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"(Skip service one time and Zofie makes me do this…) So! I’m back. And this time I’ve got to talk about the beginning—the Commandments’ beginning. I think it can be summed up pretty quickly but here we are…”
“First of all, Orestis was apparently just… relaxing in a void or something and decided ‘You know what? I’m a god! Let’s go make a world.’ Or, for all we know, just a continent and some islands, since we can’t reach the rest by sea. He made the plants and animals immediately.”
“He made Danai and Eldrianna after that. They were Light and Dark, the central balances of the world. Then he created Faidon, Daphni, Vaso, and Elle. Being Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind, they made life better for the creatures living there so far. Don’t ask me the technical side of how that worked, I’m not a Qizarn scholar. Kinda hard to verify something that literally no one was around for.”
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“Orestis created humans, goblins, and fairies once he saw that they’d be able to live in the land he created. Skip some time later, but before the Fall of Eldrianna, Vriuh started existing as soon as the first person died. Orestis made the dragons and manticores to be guides to the mortals. Eldrianna did something he didn’t like and he banished her from Sanctuary.”
“Some people say that’s the end of the creation story, but it’s not the last thing Orestis did. Finally, he oversaw the creation of Sokratas, Natasa, Glykeria, and Thales to perfect the pantheon. He also made the angels to guide mortals in ways the gods could not. After all of that, Orestis secluded himself to rest and reflect upon his grand plans. The Commandments never say he came out of that seclusion, but he must’ve, if he’s presumably watching everyone now.”
“‘What does Seothia believe the creation was?’ I don’t know, probably just that we all started magically existing. Disputed records say they knew of Orestis around the time of the Commandments but who knows what the average Seothian thinks now. I just had to tell you about Qizar.”