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Note: This information has been taken from ancient ascan scriptures, suposedly revealed to them by Miszhná the lady of Order to a few enlightened ones, especially the royalty of the old ascan empire, before the rebellion and the Nimbac Wars. This information was passed generation after generation of ascan sages on a tome called "The Wisdom of the Ancient Ones". The name of the tome itself constitutes a mystery even for the greatest of sages, because the ancient ones in ascan myth are the forces of order, and the story talks about the primordial of order herself, it is believed that Miszhná infused the ascans with some of her memories, but the real story behind it is as yet unknown. Before reading any further, it is necessary to understand some basic ascan concepts concerning the nature of reality. Apeiron is the sum of all 4 elements of the universe , the origin of form, considered as a whole and not as a sum of parts. Its self awareness created the Ancient One known as Acron. Form is the marterial half of all creation, it is matter, in the man, it would be the body. Purpose was considered to be the spiritual half of reality, something like a soul, breathing life into form. |
In the beginning, only the storm of chaos existed permanently, and all other things were created and destroyed faster than any being, be it man or Ancient One could ever hope to percieve. The universe existed in constant change; the only constant was the Great Eye and the storm around it,
Within all the terrible dance of non existance constituted by the storm, came the most chaotic creation of chaos; Order. It would have been destroyed in a moment, but order was great, and achieved self conscience seconds after it was created, giving birth to the All Powerful Lady of Order, Miszhná.
The great lady recognized the danger of its inminent destruction, and moved across the storm, reaching the very edges of reality, the borders of the storm. The energies moving in the storm were lesser in this place, and so the Lady of Order remained here, floating in the purposeless of the storm, emanating order to the storm, thus containing the chaos' inherent destructive forces.
Even Miszhná would not be able to survive for long in the storm, whether it was less powerful here or not, but Order was wise, and found the force behind the storm. It was movement, savage, pointless and frenetic movement that made the storm create and destroy just as fast. The movement was slower when far from the Great Eye, and Order was able to control it.
And so the sphere of Order was created, a sanctuary against the ravages of the eternal storm, Miszhná created the sphere and trapped chaos inside as she did. The chaos behaved differently in the sphere, becoming nearly static, it seemed that the sphere isolated the storm inside it from the power of the Great Eye, up to a certain degree.
Order flourished within the sphere, for it was no longer limited by chaos, Order emanated from The Great Lady and filled the sphere with its light. Soon after, forces began to form from the Order, and the first of those forces was the Apeiron, created at the birth of matter. The Apeiron acquired self conscience, very much like Order had done before, and it was this self awareness that created Acron, Lord of Apeiron.
Under Acron's influence, the sphere was soon filled with the worlds and the stars above them, as creation of the world as it is began before Miszhná's pleased eyes. But the land and the stars were still dry and purposeless, nothing more than frivolous toys for viewing placer.
It was then that another force was born of Order, a beautiful and terrible force that filled the matter with its light and shadows, it was then that the endless cycle of life, and death, began. These twin forces originated as one, being one inseparable from the other, giving birth to Ascan, bringer of life, and to Kindramar, lord of death.
Soon the sphere was flourishing with form and purpose, and thus the creation was born.
Seeing that her work was good, Miszhná, the Great Bringer of All withdrew from the sphere, leaving his children to perpetuete the beautiful creation that had born of them. She entered the storm anew and headed towards an unknown destination.
