Before time itself, before the night, before any star was born,there was only the abyss of silence and within that silence dwelled Syllos, the Sacred Essence, the vanished matter of primordial creation, not a mere fragment of heaven and earth, but the very heart of the cosmos entire.
Sixteen billion years ago, in the boundless void, Syllos surged and transformed not by chance, but by the decree of existence itself.
It did not burst forth in a single instant, as the wandering sages falsely claimed, but in a grand succession of radiant convulsions.
Every million years, another eruption, until more than fifteen hundred timesthe universe was shaped by its reverberations.
By seven billion years ago, Syllos had waned, diminished by three parts of four, leaving only its shadow in darkness and light.From its ebb were born the abyssal Black Holes, and the blazing gates of White Holes, while clouds of dust and gas drifted, like ashes scattered from an eternal fire.
Then, five billion years ago, Syllos was no more within the firmament.Yet in its vanishing, it did not perish it transfigured itself into a multitude of suns, igniting the heavens as bodies of radiance.
Two hundred million years hence at four billion and eight hundred million years past from flame and stardust a great galaxy was wrought. Among its multitude appeared the Solar System of Hals, and there was born a world a sphere I name Terror, a molten orb of stone and fire, clad in rivers of lava, bereft of water, bereft of all life.
Yet lo—though the ages beyond reckoning have passed,though Syllos has faded from the cosmos,its legacy endures, shaping all that is,awaiting the birth of that which is most exalted:Humanity.
For Humanity shall rise amidst stone and water,and proclaim itself not as the child of mere dust,but as the true heir of Syllos,the rightful legacy of the universe entire.
Thus I,Aelyzabeth von Thors,of noble blood and sacred lineage, do solemnly declare:Mankind is the culmination of all great eruptions, the living echo of Syllos undying, the sovereign of the Earth, and the crown of the cosmos.
Thus ends Chapter A-I.