Bearfoot_Adam
09-17-2008, 01:00 AM
Well, I'm finally unpacked enough to start working on this again and would love your guys input on this as it is my first world creation. I figured I'd start out with my creation myth. Let me know what you think.
In the days before the land and all her creatures there was only Tachutanna the sun and her lover Tachutatta the moon. Together they danced in the heavens two cosmic beings sharing the universe alone. Time passed, and out of their dance came Erden their daughter. As their daughter grew her parents gave her many gifts. Blue oceans, grey mountains, amber plains, green forests and brown deserts were her raiment. Animals, fishes, Birds were given to her for her pleasure. Her greatest gift was the animal named Man. They made her happiest of all for all the things they could do.
Time passed as time does and Erden grew tired of the gifts of her parents. She wanted to make men of her own design but she could not for the creation of life was for the sun and the moon. And so it came to pass that Erden interrupted the great cosmic dance of Tachutanna and Tachutatta. Erden called out to her father and he came down to her and they began to form a new dance, and out of that dance came beings like man but of Erdens body and design. These new men forever marked by the earth their maker would later be given the name dwarves.
When Tachutanna learned of the trespasses of her child and her cosmic lover she became outraged. She began to chase Tachutatta across the heavens. But Tachutatta is quick and has been able to avoid her wrath. And to this day the sun and the moon will never be seen together in the sky.
As for Erden, Tachutanna ripped a pieces of her flesh and hurled them with might toward her daughter. The impacts shook Erden to her core scarring her face with great craters. The pain and anguish of this caused great tears to well up from Erden and soon these scars were covered by water.
This explosion had far greater impacts for the denizens of Erden. For Erden’s children they became scared of the wrath of Tachutanna and turned to their birth mother the earth for protection. To this day the dwarves dwell below the earth safe from the suns wrath never straying to the surface for too long.
But that was not the only consequence. Tachutanna, a being of pure creative force, unleashed a part of that force on the land. She brought magic to the land. The creatures of her design closest to the blast were permanently changed by this force. Elves were now seen, as were satyrs, centaurs and other strange animal hybrids. Mighty beasts sprung up in the seas, and plains, and mountains. Not even Erdens dwarves were without change as some changed into trolls, and ogres before they could seek the safety of their mother.
Time passes as time does and these creatures old and new began to find their places in the way of things. Erden’s scar, still the heart of magic draws the beings who were created by terrible day forever connected to its power while beings made before that day remain independent of that source and populate farther lands. And that is how world we live in has come to be.
In the days before the land and all her creatures there was only Tachutanna the sun and her lover Tachutatta the moon. Together they danced in the heavens two cosmic beings sharing the universe alone. Time passed, and out of their dance came Erden their daughter. As their daughter grew her parents gave her many gifts. Blue oceans, grey mountains, amber plains, green forests and brown deserts were her raiment. Animals, fishes, Birds were given to her for her pleasure. Her greatest gift was the animal named Man. They made her happiest of all for all the things they could do.
Time passed as time does and Erden grew tired of the gifts of her parents. She wanted to make men of her own design but she could not for the creation of life was for the sun and the moon. And so it came to pass that Erden interrupted the great cosmic dance of Tachutanna and Tachutatta. Erden called out to her father and he came down to her and they began to form a new dance, and out of that dance came beings like man but of Erdens body and design. These new men forever marked by the earth their maker would later be given the name dwarves.
When Tachutanna learned of the trespasses of her child and her cosmic lover she became outraged. She began to chase Tachutatta across the heavens. But Tachutatta is quick and has been able to avoid her wrath. And to this day the sun and the moon will never be seen together in the sky.
As for Erden, Tachutanna ripped a pieces of her flesh and hurled them with might toward her daughter. The impacts shook Erden to her core scarring her face with great craters. The pain and anguish of this caused great tears to well up from Erden and soon these scars were covered by water.
This explosion had far greater impacts for the denizens of Erden. For Erden’s children they became scared of the wrath of Tachutanna and turned to their birth mother the earth for protection. To this day the dwarves dwell below the earth safe from the suns wrath never straying to the surface for too long.
But that was not the only consequence. Tachutanna, a being of pure creative force, unleashed a part of that force on the land. She brought magic to the land. The creatures of her design closest to the blast were permanently changed by this force. Elves were now seen, as were satyrs, centaurs and other strange animal hybrids. Mighty beasts sprung up in the seas, and plains, and mountains. Not even Erdens dwarves were without change as some changed into trolls, and ogres before they could seek the safety of their mother.
Time passes as time does and these creatures old and new began to find their places in the way of things. Erden’s scar, still the heart of magic draws the beings who were created by terrible day forever connected to its power while beings made before that day remain independent of that source and populate farther lands. And that is how world we live in has come to be.