And AO revealed then the Great Void, opening the eyes of his Children, the new Gods!

 "Go forth and work your will upon this void with your power and your ACTs!"

Cungto looks around the boundless and empty void the only thing that existed beside him and his brothers and Sisters. He knew many things needed to be made, but he didn't know anyone else who would bother creating the very basics so he thought upon himself and his domains. And saw one that would work for the basis of the World, Kings, and Queens, Pawns, and Bishops Chess. The Chessboard was large and grand in its majesty. The Pieces were elegant and refined in their creation, an excellent place to start Cungto believed.


Cungto creates The Great Chessboard.

And so it was then that Cungto, First to ACT in the Great Void, imbues it with the Great Chessboard. This new creation was hard and flat with world-sized squares laid into a grid of Black and White. Monumental ivory-like pieces loomed on one side glowing in pristine white and gigantic ebony-like pieces rose like shadowy mountain ranges on the opposing side. Found at each corner were huge castles of black and white material respectively, the likes of which had never been realized before in this or any other void...for now all was quiet and motionless but this stage was set.
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Displeased with the Void's emptiness as well, Perenna turned into a spider the size of a Rottweiler and ushered forth a thread of silk. Many different things could happen based on the choices that are made. To represent this, Perenna then threaded the silk into a large and complex diagram, where a single thing led to many others. This, she felt, would be an accurate representation of the concept she chose to give birth to.

Perenna begets time.

Perenna then marshals her own powers and casts a webby force across the cosmos. At its most basic level, it allowed for a thing to change over time, allowing for cause and effect to take root among things...

 For now, the immobile Void simply existed with the Great Chessboard taking up much of the limited view as few other forces existed yet to cause things to happen...Though now the setting is complete for other new acts...
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Plutocrus looked upon the Grand Chessboard. His one eye swat across the board. It was a fine piece of creation, but life... At least as he envisioned it, would need something more primal and practical.  Coins of all natures and sort rained from his body, forming a massive lump in the void. Plutocrus formed himself some arms, took the coins and molded them into a rough sphere. Their nature was changed by his molding and with it became land.

Plutocrus spawns a planet of Elemental Earth.

Plutocrus shapes a world first of a collection of metallic circular platforms, but as his ACT continues, these begin to transform into a great world with a series of underground passages that zig-zagged throughout, due to the shape of their recent change from coin to elemental earth.

 What's more is that although this loose construct of the earthen matter brought a sort of stickiness with it, it would in time fall apart as nothing existed yet to hold such matters together and there was a tendency for such things to crumble with the passage of time, though such a force could have strange consequences on the Great Chessboard it would save this world from some long term crumbling catastrophe...
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Bjornrogn observed the acts of the others, his ursine face unreadable.  He thinks long on the others' creations, studying them.  And in his vast and complex thoughts, he develops a plan.  Sliding a single claw through the Void, he pulls forth a sparkling, infinitely colored energy that spreads throughout the Void, and all in it like a net, then faded from sight.

Bjornrogn creates Magic.

Bjornrogn delivered a mighty paw's worth of his divine essence. The power of Magic spread through the Void, though it was filled with the power of a god it did nothing as of yet, it simply existed with no interaction with the other things in the Void.
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Seeing the creation of Bjornrogn and the others, Thackus notes Bjornrogn's creation as the greatest of the others. Unlike Bjornrogn's creation, he bothers to bring order out of the nothingness through his spoken word. The ways of incantation.

Thackus creates The Old Ways/The Old Speech.

Thackus begins to work his will upon the Great Void as well, laying down the first words in creation, weaving a long-running yet one-sided conversation using all of the first words. Sparks of power lit the Void as such powers were named in the Old Speech, while symbols were etched into the void like the diagrams of the Web of Time. With it, access to the Magical power of Bjornrogn was set into the Void for a time. A new cause and a new effect have been subtly and skillfully lain down. Yet still, nothing moved in the Void afterward, save for the omnipresent whisper of Thackus, which echoed through the Void though there was no medium to transmit it.
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As others created the forces and measures that would shape the cosmos in the eons to come, Durehan pondered his own working. With an elemental world brought forth to shape in the future, those forces the others created would play a central part in the way of things to come.

Time. Time would separate the eons and give a shape to the tapestry of their creation. Magic, too, would be a force that could shape the world - or worlds - of their creation as that Time passed. A means further than those of their creations could influence that future themselves.

The Great Chessboard would make for an interesting diversion for them, though perhaps it could even be tied into the very game they were working on now. A game of creation. How soon would their own endeavors run afoul of another's plans? A true contest would result then. And with the Old Ways and Speech created by Thackus, a dialogue would be had going forward.


But what endeavor was meant to last forever? Time would continue onwards now, marching on inevitably into infinity. So too would their creations, unless... So the God of Nature acted. An unending cycle of progress could be limited. At times, one thing might need to end to further another. So he created.


Durehan creates the cycle of Death.


Going forward, while Life might be brought forth in the cosmos, it would be tempered and balanced by its own finite nature. Only the Gods would remain Immortal.

In his infinite wisdom, Durehan ACTs. His first was to craft a hypothetical law, which had no basis in reality thus far, but could in time, for with creation many things could be possible. However, it seemed that life weighed heavily on the minds of the assembled divinities, acting to limit potential future life, and thus enabling other life to flourish seemed advisable. The Cycle of Death was created.
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Jarrok looked at what the others had created, his face remaining inscrutable at the sight of creation springing up left and right. Turning to the single orb of elemental Earth, he lifted one of his fists and grabbed it. Clutching the sphere, he squeezed. Heat and a fiery glow from the immense pressure began to rise and still, he squeezed. Finally, he released his hold and set the orb back where he had plucked it. Where once it had merely been a uniform orb of earth, it was now streaked with veins of stone and rock traversing it. Where once it had been completely solid, now the added element of rock gave rise to gaps and hollows within. Satisfied with his work Jarrok once again slipped back into the immaterium and observed.

Jarrok creates rock and stone.

Jarrok unleashes his power on the newly formed earthen orb, crystallizing and solidifying certain aspects of its geology. With such heat and pressures there was sure to be a consequence, for soon the pressures began to build to a crescendo in which the earthen materials seemed to fuse together and set alight. Inside this world, a new molten core began to swirl about uncertainly forming simple currents within. In time a stable tectonic system might be enabled but for now it simply swirled, unable to move the rocky platelike crust that had begun to form on the nubile surface of the earthen world. In a few places, volcanic rifts opened to create new mountain ranges while other places were imbued with harder rock allowing for stable caverns and still in other places cracks opened that would swallow large chunks of earth. Still it was relatively loose and at any moment a bit might be liable to spin off into the Void.
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