The Bynod (Lore)

**The Bynod**

**Book I – Conception / *Notitia***

***Chapter I - The Anaphoriel***

*1It was formless when it began. It was united by its contrast. It was shattered by its marriage. 2It was then nothing - a sea of chaos that encompassed all that was, has been, will ever be, and is not. It was timeless and unchanging, hurried and ever-altering. It was undefined. It was definition, purely written by an even hand. 3It was a sunless night. It was a moonless day. It was a plain without sky. It was the heaven without earth. It was the trickery of the moonlight. It was the surety of the sun’s fire.*

*4And so it was from this unknown and yet known father that two brothers were born.*

*5One ruled over bedlam. He rode in the swirling darkness of the night sky, its only light. He revealed little of that which was.*

*6One ruled over principle. He rode in the lucid purity of the day sky, its only light. He revealed all of that which was.*

*7He revealed the sea. When moon saw this in his light under the night sky, he became enraged. 8He warred with his brother there and they scarred this place. The waters took flight from them as they battled.*

*9He revealed the land. The waters could not return to where the brothers clashed. When the moon saw this in his light under the night sky, he became enraged. 10He warred with his brother there and scarred this place. The earth bled up from its wounds and mountains scabbed across its surface.*

*11He revealed the mountains. Blood still flowed from the earth, but amidst the wounded flesh came the growth of the forest up high in the mountains. When the moon saw this in his light under the night sky, he became enraged. 12He warred with his brother there and they scarred this place. The trees were felled and rolled down the mountains into the valleys and onto the plains.*

*13He revealed the forest. It spread like the blood of the earth upon the land and from it was born the beast. When the moon saw this in his light under the night sky, he became enraged. 14He warred with his brother there and they scarred this place. Beasts fled from their battles and hid away in all the places of that which was known: the forest, the mountains, the plains, and the sea.*

*15He revealed the beasts. They all pledged their fealty to the sun that gave life and cursed the moon’s horrid light. When the moon saw this in his light under the night sky, he became enraged. 16He warred with his brother there, but beast stood against him as well.*

*17Sun did not win out over moon, but balance was found and no longer would their battle wound that which was known. At this stalemate, moon became calmed.*

*18”In fury, we have created so much, my brother,” said sun unto moon.*

*19”So it has come to be.”*

*20At that, sun and moon mingled to bring forth a true balance between them. From this came forth man.*

*21And the brothers commanded of him in unison, “Go into that which has been made known to us and understand it.”*

*22The accord of man was formed at his agreement, but of sun and moon he asked, “How will I know you?”*

*23 And the brothers commanded of him in unison, “Go into that which has been made known to us and name all that which is in it.”*

*24The names of all things were known unto man, who named the moon Ashtar and the sun Atavius.*

*25”As all things have been named, as shall I be. From henceforth, I shall be to all under the heavens as Önio’nomen as it was I who named all and I who shall bear the first.”*

***Book II – The Root of Man / Aetaradix***

*1Önio’nomen came unto the emptiness of the plains under and saw the beasts of which he had named and the forest and all its ilk of which he had also named. 2All that was seen had been understood by him and he had named all that which was known, as he was commanded.*

*3Despite this, Ashtar and Atavius would war and Önio’nomen quaked in fear of their power. Blood flowed from the earth, beast fled and hid from sight, and the forests groaned in fear. 4So it was that the sun made from of himself guardians for the night sky, to watch vigilantly over his mad brother. Like him, their light fell upon that which was known and revealed it to man, but without Atavius’ purity.*

*5So it was that Önio’nomen named all these guardians in the sky as their vigilant watch over Ashtar shifted in the heavens. These were known to him as the* Caelestis.

6*Ashtar, still enraged, fought with a timeless fury. From the heavens he felled a Caelestis, its corpse falling from heaven. 7It struck the earth with such might that the waters came back unto land, drowning all that was known beneath its depths, save Önio’nomen. For a great time, he survived on the hidden beasts of the sea on the corpse of the forest.*