New Life

The Elder Deity mourned the loss of the Younger Deity for many years, but eventually he grew accustomed to his sad, lonely life.

One day, unable to bear his loneliness any longer, the Elder Deity removed one of his eyes and created a goddess. The new goddess looked at the Elder Deity and exclaimed: Thou art handsome. With this voice, the world was filled with sound.

The Elder Deity and the new goddess gave names to each other. The Elder Deity received the name of Sol the God of Creation and the goddess, Myulin the Goddess of Harvest. Then the Elder Deity created a land of the dead in the darkest part of the world and sealed the spirit of the Younger Deity and gave him the name of Cernunnos the Lord of the Dead. This was how all things were named and given a purpose. Sol gave birth to more gods and goddesses. Myulin gave the new gods names and Sol gave them purpose. One rules the sun, and another the oceans. One ruled the weaving thread, and another the stoves. This was how the sun traveled the sky, the oceans beat against the shores, the loom spit out threads, and the stoves held the fire within. Sol then gave birth to trees, plants, beasts, birds, fishes, and insects. They were all spread throughout the world and found a place to live.

The world was filled with life.

Last to be created were the Elves. Sol created them in his image and he loved them best. Sol asked all the gods and all creatures to grant the elves their blessings.

Each god, goddess and creature happily gave its blessings to the elves.

As a result, the elves were faster, stronger, smarter, and more beautiful than any other creature, and they were able to speak the language of all creatures.

However Cernunnos, the Lord of the Dead withheld his blessing from the elves. Unaware of darkness, the elven hearts were ever wrapped in light, but because of it the elves had an incredible innocence in them.

The Despised

There were some who protested the treatment of the elves at the hands of the gods.

They were the elves who did not wish to go against the gods.

They stormed the Heavenly Path and threw themselves before the gods and cried, “Why must you punish us when it was not us who drew our swords against you?” The gods answered, “That is true. But that is not the only sin.” The elves asked again, “What do you mean by that, oh gods?” The gods answered back. “Very well then. When your brethren raised their swords against us, where were you and what were you doing?” To that, the elves replied, “We were at the altars praying to you gods. We prayed that the fools who disobeyed you would receive your divine punishment.” The gods retorted, “Were you not merely praying that your own lives be spared?!” The elves faces turned red and they could not reply.

Suddenly the gods showed their anger. “You are more foolish than the fools who do not know their place! Lower even than the humans! From this day on, you will wear a mark showing your supposed innocence and piety!” And just as this thundering judgment was made, each of the elves that gathered at the Heavenly Path began to transform. They grew tails and their beautiful faces turned into those of beasts. When they saw how they had changed, they screamed in shame and disappeared to dark corners of the world.

Banquet of conspiracy

The Grunties were loved by all creatures with the exception of the bitterly jealous humans.

This was because all of the things that made Grunties so wonderful had once belonged to the humans.

Humans began to look for Grunties’ weaknesses and learned of the curse that Sol had cast on them. Overjoyed, the humans next set out to learn the secret word, but even the normally talkative monkey would not betray the secret word.

So the humans held a banquet and invited all the gods and creatures in order to fog their minds with drink.

One after another, the guests became intoxicated until finally only the snake, the strongest drinker, remained. The snake still would not tell the secret word, so the humans brought out their strongest drink and gave it to the snake. As expected, the snake became drunk and told the secret word to the humans.

The humans rejoiced and intoned the words.

Immediately, the Grunties lost their intelligence and found themselves unable to stand upright.

The humans called them Puchi Pongo and made them into their beasts of burden. Then they proceeded to continue their war against the other races.

For telling the secret words, the snake was punished by having to forever crawl about the earth on its stomach.

Goddess Aurora

The savior of mankind was a young apprentice magician.

He confined himself in the temple of Arche Koeln and prayed to the gods. In exchange for his life, he was able to call upon the six great spirits and two goddesses. The eight gods that were summoned were:
Vulcan the Fire Spirit,
Merrows the Water Spirit,
Krake the Wood Spirit,
Yarthkins the Earth Spirit,
Lanceor the Lightning Spirit,
Wryneck the Darkness Spirit,
Anu the Star Goddess, and
Aurora the Goddess of Light.
The light of the gods shined once more on the blessed earth and the Shadow was contained.

Thanks to the newfound peace, humans once again prospered, but it did not last long. Once the threat of the Shadow was gone, the humans began to fight with each other. After sealing the shadow, the eight gods and goddesses remained on earth, but some were angered by the foolishness of humans and others grieved their wretchedness and left until finally, only Aurora remained. Fearing that the light of heaven would again depart the earth, humans placed eight curses on Aurora and sealed her inside the Hulle Granz Cathedral.

God's Rebirth

All the gods in heaven disappeared.

But a single god who remained on earth lived.

This was the God of Law, Folset, who guarded the gate that blocked the Heavenly Path.

Winning the war against the gods, the humans wanted the wisdom and power of the gods and stormed Morrigu Barrow and demanded Folset to invite them in to the realm of the gods. But Folset refused to grant them entry.

At first, the humans pointed their weapons at Folset and demanded he open the gate. But Folset answered thus: “Do whatever you wish. There is no way any of your weapons can harm me.” The humans followed his words and tried to attack Folset in any way they could, but they were unable to harm even a single hair on his head.

Once they learned that force was to no avail, they tried to convince him to open the gates by seducing him with gifts.

After seeing the gifts, Folset said, “Build a mountain of gifts for me if you wish. I’ll make a mountain twice that size in an instant.” Before Folset was even finished completing his sentence, a mountain of gifts more lavish than the gifts of the humans sprang up before their eyes.

After learning that both force and flattery were of no avail, the humans got on their knees and begged pathetically. “If a power that is greater than the Shadow emerges, we would fall into ruin. But if we could regain the wisdom and power that lies beyond this gate, we would be able to protect ourselves and not fight one another. So please open the gate.” Folset laughed and answered them: “Was it not you who took up sword and shield and slew the gods? You should suffer for your sins.”

Protesting, the humans replied, “So you are saying that we should have simply allowed the gods to drive us all to extinction?” Folset shook his head and answered: “Recall first the sins that you committed. Is it not just that sinners receive judgment?” To this the humans could make no reply. Folset continued to speak: “But all beings have the right to atone for their sins. Human! Child of sin! If you want this gate opened, then bring back the lost gods. The gods will rise again, born from the dogma of the believers. If they are true gods, then I will open this gate. Bring back what has been lost and only then can you be pardoned.”

And so the humans argued over Gods’ Rebirth and once again made war against each other.

Humans and Beasts

At first, humans and beasts were friendly with each other.

But while the beasts revered nature and old ways, the humans were too innovative.

It was the beasts who first discovered the creatures called Chim Chims. When the beasts saw the light of the gods in the Chim Chims they decided to revere them as a legacy of the gods. But the humans captured the Chim Chims to research them and after discovering a way to extract energy from them, used them to invent steam machines. The beasts protested this treatment, but the humans would not listen.

As the humans’ use of steam technology advanced, they abandoned magic as old and obsolete. The beasts continued to revere magic culture and rejected steam technology. Humans scoffed at the beasts for being stubborn and small-minded, and beasts came to despise the humans’ foolishness.

Eventually the beasts decided they could not leave the Gods’ Rebirth to the fools and proclaimed that they too will participate in the Gods’ Rebirth. Folset granted their participation. Humans were outraged. They believed that the Gods’ Rebirth was their right.

The two sides’ antagonism toward each other began to deepen and finally war broke out.

Humans gathered their armies and steam weapons, but found their weapon production was lagging behind. Desperate, they built the great factory of Breg Epona, but still they were unable to create the necessary weapons.

Beasts were mighty in the ways of magic, but were small in numbers. They were unable to marshal a large enough army.

Humans were weaker but more numerous. Beasts were stronger, but fewer in number.

And the war continued to rage on.