The Birth of Our World [World of Aurius]

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===== The Birth of Our World =====
[[pantheons:deities:solara|The goddess of light and sun]] lay on her back, the labor she induced upon herself racking her body of a soft, effervescent light and energy as its essence became scattered across the places and abodes of chaos that existed from without her. As the chaos affected this goddess called Solara by way of its inconstant movement and jagged edges that cut into her, thus was born the stars, who came from the goddess of the sun and would inherit all of her essence. These celestial bodies were accordingly an imitation of the sun which Solara had embodied, and were thought to have existed in a greater distance than that between [[planes:heavens|the sun]] and [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:start|Ethrekas]]. From Solara could come the gifts of life and prosperity and, in the light of the sun, there could be observed a nutritive quality as its warmth spread throughout all of our land. Solara, seeing that these stars contained a potentiality alike to the sun, began to provide some shape to them, and, in her labor that the darkness had procured in her, could see that her dream of a land of fruitfulness and prosperity could come into existence with her essence. Thus, the goddess descended into a place within the void, and furthermore illuminated all of the jagged vertices which could be found there.\\
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Upon these illuminations made by the goddess’s light, there were born spirits from [[planes:void|void]] and this light, and they each possessed a nature of their own to be observed and made distinguished from the others of their kind. It was found that, in this world which existed beneath the sun and original place that Solara had descended from, there was found a pure potentiality and no limitation of her creations, and thus, she saw that it bore the possible realization of a reality that she had dreamt of. Thus, she provided a shape to it, sculpting it from the essence that had spilled from the heavens so that it might resemble those fixtures present there. Then was born the spirits of this world of Ethrekas, and they had come to belong there so that they remained bound to the place and finite in nature rather than being capable of ascension and an infinity as Solara was.\\
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The spirits which Solara had bore to be observed among the land of Ethrekas encapsulated the perfect and quintessential elements of mountains, hills, rivers, and deep valleys that could be identified, and, in this stage, Ethrekas was perfect and wholly derived from Solara’s will, and so Solara was known to walk among this world so that the spirits might know her life. From Solara came the desire to create and sustain, and the goddess performed this task simply through her existence, purifying Ethrekas, her chosen continent, so that it might know her abundance of life and prosperity. These spirits were contained in aspects of Solara, and, rather than each being comprised of all of Solara’s sublimity, they each inherited a specific aspect of her sublime nature such that they existed beneath her and constrained by the fullness of her absence. Thus, the spirits were incomplete, and from their incompleteness could be found flaw and imperfection, the potential being for any form rather than a specific one.\\
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The original chaos whose weapons had originally caused Solara’s labor saw, then, a kind of comprising of its kind into Solara’s dreamt world, and it made of some of the spirits corrupted versions that were lacking in some way of Solara’s original perfection. The darkness had thus found its place within the world, and Solara’s essence which was that of immortal sunlight could be found to not penetrate into the world as gladly as it had previous. From the darkness came a hunger, and from this hunger came the threat of the consumption of this world that had been created in an originally sublime state.\\
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The world of Ethrekas was then populated by flawed spirits, those who were lacking in some quality of Solara’s such that they did not retain all of her perfection. Accordingly, as Solara’s essence spilled into the world, there was still observed a corruption of that essence, and though the essence contained a pure sustenance and basis from which all life could come into existence, the darkness hungered for this energy and sought to consume it. Upon this consumption there was the rebirth of the world, and thus was born the new spirits that had taken after Solara’s dream that had yet been corrupted in some regard. Solara’s vision had been replaced with this corrupted version, and yet, she still chose to provide her light of a purity to Ethrekas so that the world would not die. Thus, the world teeming with her own vigor and life force that was previously spun and weaved in her internal world of light and perfection became imperfect and prone to change, though she found that yet she could still provide some influence there.\\
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Solara’s labor, as it was originally induced by the darkness, had come to completion, her dream that she had bore becoming corrupted though in the process. The new spirits of both light and void that were begat by the hunger of the darkness were of a mixed quality, and many who possessed vice yet possessed some amount of virtue that had originally been conceived of by Solara. Still, there were some spirits who recognized Solara, and instead chose to ally themselves with her purity: thus was born the [[pantheons:class:elohad|Elohad]], the spirits who prostrated themselves to Solara so that they might know the origins of their creation.\\
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Additionally, there were beings constructed of the clay of valleys and mountains that had also grown to recognize Solara as a divinity, and Solara saw that they already bore some resemblance to herself; Solara then chose them as her people, and thus, our people of the [[races:humans:ethrekasan:ethetia:start|Ethetia]] could properly be called so, named in honor of our consecration by the goddess of Solara. In doing so, she called for the Elohad to acknowledge our ancestors as well, and thus was born the tradition of the worship of the Elohad throughout the Ethetian peoples.\\
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Though the worship of the Elohad had become commonplace, there were many spirits who rebelled against Solara’s will that had spread in the west of Ethrekas, and these were the [[pantheons:class:avetad|Avetad]], spirits of a certain malevolence against Solara such that they might be further consumed and absorbed by the insatiable hunger of the darkness. Then, there were other people constructed from clay that recognized these evil deities, and these were the [[races:humans:ethrekasan:makhetia:start|Makhetia]]. Thus, the Avetad and Makhetia became allied against Solara’s consecrated, and thus was born an era of segregation among each people.\\
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The world, though imperfect it had become by the consumption of the darkness, was smiled upon by Solara through her gaze of light, and still, the land was graced with plentiful and abundant life and fertility. The goddess, then, reclaimed her place within the heavens, becoming enshrined in the sun so that she might again know the slumber of immortality that, though the darkness had interrupted, could enable again the heavens to be composed of the fullness of the sublime.