weirdblacktea | Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

6thirty

Genesis of Grief

Long, long ago before

the earth and the heavens

existed, two brothers

lived in the world

Able to read each other's hearts without

so much as a glance, the two were fully satisfied.

The world was the two.

The two were the world.

One day the Elder Deity accidentally

broke the Younger Deity's treasured

sword. Furious, the Younger Deity

retaliated by slashing the Elder

Deity's treasure spear with his

broken sword. The spear was split

in half and the Elder Deity erupted

in anger.

And so, glaring at each other, one holding his

broken sword, the other his broken spear

they fought.

The War waged for seven days and seven nights.

On the eighth day, the Younger Deity realized

their foolishness and went to the Elder Deity

to request a truce. But the Elder Deity, still

blind with anger, saw this as an opening and

thrust his spear. The spear pierced the chest

of the Younger Deity and took his life.

The Younger Deity's final breath

became the heavens, and his fallen

body became earth. The fountain of

blood erupted high and became the

sun. The broken sword shattered

and formed the moons and stars

in the heavens.

Feeling great shame, the Elder

Deity wept. His tears became rain

and fell to earth, forming oceans

in its deep contours.

From eternal tranquility, the world was set into

motion.

6thirty

New Life

The Elder Deity

mourned the loss of

the Younger Deity for many

years, but eventually he

grew accustomed to his

sad, lonely life.

One day, unable to bear his loneliness any longer,

the Elder Deity removed one of his eyes and

created a goddess. The new goddess looked at

the Elder Deity and exclaimed: Thou art handsome.

With this voice, the world was filled with sound.

The Elder Deity and the new goddess

gave names to each other. The Elder

Deity received the name Sol the

God of Creation and the goddess,

Myulin the Goddess of Harvest.

Then the Elder Deity created a land

of the dead in the darkest part of

the world and sealed the spirit of

the Younger Deity and gave him the

name of Cernunnos the Lord of the

Dead. This was how all things were

named and given a purpose.

Sol gave birth to more gods and goddesses.

Myulin gave the new gods names and Sol gave them

purpose. One ruled the sun, and another ruled the

oceans. One ruled the weaving thread, and another

the stoves. This was how the sun traveled the sky,

the oceans beat against the shores, the loom spit

out threads, and the stoves held the fire within.

Sol then gave birth to threes, plants, beasts,

birds, fishes, and insects.

They were all spread

throughout the world and

found a place to live.

The world was

filled with life.

Last to be created were

the Elves. Sol created them in his image and he

loved them best. Sol asked all the gods and all

creatures to grant the elves their blessings.

Each god, goddess, and creature happily gave

its blessings to the elves.

As a result, the elves were faster,

stronger, smarter, and more beautiful

than any other creature; and they were

able to speak the language of all creatures.

However Cernunnos, the Lord of the Dead withheld

his blessing from the elves. Unaware of darkness,

the elven hearts were ever wrapped in light, but

because of it the elves had an incredible

innocence to them.

6thirty

The Fools

The gods entrusted

the earth to the elves,

and created their own

realm in the heavens known

as Airceltrai, the City of Dawn.

And so the elbes ruled the earth

and the gods ruled the heavens.

The gods built a path connecting the earth and

heaven and called it the Heavenly Path.

The Heavenly Path was used to deliver the light

of the heavens and the gods down to earth.

Guarded by the light of the sun and the light

of the gods, life on earth flourished and it

seemed that peace would last forever.

But as time passed, the elves

began to believe that their

powers equaled those of

the gods. They built the

aerial fortress, Fort

Ouph in the sky to enter

the realm of the gods and

insisted that they be treated

as gods.

Sol was furious and he took from the elves all

that were good in them.

The elves became slower,

weaker, and uglier than any other creature.

Myulin scorned these foolish creatures and named

them Humans.

6thirty

The Despised

There were some who

protested the treatment

of the elves at the

hands of the gods.

They were the elves

who did not wish to go

against the gods.

They stormed the Heavenly Path and threw

themselves before the gods and cried,

"Why must you punish us when it was not we

who drew our swords against you?"

The gods answered,

"That is true. But that is no the only sin."

The elves asked again,

"What do you mean by that, oh gods?"

The gods answered back.

"Very well then. When your breathren raised their

swords against us, where were you and what were

you doing?"

To that, the elves replied,

"We were at the altars praying to you gods.

We prayed that the fools who disobeyed you woud

receive your divine punishment."

The gods retorted,

"Were you not merely praying that your own lives

be spared?!"

The elves' face turned red and they could not reply.

Suddenly the gods showed their anger,

"You are more foolish than the fools who do not

know their place! Lower even than the humans! From

this day on, you will wear a mark showing your

supposed innocence and piety!"

And just as this thundering

judgement was made, each of the elves that gathered at

the Heavenly Path began to transform. They grew tails

and their beautiful faces turned into those of beasts.

When they sae how they had changed, they screamed

in shame and disappeared to dark corners of the world.

6thirty

Grunty Race

Having lost their wisdom,

humans brought war

and chaos to the world.

They had been reduced to

creatures concerned only

with domination, and so

they commenced to make

war on all other races.

Sol gazed down in sadness at the ruined earth and

decided to use the goodness that he had taken from

the elves to create the race of Grunties.

He dispatched them to return pace to the world.

But the gods were afraid that the Grunties would

suffer the same flaw as the elves and voiced

objections to Sol's action.

And so, Sol cast a curse upon the Grunties

and proclaimed:

"Listen carefully to me. I have cast a spell on

you. It is a curse and a magic word is its key.

If someone, even just one

person on this earth says

this word, a terrible

calamity will befall on all of you."

The Grunties beseeched him,

"Great lord, when this calamity occurs, how are

we to escape it?"

Sol nodded his head and answered:

"You must not oppress others. You must have not

be bitter. You must not be envious. Have a good and

pure heart and live your days peacefully."

The secret word was told to all gods and all

creatures except for humans. The gods were

satisfied and the Grunties were sent down to earth.

Without shedding a drop of blood, the Grunties

stopped the violence of the humans.

Overjoyed, the gods created magical powers

and gave it to the Grunties. But even with

such great power, the Grunties did not fall prey to the sin of pride.

6thirty

Banquet of Conspiracy

The Grunties were loved by all

creatures with the exception

of the bitterly jealous humans.

This was because all of

the things that made Grunties

so wonderful had once belonged to the humans.

Humans began to look for Grunties' weaknesses

and learned of the curse that Sol had cast on them.

Overjoyed, the humans next set out to learn

the secret word, but even the normally talkative

monkey would not betray the secret word.

So the humans held a banquet and invited all the

gods and creatures in order to fog their minds

with drinks.

One after another, the guests became intoxicated

until finally only the snake, the strongest

drinker, remained. The snake still would not tell

the secret word, so the humans brought out their

strongest drink and gave it to the snake. As

expected, the snake became drunk and told the

secret word to the humans.

The humans rejoiced and intoned the words.

Immediately, the Grunties lost their intelligence

and found themselves unable to stand upright.

The humans called them Puchi

Pongo and made them into their

beasts of burden.

Then they proceed to continue

their war against the other races.

For telling the secret words, the snake was

punished by having to forever crawl about

the earth on its stomach.

6thirty

Path of Evil

The gods fell into despair over the human's deed.

They created a great gateway called Morrigu Barrow

and blocked off earthly access to the Heavenly

Path so that none could enter heaven.

Along with the sealing of the Heavenly Path,

the light of the gods was also blocked from earth.

Without the protection of the

gods, the earth gradually

became wilder and began to be

corrupted by a dark power called

the Shadow. Corrupted by the

Shadow, the earth overflowed with

monsters and demons.

These demons roamed the world and killed

everything in their path. Many creatures were lost

as a result of their brutality.

Humans also came under attack by the

monsters. They formed barriers in the

major cities and closed themselves

off. They fought against monsters,

but lost the battle after battle.

One by one, the cities were cut off

from each other, and the barriers

protecting the cities were destroyed

one after another. Finally only

five cities remained standing.

6thirty

Goddess Aurora

The savior of

mankind was a

young apprentice

magician.

He confined himself in the temple of Arche Koeln

and prayed to the gods. In exchange of his life,

he was able to call upon the six great spirits

and two goddesses.

The eight gods that were summoned were:

Vulcan the Fire Spirit,

Merrows the Water Spirit,

Krake the Wood Spirit,

Yarthkins the Earth Spirit,

Lanceor the Lightning Spirit,

Anu the Star Goddess, and

Aurora the Goddess of Light.

The light of the gods shined once more on the

blessed earth and the Shadow was contained.

Thanks to the newfound peace, humans once again

prospered, but it did not last long. Once the

threat of the Shadow was gone, the humans began

to fight with each other.

After sealing the shadow,

the eight gods and goddesses

remained on earth, but some

were angered by the

foolishness of humans and

others grieved their

wretchedness and left until

finally, only Aurora remained.

Fearing that the light of heaven would again

depart the earth, humans placed eight curses on

Aurora and sealed her inside the Hulle Granz

Cathedral.

6thirty

Battle Against the Gods

When the gods learned that

a goddess had been

imprisoned, their fury

knew no bounds and

they vowed to destroy

mankind.

But the humans had no

intention of meekly

succumbing to extinction

and used their magic powers to devise a weapon

that they could use to fight against the gods.

So began the war between the gods and the humans.

The humans were no match for the power of the gods.

The Aerial City of Fort Ouph fell from the sky and

the Highland City of Dun Loireag was crushed

underneath it. The Cultural City of Carmina

Gadelica was destroyed by the god of lightning

and many lives were lost.

As a last resort, the humans took all of Aurora's

power, transformed it into magic power and fired

it at the heavens.

Heaven was engulfed in flame and the gods fled

or fell burning to die upon the earth.

The humans sacrificed much as well. The Relic City,

Lia Fail, from where the goddess' power was fired,

was reduced to ashes and many excellent magicians

died along with it.

And so ended the age of the gods.

6thirty

God's Rebirth

All the gods

in heaven

disappeared.

But a single god

who remained

on earth lived.

This was the God of Law, Folset, who guarded

the gate that blocked the Heavenly Path.

Winning the war against the gods, the humans

wanted the wisdom and power of the gods and

stormed Morrigu Barrow and demanded Folset to

invite them into the realm of the gods. But

Folset refused to grant them entry.

At first, the humans pointed

their weapons at Folset and

demanded he open the gate.

But Folset answered thus:

"Do whatever you wish.

There is no way any of your

weapons can harm me."

The humans followed his

words and tried to attack Folset

in any way they could, but they

were unable to harm even a single hair on his head.

Once they learned that force was to no avail,

they tried to convince him to open the gates

by seducing him with gifts.

After seeing the gifts, Folset said: "Build a

mountain of gifts for me if you wish. I'll

make a mountain twice that size in an instant."

Before Folset was even finished completing his

sentence, a mountain of gifts more lavish than the

gifts of the humans sprang up before their eyes.

After learning that both force and flattery were

of no avail, the humans got on their knees and

begged pathetically.

"If a power that is greater than the Shadow

emerges, we would fall into ruin. But if we could

regain the wisdom and power

that lies beyond this gate,

we would be able to protect

ourselves and not fight one

another. So please open the

gate." Folset laughed and

answered them: "Was it

not you who took up a sword

and shield and slew

the gods? You should

suffer for your sins."

Protesting, the humans replied,

"So are you saying that we should have simply

allowed the gods to drive us all to extinction?"

Folset shook his head and answered:

"Recall first the sins that you committed.

Is it not just the sinners receive judgment?"

To this the humans could make no reply.

Folset continued to speak:

"But all beings have the right to atone for

their sins. Human! Child of sin! If you want

this gate opened, then bring back the lost gods.

The gods will rise again, born from the dogma of

the believers. If they are true gods, then I will

open this gate. Bring back what has been lost and

only then can you be pardoned.

And so the humans argued over Gods' Rebirth and

once again made war against each other.

6thirty

World without Gods

The world fell into stagnation without the gods.

With none to command them, the sun stood in place

and the tides ceased to ebb and flow. The looms

gave forth no thread and the ovens no warmth.

Mankind now had to perform all of these functions

themselves.

Despite these hardships, humans did not cease

their wars with each other. Soon they invented

different types of magical tools to improve

their lives.

Ten years after the Great War with the gods, a

researcher visited the ruins of Fort Ouph. Many

have avoided the ruins of Fort Ouph, Lia Fail,

Carmina Gadelica, and Dun Loireag after the Great

War in fear and hatred that they were haunted

by the spirits of the dead gods and goddesses.

This belief was further enhanced

by the fact that most who set out

to explore the ruins never came back.

However this particular researcher did return and

he brought along with him a creature of a body

of a human and a head and tail of an animal.

The creature was a Beast.

6thirty

Three Dogmas

Both humans and beasts

grew tired of the long

years of war. However,

neither side was able to

strike a decisive blow and

none knew a way to stop the

cycle of wars and bring the

entire gruesome conflict to an end.

In this never-ending cycle, a new faction was

born. Composed of both humans and beasts, the new

faction concentrated on pure pursuit of power and

incorporated the crest technology loathed by beasts.

Both humans and beasts were afraid that this new

faction would enter the wars, but they sent

emissaries to both humans and beasts and called

for a cease fire. At first, both races were

hesitant, but they both were forced to accept

from the sheer toll brought on by the war.

And so the war between the two races

ended but the conflict continued.

Beasts continued to insist on

participating in the God's Rebirth

and the new faction proclaimed

their participation as well.

Humans chanted for "steam technology

and innovation." Beasts were for "crest

technology and tradition." And the new faction

for "the pure pursuit of power."

They began a quiet war without a show of force.

No winner was decided in this war since no gods

were born from any of these forces. The three-way

war continued, and in time the factions came to be

called the following:

Arvakv the Innovators

Ogmios the Conservatives

Teutates the Pursuers

To this day, the three-way war knows no end, and

it quietly drives the world ever closer to its

doom.

6thirty

Humans and Beasts

At first, humans and beasts

were friendly with each

other.

But while the beasts

revered nature and old

ways, the humans

were too innovative.

It was the beasts who first discovered the

creatures called Chim Chims. When the beasts saw

the light of the gods in the Chim Chims they

decided to revere them as a legacy of the gods.

But the humans captured the Chim Chims to research

them and after discovering a way to extract energy

from them, used them to invent seam machines.

The beasts protested this treatment,

but the humans would not listen.

As the humans' use of steam technology

advanced, they abandoned magic as

old and obsolete. The beasts

continued to revere magic culture

and rejected steam technology.

Humans scoffed at the beasts for

being stubborn and small-minded,

and beasts came to despise the humans' foolishness.

Eventually the beasts decided they could not leave

the God's Rebirth to the fools and proclaimed that

they too will participate in the God's Rebirth.

Folset granted their participation. Humans were

outraged. They believed that the God's Rebirth

was their right.

The two sides' antagonism toward each other began

to deepen and finally war broke out.

Humans gathered their armies

and steam weapons, but found

their weapon production was

lagging behind. Desperate,

they build the great factory

of Breg Epona, but still

they were unable to create

the necessary weapons.

Beasts were might in the

ways of magic, but were small

in numbers.

They were unable to marshal a large enough army.

Humans were weaker, but more numerous.

Beasts were stronger, but fewer in number.

And the war continued to rage on.

Weird Black Tea

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Genesis of Grief

New Life

The Fools

*The Despised

Grunty Race

Banquet of Conspiracy

Path of Evil

Goddess Aurora

Battle Against the Gods

God's Rebirth

World without Gods

Three Dogmas

Humans and Beasts