As Aressa once again woke up from her unconscious state, she realized her senses had gotten much sharper as she could now hear the gods talking far more clearly then before. To get their attention, she called out to them, " I’m awake again, so would you please come and explain the situation?" As her voice faded away, she heard footsteps headed in her direction once again.
As she waited, she looked for her spear Aenar, which had been by her side since she first picked up a weapon. Noticing that Aenar was floating at a point about 15 feet away she decided to go get it. That’s when something surprising happened. Aenar let out a piercing ring, and shot into her outstretched hand. When she finally grabbed hold of the 7 foot spear with a footlong spearhead, she realized Aenar felt alive and happy to be in her hand.
At the same time, she heard the gods come to stop just inside the door with a single set of footsteps drawing closer. She turned to face them, and greeted the one closest to her with a grim look on her face. "I'd like to know what’s going on Great Mother Goddess and please don’t leave anything out." The Mother Goddess sighed, and started telling Aressa what had happened when the bright white light had knocked her unconscious. "To put it simply Aressa, this entire timeline has been reset to absolute zero. The reason this happened is the timeline could no longer handle the future that was going to happen because of the choices that had been made, were being made, and going to be made. Just as you had learned could eventually happen, all life, all planetary bodies, and all power has been utterly destroyed. Except for you that is. As the last living mortal, everything is now residing in you. You have gained unprecedented power that mocks all of us gods combined because you alone were able to survive the ravages of the collapse. Your newfound power grants you two choices.
First, you can choose to abandon this timeline and go to another one leaving this one to it’s fate, but you will also lose most of the power and insight you have recently gained. The newly chosen timeline deities will have some input from you before your memories are removed, but you will once again become a mortal if that be your wish. In contrast, you can create new life on the tattered remnants of the old. If you choose the latter, thus becoming the new creation goddess of this renewed timeline, any surviving deities within this timeline will belong to your pantheon. If you choose the first option, we gods will cease to exist."
As Aressa digested what the Goddess had said, she looked at the gods and goddess' whose existence depended on her choice. Then, she slowly said "I choose the second option for two reasons. First, to save you because though you are not mortal, you are all that remains of my old world. My second reason is purely for curiosity because I also want to see where this rabbit hole leads. With this, the deities looked at each other, and then upon Aressa. The Mother Goddess stepped forward and spoke, “ We are forever beholden to you, our gracious goddess, and to show you our gratitude we will now bestow upon you great knowledge from each of the deities.” With another step forward, the Mother Goddess took two fingers and gently placed them to her forehead. It felt warm for a moment, but then she felt herself glowing hot. As her vision began to fade, she said with a concerned look, “you are still young goddess Aressa, you must sleep while we impart our gift to you for you are not yet strong enough. When you awake, you will know what we do.”
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When she awoke yet again, Ares then stepped forward and said “Young Goddess, you have made a difficult choice, to make it easier on you I will impart to you all the knowledge i have on the art of war and all it entails.” He then took one more step and pressed two fingers to her forehead, same as the Mother Goddess before him.
The deities that were present each took a turn to impart their knowledge to young Aressa, from Father Time she received knowledge on how to control time and how to understand its mysteries. From Artemis she received knowledge on how make her kills swift and clean when hunting as well as the promise of friendship. Venus granted her knowledge of love and told her that the one she had waited for would come to her side soon though in an unexpected way. From Thor came the ability to control lightning and how to move as fast as lightning. From Scathach came the knowledge that death is only as fearsome or as joyous as you let it be. The knowledge granted by the Mother Goddess was the most interesting as it taught Aressa how to make an avatar that she could send to planet that she had created.
“The gods and goddess' who are present will retain their positions within my pantheon.
The first races i want to appear are the ancient dragons in all forms, then all the races of the elves and dwarves. The races that follow shall be decided upon seniority of the former pantheons of Earth. The Dragons shall be my people, the Elves will belong to Wiccan pantheon, the Dwarves will belong to the Norse pantheon, the Beast people will belong to the Japanese pantheon, the Giants will belong to the Roman pantheon, the Merfolk will belong to Greek pantheon, and the remaining pantheons will be split among the humans in order of seniority."
What Aressa envisioned as she spoke was a large planet that was easily larger than original sun that lit the earth surrounded by seven suns and six moons it was more than large enough to support all the life started filling the planet. That wasn't all that formed as she envisioned a galaxy forming of which this planet was the center.
When she noticed all that she had created Aressa then stated "Magic and Swords will now lead the way instead of science, for humanity was going down a dangerous road with that line of research." She paused looking at the beautiful life filled planet she had created below her, she then said "I need to consolidate and learn to control my newfound powers for a few thousand years otherwise when I prepare to journey among my new people I may bring too much harm to them. Take care of them and guide them well Mother Goddess.”
When Aressa finished speaking her six foot seven inch form with mid back length black hair and gray eyes filled with great sorrow at the loss of her family and all that she had known, but that also had the bright light of hope and determination disappeared in a burst of golden light which turned into flashing golden words.
“When my spirit is needed, the call will be heeded”
“By one of the descended, will the worlds be defended.”
As the gods and goddess' saw these words, they imprinted them upon their minds to spread to the peoples governed by them. and started the long process of waiting for Aressa The Goddess of Creation and War to return to the world she had created.