A long time ago, there was nothingness. The universe did not exist, and nothing happened. Until she came into being. A woman with golden eyes, red hair and black skin. The first goodness, born out of the vast nothingness. Created on a whim of the nothingness, created to become an existence and to create more. When the goddess opened her eyes, they were filled of sadness. There was nothing to please her and there was nothing wort to exist for. So, she opened her mouth and spoke. She spoke: “Nothingness, oh lonely great nothingness! Without any place, any plant and any living being, we cannot remain. So I beseech you to follow my lead and turn once more into existence!” The vast nothingness touched by her speech, obeyed her and granted her the godly powers over creation. With this power she created the world, the people, the animals, the plants, the mountains and seas. Finally, she shared her own feelings with the existences in the world. She gifted the elves kindness, the orcs rage, the dwarf’s greed, the demons fear and lastly the humans got trust. When she was finished with her creation, she watched in happiness how everything started, how the world started to spin and the creatures started to interact. Now, that she had finished her task, she felt tired and exhausted. She decided that it was time to sleep and to rest, but before that she had to ascertain, that her creations were safe. With her last power she created the gods. The gods for the humans, the elves, the orcs, the demons, the dwarves and even for plants and animals. After this last act of godly power, she went to secret place to sleep. In the moment she fell into deep slumber, another god formed. The last of the gods. He who never should have come into being, was formed. The god of shadow, born out of the shadow, of her and the nothingness. Even though the nothingness had obeyed her, it did not vanish, it just flew within her. And when she had exhausted herself and went to sleep, it took a new form. The form of the shadow god. To explore the world, it once had created. But the gods feared this new god, they thought that this god was born out of darkness and did not belong into this world, which was ironically made from this darkness. So, when the new god tried to venture around the world, the other gods thought, that he was a parasite, a plague to all of them. Without the advice or the wisdom of the sleeping goddess, they formed an alliance to destroy this plague. The shadow god, who did not know about feelings, fear or even something like precaution, wanted to greet the gods, when they all came to him. Because to him, he was like a father to his own children. But when he smiled at them and wanted to speak his very first words, they attacked. The shadow god, who was shocked and paralyzed by this sudden turn of events was hit by one of the strongest attacks of the gods. The attack damaged the shadow god, though he could never die of an attack mad of one of his own creations, but more importantly he was hit by a wave of emotions. Emotions which he had never felt before. Thus, he fell into confusion and disarray. Feelings, like hatred, jealousy and the strongest sadness filled his mind. How could they? Wasn’t he the father of all of them? Didn’t he gift them live and existence? Why did they attack him? Why did they hate him? The feelings grew more and more intense until it was not bearable anymore. The shadow god split his mind into two parts. Two parts who should find an answer to his questions! Why had they attacked him? He could only search for the answer, and he knew exactly where he had to search. His body dissolved in front of the gods and two black stars appeared before the gods. Before they could even react, the stars flew towards the recently created planet in search of an answer for his question. The gods, quite confused of the events happening in front of their eyes, concluded, that their attack had made damage, but did not kill the evil being, instead it fled towards the world they should protect. With great fear for an impending catastrophe which could befall the species they should protect, they gathered to find a solution. The conclusion was, to strengthen their believers and search for the being to destroy it before it could cause a disaster. So began the first era, also known as the era of the gods and the chaos.

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