The Jorid

The Duaní Myths of the Beginning

These myths and the characters presented hereafter are mostly tales passed along the generations of people on the Duane. These tales can actually be tied to actual events having occurred in previous Eras, yet partly forgotten.

Foreword

After the Guardians (or most of them) left the dimension of Alienor for other explorations, most of their knowledge had indeed been removed and transformed from people’s memories, and the retelling of these events is in part a counteraction to the forgetting, or one may say, a precursor to the remembrance, as clouding of the truth was a shrewd means of fooling the implacable Lejüs, God of the Forgotten.

The Creation of the Worlds

The Worlds as they exist were born a very long time ago. Before their beginning, they already existed, and will always exist for each generation of Gods passing through them.
The memory of the people often does not extend much earlier than the era when the Gods left; they left, it is said, and the people living now is the current generation of gods —gods in becoming.
But the Gods did not create the Worlds, they were transient travellers who have walked among humans and other races, and taught them some of their skills to be remembered in time.

The true creators of the Worlds were the twin gods: Ѩlis (Yalis) and Ѥsis (Yesis) from whom the Great Panyë was born. She was beautiful and danced to please her creators, but the creators wanted her to explore the worlds and in turn create new life to fill it.

But Panyë was alone, and lamented to her creators that she wouldn’t explore without company. So reluctantly, they cut her in two parts, each with a spark of the divine, and each equally beautiful and powerful, who would then have to dance and stay apart so that they could look at each other. It was say the End of Times would come when they would fall into each other’s embrace.

Thus were born Duàn and M’tuàn, who from their initial fusion then created a multitude of life.

Twelve sons and daughters were born first, who each came up with a role to assist their parents. Each of the children would be able to leave once they had found a proper replacement to serve their parents stuck in their eternal dance.

So, with each replacement of the daughters and sons, a new generation of Gods would be allowed to raise, and so on, and so forth.

Interpretations:

Alienor’s creation originates from the dimension of Asaris, whose main civilisation gravitates around a binary solar system, which may have given birth to the myth of the twin gods.

It is believed that the twin planets of Alienor were actually one originally (Panyë), but separated into the planets (Duane and Murtuane).

Their twelve sons and daughters were believed to be representatives for the main families which had been documented throughout many of Alienor’s civilizations. They may be representatives of the energies involved in the manifestation of this reality by Asaris, acting as blueprints of sorts.

The Era of the Sibling Gods

The original sons and daughters were twelve.

Thamàr (♀), Almà (♀), Darmà (♀), Sildà (♀), Fernjë (♂), Frodjë (♂), Injë (♂), Lumjë (♂), Meshà (♀), Valmàr (♀), Uljë (♂), Zumjë (♂)

They served their parents, and populated the Worlds in accordance to their will, but couldn’t find any suitable replacement to hold the energy of the dance. One day, Valmàr, who was the most restless of the daughters decided to go on a journey to ask guidance to the twin gods. Luckily, the elder daughter, Thamàr was strong as two goddesses, and agreed to hold the dance together while she would be gone.

When Valmàr finally found the Twins, they told her that indeed, the first generation of Gods to free them would not come from their breed, but from elsewhere, and would help teach their children (the humans) so that one day, they would also be able to continue their path. But these Transient Gods would also bring their mother as a third dancer during the transition, and they would have to convince their parents to accept her into their circle during the transition.

So, when Phràl, the third dancer came to Duàn and M’tuàn, their children greeted him, despite Duàn’s defiance, soon soothed by M’tuàn’s graciousness. The Twelve then selected and taught some of Phràl’s children their ways, so that one by one, they could be free, while Phràl’s children continued the dance. The Transient Gods were also called Guardians of the Dance.

Interpretations:

The Transient Gods are the Guardians, and their home planet, the Phrëal. They have learnt to stabilize to the Alienoran environment by mastering the twelve Gates (which is of their own invention, although the principles used to make it work came from an understanding of Alienor’s base elements, so to speak).

The Era of the Transient Gods (also known as the Elder Gods)

Many generations of Transient Gods have succeeded to the previous one. Some of them became known as individual figures to the grandchildren of M’tuàn and Duàn, sometimes abusing the aura which was surrounding them, despite the will of the Twelve Children, who wanted their progeny to one day become masters of their powers. But the children of Phràl were not all, not always caring of these others, though by being raised by the Twelve, they also bonded in many ways with them.

It was believed the sons of the grandchildren of Panyë and the sons of Phràl were the mighty dragons and other terrible creatures that dwelled on the other side.

Among the Gods which were known, many were from the last generation.

Ghört, was known as God of the Airs, coming from Fernjë‘s lineage.
Nærvel was the Goddess of the Waters from Frohdjë‘s lineage.
Agnima was the Goddess of the Flames from Injë‘s lineage.
Selvaniel was God of the Woods from Meshà‘s lineage.
Margilonia was Goddess of the Earths from Zumjë‘s lineage. She was thought to have given birth to the highest mountains known as Mt Elok’ram.
(Shaint) Lejüs was God of the Forgotten from Almà‘s lineage.

The three Godesses of Destiny where Uleÿa, Tibreÿa and Snimeÿa (Snimeÿa cuts the thread of life) ; they are daughters of Lejüs.

From the legend of Mævel, are documented Blohmrik, son of Mirÿnda, Goddess of Mirth and of Bälias, God of the Sparkles.

Blohmrik is also believed to be the Messenger God, who would help the Yellow Princess, with Asiir (his and Mævel’s dragon son) restore the truth.

Interpretations:

The Transient Gods were known as the Guardians. Only a few mingled with humans, though they were in fact ruling the planet of Duane deemed for the most part too unruly to be left without “guidance”. On the contrary, the Murtuane’s people were treated more as equal, eventhough the people still had a lot to learn from them.

The Elder Gods’ Departure

A time finally came when Phràl wanted to leave the dance, as she had learnt all that was to learn from the divine couple, and her children started bickering, not knowing whether to stay or to leave.

One of Darmà‘s lineage would try to reunite the dancers to force the dance to a halt, but in doing so almost destroyed the Worlds.

When the successor of Meshà threw himself in to prevent the couple’s embrace, he was thrown away and shattered by the power of the dance, but thankful for what he did, the dancers recreated him from the ashes, as an twin infant, one for each of the dancers, allowed to take Phràl’s place into the dance.

Phràl’s children who desired to stay with the dance would serve the infant whose wisdom had saved the Worlds, but would only be allowed to be rebirthed among the Twelve’s children in the form of dragons and nirguals to serve them, as was promised to the Twelve.

Interpretations:

The Guardians leave the system of Alienor, with a new moon appearing in the Duane’s sky (the third “moon”, the first being the Murtuane itself, while its new moon replaces the Phrëal). The moons are fragments of the Phrëal left bereft of any power, but as a reminder of Vogel’s death (and the lost knowledge of its portal believed to still be on these moons), an anchor for the Guardians chosing to stay, and balancers of the system.

The legacy of the Guardians would be the dragons and nirguals, a sort of mingling of the Guardian’s consciousness with Alienor’s, along the rules governing the planets. Thus the remaining Guardians were to serve humans and other races achieve their “godhood”, and rightful ownership of the planets.

·:tags:· myth-of-the-creation, duane, murtuane, alienor, guardians