Creation myth
From Legonia
Though Legonia has many religions and different gods, most stories about the world's beginning are similiar to each other. This site lists the most known creation myths and their differences.
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Creation of the world
The forgotten 200
Before time's begin, when chaos did not even exist as name, there was an endless nothing. Bored by itself, a first move came into the nothing to become something. And so, the big something was seperated by the nothing. To fight the boredom, it started to name the things around it, it called itself "existence" and the rest the endless nothing. But soon, there wasn't more to call and it couldn't talk with the endless nothing because the nothing had nothing to say. Soon, the big something became angry and shouted:
"TELL ME, ENDLESS NOTHING, WHY DID YOU CREATE ME IF THERE WAS NO PLAN FOR ME? WHY I AM FORCED TO BE BORED AND MY LIFE HAS NO SENSE? I SWEAR, I WILL BECOME MORE THAN YOU, I AM BETTER, I WANT TO BE SOMETHING. AND SO I WILL. I WILL BE A GOD AND MANY MORE WILL FOLLOW."
The nothing didn't answer. And so, the big something, which give itself the force of a god, started to create the world. 200 years, so the legend, the endless nothing was split into endless spheres and every one should been given its own rules of nature. The first one was the god's sphere which the big something and its children should be call their home. About 200 o.C. the living's sphere was made based on 4 holy elementals: Earth, Air, Water and Mana. After the big something named this world Legonia, it created the other gods as first lifeforms.
First life and the 5th element
According to most polytheism, Arkos was made as first male and Venari as first female lifeform(In Amazon mythology known as Arkando and Vendra). With the invention of genders, the life had started and the gods had born many more lifeforms. First new gods and later the mortals. The first ones were insects, birds, fishs, dinosaurs and last the mammals. They all weren't made to live in the god's sphere, their world should be Legonia and worship their gift forever. Around 400 o.C. the first dwarves and elves began their existence. About 500 o.C. an event should happened which changed the living's sphere forever. The big something introduced a 5th holy element. After the first vulcano Vulcania Dragonia had erupted, fire was there to be discovered by the mortals. 200 years it needed until civilization had started and fire was accepted by nature.
The Split of good and evil
By creating their own races, the gods soon got into competition and became jealous on each other. It didn't need long that some started to fight each other. The big something noticed that these dark sides may threaten the world's balance and one day even the god's sphere. So it decided, that every god should free himself from hate and envy. But they underestimated the power of these evil and what had left the gods became its own being. The first evil came and after him many other entities, who called themselves the demongods and their following creations demons. Soon, demons and mortals fought each other on Legonia and the gods the demongods. The eternal war between good and evil had began. While the epic battle Legonia crushed into its continents. The god Okeanos took the chance and flooded the canyons after the demon faction was attracted down. Nearly all demons died, the rest were banished on special places and other spheres. The demongods were prisoned in a special sphere locked by a demon portal deep under Vulcania Dragonia.
Disparities
- The monotheistic religions are still seing the big something as creator of everything and lord of all aspects of the world. Polytheism like the Ark'tohlian pantheon describe that some elements and other stuff are shared under following gods (Okeanos got the oceans, Onyxo the landscapes, Airos the sky etc.)
- In Amazon Mythology Arkando and Vendra were the only children of the big something and the 2 main gods. Arkando failed in beatening the demons so Vendra used her female superiority to prison all demongods. That's why Arkando only rules over a few aspects like the males and bad characteristics while Vendra rules the rest of the world.
- Most religions are discordant if the gods are still active and interventioning on the world or were just the creation forces of Legonia which is now in the hands of the mortals only.
- According to demonologists the reasons for the war between demongod and gods are all lies and the god's mortals aren't choosen to rule this world which should belong to the demongods only.
Other creation myths
Orcish creation myth
The orcs believe that the world was created by the gods as a pure world. Before, the world was chaos and after the spheres sorted it in order, gods were the conclusion of the new system. But soon after they realized their existence and power, they tainted the worlds with their sins and betrayal and the order locked them up in the form of animals, as what they're forced to live on Legonia for all eternity. So a new chaos should be avoided until the day it doesn't: The last chaos. So, the animals of air represent the god/gods of the sky etc.
Other
Many primitive races who believe in nature ghosts have their own creation myths or stories. Most of them are artistic parables which can be interpreted as simpler versions of the big something-story. But atheists don't believe in spheres and are talking about a big bang long ago, millions of years before the old chronology was started (So, about -6billion o.C.). But this theories can be doubted because the same crazy people also believe that Legonia is a globe surrounding Arkos(The sun).
