Intermission: The Holy Maker's Historia

The Holy Maker’s Historia, as recorded in the divine texts of Fallowfield

In the beginning, the MAKER created the skies and the lands. The skies were empty, blackened voids; the land, shapeless, barren clay. The MAKER shaped the skies with HIS hands, and molded the lands with HER feet, and this is why we reach to the heavens with our fingers, and walk upon the world with our feet. Next, the MAKER wished for others to see HIS work, so S HE bade the skies to shine forth with light and colour. HE created the sun and the stars and the moon to light HER planet and make visible all that HE had done, and this is why we work during the day and rest during the night.

The MAKER saw what SHE had made and thought that it was not yet beautiful enough, and so created the waters. To keep the skies from being jealous of the water’s beauty, the MAKER commanded the water to seek the lowest spaces of the world, furthest from the sky that it could, and that is why water runs down. For a time, things were calm, but the MAKER is happiest when creating and when witnessing creation. HE made the plants next, tiny lives that would create and die but leave behind the seeds to create again. SHE smiled and blessed the plants, for they contained a tiny fragment of HIS power of endless creation, and that is why plants are found across Sylvatir.

And though the world progressed, it did not change. The plants grew, and died, and left behind what was needed to grow again, but each generation was always the same. The MAKER began to grow sad at seeing HER world existing in such stagnation. HE created animals to play and grow and hunt and live across the surface of the world, and that is why all life, from beasts to pets, are found from shore to shore of HER world, and contain some of HIS power of endless creation. Though the animals filled the MAKER’S heart with gladness, they did not bring forth the change that SHE had wanted. They created nothing. They grew and reproduced and died, and though they were mobile, they expressed HIS spirit poorly. SHE knew, then, what HE must do: SHE must create peoples who could act in HIS spirit on HER behalf.

The MAKER created the orcs, the elves, the dwarves, and the humans, and gave to them large quantities of HIS power of endless creation. They populated the face of Sylvatir and, using HER divine spirit, built across it. Towns, bridges, tools, art… everything HE gave to them, they used, and that is why it is the sentient races that build societies in the world.