The History of the World and the Coming of the One God:
Being a telling of the creation of the world and its peoples according to the holy writ The Saga of the One God by His Holiness the High Priest of Eza

 

Believed by: The Sun Elves primarily, but also the Forest and Wood Elves for the most part, with little variation. Of the Eldar, the Mountain Elves and the Wild Elves are the only ones who flat out disagree with the Sun Elves on their version of the creation myth.

 

In the beginning there was Eza and he was whole and beautiful in the eyes of the Universe. Where light persists, there must also be shadow, however, and in the shadow of the One God's light there grew monstrosities of great evil: the Nameless. Eza, seeing the forces of the Nameless arrayed against him, gave birth to his chosen children: the Inkari. Of his sons and daughters were Kain, Borius, Telaziel, Esmus, Karia, Delilah, Tirael, and Suriel. Together with his children he did wage war on the unholy Nameless and their spawn for thousands of years.

 

The Nameless were truly insidious, however, and slowly wormed their way into the heart of Eza's oldest son: Kain. Kain, the Inkari of Flame, was swayed by the honeyed words of the Nameless and spread their black intent by destroying the creations of Eza. Eza was wroth, but merciful with his son, patiently waiting for Kain to throw off the yolk of the Nameless' oppression. However, that day would not come, and it was with a heavy heart that Eza smote his son for the destruction he caused. The other sons of Eza rose up then to fight him, having been turned from the light by the whispers of the dark Nameless. Together the Inkari Kain, Borius, Telaziel, and Esmus threw themselves at Eza, but in his might the Father of All fended them off.

 

While the Inkari were turned on their father the Nameless fled through the stars sewing chaos and destruction with demonic glee, for none stood now to stop them.

 

Faithful to Eza's superiority, the daughters of the Father of All came to him with a gift to end the war between He and His sons. This gift came in the form of a stone which could capture within it the Inkari that had gone astray. Because of its nature, this stone could only be used in the Physical World, a Plane distant from the Holy land of the Spectral Plane on which Eza and his children dwelt. And so, Eza chose to create a beautiful world that would act as eternal prison for his errant children.

 

With all the love and power at his disposal, the Father created Stehreel. He populated it with beasts and beautiful wonders, never knowing that the Nameless had slunk into her depths to plot and corrupt his creation. Once he had finished with the world, he summoned his children Kain, Borius, Telaziel, and Esmus to the world with an offering of peace. When the Inkari arrived, Eza sought to reason with them and end the bloodshed. Kain, however, refused the offering of peace and threatened to destroy the world that the Father had created. With a heavy heart he cast the stone that his daughters had made at the feet of his sons and bound all four of them forever. Casting the stone away into the mountains of the world, he declared himself the only remaining God, the One God.

 

It was at that moment, when the Lost Gods had been bound away and the One God stood unopposed to end the war that the Nameless had begun, the the One God created his most precious creations: The Elves. With all of his power he gave birth to the first Eldar Kaeledor and the first Drukar Saeder. The Drukar was jealous of the beauty of the Eldar and attacked him viciously on sight. The One God, weary of war, cast the Drukar to the dark side of the world and raised the Eldar up as His chosen people.

 

Unknown to all of them, the Nameless, terrified of the creation of the One God, gave birth in secret to the Hkahnihn below the world to ever oppose the Elves the One God had made.

 

After thousands of years in the One God's care, the Eldar had grown to be a powerful people. The Sun Elves, rightful rulers of the people and faithful of the One God, led the Forest Elves, Wood Elves, Wild Elves, and Mountain Elves as was ordained by the holiest of beings. It was then that an abomination occurred. A man of the Drukar people snuck into the land of the Light and abducted a Sun Elf woman. He took her away from her father and rightful husband and raped her to create an abomination: One who is neither Eldar nor Drukar whose name will never be spoken by the holy.

 

In vengeance for the sacrilege against a daughter of the One God, the Eldar went to war against the Drukar. A war that would last over one hundred years. Near the end of the war, when the combined might of the Eldar armies under the leadership of the Sun Elves had reached the lands at the heart of the Drukar territories, the Drukar enacted a terrible and powerful curse that caused the three moons encircling Stehreel to disappear from the night's sky. The darkness was so thick that the Eldar armies could not see to fight the Drukar, but the Drukar could see just fine.

 

The tide of the war turned without the moons to help light the Eldar in the dark places of the world, and the Drukar pushed the armies of the chosen back even almost to the heart of the land of light. In desperation, fearing destruction, the High Priest of the One God raised up his voice to the heavens to beseech the aid of the Father of All. Foul magics hidden from the Elves by the Nameless interfered with the High Priest's message and reached into the sky to black out the sun entirely. The darkness that enfolded the world was so thick that none could see to kill.

 

The darkness would last for three full days and was only broken when the unthinkable occurred. The Abomination, he who was neither Eldar nor Drukar whose name will not be spoken, found the stone that held the Lost Gods prisoner.

The Abomination took up the stone that was the prison of the Lost Gods in the darkness of the absent sun and moons, and cast it from the mountaintop. The stone shattered against the ground and with a howling, terrible sound, the Lost Gods returned in fire and destruction. The sun and moons returned to the sky in an instant and in one blinding, terrible moment, the world was shattered by Cataclysm.

 

True to his terrible promise, Kain broke the world in a smoldering inferno of destruction, raising the Evil Nameless from the depths of the world as his instruments. The Great Demons roamed the world, slaying the Elves and leaving catastrophe in their wake. None were safe from their unholy crusade. The One God, weakened by the destruction wreaked upon his people, was bound by the other Inkari so that he could not save his people. All seemed lost, and if things had continued as they were the world would have ended in fire and blood that very day. But things were not allowed to continue as they were.

 

At that moment when hope was lost in the inferno of the Cataclysm, the youngest daughter of the One God, Suriel, rose from the ashes of destruction and cast herself before all of the Inkari and the Nameless.

 

"Behold!" she cried in the holy tongue of the Gods, "I will not allow thy wickedness to continue. I wilt sacrifice my very life to keep the children of my Father safe!"

 

And with her own life force she sealed all of the Inkari and all of the Nameless in an Eternal Binding that shall never be broken. The One God was bound to the Sun, her sisters were bound to the three moons, Kain was bound to the heart of the world with the Nameless, Borius was bound to a tree that grew to immense proportions with his might, Telaziel was bound to the waters of the north that froze around him, and Esmus was bound to the heights of the tallest mountain where he cast his mind to the four winds.

 

After that, the world would dwell in peace for thousands of years as the people sought to rebuild the lives that had been shattered by the Abomination, the Cataclysm, and the sin of the Nameless.
~Fin~