Creation Mythos

*Written by* Joebromcdude*.*

In the beginning, there was but a single entity of untold power that wandered the vast emptiness. While traversing the darkness, this entity left behind trails of dust which in time condensed and gained consciousness. These newly formed beings followed the trail of dust and banded together in their pursuit of their origin. As they travelled they began to meet lesser and weaker specimen of their kin and instead of welcoming them into their ranks they started to feast upon their lesser brethren, growing in power.

After countless days they caught up with the original entity who was exhausted by the long journey. In their greed and jealousy of the entity's power, they began to attack it. The entity stood no chance in its weakened state and as a last ditch effort, it gathered all its remaining strength in one final burst of energy that killed its creations and flung them into the void, but also shattered its own body in the process and caused it to lose consciousness.

These killed creations over time transformed into worlds, while the fragments of varying size of the original entity transformed into the original **greater gods** and **lesser gods**. Those original gods banded together in search of a suitable world to call their home and brought small particles from the original entity with them in order to create life forms to serve them.

When they arrived on their targeted world, they began to shape it according to their design and created all life there. After that was done, the greater gods decided to divide up the territories amongst themselves and let life run its course, slightly manipulating the process when they saw fit. Soon after their work was done, what was left of the original entity began to break apart even further resulting in those fragments becoming additional greater and lesser gods as well as a multitude of tiny particles raining down on the original god's world and transforming into the first humans.

The newly formed greater gods negotiated with the original greater gods and received their own territories. Each greater god blessed the humans residing in their territory, demanding obedience in return. Their harshness differed and the greater gods came into conflict with one another over this. The lesser gods on the other hand did not care for obedience or territory and gave their blessings without conditions. To this day they wander between the territories of the greater gods, making sure not to anger them and supervising humankind's development.

From time to time the original entity continues to break apart, resulting in the creation of more greater and lesser gods as well as **special individuals**, depending on the size of the fragment. These special individuals are mortals that carry a spark of divinity within them and have the ability to easily sway other people. Claiming to be such an individual is considered heresy and harshly punished, but individuals that accomplished great deeds during their life time are often sainted posthumously and acknowledged as fragments of the original entity. It is believed that the greatest among them are even allowed to ascend and become lesser gods themselves.

A shooting star is considered a good omen as it is believed that it signals either the birth of a special individual or the ascension of one. Meteors are considered holy as they are believed to be fragments of the original entity that lost their spark of divinity in the creation of a special individual. Bigger meteors are usually transformed into shrines that make a popular destination for pilgrimages while smaller meteors are used to craft artifacts and idols of the greater gods which are placed in the shrines of big cities.