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Date: The 30th of the 3rd Month Aries, 2026 Third Cycle
Continent: Fimbulwinter (Victoria)
Location: Frozen Nation Niflheim, Nialathrú; Grand Hall of Eche.
Φ Walking forward into the classroom filled with native members of Aplos, along with others, including Beastkin, Cyrus, Suzuka, and Atalanta, Orb stands at the front of the room behind a podium. Using his Legacy, he makes ice, increasing his height, then slamming a book on it, he says, "It is finally time. Who is excited!"
Dumnorix, Dillion, Cyrus, and Suzuka cheer, while everyone else eyes glazes with Buloke mind focused as he says, "Got to remember, got to remember, got to remember."
Pointing at Buloke, Orb says, "You see that look, that's the level of concentration you need to make this possible! You have a test on these concepts coming up, so you better focus, warriors of Aplos!"
Their eyes glaze, but seeing Buloke's focus, the rest of them start to focus up as well, causing Orb to say, "The first of these cram classes will focus on the history of the world. I will also be conscious of the fact that some of you in this class are hearing it for the first time ever. For those watching who are currently standing outside the room to get it, there will also be speakers moving this into selective classrooms thanks to the efforts of the wonderful druids of the country; you can go to them to hear this.
Now, starting off, I will give you a full recount of the commonly known timeline of the world in a general sense. The first two creation myths are commonly known by the world. The Telonist one and the one commonly passed down by the other six races. I will now go over both of them.
The Telonist view claims that there was a world before this one, known as the first world or commonly known by the passage of the scriptures it appears in the Nefilat HaMushlam. It chronicles the stories of the perfect ones, those whom we call angels, and their story with whom they claim is the one true God, the Messiah. Each one of them was born into a perfect body, in a perfect world, all at the height of their own existence. Their souls had no aspect of it that was unfulfilled within their own existences; it was a world that our feeble mortal minds couldn't imagine.
Yet they questioned it. Some angels in their perfection saw a being greater than them, the Messiah. His perfect glory, his divine radiance, his endless well of power- all things that were greater than even all of the angels put together and within him, they felt jealousy, and those seeds led many of them in their perfection to strike against others.
According to them, the angel of justice, the angel of healing, the angel of hope, the angel of unity, the angel of kindness, the angel of promises, they all tried to turn back against their creator, and brought many of their brethren down with them, falling to hell and becoming devils, eternally trapped to deal with their sins.
Despite the battle and the pain brought about by the betrayal, the mission to spread love never ended, and a new world full of love was created: our world, the second world, which is the world we live in, detailed and named after the 2nd passage Kazvei Ha'Einsof.
Humanity was placed in a paradise, but unlike before, god's presence could not be directly seen but could be felt deep within our souls through the beauty carved into the world, though this point is rather contentious, as others believe he still shows himself directly but only to those who reach a grand spiritual connection with him.
The first humans created were given a miracle onto the planet we had called Theophila for our love for the messiah, a single fingernail of the Messiah that turned into a bountiful garden, known as Cordum. And together, all of humanity lived in harmony.
Yet those who had fallen didn't wish for such a thing to be allowed; they couldn't stand the sight of a lesser creation having a higher standing than them, so they tricked six humans and befouled them and their children with their powers, and the mutations brought forth the six other races from the pits of hell, and those six humans were crowned their gods; all six of the humans descend from one woman who was cursed as a result and became known as the Queen of Beginnings. Yet the creation of the other races part is not actually confirmed in the scriptures, but was added far later down the line, though the scriptures do constantly bring up the term human consistently throughout everything, though its usage has been criticised in the exact way it has been used, almost as if it doesn't refer to a specific people.
The power given to each race gave them an advantage against humans, leaving the humans powerless against them, and soon a war broke out in which the humans were pushed to their limits and almost brought to extinction, yet the Messiah wouldn't have allowed that, and appeared, destroying the six false gods and bringing victory to the battlefield along with his angels. Yet benevolent as he was, he spared the betrayers and reinstated an era of unity with the humans at the head, with the blessing of the tree Cordum dropped upon them.
Or at least that's the Telonist view of creation, the other races tend to have a different view, that was compiled over generation, and still holds strong today due to brave to the Seers, Dragons, and Nephilim's.
The 2nd view doesn't make any claim of a first world, but talks of a natural stew that existed before all, and out of that primordial chaos, existence first formed, and a single woman was born at the same time. Yet the chaos didn't wish to exist in the first place, and constantly kept trying to pull her back in, creating monsters known as devils to pull her back little by little every single day.
But she persisted against them, eventually finding peace, and in said peace her womb birthed 6 different beings. The gods of the Yugaku, Seers, Dragons, Nephilim, Seraphs, and Beastkin. And from their flesh, blood and bones, the six species were born into this world.
They warred with one another, competed with one another, loved one another, and grew together in what was to them a perfect harmony, yet things changed with the appearance of the 7th race known as humans. They did not know where they came from or why they started to appear, but their numbers grew, and soon they became even more numerous than any race individually. Yet no God could be seen amongst them. They had no point of origin, and the other 6 races were filled with fear and animosity toward these strange creations. They bore resemblance to all the 6 races but were inextricably different. Many thought they were just a new disguise that demons brought upon this world, and sought to attack them. But one day, a god appeared around them, one they called the Messiah. A being of overwhelming strength and spirit who put an end to their persecution. He guarded the humans but never attacked the other races who stood against them, treating all who stood close to him as his own children, regardless of their race. And the 6 gods lived in harmony with the 7th until one day they ordered each king under their race to go to war with the humans and their God, staring Nefílat Ein-Sof.
A bloody battle began to rage on for 888 years, with every edge of the planet being covered in screams and blood, forcing demons to rise from below. The humans were the weakest of all the races, yet they stood the strongest despite the war waged against them. With the help of their God, heroes arose among them, empowered by the warriors who once stood in the past to strike down the battles they faced, and in the sight of such actions, the other races began to question themselves. The first to turn was the King of the Nephilim, and the Queen of the Seers, who stood against the destruction of love amongst the races. Then, among the six children of the Dragon God Drakon, one of the six Dragon Kings stood up to fight against his rampage, your Ahura Mazda, the Dragon King of Truth, with two others joining him later. The united battle continued until the six gods were dead. Yet the victory wasn't without losses; the six races combined had been reduced to less than humanity individually through the war. It was debilitating, and for the Dragons, it didn't end, as the last two kings still survived and continued their conflict with us through the border.
Now that's the two views on the creation of the world, though as you can see they conflict quite a bit. Both reaffirm the existence of the Messiah, yet the Messiah aspects of the story cause issues, as it makes no sense for the holy scriptures to lie about a situation like this, especially given the fact that the Messiah, even in the other race's view, is still superior in a sense.
Though culturally they're may have been efforts by humans to make the Messiah seem absolute, leading to edits. This story is so old it's ridiculous to believe the version found in the Arba'ah Olamot is unbiased, given that the one we have was compiled around the 2nd Cycle.
Still, from Legacies that have incarnated along with other historical evidence, we can conclude both have some levels of truth to them. Still, the other race's view was only seen as accepted since the Era of Levav; before that it was commonly considered heresy, or at least in the post-Charles Animus world; before that in the 1st Cycle it was commonly used.
I would also like to bring up some dispute in either story, and believe that the legendary beings named were over-evolved animals which had attained spiritual power during an era when the world was tethered with it, though such a view has only increased since the Era of Tempest.
From this point on, known as the origin history is further split into 3 Cycle, the 1st, the 2nd and the 3rd Cycle. Starting from the 1st, what I can say is that our knowledge of it is nearly nonexistent.
Most texts from said era have been completely destroyed. Those that remain are buried underneath the sea, in the Dragon Continent, or tucked away in some bookshelf in the middle of nowhere. Still, that hasn't stopped people from finding ways around this.
Some information came from the remnants of the other races like Nephilim and Seer, along with Seraphs, who still passed down the information during the post-Charles era. Some information comes from people who have dared to enter the Dragon Continent and have made it back. Some information has been brought to us by Legacies which have incarnated from such eras. And some has been turned in to Cordum for money by people who've cleared out their bookshelves altogether; it has given us a rather incomplete but general view of what the timeline of events during the 1st Cycle is, which I will detail going forward."
Name: Orb Rian
Age: 16
Birthday: Capricorn 28th
Hair: Thick, snow-like hair that forms a dense, messy mass that flows backwards in a natural, avalanche-like direction, with heavy bangs in front and two long, thick strands framing his face down to his chin. His hair is also made up of two primary colours.
Primary: White (standard), Red (anger), Green (excitement), Yellow (fear), Brown (nervousness), Grey (confusion), Cream (hunger) Lime (lying), Orange (discomfort), Black (worry), Pink (happiness), Purple (?), Gold (arrogance), Blue (embarrassed), Coral (Disgust), Maroon (jealousy), Silver (Thinking), Rosewood (Annoyed), Teal (Shocked), Verdigris (Despair), Cyan (Resolve)
Secondary: Silver.
Eyes: Blue (left) and Gold (Right)
Height: 168 cm
Description: A young boy who was raised on the frozen continent all alone until someone reached him one day. Since he has left, he has gathered many allies and formed the country of Niflheim. Together with each of them, he hopes to create a place in which anyone who lives in it can be happy.
Legacy: Sétanta.
Regalia-Fimbulwinter: His Legacy allows him to manifest and control ice and snow as well as switch between the two states.