Creation Myths

### The Akarieans god theory

The most common creation belief across Trayst is The Akariean/ Elder god creation theory. The belief states that there was a great and powerful god far stronger than any of the gods known today, this god known as The Elder god came and created Trayst and the Akarieans who lived here until they grew proud and believed that they were equal to The Elder god they grew in power and technology they boasted to one another and mocked The Elder god, they decided that if they attacked him they could take more of his power and grow even stronger. this war raged for decades and the Elder God created the gods to battle on his side, the Akarieans managed to deal a horrific wound to The Elder god but he retaliated and destroyed the Akariens. The Elder go fled to recover but vowed that he would return to destroy all of creation, the god now left to their own devices decided to create a race like those of the Akarieans but couldn't decide what to make them like and thus some gods banded together while others worked on their own and created the various races. Many of the followers from different gods talk about the importance of their god during the war or how they created a specific race, or how they did something to bring about The Emergence.

### The godly slumber theory

This belief states that their used to be seven gods used to live on in The godly Plane frolicking and playing, they designed the other planes from the elemental planes to the feywild and the material plane, but these were mere toys to play with empty and devoid of life. They created the lands and the sea the mountains and forests and even citties which are now known as the Akariean cities and artefacts but this belief states that these were never inhabited. The gods however grew tiered and board with just the seven of them the gods eventually couldn't stand being with one another anymore, they went to the separated planes they had created and just lay down to sleep. As they slept over the centuries the lands began to take on aspects of them the four gods who were most emotional became the elemental planes, the angry hot head's plane became the plane of fire while the indecisive dreamer went to sleep in the now elemental plane of air. the most beloved of the gods went to sleep in the Material plane and her twin sister in the feywild the last god chose to instead stay in The godly Plane and broke himself apart into the gods we know today. This is why the fey wild is so similar to the material plane and why the gods are so concerned with the people of the material plane. This also explains why the ethereal plane is so devoid of life as there isn't a god sleeping there and the godly plane is made up of gods along with the dead from other planes, rather than life that proliferates itself, as they are returning to the plane they truly belong in.

### The Seen and Unseen creation Theory

The belief is that when Trayst was created it was barren and out of the sadness world was born the Akarieans they lived on the world and loved the world, they thrived there living off of the land, and they began to love the land that produced the food and the sun that provided the light. Out of this love was produced the gods during the day seven gods were created, they were seen by the Akarieans and they rejoiced and partied until it evening, but as the night grew cold and dark, the love known by the Akarieans turned to fear and while they were huddling scared seven more gods were created unseen by them. The Seven Seen gods took on all of the aspects of love and goodness, while the unseen took on the aspects of fear and evil. The Unseen gods waged war on the Akarieans and nearly wiped them out but the seen gods saved aspects of them and these aspects were planted in the ground of Tanalier where they grew into all the other species.

### The Divine Triune

This creation Myth began in Cad'Lear and is centred around how the Divine Triune was responsible for the development of Trayst into the world it is today rather than the actual creation of Trayst, it states that at first there was the material plane and nothing else. Akarieans roamed the face of Trayst trapped there mindlessly wondering without the freedom to dream of a better world, or the freedom to do as they wished, not even the freedom to choose form right and wrong. One by one the gods came and tried to inspire the Akarieans to become more than they were, Ioun taught them wonderous things of immense arcane skill, Erathis came and showed them how to build great cities, Sarenrae took the plants of the earth and showed the Akarieans how to work the land, Pelor even showed them the sun and sky and warmed them with his light. The Akarieans learned from these gods, they tilled the soil, crafted a vast city and even made wonderous items, but they still found no joy, no meaning, no purpose. Next came Nivi Rhombodazzle who explained that with out risk and with out loss everything is meaningless so the gods decided to let the evil gods do as they wished, Achaekek came and killed indiscriminately, Ravagug tore down their city leaving it in ruins, Venkelvore and Urgathoa, came and turned their home to that of a lifeless wasteland and finally Lamastu chased them across the sea, but still the Akarieans felt nothing. Moved by their love for the Akarieans the three gods of the Triune came and gave them freedom, Civilitas came and gave them the freedom to be anything they want, and the Akarieans separated out into the different northern races Dwarf, Human, Elf and Gnome etc (i.e not those that came form The Spires of Creation), Libertas came and gave them the freedom to dream to wish for a better life, and the races began to imagen a different way of living they began to strive for what is new to begin to evolve and grow. Gravitas came and gave them the freedom of free will to choose for themselves weather to do what is right or wrong but also to make decisions for themselves. These early creatures spread across the land and began to thrive, but the Triune saw that these creatures passion for the new and wonderous was insatiable and so the Triune chose the four elements and granted them freedom from the Material Plane, this created the Elemental Planes, they granted freedom to the spirit of nature that formed The Feywild still the the creatures grew and searched for new things. Eventually the Triune saw no way to contain what they had created, Gravitas knowing what needed to be done came and took from the various races their strength, anger, reason, versatility and resilience, she sealed these traits in grand impenetrable towers to the south of the world. When The Awakening happened these towers released what had been taken and Giants were created Hill, Fire, Frost, Storm and Stone. Libertas came and took from the the creatures their dreams their dreams of love, their dreams of friendship, their dreams of wealth and their nightmares, these became the Assimar, the Protectors, the Scourge and the Fallen, but those created from the dreams of wealth never came out of their tower since it was destroyed or sent from this plane before The Awakening. Last Cilivitas took from the races the freedom of the North, Freedom of the South, and freedom of the East creating the White, Red and Blue Tieflings, once the three deities saw that their creations were now under control the wept for over what they had had to take, but each cared too much for the race's of Trayst and so allowed the Towers they had created to leak what had been taken slowly back into the world so that the creatures could continue to experience freedom, but they promised to watch over this new world closely.