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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7261800" data-attributes="member: 4937">Yes. Not really.  I will share the convention orthodox view that a highly educated person might have, but the truth is no one in the game universe actually knows the answer.  Conventionally, the universe was created by an unknown being usually called 'The All Father', or sometimes the 'The All Mother'.  There are a variety of beliefs regarding the motives of this being, but it's generally believed that he (or she, or it) just likes Making Stuff, and after the stuff gets made he's bored with it and moves on to something else.  It's even considered possible that the being doesn't really know he's Making Stuff, and that everything is basically a dream of this seemingly omnipotent but infinitely remote being.  In general, the bulk of the world's population is as disinterested in this being as the being is apparently disinterested in them, as there are much closer, more proximate, and more relatable forces involved in their lives.  To the extent that anyone thinks about this being, he (or she, or it) is consider the proper concern of the gods and not mortals, in sort of the same way that what the Colonel is doing is not the proper concern of the Private, owing to the existence of Sergeants, Lieutenants, and Captains.   It's a purely scholarly question.The main things that the creator created are: The Tree, The Cascade, and The World.  Satisfied with that work, he disappeared and no one - not even the oldest of the fairies - is so old that they have a memory of this being.The Tree is commonly called the Tree of Life or The Great Tree, and it represents the principle of self-organization.  It's because of the Tree that you can put a piece of meat in a glass jar and it will spontaneously generate maggots, or that a field of flowers will spontaneously generate garden sprites and atomies to dwell in it.  The Tree extends throughout the entire multi-verse promoting and creating through its own growth secondary life.  The sprouting of the tree cause vegetation to arise spontaneously from the ground, and animals to arise in the seas and fields.  It also caused the first free people to arise, the eldest and youngest ones, the uncreated, the diverse people of fairy who were the first gods and the first free people who lived in The World countless years before ever there were anything else.   Some people believe The Tree is actually the unknown Creator, although as far as anyone can tell The Tree is mindless or at least so alien and vast that it's mine cannot be comprehended or communicated with.The other great source of power in the multiverse is The Cascade.  It is the source of change, and it interacts with, powers, and sustains The Tree.  It is a nigh infinite source of power, that descends from the Positive Elemental Plane and falls to the Negative Elemental Plane, along the way generating all the energy for everything that is but also the possibility of limits, decay, and endings.   As it falls, it bifurcates into the four great elemental forces, generating the four elemental planes of being.   As with the Tree, the Cascade has some worshippers and some that believe The Cascade itself is actually the unknown creator, though again as far as anyone can tell The Cascade is mindless.In the midst of the Cascade, in the midst indeed of the entire multiverse, is The World - a giant translucent shell often described as made of diamond, suspended within the cascade on thread of Orachalcum, and containing within it a brilliant multicolored, diverse orb often presented or described as an enormous opaline stone.  It was, and perhaps still is, regarded as the most beautiful thing in the known universe, though its full beauty is now lost and only the eldest beings can remember it as it was, before it was spoiled and bloodstained and its lands ruined and tainted thereby.  Everything else in the universe is a secondary creation of some sort or the other, generally beginning with the appearance of the family of the first gods - flame eyed Maglubiyet and his kindred - when the first fruit of the Great Tree ripened and gave forth seed.Again, that's the conventional view, and a lot of scholars would deny various pieces of that and certainly the followers of different religions make differing claims about it.</blockquote>

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