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Pantheon of Creation

Written By: Dan Paladin

Religion
First, there was nothing, the great grey where no light nor dark had yet been created. The age of grey was governed by Sithis the Undying, a primordial beast of no body but a great, grey fog. Sithis the Undying's age of grey was foretold by the great creators of all to end in a great fiery cataclysm, and so it was written.The age of light was foretold to start in this great fiery way to burn away the grey of the last age and the 'god' that governed the age, Sithis' may have let his age of nothing fade away for the age of light but dying for something he would never get to see wasn't something he was prepared to do, even for the great creators thus, the first sin was commited.This is where the stories split two ways, the main belief is that Sithis was punished by the great creators in unimaginable ways but there was one thing the great creators couldn't do, kill their creations.Without the ability to destroy their creations the great creators made a most peculiar decison, in my eyes anyway, they decided to turn sithis into their great herald of the dark, the driver of the coach of death... he became the reason why all beings die someday, even the gods above.Back onto the age of light, it was governed by the great fiery one known as Vadya The Living Flame.Vadya had his name for a reason, the great creator's voices were somehow being silenced one by one in Vadya's mind and the very creator whose name is not known decided to give Vadya the key to creating life, the heart of living flame, this is where Vadya got his name from.It was said that Vadya first created planets for his creations to live on, and thus most of the universe was born (i'll get back to why it says most) and with it a great explosion that rivalled even the cataclysm that ended the age of grey.This explosion was later named 'the big bang' by lesser being who thought they could match the god's intellect.Anyway after the explosion and Vadya added the finishing touches to his realm he created the first humans to settle on a little green and blue planet called Earth.After the first human was created Vadya felt a great pain is his very being, but where was it coming from? It turns out that Vadya wasn't told the complete truth about the heart of living flame, in return for creating life it also took some life force from the wielder. Vadya was outraged, how could the great creators lie to their own creation, a god no less and the one to be their successors at that! With Vadya's rage came great mountains rising from the earth that spewed forth fire and great hulking monstrosities from the deep depths of creation.Though Vadya's rage was unending something did come out of it, great balls of fire erupted from burst seams in the universe which were later called stars by Vadya himself. Vadya noticed one thing though, not a single star had appeared next to his life forms.This got Vadya thinking, he saw life being born anew on other planets he had not yet been to and realised this was where the part of his being had gone, into the stars. Vadya was still concerned for his humans, they had not done anything and were as still as the mountains until they would fall over and die, Vadya knew what was wrong. No star was near the earth and in this Vadya made a most un-godlike decision.He sacrificed himself in an effort to save his creations and became the sun, a dormant god slowly doomed to be rotated around by his creations and eventually die out.Though it was not foretold by the great creators, Vadya's age of light, ended.Next came the age of knowledge, this was goverened by Magnus The Pious and was thought to be the most powerful of the three gods and is depicted as having a long flowing blue robe with a pointed hat and a very long, white beard.Magnus The Pious is the god of all knowledge and it is said that he knows everything there is to know about anything.With great knowledge comes great power and this was no exception for Magnus, he created his very own flame of life like Vadya's before him but it wasn't enough for Magnus.He poured all of his power and knowledge into this flame turning it a radiant blue and purple colour, and thus, magic was born. From the flame mankind was able to draw great knowledge though with or without Magnus' permission is debatable.The great knowledge gained by the flame pushed the humans to create new and wonderful things, the humans, flourished greatly.Magnus was overjoyed to see that the humans were capable of such things and bestowed upon a group of paritcularly gifted humans their very own flame, a small thing that had only enough power for one human alone to consume. Thus a great cyberwar began which the details of are lost to all beings, even Magnus himself, some say.Though like a great phoenix the humans rose again from the ashes of destruction with one clear winner... though his name does not relate to the pantheon.This was Dan Paladin's interpretation of the creation of all things and the Pantheon of Creation.