My Creation Myth
Posted 21st April 2009 at 05:33 PM by Archade
So, I've been lagging a bit on my creativity for my campaign world, but I decided last night to flesh out my creation myth of the world.
I was able to explain quite a few things. First, why the campaign world is different from the rest of the universe (it can't be owned or changed by the whims of powerful beings), why souls go to 'heaven' or elsewhere in the afterlife, and how the different pantheons originally started together.
I'm interested if anyone has comments or suggestions on how to flesh this out. I'd love to include a paragraph explaining how giants, titans, elementals, or the like had bearing on the world in the early days.
So, without futher preamble ...
The Alabaster Scrolls Tell of the Beginning
Aarishem, the Allfather of the Court of Voices, called his prophet Manphares to him in the legendary city of Namphare from the tribes of mankind, and had him set down the earliest days of Celestia, and revealed the truths of the gods to mankind.
Aarishem says before the Court of Voices came together and raised their voices, there was dischord. The Thousand Pits of Shabel-Mar raged and the Ethereal Sea burned with such fury that none could venture forth from their worlds. From Shabel-Mar great and powerful beings waged war, stretching forth to devour worlds, drawing all life back to The Thousand Pits.
The Elder Gods stood astride worlds, the blood of all creatures upon them. They were Dagon, Bolthomogg, Nycorn, Obox-Ob, and more. Their forms were incomprehensible, and their spawn without number.
Against the ravages of Shabel-Mar stood the Gray Lords. They were led by Aarishem the White Eye, and standing with him were Karkath the First Flame, Minderhall the Stonemaster and Uarthos the Ethereal, and others who followed their banner. They could not defeat the foul creatures of Shabel-Mar, for they were without end, but they raised many warriors from across many worlds and railed against the Elder Gods. This was the First War.
The First War raged for countless millennia, until Uarthos stole from Dagon’s deep lair secret lore – he used this lore and sacrificed himself to create a realm protected far from Shabel-Mar, unmutable by the will of great beings, only by the hands of mortal creatures. This realm he called Theras, and those who followed the Gray Lords came to dwell in Theras.
Aarishem then called forth the greatest and noblest of the host of the Gray Lords now of Theras to dwell apart and raise their voices as one, to shroud this realm from the eyes of the Lords of Shabel-Mar. Their song formed the bastion wall about Theras, a shining realm of light that echoed with its celestial choir of voices. The song and the shining realm of light were named Venya, and Aarishem decreed that as long as the Court of Voices sang, this Fortress would stand fast. Another song was sung in Venya, to call forth to the Court of Voices souls that ended their time on Theras, as long as Aarishem found them worthy, and they joined the celestial choir.
Tales of the First Days of Theras
Astaroth was a powerful fiend who dwelt in a realm known as Baator, and his following had become diminished in the defense against Shabel-Mar. He knew his realm would not stand long if he did not have creatures to guard Baator’s borders. So he whispered to those in Venya and offered them a place in his court to those who would teach him the song that called souls to their choir. The song could not be sung by the harsh voice of Astaroth, and so it was instead a whisper of temptation, that mortal souls could choose to follow. Aarishem heard the whisper, and knew he had been betrayed. He exiled from his court Triel and Mephistopheles and others who had hidden their treachery. Astaroth called them to Baator, and this exile as known as the First Falling
I was able to explain quite a few things. First, why the campaign world is different from the rest of the universe (it can't be owned or changed by the whims of powerful beings), why souls go to 'heaven' or elsewhere in the afterlife, and how the different pantheons originally started together.
I'm interested if anyone has comments or suggestions on how to flesh this out. I'd love to include a paragraph explaining how giants, titans, elementals, or the like had bearing on the world in the early days.
So, without futher preamble ...
The Alabaster Scrolls Tell of the Beginning
Aarishem, the Allfather of the Court of Voices, called his prophet Manphares to him in the legendary city of Namphare from the tribes of mankind, and had him set down the earliest days of Celestia, and revealed the truths of the gods to mankind.
Aarishem says before the Court of Voices came together and raised their voices, there was dischord. The Thousand Pits of Shabel-Mar raged and the Ethereal Sea burned with such fury that none could venture forth from their worlds. From Shabel-Mar great and powerful beings waged war, stretching forth to devour worlds, drawing all life back to The Thousand Pits.
The Elder Gods stood astride worlds, the blood of all creatures upon them. They were Dagon, Bolthomogg, Nycorn, Obox-Ob, and more. Their forms were incomprehensible, and their spawn without number.
Against the ravages of Shabel-Mar stood the Gray Lords. They were led by Aarishem the White Eye, and standing with him were Karkath the First Flame, Minderhall the Stonemaster and Uarthos the Ethereal, and others who followed their banner. They could not defeat the foul creatures of Shabel-Mar, for they were without end, but they raised many warriors from across many worlds and railed against the Elder Gods. This was the First War.
The First War raged for countless millennia, until Uarthos stole from Dagon’s deep lair secret lore – he used this lore and sacrificed himself to create a realm protected far from Shabel-Mar, unmutable by the will of great beings, only by the hands of mortal creatures. This realm he called Theras, and those who followed the Gray Lords came to dwell in Theras.
Aarishem then called forth the greatest and noblest of the host of the Gray Lords now of Theras to dwell apart and raise their voices as one, to shroud this realm from the eyes of the Lords of Shabel-Mar. Their song formed the bastion wall about Theras, a shining realm of light that echoed with its celestial choir of voices. The song and the shining realm of light were named Venya, and Aarishem decreed that as long as the Court of Voices sang, this Fortress would stand fast. Another song was sung in Venya, to call forth to the Court of Voices souls that ended their time on Theras, as long as Aarishem found them worthy, and they joined the celestial choir.
Tales of the First Days of Theras
Astaroth was a powerful fiend who dwelt in a realm known as Baator, and his following had become diminished in the defense against Shabel-Mar. He knew his realm would not stand long if he did not have creatures to guard Baator’s borders. So he whispered to those in Venya and offered them a place in his court to those who would teach him the song that called souls to their choir. The song could not be sung by the harsh voice of Astaroth, and so it was instead a whisper of temptation, that mortal souls could choose to follow. Aarishem heard the whisper, and knew he had been betrayed. He exiled from his court Triel and Mephistopheles and others who had hidden their treachery. Astaroth called them to Baator, and this exile as known as the First Falling
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