Creation

     Gather Round, young ones, and hear a tale of times when the earth was young and the gods still walked the earth.  Let me tell you a story of how the heavens and the earth were created by a divine power called J'ogk, and how beings such as elves, and dwarves, and humans came to be.
     In the beginning, there was naught except J'ogk, whose mind and intellect were boundless.  J'ogk existed, and that was all that was in the cosmos.  There came a time when J'ogk grew bored and wanted things to amuse himself with, so mighty J'ogk, creator of all things, birthed the stars up in the heavens.  These stars were so numerous that no one today could ever know their whole number. So now, for a while, J'ogk was pleased.  His companions twinkled and sparkled all the colors of the spectrum; their beauty was beyond comparison.  They inspired J'ogk  greatly, and some say, even today, that these goddesses speak to poets and madmen, caressing their dreams with the silver-tongue words of the divine.  But this pleased him only for a while.
     How long, no being will ever know, because time to an immortal is unknowable to the likes of men such as we, and J'ogk was THE immortal, blessed above all others, creator of ALL.  So after a span of time, J'ogk sought further ways to amuse himself, so he created the planets and the streaking stars in the heavens.  Again, he was pleased for a time.  This amusement was hollow, however, because, as J'ogk came to realize, he had made all of this, but he had no one to marvel at it all with him, he had no one to share his great thoughts with.  So J'ogk imagined Mother Faum, someone to share his lonely eternity with, an equal in power and stature, that could inspire the creator to further greatness.  So J'ogk created our Revered Mother Faum, whose body we sprang from, and whose fruits we partake of each day.  And again, for a time, Mighty J'ogk was pleased.
     But J'ogk's greatest creation, Life-Giver Faum, was imperfect, and flawed.  She had not the power to live on, and this troubled J'ogk terribly.  Finally the creator of all had found happiness, he had an equal to share the beauty and splendor of the universe with, and she was not able to live on.  So here, here is where the whole multiverse changed, yes my young friends, here was an event so important that it forever altered the course of history.
     J'ogk's love was so great for his soul mate, Faum, that he made the ultimate sacrifice, he gave himself up for her.  J'ogk, the ever-expansive sky met one last time with Mother Faum, the wide and fruitful earth, and J'ogk melded with her, infusing her with his essence, his immortal soul entered the very soils of Faum's body in the form of the falling rains and made her stronger.  He gave her the ultimate gift any one lover can give to their companion; he gave Faum life.  With this act of ultimate sacrifice, J'ogk ensured that his love, and his creations would live on for all eternity.  And so Great and Powerful J'ogk was no more.  
However ..
    Ask any dweller of the forest, and they will tell you that J'ogk is everywhere around them.  The most ancient of all religions honors the Holy Creator along side the fertile mother that gave birth to us all.  J'ogk's essence teems within each blade of grass, and lies inside each vein of ore that waits beneath the earth.  Through Faum, we partake of J'ogk's, the universes, essence and soul.

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