The Birth of the Deities of Verissamore

The deities of the Pantheon of Verissamore, contrary to popular modern belief, are all related. As siblings or half-siblings of each other, they have shaped the land or watched it be shaped for eons, with very little outside interference.

The oldest recorded account of their origins, while hotly contested as truth, was found in a cave overlooking the plains east of Lake Dreki. While the reputation of the would-be horse tamers who found this ancient document is suspect, the document has been confirmed by the scholars of the land as authentic, even if they cannot confirm its accuracy.

Some scholars, such as Priestess Libraum of the Library of Justice, find the idea that Letitia the Goddess of Truth and Justice could be in any way related to the rest of the deities in such a close manner or that she has ever been anything but she is as she is now as completely absurd.

Others such as the Archduke Jerron of Thromsey find the theory incredibly intriguing and believe that it could explain much of the world if true.

So that you might decide for yourself, here is the text that was found.

In the beginning, there was the Spirit, the Soul, the Magic, the Ultimate Mother- and she did what most mothers do… she created. The light and dark and depth in her eyes became the stars, the great nebulae that birthed the stars, and the black holes that devoured all. The spark from the heat of her love for her current and future creations became an all-consuming fire that dwelled throughout all the universes there were. The tear of sorrow for the eventual end of all her creations and her eventual repeated solitude grew to create every ocean, puddle, rain cloud, or cherished drop of water in the hot baking sands. The seed of thought and creativity that was her mind grew to become every plant and the soil and bedrock they rested in. The breath from her joyful laughter birthed all the eddies and stirrings of wind and air that stole flowers from trees, that would blow skirts up playfully, and race birds for the sheer delight of the motion.

All of these ideas and elements had the Spirit of their Mother and her great loved imbued within them, and as they were being born so were beings that represented them.

First were born Lustris of the Stars, Latitia of the Galaxies and Nebulae- encompassing both light and dark in her heart- and Tuneric the Depthless. These children, the eldest, oversaw the growing galaxy but never seemed to stray far from each other. The two brothers fought as so many brothers do, and their sister was always the one to find peace and compromise in their disputes. Unsurprisingly, the fiery love of the Ultimate Mother led to the birth of another mother, the mighty draconic Kviku. Unique in being the only solo child, Kviku would go on to heavily influence her favorite part of creation. From the tears came Tyama of the Salted Oceans, and Metzu of the clear freshwater. These great water beings held much of the sorrow of the Spirit and coped with it in vastly different ways. One coped by creating and focusing on the joy those creations could bring and the other withdrew from the world, sleeping away their pain as much as they could. The two lives that formed from the depths of earth were almost as different as those from the water. Faber the Smith who traveled the deep rocky earth and Usagi the Spritely One, who luxuriated in the lush green boughs of her chosen home, the Great Tree. Beanna and Dryw were next to be born, and they were as interchangeable as two gusts of wind, as alike in thought as they were in form.

Over eons, these beings came to life, each subsequent child of the Spirit so much younger than the previous that mortal minds would struggle to comprehend the separation.

At this time, Kviku became a mother herself, and the Ultimate Mother knew that creation could not yet be complete until her other children had mortals to watch over, and thus more immortals came into being as their Mother Soul created animals to fill the land, who gave way to humanoid creatures of the wild, and then humans who strove to conquer nature instead of living in harmony with it. As these races filled the earth, the previous immortals created their own races- elves and dwarves most notably, but also merpeople, a veritable cornucopia of faerie beings, and the odd giant and a horde of grotesque rat demons.

The youngest celestials formed by the Spirit creations, though, were Satyria and Phalidoptera- Sisters to protect Nature and its inhabitants, and Adreffa and Gilda, the Sisters who represented ideals for humans to strive for.

With creatures to worship them, the immortal beings became deities- Gods and Goddesses of many things, even things that they hadn’t been born to. The greatest part of their power and of that of the Spirit, rested in the land of Verissamore, and so there they abide and rule over us all.