TwinWorld origin

This is the creation story of TwinWorld

First Retelling

In the beginning there was only the Adamant. Then God stirred the adamant with his finger, and wrote a glyph which means "sink down" and in the adamant there was made a great void. God then wrote another glyph "breathe out" and the adamant began to breathe out air and filled the void with vapors. As God knelt over the void his presence set the vapors all ablaze, and the Outer Fire was created. Then God wrote another glyph "protection" in the fire, and God blew into the glyph, and from his breath the Aether descended on the void and covered it, and hid the void from his consuming presence. He looked on the void and saw that it was full of tumults, caught between the frigid adamant and the glowing Aether. Then God wrote a fourth glyph, a glyph in the air "bring forth life" and the glyph swelled with water and a single great drop fell and splashed onto the tumult of the void. Wherever the water fell plants sprung up and flourished. Then a second smaller drop fell, and where it landed the Great Tree grew up into the air and sent its roots deep into the tumult. Then a third drop fell, smallest of all, and as it fell it broke into two parts. One fell in the branches of the Great Tree, and one fell among its roots. From this one drop the two peoples of TwinWorld came forth, the Fay and the Zarth.

Notes on the first retelling:

I think this version is a bit... stupid. It seems too childish, like a story from Mesopotamia. Perhaps elements from it can be incorporated into the racial stories, but we should come up with something more profound for the "actual" story. On the other hand, I like the idea of a glyph being the basic mode of communication, instead of speech. Ziggy 22:33, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Second Retelling

In the beginning Tanodai placed the first glyph in the void and there was the adamant, smooth and flat without wrinkle or mark. It reflected the light of Tanodai's presence, and everywhere there was a vast expanse. Then Tanodai wrote a glyph in the midst of the adamant and the flow of the adamant began. His glyph carried the adamant ever downward beneath it, until a great pit was formed. Tanodai wrote another glyph on the adamant, and the adamant welled with gems, crystals, metals, stones, and glittering sand. The pit was filled with beauty, and the whole of the world was clothed in splendor, but it was still and silent, for no air was made and nothing moved save for Tanodai Himself.

Then Tanodai wrote on himself the enduring glyph which means "I will create life to share in my joy and my riches." From Tanodai's self-glyph, creatures sprang forth, the creatures of the depths and the Outer Fire. The creatures filled Tanodai's creation, and burrowed in the fruit of the adamant and swam in the void.

--more stuff happens--

Thus the first people were made, the Fay and the Zarth and the Blazing Ones. The fay loved the open expanse, and cavorted in it and danced in the light of Tanodai. The Zarth loved the fruit of the adamant, and made deep delvings within it and rejoiced in Tanodai's craftsmanship. But the Blazing ones loved the void, and swam in the un-created spaces above the adamant.

--even more stuff happens--