Creation Story

In the beginning, as most creation myths start, there was nothing. And then there was something, a speck. A speck that grew, and grew until it couldn’t grow any more. The speck split into several smaller specks and these, smaller specks became their own. They say there were a countless amount of specks, but the ones that remain are as follows:

Fumos, who created the light and life through his never ending flame,

Ulene, who created the ground and caused life to eventually die,

Kaphion, who flooded the ground with water and forced winds to travel the seas,

Janeh, who created monsters and demons as a counterpart to Fumos’ creations,

Gugh, who created insects that spread disease and avarice,

Uhgast, who gave creatures a will to live and fight for survival,

AVA, who inspired creatures with symmetry, precision and creation and

Lode, who archived and preserved the knowledge of the world and inspired creatures to do the same.

These “gods” watched as their creations formed the world, exploding with life and death, joy and tragedy. They evolved and regressed and evolved further. The gods were content, there was now something where there was once nothing and they continued to observe with minimal incursions of their own.

Lode, who mostly was by himself, archiving, notified their good friend AVA that something big was about to happen. AVA felt it too and they decided to pay close attention to it. What was about to happen was the near extinction of Janeh’s monsters at the hands of humans, elves and dwarves. Fumos and Ulene soon noticed and pitied Janeh and his creations, but would do nothing. They had not affected the world since its creation and they were not going to start now. Kaphion and Uhgast soon noticed and would just as Fumos and Ulene, do nothing, this was nothing but an interesting development to them. Gugh was preoccupied with watching his near endless armies of insects continue to thrive and as such was not interested in the petty fight between humanoid and monster.

Janeh was the last one to notice, too preoccupied with his meddling in the world, he sent demons made in the image of Fumos’ humanoids as to honor him as a good friend. When he noticed his dear monsters almost perishing he felt forced to act, but he was stopped. Lode and AVA had already berated him for meddling with the world more than he should have and many of the other gods had agreed. Janeh looked on anxiously as his creations were slaughtered, pushed from one side of the continent to another and eventually forced over a grand mountain. As Janeh watched the monsters all but become extinct, he acted. With a mighty crash of arcane energy, he sundered the mountaintop and split the mountain in two, splitting the very continent with it. Content with his work saving his monsters, he was ready to stop meddling in the world any more. But the other gods were not happy with his actions. They agreed that he could not be trusted not to act again and decided to lock him up, chaining him in another plane of existence, never to incur again.

After a while, Fumos and Ulene felt deep regret at what they had done to their dear friend, Janeh, and convinced Kaphion and Uhgast to at least honor Janeh’s wishes to keep some sort of balance between monsters and humanoids. Fumos planted himself in a forest on the continent of the monsters, burning anyone coming close enough to invade. Ulene watched over the humanoid continent now that Fumos was preoccupied, Kaphion raised the water levels and created heavy storms to prevent anyone from going in between the continents and Uhgast distracted the humanoid population by challenging them to fights with godhood on the line. Lode and AVA did not try to meddle further with the world and kept to themselves and their interests. Gugh saw this new way of interacting with the world as a way to further evolve his insect’s influence.

While some monsters remained on the humanoid continent of Cerata, they managed to survive pretty well, the humanoid demonkin managed to integrate with the other humanoids rather seamlessly. But the worship of Janeh was all but outlawed and he was labeled a betrayer to the world’s natural order.