In the beginning were the nine Elder Gods. They alone arose from The Void, that formless place of nothingness, neither light nor dark, and not empty or full. The Void was the absence of anything and everything. It had neither boundary nor beginning. It simply was, and only the strongest of wills can exist for long within its swirling eddies of un-ness.
Of those nine elder gods, the supreme wills who bend existence to themselves, Shadow and Chance dwelt together and inevitably it followed that Shadow had a child by Chance – a girl who they named Order, and then another, who they named Chaos.
Time and Mnemamn were both friends and brothers, with Time, of course, the elder. He loved counting, measuring and all things mathematical. It was he who invented The Physics, those rules that govern the behaviour of all things in the mortal realm. The brothers spent much of their time travelling across the realms. From the beginning Mnemamn kept records of all he saw, written in great books that he kept hidden in a secret place, known only to himself and his brother.
Pangaea and Omnus came next from the void. Omnus, whose cloak was on one side studded with the stars of the night, and on the other the cloudy heavens of the day, was Lord of the Firmament. Pangaea, of whose bones the mortal realm was fashioned, was his lover. Between them all the lands, seas, planets and other heavenly bodies in the universe were brought to be.
Pangaea brought forth the undying beings, the Staple Octinnent, to watch over the growth and development of the continents of the mortal realm. The children of Pangaea and Omnus were too many to count and so to stop them from fighting one another, and deafening their parents with their chatter, they were sent to the stars, moons and planets their parents had created. Their first born, who was called Sol, had a face that shone so brilliantly none could look directly upon it. To him was given dominion over the sun. The moon children Bevet-Hone, Sysebud, Na-Micin and Draboth-Raw, the dark moon, are also scions of Omnus and Pangaea. Other notable names among their children are the twins, Perihelion and Apohelion, who ride the firmament on their comets, seeking ever to spar and war with each other.
Elsewhere dwelt Mother and Father, the gods of family and parenthood. In time they brought forth four children – Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter who governed the seasons of the year.
The ninth, but by no means least, of the Elder Gods is The Dragon Queen, Beanleheireaballscalai, or Lady-With-The-Tail-Of-Scales, in the common tongue. From her came later the great wyrms, drakes and all dragonkin.
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