So yeah, these are prequels to the series, lovingly and painfully forged by me using Greece-sumerian and biblical influences. Pretty much a way for me to create a way for the plot of the story to advance in the future.
"Cosmogony"
"Of course legends and stories can only tell a small part of this lengthy and very important story. Long forgotten in history, it is one that will come to shape and define the struggles of our world. One that had explains our heritage throughout centuries, a legacy passed to us though our ancestors. It is story that explains the gifts blessed upon our kind and the horrors we will and must fight to ensure our place on our beloved world. Far, far older than the oldest of history books, these stories tell of time and realm so ancient it predates the world and stars and all that we know of on this Remnant of the past. This was a time of darkness, of emptiness so vast and consuming it overwhelmed all that attempted to fight it. For untold ages it suppressed all, it's void feeding and writhing upon it's flesh until finally it began to consume itself. Tearing into it's own flesh in it lustful hunger, until finally the dark mass curled unto it's own mouth, creating a dense ball of power before it died."
"This mass was to be called Erebus, the first being to be born and to die. It is from Erebus that our story begins, the ball of condensed void and darkness cracking and splitting into two of the first beings in the universe; Gaia the giver of matter and Caleus forger of the universe. Together they created the universe from the blood of Erebus, painting the entirety of their realm in the black thickness of his they finished they found themselves alone in the empty sea of space and begun to cry, Gaia in sorrow and Caleus in anger; their tears becoming the first meteors and stars to occupy their kingdom. This went on for several weeks, the universe filling up on the passionate deposits from edge to edge. Seeing how full the universe had became they were overjoyed, feeding on the surplus of stars and water while they traveled the length of their fields."
"After a year of traveling the pair had decided to rest, their stomachs full of their harvest and the cries and screams of life begging to be born. Having eaten and drank so much had left them in crippling pain, unable to stand as their bodies shook and rippled, they fell to the floor and gave birth to the four forces and natures; dark and light energy from Caleus and dark and light matter from Gaia. These were the beginnings of life in the universe, the four siblings spreading out into darkness to feed and grow while their parents watched.
The energies were the first to mature, light nesting in the sun and dark residing a tomb of powerful blackness. As they grew older they too multiplied, residing in the cores of stars and voids. The matters on the other hand, grew much slower, growing stronger and more powerful as time went on. They went on to multiply as well, splitting and shifting just like their parents and siblings until the beings separated. Two became four, four becoming eight and soon they they had rivaled their siblings."
"Seeing their offspring fill the galaxy had filled Gaia and Caleus with great joy by the way they had transformed the stagnant objects of the void into function homes. Thus the natures were created, their influence upon their new home lasting unrivaled and without conflict."
"The natures shared a parasitic relationship with their world, sharing the stars and meteors with their siblings and multiplying and dividing when needed to maintain resources. Seeing this their parents felt safe to leave them to once again walk the realm. It was during this time that Gaia was impregnated by Caleus three times, giving rise to the first three clans. Hekatonkheires; the Cyclopes and the Titans. The hekatonkheires were a collection of beings bonded together and condensed into one form. These beings were powerful and certainly beastly, they would later on become the source for all animal life. The Cyclopes were logical and stern, they would become the guardians of their siblings, the arm of their father. The titans were the youngest and the most numerous of the breeds, they looked much like their parents and were just like them in character; they were the wisest of the offspring. After the Titans were born Gaia and Caleus left, believe these children will maintain themselves as the forces did."
"As Gaia and Caleus bred their natures became refined in their children, this trait was given to their children as well. But for the offspring this was an imperfect form of reproduction, asexual reproduction had began to corrupt and weaken the children who had never learned moderation. Unlike the forces of nature these clans did not adjust to the conditions of their environment, they had begun to weaken and develop new forms as they separated. The newer Hekatonkheires were smaller, their heads and arms less numerous and taking new forms along with their bodies; eventually they only had one set of each. The newer Cyclopes had begun to change as well, some coming to form without eyes or having too many eyes, while others were born misshaped and dull. Only the Titan clans had realized the curse before they suffered it, instead of reproducing among their specific clan they began to interbreed. They had attempted to warn the elder breeds of the danger, but they fell on deaf and jealous ears. As time went on the other creatures reproduced until they either died or were so deformed they had to be put down. The Titan clans became became stronger and more powerful as this went on, earning the ire of the other creatures; who began to plot against their younger siblings. One day the Cyclopic clan of Steropes kidnapped the members of the Titan clan of Mnemosyne, forcing themselves upon their siblings. The offspring began the Gigantes, and the shame of their conception Marked the Mnemosyne line ever since. Conflict brewed among the older Titan clans and the Cyclopic tormentors, the horror causing the forces to act against both sides. The forces of nature assault the younger beings, capturing and infusing these being with their essence and being; two minds in one body. This was the called the Infusement. The enfused beings took on the natures of their invaders, creating beings of energy both light and dark and transforming other beings of matter into forms of either Light or Darkness. In the end the sacrifice of the forces failed to halt the conflict, instead the beings began to attempt to consume one another."
"The sudden shift of energy had gained the attention of Gaia and Caleus, who upon witnessing their children's actions were disturbed to anger. Gaia could not handle the pain of her children's suffering and begged Caleus to put a stop to it. Caleus, driven by her pleas and his own anger began to feast upon the universe, consuming almost all of their children save for only the most just and pure of the clans. In all only twenty-six clans and twelve pairs remained alive and unconsumed. Each had been tasked by Caleus to watch over and maintain the various objects in the remaining universe. Those that he had consumed laid inside of their father while the bodies of the fallen and uneaten were casted into the stars, where they burned to ashes. These ashes were then crafted into the planets by Caleus himself, each one a reminder of his lost children. The consumed had began to merge back into their father, fusing together creating large amounts of condensed power. This power began to cause Caleus discomfort and upon Gaia's advice he released this new form upon the universe in bright orbs of crystal, all with intelligence and souls of the collective they came from. They will later become what we understand now as dust."
