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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyincal Lurker" data-source="post: 3621795" data-attributes="member: 52999">Before the begining of days, when above the heavens did not yet exist nor the earth below, Apsu the freshwater ocean was there, the first, the begetter, and Tiamat, the saltwater sea, she who bore them all.They were mixing their waters, and no land had yet been formed, nor even a reed marsh.  From these waters the first generations of gods were born, and they bowed and served Apsu and Tiamat, their parents and masters.In turn, the Elder Gods birthed the Younger, and they in turn multiplied, but were in each generation less obediant and increasingly obstenent, giving no homage to there own parents, and none to Apsu and Tiamat.Apsu grew, in time, vexed by the gods, and in secret conspired to put and end to them, taking them back into himself from whence they half came, but the youngest of the gods was the most clever, and learned of this, and the gods came and slew Apsu, and made death the freshwater.The Elder Gods were fearfull, and spoke of this to Tiamat, who was wroth, and with her eldest child she concived an army of monsters with which to have retribution, but the youngest god was clever still, and slew Tiamat, and cut her open.With the upper of her body, he made the heavens, beyond which he scattered the remains of the elder gods, so they would have no power and not avenge themselves, and be scattered forever.With her lower half, he made the earth, and under it burried Apsu, and with the waters of both many things were born to serve the gods, as they had once served Apsu and Tiamat.The organs of Tiamat were cast far, beyond the heavens, so her power was scattered into nine spheres that would never meet, Apsu's organs remained, being to toxic for the gods to move, but were burried below the earth, where they would cause no trouble.The spirit of Apsu was not gone from his flesh, such was it's hate, and that hate mixed with the death-water, and thigns were born from Apsu and not Tiamat, and the circle of life was twisted, and darkeness was apon the face of the deep.Even as the gods had turned from Apsu and Tiamat, in time they turned from those who they made to serve them, and they became distant and dwelled not on the earth, nor in the heavens.The children of the gods languished, and became backwards and simple, and no wisdom was known to them, and they forgot the names of the gods, and of Tiamat and Apsu, and all history was undone for them, for each day was without a past to them.Darkness flowed up from the earth, and covered it up, as the hate of Apsu boiled over, and all the gods made was turned into darkness and made to suffer, for the gods were gone, and no power was in the darkness to reach to the heavens, and not to reach beyond, and it fed only on itself, and grew in malice but not in power.The serpent-folk came, born of Tiamat, who had hidden in distant places where the gods had not cut them down, and they saw the darkness and found it unseeming that the things made of the gods, but from Tiamat, should be made to suffer for that which they did not, and knew not of.The serpent-folk made war on the dark, and the dark made war on the sperpent-folk, the last children of Tiamat battled the spawn of Apsu, both full of hate, and of power, yet not one of them could die, for they were born to battle gods, and to not fall in any battle.So the sperent-folk found the doors to the under-earth, and shut them, and placed guard apon them, that the hate of Aspu would be bound, and not find any passage to the earth, and never stand under the heavens, and not trouble the living things apon the world, who were not the enemies of Apsu, nor of Tiamat.The elder serpent-folk took up the watch over the doors in the deep, and the younger wathced the earth, and the heavens, to know if the darkness moved, and to hold vigil if the gods returned, for they were still enemies of the gods, and hated them as the dark did, but would not make suffering on those who were not the gods.That is the start of all things, and why we keep watch on the under-earth, and why the serpent-folk are not to be trusted, even though they hold back the darkness, they wait to make war on the gods again, and would loose that darkness as a weapon.-- Drow creation myth</blockquote>

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