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Of the origin of our world there
is little dispute (save for some heterodox sects of usurpers
in the previous millennium). It is as it was written in
the Annals of the Timeless Ones, compiled by the Elothean
Lorethew, Elisanoria:
"At first was the Void, neither light nor dark, neither
full nor empty. Such nothingness as is too dreadful
to imagine. Into this Void, came the One who took the
Void to wife. From the Void he caused to be conceived
offspring, as the she-serpent carried in its body siblings,
but all separate and alone behind hard shells, only
to bring forth living things that are forever separated
and unjoinable. So the One and the Void produced the
Planes, separate realms of world and being divided by
irrevocable boundaries of time, space and essential
forces.
When she realized that her children were destined by
the Father to be ever separate, ever alone and ever full of
woe, the Mother Void began to weep. Her tears flowed and flowed,
and landing on the Planes, each tear produced a being of great
power, born of pure Void. When he saw what his consort had
created. the One became enraged, and into each of those eternal
beings of pure Void, he imparted some of his own substance,
until he had not enough to maintain his own being. With that,
he was no more, and the Void, now containing within it myriad
Planes and Immortals, now not being Void, ceased to exist.
And it is so that the Planes were under the Dominion
of the Immortals, and the Immortals ever fated to strife
and conflict and overweening desire."
As to how this Plane, and our world of Elanthia came to be
wrought and populated, the venerable Lorthew is less definite:
"The Planes had been born, separate and complete,
whole unto themselves. And yet, as newborns experience
much growth, so did the Planes. The Plane of Exile,
the Plane of Abiding and the Plane of Unknowing all
did evolve in separate ways, as did all the infinitely
numbered Planes. Ours, the Plane of Abiding, contained
the Thirteen Immortals who created the 13 worlds. Our
world, being the last, was the most perfect and complete,
and yet the sum of all the strife and discord among
its creators.
Elanthia was a mass of fire and ice, vapor and seas,
from which the Immortals fashioned continents to shelter
and provide succor for the First Beings, low creatures
of all ilk. From the First Beings came the races. From
those with scales that crawled or slithered upon their
bellies through swamp and desert came the S’Kra
Mur; from the brutes who walked bent over upon their
knuckles in savanna and upland were descended the Gor’Tog;
from those small, furry, clever creatures that darted
among the roots of trees, the green glades and the bases
of rocks came the Halflings; from the strong, stout
beings that supported the very ground itself upon their
backs and dwelt in the maw beneath the earth, came the
Dwarves; from the sturdy, crafty beasts of the fields
and plains came the Humans; from the blithe beings that
mastered the currents of air and water in wildwood and
cascading rill, came the Elves, and from the pure thought
and will of the Immortals themselves, came the Elotheans."
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Xibar - Moon
Xibar is both the closest and the smallest of the three moons. Unlike the other two, it lacks any sort of atmosphere, which leads some historians to speculate it was burnt off in the same cataclysm that charred Katamba. Xibar is covered by myriad shades of blue, but the silvery-blue glow of its vast and pristine ice fields dominate the moon.
Moon Mages ascribe to Xibar dominance over Psychic Projection magic as well as influence over Moonlight Manipulation and Transduction magic. |
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