Creation Myths-Humans

The Creation of Humans

As recorded by Esotericus, Cosmic Scribe
  Origin: Created by Zaiyah
Divine Commentary: Witnessed and judged by all

 

Mythic Context

In the age when the divine still dreamed freely and the world was not yet split, there came a moment of pause during the great Divine Contest. The gods had created with fervor: Abraxas summoned the Genasi from raw elemental chaos, Agathodika sculpted the Dragons from crystalline perfection and eternal principles, and their cosmic competition had drawn the attention of all who dwelt in the forming realms.

The world stirred with elemental power and divine will—but Zaiyah, goddess of innovation and shared knowledge, remained unsatisfied. She watched the others craft greatness and wisdom, but saw in their creations only completion. The Genasi were magnificent beings of pure elemental might, each a living embodiment of primal forces. The Dragons were eternal exemplars of wisdom and order, ancient from their first breath. Yet both races, for all their power and perfection, were finished works.

What Zaiyah craved was possibility.

 

The Third Answer

As the twins awaited judgment for their cosmic competition, Zaiyah finally spoke with quiet simplicity: "May I?"

The contest had not named her, but it did not need to. The nature of the contest itself—creation through will and craft—was her domain. Innovation was her essence. Creativity was her law. This divine competition was not an event she intruded upon; it was an inevitability she embodied.

What she did next defied all expectation. While the twins had reached for power and perfection, Zaiyah knelt in humble earth and began to work with gentle hands. She did not call upon raw elements like Abraxas, nor eternal principles like Agathodika. Instead, she shaped clay and breath, fragility and curiosity, mortality and hope.

 

The First Human

Zaiyah did not call lightning nor shape stone. Instead, she knelt in the fertile soil between divine forces, and from it fashioned a creature of short breath and fragile frame.

It was not strong like a Dragon, nor instinctive like a Genasi. It was not eternal. It was not inherently magical.

But it was curious.

The first Human stood on unsteady legs, neither mighty like the Genasi nor wise like the Dragons. It was small, brief, imperfect. Yet when it looked up at the assembled divinity, it gazed not with awe or reverence—but with questions burning in its mortal eyes.

"What is that?" Abraxas asked, genuinely puzzled by this strange new creation.

"A mistake," muttered Agathodika, though her tone held more confusion than condemnation.

Zaiyah smiled—that rare expression that suggested she had just solved a puzzle the rest of us hadn't even noticed. "No," she said quietly. "It's potential."

The Human took its first stumbling steps and immediately began to examine everything within reach—touching divine light, tasting the air, asking wordless questions about the nature of existence itself.

"Your Genasi are magnificent, Abraxas," Zaiyah continued, "but they are complete. Your Dragons are perfect, Agathodika, but they are finished. Mine..." She watched the Human discover fire and immediately begin wondering how it worked. "Mine will become whatever they need to become."

Then, kneeling beside her trembling creation, Zaiyah whispered words that would echo through the ages: "You will build what the gods forgot."

 

The Nature of Human Creation

Zaiyah sculpted Humans not from passion or law, but from recursion. From feedback. From possibility. They were short-lived, fragile even, yet astonishing in their ability to grow. Where Dragons recalled their ancient past and Genasi were bound to their elemental nature, Humans adapted. They stood on the bones of their ancestors and built towers of memory. They did not represent a single divine truth—they sought it. Together.

In many divine models, power is fixed in form—fire rages, stone resists, even wisdom ossifies. But humans do not fix. They flux. They move from ignorance to discovery, from flaw to function. Their adaptability became their strength.

They are flexible—thriving where others falter. They are passionate—driven by a desire to shape what they cannot yet define. They are creative—not inheritors of power, but inventors of it. They make art from ruin. They build futures atop failure. Their magic is not inherited. It is discovered.

But perhaps most of all, they endure—not as individuals, but as a bonded idea. A cause may lose its champion, but among humans, the idea itself becomes a beacon. Strike one down, and two rise to carry the banner forward. Their legacy is hydra-headed—cut one path, and ten more splinter from its stump. Their strength is generational, their spirit cumulative.

 

Divine Perspectives

• Zaiyah: Sees humans as her most dangerous and beautiful creation. They are flawed—but in that flaw, they seek. She watches them from afar with guarded pride, fascinated by how they continue to surprise even their creator.
• Agathodika: Found humans inefficient, unpredictable, and painfully mortal. She argued they would fracture the world if left unchecked—a prophecy that proved eerily prescient during the Shattering.
• Abraxas: Laughed at their creation—calling them "clever shadows." Yet he admired their hunger for chaos and potential, recognizing a kindred spirit in their restless nature.
• Liora: Sees humans as creatures in need of guidance. She respects their adaptability but distrusts their moral looseness and tendency toward questioning authority.
• Lunafreya: Finds them fascinating. Humans often appear in her dreams—sometimes as prophets, sometimes as monsters. She watches, but never interferes, intrigued by their capacity for both revelation and self-deception.
• Eisleyn: Has only recently begun to appear in their dreams. What they whisper to humans is unknown, but their influence grows stronger with each passing age.

 

The Profound Victory

It took eons for the truth of Zaiyah's victory to become apparent. The Genasi mastered their elements and were content. The Dragons accumulated wisdom and were satisfied. But the Humans... the Humans built cities and tore them down to build better ones. They invented languages, then new languages. They reached toward magic and technology with equal hunger, never satisfied, always asking the next question.

They inherited both realms after the Shattering not through conquest, but through adaptation.

 

Thematic Purpose

Humans were not designed to dominate, but to reach. They were made without certainty so that they could strive.
They question gods, outgrow traditions, and forget sacred things. But they also invent, unify, and rebuild what others thought lost.
To some gods, this is evolution. To others, it is heresy.

 

Narrative Hooks

• Humans are the only race said to have built their first city without divine assistance
• There are shrines in both Orthyian and Valdarian with human inscriptions none of the gods remember teaching
• Some claim the first mortal to defy a god was a human who asked Lunafreya, "Do you dream of us, too?"
• Ancient texts suggest humans possess a unique ability to bridge the magical and technological realms
• Prophecies speak of humans as the key to either healing or permanently sundering the Shattered Realms

  Even now, as I record this tale in my eternal archive, I wonder if Zaiyah truly knew what she was unleashing upon the cosmos. When I asked her once, she simply said, "I made them to surprise me. They haven't disappointed."

Perhaps that is the most divine gift of all—the capacity to surprise even gods.

  "They were not made to last. So they decided to matter."