1. The Beginning

2. Eronoa

3. Ormathad

4. Niveriku

5. Miig'Jaiach

6. Paelywa


-4000 - 2916 (present)

1. The Creation
-4000 - -3000

A thousand years before the world was created, there was an angry god named Lakual. His wife was the goddess Eronoa. Lakual was so angry that the only thing he could do was destroy and eat. He would crush stars with his many arms, dousing their fires with his spit and his sweat, and he would eat what remained. Soon, he had eaten so much that he could do no more than lie on his back, his massive white belly wheezing slowly in the ether. It was then that Eronoa betrayed him.

While her husband was devoting his time to continual destruction, Eronoa at first hated him for no longer making love to her. After a while, though, she accepted his behaviour apparently by simply caring less about him. It’s thought that she distracted herself with other activities, but it is unknown what those activities consisted of. In any case, she eventually ceased to care entirely for her husband, and felt no qualms about killing and dissecting him purely for curiosity’s sake.

He seemed incapable of speech, and looked at his wife with milky, rolling eyes. He hardly seemed like an intelligent creature anymore, and Eronoa found herself wondering what was inside that massive, white sack.

Razor sharp fins grew down the length of some of her arms, and she used one of these to slit open the great belly. She felt only a vague surprise when she heard Lakual squeal and feebly raise his bulging, blue-veined arms. She was too interested in the strange contents of the stomach.

Out came rocks and flesh, worms and frog heads, ginger roots and mandrake roots, and all the water in the world. Eronoa didn’t have much else to do in the void, so she spent her time laying out all the items and noting what was different about each of them. Finally, she began putting them together and arranging them. Eventually, she made the world out of them.

2. The Faeries
-3,000 – 1

The world was not altogether lifeless. There were tiny, industrious creatures in the water and in the mud. As Eronoa watched with some pleasure, the creatures stuck together over the ages to make trees, plants, and fungi. She loved these things enough that sometimes she would use them to masturbate.

The trees did not give her as much pleasure as when Lakual had made love to her, though she loved them more than him. Unlike Lakual, the plants gave her seed, and in her womb Eronoa fashioned from the seeds and her own substance creatures to inhabit the world, creatures called faeries.

The faeries were all manner of shapes and sizes, depending on the father plant, what Eronoa thought would enable a creature to survive in the world, and on her whim. Most of the creatures were allowed to develop their own personalities, and these children of Eronoa loved the forests, the world, the water, and their mother.

Eronoa found that she could not love them back as much as they loved her. She began to think perhaps she missed Lakual, so she fashioned some faeries to behave like him, to enjoy destruction and eating. Some of this new stock, such as the dark elves, closely resembled other faeries. Others, creatures like the ogre and the giant squid, were unique to the group. These beings were called the Lakguene.

But she failed to feel much affection for these, either. Soon, Eronoa did not care very much about anything, one way or another. The faeries copulated and produced offspring, and killed each other, too, though wars were rare in those days and most fighting took place among the Lakguene, who constantly fought each other, or attacked regular faeries, though seldom in groups.

The land was not divided into nations by the faeries, but they did make great cities in the forests, the mountains, and the sea, some of which still exist. The long peace, the fact that large swathes of land were held by the Lakguene, and the few physical needs of the faeries all meant that faeries rarely travelled. Communication was therefore rare between the faerie communities, too, and was almost entirely carried by airborne seeds.

Envoys of faeries were only sometimes dispatched—most notably during the two wars to pit faerie against faerie in the pre-animal era. As a result, the cultures that emerged in each faerie community were rather distinct. One thing all of the land based communities had in common, though, was that their infrastructures were primarily crafted and maintained by elves, who of all the faeries seemed the best equipped to organise material and faeries based on abstract concepts of utility. Likewise, the aquatic communities were primarily the products of merfolk, a species whose innate talents in such matters were similar to those of the elves.

Faerie society was mostly concerned with creating artwork that glorified beauty and exploring the scope of sexual pleasure. The average faerie would have some manner of sex at least three times a day, but this had no effect on the size of the faerie population, which remained relatively constant, because faeries had complete, conscious control over conception.

3. The Animals
1 – Present (2916)

In her boredom and apathy, Eronoa may have abandoned the world if it weren’t for the animals. The tiny, invisible creatures who had made the plants also wrought this other kind of life from the mud and the water. Some of the animals, especially humans, apes, and monkeys, resembled many of the faeries, achieving independently many of the forms Eronoa had deemed to be most beautiful and best suited for survival.

Animals had a catastrophic effect on faerie communities. The Lakguene rarely left their territories unprovoked, while for carnivorous animals, violence was a matter of daily survival. Faerie meat was particularly nutrient, especially the meat of nymphs, and wolves and lions drastically reduced the faerie population. This led to a new consciousness of mortality in faerie society and the resulting desperation prompted drastic changes in faerie custom. Many cities were abandoned as communities merged into larger, more tightly defended castles or underground fortress towns. Need for resources drove some communities to raid others, and the Lakguene began striking out from their territories more regularly.

Some alliances between faeries and animals were struck, though it was never by species. Being allied with one wolf pack would not indicate an alliance with another. The Lakguene forged animal alliances, too, typically with the most vicious specimens.

It quickly became apparent that the animals dominated the world while the faeries became marginalised, dwelling in the shadows of forests, mountains, and seas, relying on their superior cunning. This is why, of all the animals, humans were most successful. A group of humans on the south-eastern peninsula, who had forged an alliance with the faerie city of Saevlid, assimilated the elven language and talent for organisation and abstract thought. Coupled with an animal’s drive for survival and compulsion to consolidate territory, humans would eventually create kingdoms to service their needs more efficiently than the devices of any other animal in the world. Human mortality rates dropped, and their increased numbers bolstered their strength.

Taking the basic fundamentals of bureaucracy taught by the elves, humans created the system of trade and government that would control the world.

2. Eronoa