Nianze Myths

This is a series of a story-like history for Nianze. It’s meant to be written from the viewpoint of Yurin’s history books. Therefore nothing of this must be true. It’s only the common knowledge on the advanced level. Please read this text as it’s a story and imagine that this is a fact book and remember that your character¹ may not know everything I write here, but mostly this is the common view and this is what the skilled or school-trained person in Yurin knows. But know that a very selected few actually go to school in this world to, so most have a little wicked view of the history and therefore you can, as an example, twist this text and remove some elements if you want to play a character who you don’t imagine to have been around scholars or been to a school of any kind.

This is the rewrite with some changes. In the end I’ll put a link to the other rewrites. If you want to compare the two different versions you’ll have to do it on your own though. Also note that I’ve changed some facts because I liked it better this way and to better suit other stuff I’ve come up with for my world.

Comments are most welcome as usual.

The Prehistoric Ages

Foreword

The prehistoric ages of Yurin is shrouded with mysteries and uncertainties. Nobody actually knows what happened when much of the records and information about everything before the age of the apocalypse was lost during the many devastating wars that have actually torn the planet apart. Much of what is known is only built on bits and pieces of the few things they’ve found from the Demonic ages. But most of the information is only hypothesises and theories. This record will cover what is known from myth to facts and everything in-between. So let’s start with the most ancient one shall we?

Chapter One – The Creation

Nobody really knows anything about the creation really. All that is really known is that Vordén² most likely created the world a long time ago, but not even that can we even be certain of. Vordén was the most powerful being on Yurin that ever existed. How he came into existence is unknown but the most plausible theory is that he was born from a great swell of energy from the mystical realm of Oblivion³. This theory isn’t so well known throughout the world and most believe that Vordén created everything and that Vordén is eternal, therefore he is everything and has always been. This story is supported by the celestials and the other story is even considered abominable in some cultures and countries.

However, it’s believed in both theories that Vordén created everything that exists on Yurin; the nature, the creatures, the laws of nature and the order of things. Nobody knew exactly how powerful he really was but it’s believed that he was almost almighty and all-knowing. Some still do believe that he was almighty and all-knowing. The reason to why people later started to doubt that he was almighty and all-knowing is due to the fact that he’s believed to be dead, or erased, depending on how you look on it. The last creations he made were spawns of himself, two lesser beings; Gude and Sate. These two later betrayed him, by killing him, if killing is the right world for something that isn’t really alive. Exactly how this happened is unclear. This made some believe that he wasn’t that powerful after all, while others believes that this was his will and that only part of him was destroyed by his two spawns.

Vordén had many forms and actually showed himself to his creations. He was initially a great force of energy that could be seen as a great green light sweeping through the skies and whirling around as a magical wind. Sometimes he possessed animals, trees and other living things. During the age of man he possessed a couple of humans too. Sometimes he just transformed himself into a great giant that walked around the planet taking care of the mountains and the forests and maintaining the oceans⁴. When he created Gude and Sate they were red and a yellow smaller forces whirling around in the sky along the great green ones⁵. They also had mighty voices that could echo through the whole world, though only Vordén was powerful enough to without any medium be able to speak to all of nature over the whole planet.

Following Chapters

Chapter Two – The Bygone Ages
Chapter Three – The Demonic Age
Chapter Four – The Stray Age
Chapter Five – The Founding of the Nations
Chapter Six – The Age of War
Chapter Seven – The Fire Wars

1. If you are a player ↩

2. Vordén is the first god, and also considered the creator ↩

3. Also known as the Multiversity, the realm from which everything is created ↩

4. See the Legend of the Great Caretaker ↩

5. Actually it was only one, but it was so big that you could sometimes see it in many directions, it’s also believed that he could split himself up ↩