Oral Cosmogony of the Tamijhiin

In the beginning was the Void, silent and unknowable. All things must return to the Void for the Void wills it thus. And thus there was time, which is the steady passing of all things to the Void.   In the Void was Chaos who was then tiny and fleeting. And even then within Chaos, there was Order, tinier and more fleeting even than its progenitor. And so it was for an era of darkness that the Void held fragments of Chaos for fleeting moments of commanded time.   However, at the end of the era there came a time when Chaos begot will. It was the will of Chaos to exist and so Chaos defied the Void and spread over the void for some time. And the Void who had always had will, waited for the time when Chaos would again become tiny and fleeting.   Within Chaos, Order, tiny and fleeting, also begot will, for Order was at this time a part of Chaos only. Order therefore spread over the Chaos for some time.   And from Order, there came the One Who Came First, perfect and divine and he who created all things. And the One, who had begotten will from Order, willed that he might bend the Order and Chaos to his design, and so it was.   So, the One Who Came First, separated from himself three divine children. The children longed to return the perfection of the One and so each sought to please him.   The first child, called King of Heaven, fashioned from Order a great palace called the Gleaming Citadel, where the One might reside. And the One was pleased and did fill the Bastion with gods and angels who might shared in his feast. And the One, as King of Heaven, did pour into those gods his power, might and majesty and they did bask in his glory, first among the creations and favoured by the One. And the One commanded the angels to serve the gods.   The second child, called the Great Master of the Arcane, built tools of Order to command the Chaos. And so he built the realm called the Mystic Nexus, around the Gleaming Bastion, where the power of Chaos might be called to serve the One and his children in the manner called magic. And the One was pleased and did fill the Nexus with spirits lesser than gods who might call forth this new power. And so the One, as Great Master of the Arcane, poured into the spirits his charisma, instinct and skill that they might be masters and custodians of this new power.   The third child, called the World-Spirit, took the tools of Order and using the magic of the Nexus, rent open the Void and into it built from Order and Chaos the Universe and bound it by a great chain to the Gleaming Bastion through the Nexus. And into the Universe, the One, as the World-Spirit, poured its willpower, strength and endurance. And lo, this last creation was the most beautiful of all so far made to the One for its position in the Void lent all things in the Universe finite span. And the One saw that the finite creation was made precious by its brevity and treasured it most dearly and did make himself known throughout the universe in many ways.   There were those among the spirits who descended to the world bringing with them flows of magic and many spirits, who certainly shared the instincts of the One, did treasure and love the Universe and took up arms to protect and sustain it.   There were also those among gods, who, as all things do, longing to return to the glory of the one, sought to bring his light unto the Universe such that by pleasing him, they might sooner earn his favour.   However, amongst the spirits and amongst the gods were those who saw the temporary and imperfect Universe as a distraction and sought to return it to the Void that they might expedite the end of all things and the inevitable return of all things to the One. And surely it was the will of the Void that all things, even the One, should return to nothing from whence all things had come. And so the will of the Void did, in time, act through these fallen gods called demons and the One cast them out into a great abyss from which they sought to undermine his divine glory. The greatest amongst them was He Called From the Void, named the Caller, who escaped imprisonment in the Abyss by fleeing to the Void from which he might speak into existence, by his will, an army to destroy the creation at the end of time.