The First Era

They dreamt of all things in all times and knew nothing of any of it. They saw all that was to be, yet knew nothing of what it was to see. They dreamt how to dream, how the heavens should appear, what gods should exist, and how a drop of water will forever lose itself when returned to the ocean. The Silent Masters simply dreamt.

This is the Tirsar’rg: the dreams of the Tirsar that have determined since the dawn of time what will be, what is possible, and the laws of nature that govern them.  The Tirsar’rg are the physics and metaphysics of all things in Evindale.

### The Aldri'har

In the writings of The Visions of Sidrahele, the great oracle of the First Age who is said to have witnessed the Tirsar directly, the author wrote:

“From the Tirsar’rg sprang forth R’shlidal the Dreamer upon whose back would the messages of the Tirsar be burdened.

For endless time did and does R’shlidal listen in patience and collect into its mouth the many dreams. When no more was or shall be had, R’shlidal spoke and speaks with a single utterance all that the Tirsar had dreamt.  From the plans of the Tisar’rg, R’shlidal made and makes it possible.

R’shlidal the Dreamer then fashioned from its lips Vallor who had the ability to cause change to that which was already created. This was so because the lips can change the sounds of dreams and thoughts.

Vallor caused the Tirsar’rg to stir and boil in its great cauldron and from within was born Kathos the Weaver who created a mighty tapestry whose many threads are all the paths we must walk.

Kathos spread this tapestry before the Tirsar who looked nowhere and in all directions of all time all at once.  From under the tapestry did Aryos take shape, a brilliant light that shone upon all things so all knowledge may be seen and known.

Aryos’ bright gaze fell upon Vallor’s cauldron and found within it a crack that leaked the boiling Tirsar’rg.  Aryos caused it to burn, dry, and turn to clay thus sealing the crack.  From this clay was shaped balance, called Ipparya, who was tasked to ensure the Tirsar’rg always flowed properly into Kathos’ many hands.  Ipparya soon came to hold Vallor’s cauldron for Ipparya would never fall with its 500 hands, 1,000 legs, and twice that in feet.

Vallor looked down at Ipparya who held tight the crack closed and the cauldron steady. From Ipparya did Vallor take some of its many legs and from them did it fashion a being, working in to it the stuff of chaos.

Aryos looked at Vallor’s creation and watched it ooze and bend in all ways at once.  But Aryos’ gaze was too mighty.  The being stood in defiance and wrapped itself in a part of Kathos’ mighty tapestry. This new deity, called Serathid, was scorched by the Bright One’s gaze.  It turned it black as it drank deep of Aryos’ power and knowledge, absorbing all that was to be known.  This caused Aryos to grow furious and Serathid to know more than the others, but would always keep truth in cloaked in darkness for those who would seek it by their own light.

Now imbued with knowledge eternal, wrapped in the pathways of fate and drunk from Vallor’s cauldron, Serathid gazed with endless curiosity on the Roads of Kathos.  It dreamed of one that would give knowledge and power a form.

On this road was Drenathis created.  From it sprang the beginnings of all things physical, a mighty twisting path that contained all the secrets of Serathid and the dreams of the Tirsar.  It burned bright but this new physical creation was not yet tempered.  It shattered into many bits and from Drenathis’ mouth was uttered the first true sounds (2), the sounds of creation in physical form.

Drenathis would not speak nor exist any more, however.  It had faded as quickly as it came.  In that moment, the gods knew of endings, that which is called Conclusion or that which we call Death.

Ipparya mourned Drenathis’ disappearance, this child of the gods, and touched the shattered remnants of its physical form thus bringing balance to life and death.  Vallor dreamed of new forms and from its hand, it pulled twenty-six fingers.  From them, it fashioned a physical being that would oversee physical creation.  Vallor named it Benos and within its hand it placed the first tool of physical creation, a hammer.

Benos gathered within it Aryos’ light of knowledge and Serathid’s wisdom of when to reveal it.  It learned the ending of all things from Conclusions and the secrets of making R’shlidal’s dreams a physical reality.

The Children of the Tirsar gazed through timeless eyes on Benos and new dreams were dreamt that illuminated the pathways of the Tapestry of Fate.  From these dreams was physical reality formed and through Ipparya was it balanced.

Thus Sythlia was created, the first true eternal physical being.”

—Sidrahele, Grandastium 1:2:1-39