Disclaimer: The characters and setting are the property of David and Leigh EddingsI'm just playing around in their world.

The Accident

The very stars and planets were lost to what Man chose to call sight as the Spirit of Bhelliom surged at the speed of light out of the system that held the planet which had been its home for so many eons. Two streaks of bright white light traveled in relative proximity to the azure energy being as all three journeyed toward that place which would in time become the new home of the God Edeamus and his children the Delphae. It was but a short stop for Bhelliom on its way to create other worlds and other beings.

A portion of Bhelliom's vast intellect pondered the events of the past as he lived first within and then on his daughter's surface. The creatures of that world were passing strange, he reflected wryly, but they were well suited to their home and would hopefully be responsible stewards of his daughter's flesh and bones. So long as Anakha lived, he felt, they would be. As pleased as Bhelliom was with his daughter, he was equally proud of his son. My son, he thought, thou wouldst have made a good God.

The World-Maker's thoughts were interrupted as they made their way to that place which Edeamus had selected for his chosen people. It was a dark area, devoid of any form of life but for the energies which would, with the combination of the God and the Delphae, create a new star in the fullness of time. Thus it was with great surprise that all three beings were suddenly accosted by the sooty red energy that was Bhelliom's brother, Klael. The Destroyer shot past the energy which was Edeamus and the Delphae in its eagerness to reach its brother.

Go! Bhelliom commanded as it turned to face its opposite. The two beings, blue and red, came together in a thunderous silence of awful energies. Bhelliom strove mightily against its brother. Dark energies assaulted the former Blue-Rose as it tried to envelope its enemy. It slowly began to beat back the other. It was certain of its victory when Klael, with a burst of energy, swept back against Bhelliom with a bestial growl that could only be felt by the azure spirit.

And then there was a change. Edeamus, followed closely by his glowing children, rushed to aid their ally. The four forces collided in a terrible instant and fell toward the energies in that proto system. The combination created a new star in a Time and Place where a star was not yet meant to be . . .

. . .While in a parallel universe a rift in space opened and a star died in a Time and Place where it was not yet meant to die. The power of the explosion from the creation of the rift and the death of the star was such that it immediately divided the Purpose of the universe. Two essences, strangers from that other universe, combined with the new Purposes while their energies, encased in a purplish asteroid, sped toward a system where a planet would be formed by the seven Gods. The God which was Edeamus, but which now knew not his name, hid until the time was right for his ascension. And his people, similarly confused, waited until they could take their place in this new world. They would forevermore be known as Dals and they would look to the stars until that day when all was set right again.