Event Zero

The creation event of Aevolin; how everything came to be. Event Zero marks the appearance of the Deities, the Topworld and the other dimensions, and the beginning of time.

### The Old Ones

In the beginning, two things existed.

The void, and Hyra. The Void had been there forever, and at the same time had only existed for a split second. Isn't infinity strange? The concept of nothingness is difficult to understand.

But not for the deities, who one day, decided to exist. First, it was Hyra. Mother of all, protector of balance, was the only one with power enough to find herself from the Void and create herself. Then, she gave the concept of existing to the others, and they were like, "Oh, this is neat actually."

### What Belongs in Space?

Locgadyr was second to Hyra, an ancient force of power who broke free of the Void in a great rumble, birthed from a burst of metal and rock that was flung deep into the Void and became asteroids and far-off moons and stars. He reared his mighty head, declaring himself loudly.

Next was Luma and Volanus. Luma decided to illuminate, literally and metaphorically, and made the Void bright with their visage. Hyra is incomprehensible to eyes, and Locgadyr already had kind of an idea of what he looked like, so he was fine. He decided to slap some metal on him though, and made the first armor in the world. Volanus, surprised by the sudden light, clung to the Void like a blanket and ripped the fabric of space a little too hard. It fell on them, and they were painted the color of space, a long noodle of galaxy.

### Miakie Gets Her Own Section

There was a little bit of a wait before Miakie arrived, probably because she had to give herself a physical form before she started to exist, thanks Luma. A great blossom bloomed in the vast nothingness, and out tumbled the smallest of the deities, petals and moss dripping from her fur.

### The Egg

Then there was another long wait. All the deities sat (floated?) around for a while, and then Volanus, the perceptive one, was like "look over there, what's that weird ball?" and - wow, look at that weird ball! A volatile planetoid egg with lava and water churning just beneath the surface, crashing into one another without solidifying. Nobody wanted to touch it until Locgadyr decided to take one for the team and slapped it with one giant claw. It broke in half and he accidentally flung the other side of the egg halfway across the galaxy, oops, someone might want to go check on that - Nevermind, here comes Yrntes. The water inside the egg pooled out into space and shaped itself into a deity, who was pissed off from the moment she started to exist. "SOMETHING WAS FIGHTING ME," she yelled, and created a bunch of water to blow off some steam.

But the Void wasn't very good at keeping things, and all her water either froze up or sizzled away. Also, Miakie's plants turned to dust, and it was slowly eating Luma's light. Only Locgadyr's rocks seemed safe, but they were way far out and he couldn't get them back because they went rocketing off to go be asteroids.

"Just like the other side of that egg lmao," mentions one of the deities, probably Volanus, the perceptive one, and everyone goes "Oh shit we did forget about that, didn't we". The concept of time is meaningless and nonexistent at this point, so the other side of the egg has been gone for a very long, very short, impossibly indeterminate amount of time. Everyone goes to look for it, and the Void finally gives it back in the form of a very angry, naked deity. Luma's light was fading and Tantes didn't think he needed a visage. Hyra gives him magical deity clothes but they all burn off. He decides to give himself a loincloth because he's feral.

Tantes is understandably upset at everyone for casually throwing him to the far reaches of the Void and forgetting him there, and laughs when his sister tries to make more water without success. Then he tries to make some lava, but that didn't work either and it just turned into more asteroids. Nobody is very happy, and after Tantes and Yrntes set off a fight, everyone starts arguing. Mom Hyra sits everyone down and invents a concept called working together, doesn't that sound fun guys? Sharing is caring and all that. She hasn't even existed for any amount of time yet(since it doesn't exist) and she's already regretting giving sentience to the other deities.

### Creation of the Dimensions

Thankfully, they listen to her, and together with Locgadyr's rocks, Volanus's space magic, Miakie's plants, Yrntes's water, Luma's light, Tantes's heat, and Hyra's guidance, they were able to make a planet, keep the Void from getting in and mucking everything up, and keep it temperate enough for things to exist on top of it. They were all very excited, and all wanted a turn with the cool new toy.

Hyra resisted the urge to utter the very first swear word in the world and did her best to control her six children, but eventually had to leave them alone to go deal with the Void because Someone(see: Locgadyr) made some asteroids and they're still on a trajectory to find the end of infinity.

Yrntes decides to flood everything, so Locgadyr, thinking he's being responsible, tries to reverse it by putting rocks in her planet soup. She makes a fuss about that, and they start to fight. While this is happening, Miakie grows plants over Locgadyr's rocks, and then Tantes burns them up and Miakie bursts out crying. Luma, who is very much not responsible, goes "Aw what this blows I can't hear myself think" and peaces out to go mediate somewhere. Hyra spots Luma in the distance and her Mom senses go off so she rushes back to the planet just in time to stop Yrntes and Locgadyr from possibly murdering each other. She puts Tantes and Yrntes in time-out, but that's not a good idea because they also hate each other, and start to fight again.

"Not a moment's peace around here," thinks Hyra, taking Yrntes out of time-out. Tantes is once again left in a distant corner of space, I'm sure that won't come back to haunt you. Anyway, Luma is still gone, Volanus is the only one not causing a ruckus, Yrntes and Miakie are sobbing into each other's shoulders, and Locgadyr is being a tired old man.

Tantes escapes gay baby space jail, says "FUCK YOU GUYS", and pours lava on everything because he's tired of being ignored and is a bratty youngest child. Hyra asks for Volanus's help to make a dimension, then puts Tantes in it and says "here's your own room." it's actually just a bigger timeout, don't tell Tantes. Everyone is satisfied with this solution except Luma, who, as we've established, is not very nice. They demand their own dimension because all they want to do is think about concepts and hoo boy they're about to invent philosophy, so Hyra and Volanus make another dimension and Hyra says "Hey, as thanks for being the only polite child, you get to bunk with Luma".

So, to recap, Tantes is in his own lava and hellfire dimension having a merry old time, Luma and Volanus are in their cool "we just watch everyone else" dimension, and Hyra, Yrntes, Locgadyr, and Miakie are left in the Void.

Because neither Yrntes or Locgadyr want to be banished to gay baby jail 2 with Tantes, they apologize to each other and suck it up. Hyra names the first dimension the Topworld, and the four of them reform the planet into something liveable and nice to look at. To be fair, everyone gets a continent in their honor, even Tantes, who is finally not being left out and that's all he really wanted.

Miakie makes a plant move, and everyone is like "OHHHH SHIT". Turns out Miakie discovered the first hidden magic, called Life, which she shares with Hyra. Together, the girls make a bunch of living stuff. Miakie makes animals, Hyra makes the sentient ones, and Yrntes just wants some cool moving things in her oceans so fish are invented. Locgadyr is old and bored and doesn't really want any living things, but Hyra gives one of her sentient races to him to live in his rocks. He appreciates the dwarves very much, and that's enough for him, yep, just rocks, metal, and dwarves. He's a simple dude.

(They also give the other non-Topworld deities some life magic, later, when they're more responsible).

Locgadyr discovers Rune magic and goes "Awesome" and carves some magic into his metal and rocks.

Miakie's plants die and with the discovery of Death Magic, Hyra realizes that's a whole lot of work to keep up with all those souls so she creates minor deities like Death, who gets their own dimension called the Soul Machine to process new lives and deaths.

### Society Evolves

A few of the more curious deities, like Miakie, Volanus, and Yrntes, began to poke around the Topworld, but it turns out that the sentient creatures get Fucked Up when they see an all-powerful, eternal being, even in a compact form. This makes them sad, but Hyra is like "okay just be a bit more subtle. leave them some messages." All the deities start making little trinkets and hidden messages for their people to find, and oh? is that a new concept?? religion?????? the sentient beings start to make temples, and did i forget to mention civilization has begun? Hyra realizes the deities need to stop messing with their dimensions, and takes all her kids aside for a family conference. "Listen, guys, we can't be meddling with these people. I suggest we go back to the Void, just for a little while to let them develop." She realizes afterwards that she should probably leave SOMEONE there in case the races start fucking things up, so she leaves Volanus, the perceptive one, who has routinely been the best child, to circle the planet and wake up/warn the other deities in case things on the Topworld start going to shit.

All of the deities, except for Volanus, seal themselves off in moons, and Volanus starts going so fast that they transform into a thin ring around the planet. The deities never really grasped the concept of that whole time thing, so "Just for a little while" turns into....until the present. They're... they're still in there. Turns out they're still semi-concious because you just can't put all that power away, so they can intervene a little in the forms of prophecies, magical items, presences in temples, etc.

Volanus has also been doing a good job keeping everything in order, except for the emergence of Blood Magic, which is an artificial magic that was created/discovered by some particularly nasty creatures.

The last of the hidden magics is Oracle Magic, which is the connection from the deities to the creatures below. Most of the populous cannot access it, but seers, oracles, fortune-tellers, and others of that nature have a stronger connection to these deitic forces.

One last thing: just before the deities sealed themselves into their moons, they created the stars and galaxies. The Void didn't destroy this, out of respect, and the hidden Startale messages in the patterns of the cosmos are still undiscovered, but still there, repeating over and over again the same words until the creatures in the Topworld can read them. We love you. We love you. We love you.

Maybe one day, they will see the message, and we can come back, the deities whisper to each other from their moons.

Time is something the deities don't quite understand. But it does exist, and by the time the creatures discover how to read the stars, perhaps the deities will be unable to escape from their moons, having been sealed for so long.