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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saracenus" data-source="post: 9672506" data-attributes="member: 47839">This is the latest iteration of my Greyhawk Creation Story. I wrote the original version prior to the publication of Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, but it was quite easy to incorporate the First World story into the next draft. When I named my version of the Elder Elemental Eye for my upcoming campaign, I incorporated them into this version.Note: I really dislike Monte Cook's linking of Tharizdun to The Elder Elemental Eye in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, so I keep them separate in my Greyhawk. What does this have to do with my updating The Temple of Elemental Evil to 5e? Well it forms the basis of my interpretation of the Greyhawk gods and that is a section of the adventure I am going to have to update eventually.For my Wrath of the Elder Elemental Eye campaign that I am assembling, Ish'kairoth is the being who pushes the heroes (the PCs) out of their steady state world (which is our Earth in 2025) and on the road to adventure in the World of Greyhawk (inhabiting the bodies of adventures who died at the hands of the Temple). When I complete the Wrath of the Elder Elemental Eye one pager for my players I will post it here so you can see what I mean.My players may or may not learn about Ish'kairoth's origins depending on what they do during the campaign, but it gives a short, simple foundation to create anything else that deals with Faiths and Powers in my World of Greyhawk.We are the stories we tell ourselves and each other.[HR][/HR]<h3>A Greyhawk Creation Story</h3>Before the creation of the cosmos, there existed a cold, infinite darkness. In this nothingness, the unchanging void engendered something new, Ish’kairoth. Their first, warm breath manifested the Primordial Chaos below, the heavenly Order above, and twixt the two, the Cosmic Egg of Creation[1].In the space between Ish’kairoth's first and second breath the concept of time emerged, personified as the primordial god the Prince of Time[2]. Suddenly the infinite became finite, but without purpose. Between Ish’kairoth's second and third breath, the Prince search for the meaning of their existence leading them to another, the Lady of our Fate[3]. Their embrace crushed the Cosmic Egg[4], scattering its shards, creating the material world[5] between the Order above and the Chaos below.[HR][/HR]<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Cosmic Egg of Creation is a great mystery to both theologians and philosophers. Heated debates on its true nature and providence rage amongst mortal sages even today.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">This Prince of Time is a primordial god so far removed from the cares and concerns of mere mortals that only a few acknowledge their divinity let alone worship them. The Suel god <a href="https://www.enworld.org/app%3A//obsidian.md/Lendor" target="_blank">Lendor</a> is one name given to them on Oerth.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Lady of our Fate is the second primordial god and, like the Prince of Time, they are distant from the concerns of mortals, but they are beseeched and placated far more often. The Baklunish god <a href="https://www.enworld.org/app%3A//obsidian.md/Istus" target="_blank">Istus</a>, is one of her names on Oerth.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Dragons tell a different story, that the draconic Serpent Io was born encircling the Cosmic Egg and was Io who crushed it and split themselves in twain. These two parts of themselves became the gods Tiamat and Bahamut and they whom created the First World from its shards (see Fizban's Treasury of Dragons for the draconic poem Elegy for the First World).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Material World (or the Prime Material) is not considered divine by most theologians and philosophers but the planet Oerth is said to be personified as the deity Beory. The Heirophants of The Old Faith are bemused at the arrogance denying the sacred nature of Oerth.</li> </ol></blockquote>

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