WORDS OF THE GODS

FIRST THERE WERE ONLY THE SIX DOMAINS. Together these living spirits made Elthyra, the solar system, and in their endless struggles, everything that is took shape. Sun scorched Tide's waters beneath his gaze. Earth raised mountains from the sea, while Shadow cast ice across the poles. Storm and Heaven withdrew above, wrapping all in air and aether. The Domains fashioned gardens without visitors, palaces without rulers, and kingdoms without subjects.

To rule this empty world, they made the first of the immortal gods.

Language awoke, and with him came speech and writing. Love gave birth to passion and desire. From Deception came the power to lie, and from Music came all song. Ten gods emerged from the Domains, each incarnating the next link in what it meant to be a living thing. They took one another as husbands and wives, giving birth to more of their kind, and together they fashioned the mortal life that the Domains had always craved.

To think and breathe in Elthyra is to be divine. It is to be woven from the matter of the spirits and imbued with the power of the immortals. The gods left themselves in all they made, and they are alive inside you: they are your thoughts and feelings. What will you do with them?