun in order to shine, and sometimes even leave a trail of glittering slime across the sky. Those stars float like fireflies above an oddly shaped blue and orange orb. This orb is both perfectly round and horribly irregular, both wet and dry, hot and cold, happy and sad, and all other paradoxes which makes a live worth living. This orb is called Sahul, and it is home to a single supercontinent with which it shares its name. Around Sahul there rotate two smaller eye-like orbs: a orange one and a red one. These are the sun and the moon, which circle around Sahul perfectly opposite from each other, so that they might never see each other.

And under this layer of stars and planets the tube of void continues. Going down forever more to realms far beyond the comprehension of mortals.