"The Song of the Four" – Founding Myth of Gasaron
Collected from fragments of the Scroll of the Cloud, hidden in the deepest libraries of Nivalis
I. Birth: When There Was Still Nothing
Before the world existed, there was neither light nor shadow, neither motion nor stillness. There was only mana. Silent, boundless, it enveloped the Core of Existence, a sphere pulsing like the embryo of divinity.
At a moment none remember, this sphere exploded with power so immense that it tore through timelessness. From it were born the four prime elements: fire, water, earth, and air. And with them, drawn from chaos as self-aware sparks, the Gods emerged.
II. Jande: The First Who Knew Himself
Jande was the first among them. Condensed from the purest mana, he resisted the natural impulse to expand, preserving himself as one. As the world spun in the first embrace of chaos, Jande watched, not from above, but with care.
Born of silence and light, Jande was the god of harmony, beginnings, and hope. When the other Gods arose, Jande welcomed them not as rivals but as brothers and sisters.
III. Nu'rem: The One Who Felt Too Deeply
Nu’rem came shortly after Jande. He was a spark from the deepest depths, from imprisoned longing, from the melancholy that arises when something beautiful ends. He was the God of emotion, memory, and sacrifice.
Nu'rem was the first to fall in love with humanity. He gave them more of himself than any other, his own mana, his own memories. But when people stopped listening, stopped praying and loving, his heart shattered.
He turned love into fury, trying to reclaim what he had given. It was he who caused the Great Quake, destroying half the world in an act of divine sorrow.
When he realized what he had done, he wept himself into oblivion. His death birthed the Seed of Fate, and his soul, now imprisoned, still dreams beneath the surface of the world.
IV. Tal: Who Wanted to Understand
Tal was the god of earth, change, and time. Always quiet, always the last to speak. He was patient but carried within him a hunger for understanding.
When Nu’rem died, Tal left the divine sphere and descended into the world in human form. He wandered among mortals as the Old Man of Argaes, teaching and listening, gathering their joys, fears, thoughts, and dreams.
But over time, people, not recognizing him, built a cult around him, trying to keep him, make him an eternal prophet. Tal, unwilling to harm those he loved, divided himself into eight fragments and hid them in stones.
These stones, the Echo Stones, still exist. They are named after virtues: Patience, Change, Humility, Hunger, Time, Understanding, Transformation, and Silence. Whoever finds them all and speaks the name T-A-L may bring him back to the world.
V. Di’tal: The Void That Listens
Di’tal emerged last, from the very void between the other Gods. He was not light like Jande, nor feeling like Nu’rem, nor matter like Tal. He was the space between. The shadow between breaths. The silence between sounds.
As the others acted, Di’tal observed. As the world was shaped, he listened. He heard not only what was, but what could be. Spirits unborn, ideas that never took form, souls discarded by fate.
Di’tal built the Crypt of Thought beneath the Tonori desert and created the In-Between Web, an invisible path of dreams, premonitions, and forgotten memories. Over time, he became the God of Dreams, Destiny, and Illusion.
Those who pray to Di’tal do not seek answers but questions that will transform their hearts.
VI. The Scattering of the Gods
After Nu'rem's death, Tal's fragmentation, and Di’tal’s seclusion, Jande fell silent. He gathered the remnants of divine mana and wove from them the Seventh Hue, the element of ultimate balance. Then he descended into the heart of Dimonda Bay, where he rests as light beneath the waves, the Source of Unity.
Since then, the Gods have not acted directly. But their echoes are everywhere
In relics hidden in crypts
In the power of magic wielded by mortals
In the dreams of prophets and the specters seen under full moons
VII. The Age of Sundering
Humanity grows. The lands shift. In Argaes, schools of magic clash. In Kaizei, a new faith rises, the Children of Di’tal. In the deserts of Tonori, the Order of Nu'rem thrives, believing the god will return to restore true feeling to the world.
Some claim Tal nears awakening. The stones begin to resonate. Others whisper that Di’tal has created a new god, a Being Between, no longer God, no longer Man.
And beneath the waters of Dimonda Bay, the light pulses once more