The First Story, as Told by the Aes Sídhe

When Múspel and Niflheim first formed, they were sentient realms, like Patala-loka. Múspel and Niflheim conceived the four Divine. First came Mo’aeta, the eldest, then the twins Noktaka and Tia’aeda. After the first three Divine were born, they assisted their parent realms in the organizing of the cosmos and creating the different realms.

Patala-loka, the first of the realms, watched on as the five reshaped its domain. What Patala-loka did next could be seen as an act of spite. Patala-loka thrived off chaos. With the cosmos being organized, the powers of chaos were shrinking. But Patala-loka is vast, and all knowing is beyond our comprehension. Feelings as simple as spite do not affect this realm the way it does you or me. Perhaps Patala-loka saw greatness in what the five were doing, but knew their work was incomplete. For physical life to exist in the cosmos, there had to be a great sacrifice first.

As the work of the five was near completion, Patala-loka attacked the three Divine with all the power the most ancient of realms could muster. The Divine were young, and could not hope to protect themselves against such power. Múspel and Niflheim protected their children, but to ward Patala-loka they sacrificed their sentience and scattered their consciousness through the infinite number of otherworldly beings that flow through the energies of these two primal forces. Before Múspel and Niflheim lost themselves entirely, they gave birth to the final Divine, Haltali. They gave the four Divine the powers they have now over the two primal energies to complete their work in organizing the cosmos.

The four worked together in harmony. With the powers they possessed, they created the other worlds. Haltali, holding sway over both Niflheim and Múspel, was able to create planets like ours. When their work was complete, they created Midgardr, the sun, and the moons, as their thrones and entrances to their realms.

With the cosmos finally organized, the memory of the loss of their parents became a faded memory. None of them held the same respect and honor of their dead parents as they once did. The twin fought the most. Their powers were too contrasting, and aside from their blood, they had little in common. They had different ideas of how the cosmos should be governed. Neither would bend nor comprise. Seeds of chaos and dissension were sewn between the siblings. With this new chaos about Patala-loka stirred.

As the fighting grew more extreme, Mo’aeta decided it was best for the twins to stay apart for good and govern their own realms the way they saw fit. In order to avoid destroying the order and structure to the cosmos they all worked so hard to achieve, the twins agreed. This departure took shape as the divide between night and day in the physical realm. Order was achieved once more, but it came a little too late. Patala-loka already awakened.

Whether Patala-loka sought Tia’aeda as the Divine most susceptible to the influence of chaos, or Tia’aeda sided with Patala-loka on xir own accord, we know not. Patala-loka and the Divine work in strange ways we do not always understand. What we know is Tia’aeda grew disconnected in staying in xir own abode and blamed Mo'aeta for forcing the Divine apart. With the assistance of Patala-loka, xe performed an attack on xir older sibling, greater than what Tia’aeda was capable of on xir own.

Xe crashed one of xir heavenly spheres into Mo’aeta’s, destroying them both. The destruction of the heavenly bodies affected all four of the Divine and weakened all their powers. While Mo’aeta’s soul heavenly sphere shattered, it didn’t destroy xir along with it. Xe was still strong enough to hold to xir decision of keeping the twins apart. After witnessing the deviation Tia’aeda caused, the other two Divine sided with their older sibling.

Patala-loka withdrew its support from Tia’aeda. Perhaps the creation of the skyarch was all it wanted and not the complete destruction of the Divine. Without the help of Patala-loka Tia’aeda was forced to submit to the will of xir other siblings. They all went back to their own abodes to heal and govern the realms the way they did before.

The aes sídhe are the oldest race in Hárronfall. They hold an effect on the culture of other beings as they evolve and rise to power. Many creation stories these races adopt are similar in many ways to the aes sídhe’s. The ljósálfar’s and álfar’s creation story and understanding of the Divine beings was almost the exact same as the aes sídhe’s with minor changes to the names of the Divine and their personalities. Along with some changes to Patals-loka’s personality because of the way they perceived the forces of chaos. Chaos, to the ljósálfar and álfar, is solely a force of destruction. The aes sídhe are also the reason the different forests and bodies of water hold the names they have. While not every race sees the nine worlds the way the aes sídhe do, they still use the names of these places that the aes sídhe gave them.