The Days before Days

In the beginning, the Void existed without shape or form, and the All Father moved across the face of the Void, pondering the great emptiness.  He saw the great Dragon Inzae, and realized there was life apart from himself.  The All Father wondered at this and sought to master meaning in existence.  To this end, he set about creating all manner of things.

He fashioned creatures from his thoughts.  For behold the All Father knew the Language of Creation, and he understood that life begets life.  These creatures, slivers of the All Father, failed to embody what he imagined so he lay them aside.  In this  way, a great many beings came into existence, powerful manifestations of the All Father’s memories or imaginings.  Most of these creations were benign, but some few possessed great intelligence, and they knew the differences between good and evil.

The All Father then saw that the dragon Inzae hung in the emptiness, spinning upon herself, creating a maelstrom of chaos about her.   She split the fabric of the universe in her thrashings, opening rifts, portals and doors to other planes.  Unbeknownst to Inzae, the All Father settled  upon her chaos and shaped it in his mind’s eye.  And lo, the All Father made the world from the Maelstrom.  He named it in his voice and it became the crucible of his mind.  He pounded substance from the Maelstrom and made fire, earth, air and water.  He fashioned these elements into the world, binding them together.  So the flat plane of Erde came into being in the Void, and from its edges spilled the substance of his creation and it mingled with the Maelstrom.

The substance of creation fell upon Inzae and she marveled at it, for she knew nothing of the All Father’s presence in the Maelstrom. Surrounding herself with the heat of fire, the rush of wind, the cold hard earth, and the liquid blanket of water, she began to form and mold.  From these elements, and others whose nature passes all knowing, Inzae configured her own world, one which lay upon the underside of Erde, bound to it and a part of the whole.  With it she caused the mountains to grow, the seas to pool, the skies to dash, and the warmth of the day to radiate.

In those days there was free traffic between the worlds and the All Father and Dragon exchanged knowledge and gifts. Eventually however Inzae betrayed the All Father’s trust and she bound some of his creations to her and sealed their doom, imprisoned in the inner world. So the gates were shut and the two spoke never again. And it is the prophecy that runs that when the two meet again that all time when end and the world’s be unmade.

Only later were these worlds bound together. This by the dwarves who ever sought to tunnel and work the worlds of to their own designs….these tunnels came to be called by those traveled them the Rings of Brass.  These passages link the world of Aihrde to the Inner world of Inzae and beyond.  These are the romances, the tales of the worlds of the Rings of Brass….