Creation

There was the Head, and the Head dreamt the creation. In the center of the creation was a great star with one planet and two opposite moons, one red and one blue. Along with this space, a cast of beings were created- the Persona (Phersu in their language). The Head spoke to the Persona, and relinquished some power to shape the creation. The Persona emulated what had been made in the creation already, forming new planets and experimenting with the debris on the outer edges of the creation for three months. The surface of the original planet, Vangwel (Dullun), had transformed over time. Originally it was magma, then water, then stone, then dirt, then air, and then life. Of course, the Head thought Vangwel into this state, as each other planet laid barren with freezing wastelands and hemispherical storms. One Persona looked under the clouds and noticed the life on Vangwel and sat under a willow tree. He took a stick from it, and stirred the edge of the creation until bright lights appeared from the stirred edge, which dispersed into the sky. The Persona noticed that this made the edge of the Creation exponentially larger, and found other stars with debris surrounding them. Many of the Persona travelled far out to these distant star systems and attempted to emulate the head, but the further out they got, the light of the original creation faded. The Wandering Persona clung to their star systems and withered, alone and hostile towards each other. The Head called everyone to meet by a woodland pond, and appeared as the Head's avatar to the remaining Persona. The Head set down seven apes, and presented seven souls for each of the seven original Persona. The Head told them to each take a soul, rub the ape in whatever material they chose, and feed them the soul. The seven ran off with an ape in one hand. Deqhwoti dug to the core of Vangwel and rubbed molten iron onto the ape, let it cool in a meadow, and cracked it open to find an orc. Vaya split a mountain and rubbed a chunk of granite and gold ore onto the ape, fed it the soul, and created the dwarf. Slemolth took his ape into a swamp, fed it the soul first, and submurged it into dirt and mud and thrashed it around until it changed. Because he fed the ape the soul first, it tweeked out and became smaller and less intelligent, a goblin. Niverrune covered his ape with air and clouds, creating the elves, and Eolys created the fairies with water. Ceylar, being the Persona of cleverness and deceit, went into the wild, found another ape of the same specie, and chopped it out and smothered its remains onto the ape, before having to force it to eat the soul, and so was born the human. But Sadacti left Vangwel entirely, and perched on the red moon Shtarun. Sadacti bound the soul into a hammer, Phoros, and reshaped captured lifeforms from Vangwel to be tainted and live on Shtarun. He would return with his creatures, rubbed in the smoke of burning magma human, the Shaibal, as well as the frozen ferries, the Ketas.