Chapter 1 - Celvar

Before our world, the Sun and moons, There was nothing but void.

From the blackness, they came illuminating from that emptiness of nothingness like a candle in the darkness. Ethereal beings sailing on ships of silver filled the dark void with sparkles of light, revealing the cosmos.

Leading these wispy beings was Celvar, wielder of the omen hammer

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And in the middle of where the world would be, Celvar placed a massive orb of ever-burning fire.

This orb was the flame of creation and the centre of our world.

Our creators gathered gigantic rocks from the void and clashed them into the flame, causing it to form a shell of stone sprinkled with seams of metal and gems. Wells opened, and motes of flame collected within.

They shaped the world with their hands and feet, forming the mountains and valleys, pouring star wine onto the stone ground creating the sea and with their breath, they blew clouds of pearl white.

Celvar reached out into the stars and pulled two nuggets of gold and silver; with these, she created the Sun and the moons and placed them in the order of correctness around our world.

Reaching again into the stars, Celvar retrieved astral clay and dipped it into the well, mixing in the motes of flame.

She handed the clay to her followers, and they shaped the flora, Great trees for the forests, Beautiful flowers for the grasslands, Rainbow colours of kelp and coral under the sea.

She gave more clay, but this time Celvar commanded they create fauna. Together they shaped the animals and placed them in forests, fields and the sea.

Once more, Celvar gave more clay then commanded to take a grouping of each mammal and mould them into sapient beings.

One follower asked, "what about the birds and reptiles? are they to be left out?".

Celvar thought for a moment, then said, "They may be part of the shaping, but they must become like the others and lose their wings and venom."

"what about the insects?" "and the fish?" two asked in turn

Celvar answered, "I foresee the conflict of sea, land and underground if these kinds were made sapient. I forbid them from the shaping." so the insect stayed in the earth and the fish in the sea.

And so they selectively picked each animal and melded more of the clay into them, giving them humanoid forms with their own hands.

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They placed them into groups spread around the world.

The world was complete; all were glad at their work. Celvar was pleased and gathered her host into the heavens to watch her bring the strike that would bring life into it.

Celvar, with the omen hammer, poised to strike life into the world.