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<blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3601132" data-attributes="member: 17691"><p>Fascinated by this jewel of a world it has created, the Empyrean's full attention is drawn to the small planet for a moment. The God's unbridled fire begins to buffet the fledgling sphere, unintentionally scorching its skies and boiling its seas. Before it can withdraw its essence from the orb, the planet's surface shudders and roils with pressure from within; its convulsions forming continents. Far too quickly, great cracks race across the newly formed continents as they continue to fracture into smaller and smaller islands. Mighty mountains thrust violently up out of the sea in protest as they hemorrhage great torrents of molten rock into the sky. The Empyrean withdraws its divine fire, for its merest act of curiosity has irrevocably marred the world's pristine perfection. And yet, even with this unintentional act the Divine Nexus has created something altogether new, something unique within the bounds of the universe.</p><p></p><p>The Empyrean waits patiently while the small planet cools and settles into its new shape. As it does so, the God considers what it has accomplished so far, and what it might yet do. The Fledgling Demiurge is pleased with what it has wrought, both intentionally and not, but now the Divine Nexus has come to the conclusion that it itself is too powerful to directly interact with its works. No, the god must create some tools, specially designed for the delicate attention this small planet demands. But what would it use for the task? It had created the four elements from its own essence, and they had indeed produced interesting results thus far, but they were but crude materials on their own. Still, this fledgling world was composed of these four elements, and any tool the Empyrean created would likewise need to be composed of all four to interact with the planet. Something was missing from the equation however. Unable to directly affect the world itself, its tools would need a semblance of the Empyrean's own consciousness to be effective and prosper.</p><p></p><p>With more care than it had used to create the entire cosmos, the Divine Nexus causes the ashes of its own its explosive birth to begin coalescing in the ether once more. Unlike the planets, the fledgling god uses its solar winds to delicately traces the outlines of a small ovoid form in space. With the subtle use of time and gravity the ashes slowly bond together. Water proves to be a much more difficult element for the Nexus to control, but with enough time, minute ice crystals form along the ovoid's outer surface. A slow gentle exhalation of fire from the Empyrean liquefies the ice and thus is water made to seep through the ovoid's crust and into its core. As the ovoid grows in size the ether around it, by its very nature, is drawn towards and into this new creation. The Empyrean lastly gathers up its own quintessence into its breast, the one mystical element which it had thus far kept to itself, and breathes it into the delicate construct. The ashen ovoid, awash in magic, grows pearlescent and radiant under the Nexus' careful ministrations. Its task thus complete, the Empyrean sets the ovoid to drift towards the distant cooling planet. As it begins its journey, the Empyrean speaks aloud a second time: <span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="color: Yellow"><em>"Pray tell me all that you find, and so will you be cherished and blessed in my sight."</em></span></span></span></p><p></p><p>Falling towards the planet, the ovoid glows ever-brighter as it traces an arc through the thick enshrouding atmosphere. By design, the fiery-hot ovoid alights in the sea and is thus quenched. The stress of impact does however jar the ovoid's contents into action. Rolling end over end from the struggle at its core, the ovoid washes up into the surf along one of the planet's continents. Cracking open, the ovoid bleeds a viscous fluid onto the earth; the stuff of life. Where it touches, greenery quickly spreads. While the ovoid's inhabitant continues its struggle to escape, lichens and grasses spread along the coastline. Some of the escaping fluid is gathered up by the surf and thus carried out to sea where it begets other stranger plants. Small bits of shell fall away from the egg and crumble onto the sand, from which small squirming worms and insects arise. The bits of shell that are washed away likewise beget corals and other small swimming fish in the sea. As the grasses quickly spread across the landscape and give rise to the first trees, the egg in the surf shudders once more and finally shatters apart. The larger bits of shell tumble onto the sand, under which rodents and serpents quickly arise and scurry away.</p><p></p><p>The form that lay within the ovoid is now free. Wrought in its creator's image, it uncurls its long sinuous body and opens its eyes and nostrils for the first time. Taking in the world around it, the creature soon unfurls its delicate wings and is buffeted by both wind and surf. Stepping deftly up out of the water on four clawed legs, the creature climbs up to the highest point it can find to regard its new domain in its entirety. Stretching its body and limbs to dry, the dragon looks up into the sky where it sees the blazing sun shinning down on it with favor. <span style="color: SandyBrown"><em>"I pray to you in thanks."</em></span> Instinctively, the dragon begins to prepare a nest for a clutch of eggs it will soon lay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ambrus, post: 3601132, member: 17691"] Fascinated by this jewel of a world it has created, the Empyrean's full attention is drawn to the small planet for a moment. The God's unbridled fire begins to buffet the fledgling sphere, unintentionally scorching its skies and boiling its seas. Before it can withdraw its essence from the orb, the planet's surface shudders and roils with pressure from within; its convulsions forming continents. Far too quickly, great cracks race across the newly formed continents as they continue to fracture into smaller and smaller islands. Mighty mountains thrust violently up out of the sea in protest as they hemorrhage great torrents of molten rock into the sky. The Empyrean withdraws its divine fire, for its merest act of curiosity has irrevocably marred the world's pristine perfection. And yet, even with this unintentional act the Divine Nexus has created something altogether new, something unique within the bounds of the universe. The Empyrean waits patiently while the small planet cools and settles into its new shape. As it does so, the God considers what it has accomplished so far, and what it might yet do. The Fledgling Demiurge is pleased with what it has wrought, both intentionally and not, but now the Divine Nexus has come to the conclusion that it itself is too powerful to directly interact with its works. No, the god must create some tools, specially designed for the delicate attention this small planet demands. But what would it use for the task? It had created the four elements from its own essence, and they had indeed produced interesting results thus far, but they were but crude materials on their own. Still, this fledgling world was composed of these four elements, and any tool the Empyrean created would likewise need to be composed of all four to interact with the planet. Something was missing from the equation however. Unable to directly affect the world itself, its tools would need a semblance of the Empyrean's own consciousness to be effective and prosper. With more care than it had used to create the entire cosmos, the Divine Nexus causes the ashes of its own its explosive birth to begin coalescing in the ether once more. Unlike the planets, the fledgling god uses its solar winds to delicately traces the outlines of a small ovoid form in space. With the subtle use of time and gravity the ashes slowly bond together. Water proves to be a much more difficult element for the Nexus to control, but with enough time, minute ice crystals form along the ovoid's outer surface. A slow gentle exhalation of fire from the Empyrean liquefies the ice and thus is water made to seep through the ovoid's crust and into its core. As the ovoid grows in size the ether around it, by its very nature, is drawn towards and into this new creation. The Empyrean lastly gathers up its own quintessence into its breast, the one mystical element which it had thus far kept to itself, and breathes it into the delicate construct. The ashen ovoid, awash in magic, grows pearlescent and radiant under the Nexus' careful ministrations. Its task thus complete, the Empyrean sets the ovoid to drift towards the distant cooling planet. As it begins its journey, the Empyrean speaks aloud a second time: [SIZE=3][FONT=Garamond][COLOR=Yellow][I]"Pray tell me all that you find, and so will you be cherished and blessed in my sight."[/I][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] Falling towards the planet, the ovoid glows ever-brighter as it traces an arc through the thick enshrouding atmosphere. By design, the fiery-hot ovoid alights in the sea and is thus quenched. The stress of impact does however jar the ovoid's contents into action. Rolling end over end from the struggle at its core, the ovoid washes up into the surf along one of the planet's continents. Cracking open, the ovoid bleeds a viscous fluid onto the earth; the stuff of life. Where it touches, greenery quickly spreads. While the ovoid's inhabitant continues its struggle to escape, lichens and grasses spread along the coastline. Some of the escaping fluid is gathered up by the surf and thus carried out to sea where it begets other stranger plants. Small bits of shell fall away from the egg and crumble onto the sand, from which small squirming worms and insects arise. The bits of shell that are washed away likewise beget corals and other small swimming fish in the sea. As the grasses quickly spread across the landscape and give rise to the first trees, the egg in the surf shudders once more and finally shatters apart. The larger bits of shell tumble onto the sand, under which rodents and serpents quickly arise and scurry away. The form that lay within the ovoid is now free. Wrought in its creator's image, it uncurls its long sinuous body and opens its eyes and nostrils for the first time. Taking in the world around it, the creature soon unfurls its delicate wings and is buffeted by both wind and surf. Stepping deftly up out of the water on four clawed legs, the creature climbs up to the highest point it can find to regard its new domain in its entirety. Stretching its body and limbs to dry, the dragon looks up into the sky where it sees the blazing sun shinning down on it with favor. [COLOR=SandyBrown][I]"I pray to you in thanks."[/I][/COLOR] Instinctively, the dragon begins to prepare a nest for a clutch of eggs it will soon lay. [/QUOTE]
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