The Song of Creation

And so came the Bright Ones, their unearthly radiance illuminating all of the darkness covered planet that one day shall be our home. Bright Priest Celthalas Abendallas, 56LR-178Y-1AGE

The Song of Creation is the name the Bright Church chose for how our world came to be. It sings of the story of Order and Chaos and their endless struggle, which resulted into the birth of the Bright Ones, our gods and creators.

Once there was nothing. A vast open emptiness that housed two lone beings named the Forgotten Ones. Two Brothers whose names have been lost over the spanning of thousands of years. One of these brothers was an embodiment of order, the other one of chaos.

The two Brothers were locked in an eternal struggle for power, one that grew more dangerous as time went on. Eventually the legend states that the two clashed into each other so hard that they were shattered and that the Brother Order shattered into dozens of other smaller forces. The other Brother simply vanished, though legend says that it was sent to the Inbetween, a realm between space and time where nothing is.

These ten forces were later called the Bright Siblings, or the Bright Gods, and most of these beings are revered in the lands of Gelduran. These ten beings roamed the vast and suffocating emptiness of space, until they stumbled upon a large planet covered in water.

They took their sole opportunity and descended unto the planet. What they found was a miracle. There was already life there, a life not created by the Bright Siblings but a life that just was. A giant being, later titled the Titan of Land walked through the waters we now call our seas, the sea level barely reaching his knees.

It is said that the Bright Ones always had the idea of life, as if it was etched into their brain. As if it was a very part of whom they were. They were to create. That was their path. Their destiny, and the Titan of Land stood in their way.

The Titan, unbeknowing of the Bright Ones’ presence waddled through the water aimlessly until Dalladin, eldest and proudest of the Siblings struck the Titan. This set in motion what would later become known as the Battle of the First Ones. It lasted for thousands, perhaps millions of years, until finally the Titan of Land was struck down, his beyond comprehensible massive body dropping dead in the sea.

From his body they began sculpting the land that would later be the sole continent on the planet Astarria, Enderoth. They formed from his hair the forests, from his skin the mountains and hills, and from his blood the lakes and rivers. Gelduran is located in the far northwestern part of the continent, on the left half of what was once the Titan’s face.

And thus the world was created.