Myths

### *The All-Mother’s Cosmic Palette I*

In the beginning, there was the Void - a silent and vast expanse of emptiness. In its undisturbed state, nothing could be. The All-Mother discovered, and entered the Void. In a moment of caprice, she endeavored to craft something from nothing. She struck the expanse, causing colossal waves throughout the Void. Thus, Chaos was created from nothing. From it, she grasped the Aspects of Power, Passion, and Freedom, and added them to her cosmic palette.

#### *The All-Mother’s Cosmic Palette II*

She flayed the colossal waves into rippled patterns. Thus, Order was created from Chaos. From Order, she grasped the aspects of Knowledge, Discipline, and Restraint, and expanded her cosmic palette. She used it to reshape the Void. She set kindling within the innumerable stars, scattered dust and worlds, and dispersed them in the Void. This complete, she brandished the Flame Eternal and every star ignited, lighting the Void and piercing its darkness. This recreated Void she named Cosmos.

### *The Fashioning of Lunera*

The All-Mother was unsatisfied with her creation. She wandered through the vast expanse of Cosmos until she found an agreeable heaven which served her well for striving. She produced a frozen moon and warmed it with her breath. Wearing her Vambraces, she wrought a land of divine symmetry filled with brilliant crystal arches, diamond faceted surfaces, fields of manna, and clear flowing water. She named this moon Lunera.

### *Birth of the Archons I*

The All-Mother wandered the surface of Lunera until she found an agreeable ground which served her well for contriving. She sculpted the Archons, known to us as the Old Ones and the First Born, from diamond and breathed into them the Breath of Life. She touched them with the aspect of restraint and they have been the only witnesses of her many hands at work ever since.

#### *Birth of the Archons II*

She fashioned Halos from the light of her eyes and affixed these to the heads of her Archons, binding them to Lunera. She bestowed them with the gift of Sight Beyond and they have witnessed all to come ever since.

### *The Creation of Ethera I*

The All-Mother desired to create a lasting testament to her creation of Cosmos. She produced a molten world and cooled it with her breath. With her Vambraces, she wrought high mountains, low hills, and flat fields on the world’s surface. She created rifts and valleys, filling the deepest of these with rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans. She seeded these places, then shaped all manner of fauna from clay, and placed their dormant bodies throughout the lands and waters.

#### *The Creation of Ethera II*

She secured the Flame Eternal in the heart of this world and life flourished. The seeds sprouted and rich flora spread across the world’s surface. The fauna awoke and migrated the land. She fashioned the Seven Colossi, gargantuan creatures, from mountains. She tasked them to be the world’s sleeping sentinels, and attuned their senses to the world’s harmonic resonance. She named this world Ethera.

### *The Followers I*

After the completion of Ethera came a period the Archons called the Golden Week. It encompasses the All-Mother’s final labors - the creation of the Five Tribes, known by the Archons as the Followers. On the first day, she sculpted Dwarves from granite. She touched them with the aspect of knowledge, and this has been the intricate pursuit of their race ever since.

#### *The Followers II*

On the second day, she sculpted Elves from wood. She touched them with the aspect of discipline, and the members of their race have been paragons of that virtue ever since. On the third day, she sculpted Drow from obsidian. She touched them with the aspect of passion, and it has been brightly in their hearts ever since.

#### *The Followers III*

On the fourth day, she sculpted Men from marble. She touched them with the aspect of power, and they have sought to obtain it, in all its forms, ever since. On the fifth day, she sculpted Foxier from glass. She touched them with the aspect of freedom, and they have had free-spirits enthralled by wanderlust ever since.

### *The Breath of Life*

On the sixth day, she breathed into them the Breath of Life. She fashioned Souls from the light of her mind and affixed these to the hearts of the Followers. Unlike the Archons, they were not bound to their world but, indeed, they die and leave Ethera, wherefore they are temporary guests, and return to her in the Halls of Eternity. Death, the fate of the Followers, is the All-Mother’s gift, and even the Archons would envy its release as the years lengthened their lives ever so sorrowfully.

### *The Great Task*

On the seventh day, the All-Mother bestowed upon her Archons the Great Task. To use the power of Sight Beyond and bear witness to the history of Ethera would be their burden. Following the fulfillment of their sacred duty, the All-Mother shall usher them to the Halls of Eternity. She enshrined her eight Vambraces on Lunera under the care of the Archon Samyaza and departed Cosmos.

### *The Sundering I*

Years passed into decades. Decades passed into centuries. Centuries passed into millennia. The Followers spread across the face of Ethera and their tribes grew into flourishing civilizations. Over this long passage of time, the Archons continued the Great Task of their vigil over the mortal races, from Lunera.

#### *The Sundering II*

Samyaza, who was well respected among his brothers and sisters, looked upon the Followers and pitied them. He wished to leave Lunera to walk amongst them. He adorned himself with the All-Mother’s Vambraces and with them, sundered his Halo. No longer bound there, he entreated his siblings and said unto them: “I fear ya will not agree with my actions, and I alone will bear this burden. Who among ye, shall witness the passage of time by walking amongst the Followers?”

#### *The Sundering III*

And some of Samyaza’s siblings answered his call and said: “Let us bind ourselves by mutual imprecations to our confinement in this place, not to abandon your new plan but do this deed you imagine.” And Samyaza cast off their Halos and through they were heavenly, and bright in appearance, their visage dulled.

### *Broken Oaths*

And those Archons broke their oaths to the Great Task and they were in all two hundred, those who followed Samyaza and descended from Lunera. They landed on the highest mountain of Ethera, Mount Numina, and when their feet made contact there, great horns grew from their heads and the feathers fell from their wings.

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*Sources provided by VanTheMan in their recent playthrough on the Dvora Studio Discord.*