There was the Abyss--the vast void of chaotic energies and materials that was at the beginning. The Abyss was when all else within was not, and the dust of the to-be swam along with the strands of reality's fabric within that maelstrom. Ever waiting. For it was a place of potential; creatio ex nihilo.

 

But in the midst of a churning universe, the Spirit of Terut-Eir'Adei was sent from The Great Beyond, and the Sword of God was sent to join His Spirit; and together, His Spirit and Sword was in communion with the Bearer of the Essence, all from The Great Beyond, which lay out of reach of the Abyss. The Bearer of the Essence came over His Sword and Spirit, and His being was one. One mind, three distinctions--the will of one monarch. So Creator God prepared for His Elder Works.

 

Now Terut-Eir'Adei looked upon the Abyss, seeing the disjointed brewing of chaos and unstructured materials within that void, and it displeased Him. And the Bearer of the Essence sent His Sword, Gellios, out into the Abyss, and He split it, dividing the chaos from the unstructured, forming order. And He saw the order and the chaos and called it: "Eltal'Adal lem," meaning: "That which was divided to be made better." And the splitting of order and chaos pleased Him.

Now order was unlike any other material Terut-Eir’Adei had ever made, for He had created many universes through and for His Sword. His right hand had reconciled all of creation through the price of blood, and He willed to create a new realm full of new wonders. So His Sword created order to be a capable cornerstone for His design. Looking out upon the Abyss, order seemed as a shimmering sea of liquid upon a canvas of infinite colors--those energies and materials native to the Abyss.

And so, too, was chaos formed--a critical element to Terut-Eir’Adei’s designs. While order looked like a sea floating in the empty of the Abyss, chaos was an ever-shifting mass. Crimson in color, chaos appeared as a cluster of rain-clouds, expanding and retracting, and groping at the empty with tendrils that lash out. Both materials were made by God’s Sword when He split the universe, order relegated to one half and chaos the other. For all potentia of God was and is and always will be within Gellios.

Order and chaos was separated by a vast chasm, created when God’s right hand cleaved the universe. This scar split the Abyss through its center, and it was bereft of all; it was a void--the Void.

Once order had been created, the abyssal serpents came forth from it. These were creatures of great size, behemoths on a cosmic scale. They could’ve been gods, for their sentience was as vast as their forms, but they presented themselves before Terut-Eir’Adei. So too did the wild-things come forth from the Void, that scar of creation left after the splitting of order and chaos, which was the great rift between the two. And the Gods of Chaos, which were called gesh'guldei by Terut-Eir'Adei, came forth from the chaos of the Abyss. These creatures were not called into being by He, Creator God.

 

Now the wild-things that had come forth from the Void displeased Terut-Eir’Adei, for they were savage and of foreign places, and they were malicious, yet they held terrible beauty. And He called for the gesh'guldei, teaching them to understand not beauty, and He sent the Gods of Chaos after the wild-things, and the wild-things could not withstand them. And the broken bodies of the wild-things were cast into the Abyss, and darkness overcame the Abyss. And a leader arose among the gesh'guldei, Nagesh'Adomei, and Creator God taught him and the other Gods of Chaos, though he was most favored of all.

 

It was during these ages of unity that Terut-Eir'Adei looked into the Void, that scar of creation, and He began to order His universe. He started by pulling forth His firstborn creation: the eldenari.

 

So from the Void came the Elder Gods, whom He was pleased with and who served Him well. They had come from the Void, but they were not like the wild-things, malicious to their core. And the eldenari were taught by their maker, and they would learn greater truths than the gesh'guldei. And the Elder Gods were sent into the scar of creation, commanded to explore the worm-ways which those ancient serpents had opened. And, using the worm-ways, the eldenari explored the Great Beyond.

 

And Terut-Eir'Adei made the Void to wrap around the order and chaos of the Abyss, banishing it to the edges of the universe, for He wanted to create within order and chaos; and He did not want one to be separate from the other.

 

And Terut-Eir'Adei spoke into the empty and said: "Light to rule the heavens and darkness to command the void." And order was compressed into rock, and chaos was made gaseous to fill the rock, and the trillions of stars filled the once empty Abyss. And each star was assigned a time and a season in which to die. And the light of the stars banished the darkness of the Abyss and consumed the Void at the universe’s edge. And He was pleased with the light and the darkness.

 

Thus, Creator God began His Elder Works.