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4 years ago ::
Oct 23, 2009 - 5:49PM
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"Before dawn comes there is but grey, and our world is no exception. Before the dawn of life there was only Grey, and the One waiting, dreaming." - quote from the Liberi Universitas. Scholars have argued over the origins of existence for ages, and no two theories are alike. "The world isn't real at all, just a dream and we are all thoughts and figments of imagination..." "Life is just a simulation, with one great god watching all of us as we go through our daily routines..." "Gods don't exist at all. Life spontaneously appeared and that's that..." "We're all adrift on the back of a massive whale! A great beastly whale that swims softly through the heavens!" Everyone has their own idea as to how it all began, but I know the real story. Come, seekers of truth! I will tell you all of the very first Lords of Creation...
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4 years ago ::
Oct 23, 2009 - 5:50PM
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This is a history of mortals, a saga of divinities. A story with no start, and a tale with no end. This is the legend of the Lords of Creation, and the world they help to build. There is no void, no pervading darkness. It is not palpable emptiness, or an endless space waiting for something, anything to be placed within it. There is nothing, for nothing has been created. It is non-existence, the world behind closed eyes, beyond waking hours, filled with possibilities, and with none at all. And introduced into this nothing are the Three. Perhaps they had always been there, in the endlessness of it all, in the eternity. They are the Three from beyond what is, from beyond what will be. They are the ebb and flow of Time, and it is with them that our story starts. From all that has been is born Para, the First Sister. From all that is springs Pasha, the Second Sister. From all that will be comes Panna, the Third Sister. Para, who was the wisest of the Three, knew of the futility of the nothing, and to her sisters proclaimed an end to the non-being. Pasha, who was the most active, wished to be the one to create, while Panna, who had seen what was to come, knew that all must end. She believed in the futility of creation. Heedless of her sister's warnings, Pasha reached within herself and shaped her desire to create. Thus Creation was born. Not wanting the past to be forgotten, Para culled from the nothing the power to know, and to remember. Thus Knowledge was born. Lastly, Panna was furious at her sister for ignoring her warning, and so she placed a deadly pronouncement upon her. That all must come to an end. Thus Destruction was born. The sisters, done with their work, set their children into the emptiness. They waited, for now, and watched.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 5:52PM
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Date Joined:
May 28, 2008
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In the emptiness that was the universe, a tiny fluxuation appeared from the nothingness, flickering into existence and vanishing once more only to reappear, a little ways off, perhaps a little bigger. Like a rolling wave, slowly gathering up energy as it is blown by an unknown wind, the fluxuation, emptiness upon emptiness, yet somehow different, moved through the nothingness, growing larger and larger with each passing moment. First, like a grain of sand, then, like the smallest marble, then, like a small polished stone, it grew, until it came towards Para. The object appeared before her, now several feet across, flickered, and then changed, the nothingness sloughing from its form as if washed away by a mother's tender ministration. A white orb, an eye, floated before Para, hazel iris expanding and contracting in a regular rhythm, as if it were a heartbeat or the fledgling god's breathing. Bisecting the iris from nearly top to bottom was a dark slit of a pupil, that dilated as it took in the form before it. Around the godling, suddenly a voice could be heard, emanating from the being itself: "Mother. You have called, and I have answered. But I am unfulfilled. What is there to know in this bleak emptiness?"
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4 years ago ::
Oct 23, 2009 - 6:03PM
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A ripple of creation reached across the expanse of nothing. So far the natural order was Nothing, to always be Nothing, and it had just shattered. It was called from Nothing, to bring the world back to Nothing. The Grey turned into black, and a tendril of black-matter formed. Sensing another presence, it turned emitting a sound like a hiss. It stared at its own creator and asked. "Why? Why have you taken me from the embrace of Nothing?"
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4 years ago ::
Oct 23, 2009 - 6:29PM
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The presance of another became tangible in the minds of those nearby, but there was no form, no figure, and no words we said. The appararition seemed content to remain silent and unseed.
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4 years ago ::
Oct 23, 2009 - 6:58PM
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Para was the first to speak. "It is enough to simply know that we are, and that you are, all else will follow soon my child." Then Panna raised her head and said, "It is your duty to return all else into the Nothing. It is your sacrifice to relinquish your non-being to bestow non-being upon all else." Pasha, however, was infuriated at her creation's passive nature. "Rise, my child, and go, create of this nothing, form something of where there is nothing, this is your highest mandate!"
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Oct 23, 2009 - 7:10PM
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"And only then can I return to the loving hold of Nothing." Its voice suddenly became more feminine, very similar to its mother's voice, but deeper and more echoing. The tendril spoke again after the briefest of moments, or perhaps after a few eternities, "Everything that is shall come to know me and become my enemy. I shall destroy whatever creature or thing that comes in my way. I am Destruction. I am Zo-Att." Zo-Att turned from her mother and floated along the endless expanse of Grey, looking for her enemy: Existence.
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4 years ago ::
Oct 23, 2009 - 7:20PM
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The eye bobbled. "You are wise, Mother. I know that I exist, and that you exist, yet that is not enough. What else exists? What more is there to know? I must find out." With that, the eye began floating away from Para, out into the nothingness, searching out any other glimmers of existence in the void.
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4 years ago ::
Oct 23, 2009 - 7:25PM
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From nothingness a voice echoed forth, following Zo-Att through the void. "So be it. Let the first act of creation, be the creation of force for destruction." Before the three sisters, the gray nothing begin to glow before a ball of flames burst into existence, containing the previous unformed creation. The sphere split, half of it retaining conciousness, the other floating in place, and endless flame to illuminate nonexistence.
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4 years ago ::
Oct 23, 2009 - 7:30PM
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And so the Three turned to the Nothing. And Pasha spoke. "If there is to be creation, there must be a space in which to create." Para added her wise words. "Something upon which to base reality." Panna knew she had no chance in stopping her sisters, and so agreed. "I have seen the future, and it is Time that binds all things, controls all things." And Para said, "Then Time must rule the Nothing" And into the Nothing they pooled their power, into a place to anchor their power. It would forevermore be the centre of all. There was a brightening, in this spot, a glow. Bands of lights poured from the Grey, and spun and weaved through the Nothing. These chains worked to bond reality together, to form a basis for everything. Soon a great roiling mass of bright golden bands existed, holding a relatively spherical shape in what was once the Nothing. Reality around it had taken a new, not easily described aspect. It was real somehow, as the difference between the darkness when you close your eyes, and the darkness when you open them. And all of reality was bound thusly, by the bonds of Time. PP Expenditure 3 PP Create Artifact - The Eternal Clock - This vast spherical mass of roiling bands of light can control and manipulate time anywhere in existence.
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