The Cartesiarillion 3 & 4
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jackTHE FIRST WORLD
And again, Nara was glad, and danced with Materre and with Los, and spoke with hope and hapiness of the image she'd long cherished. And Materre and Los saw that even lacking substance and lacking light and lacking joy, it had been a wonderful vision, and they joined with it, and with Nara, and brought forth the world.
And the world was more magnificent than anything else the gods had yet produced, for it contained all of their attributes multifold, and aspects of many they had not yet even considered themselves as possessing.
And Nara contributed her vision, which was the thing of her that contained almost none of her darkness, and so the world was almost all a thing of brightness and motion. For Nara, surrounded solely by darkness, had begun to hate it, and poured into her vision all else she had. And yet, darkness was as vital to the gods as substance or light or joy, it had merely been the first thing which they had had in abundance, and so scorned.
And so, as with all other aspects, the smallest spark of darkness flowed into the world from Nara, which influenced all things.
When they created the world, the gods marvelled, because it contained substance and darkness and light and joy, and yet also thousands of other aspects they had barely realised existed within themselves. And also, it was constantly evolving: all the things in the world, even the smallest, grew and changed and came together to make more things in the fashion that so far only the gods themselves had done.
But there was a problem, because Nara had created the world in the emptiness, and it took up a large part of it, and much of that part had been inhabited by demons, who now found themselves in the world.
And the demons also marvelled, because the world contained all of the things they yearned for, and for a while the demons took on the forms of things in the world and partook of it, and experienced a little time of hapiness. But as before, they came to resent the world for containing the joy they failed to bring out of themslves, and as they walked in the world, their caresses became violent, lashing out at the form of things that seemed to be taunting them.
When they first found themselves in the world, they took on the forms of many beautiful things that existed, or they saw in the shape of the world would exist in future. And for a little while, you could not have told them apart from the demigods, who came later, and likewise took on beautiful worldly forms.
But as they became angry and lost again, their forms reflected their continued turmoil. Some became beautiful but terrible, others became grotesque parodies, and some reverted to a formless shapelessness like unto their forms before they came into the world.
THE FIRST DEMON AND THE THIRD DEMON
The eldest demon, the first created, was one of those in the world, although she was soon to leave, and thus no name to call her by has come down to us, since the first names were given by the demigods to things in the world, and Nara alone was named by them in her absence, from the descriptions of Materre and Los.
The eldest demon had had longer than any of the others to grow jealous of the gods' new creations, and yet also, longer than any of the others to study the way the gods created. Before there was the world, the eldest demon had not been able to create anything new, since there was only herself and the emptiness, and she herself was generated almost entirely from the emptiness, and by coming together with it she could only create more emptiness.
But in the world were many other things that themselves grew and produced new things, and the eldest demon had long pondered whether she could duplicate the creation of Nara and the other gods. And so she came to the part of the world where she was, and reached for it in a bold attempt to fashion it into life as she herself had been, long ago.
And lo, because for all her anger and despair, she was still foremost the daughter of Nara, she tirelessly wrought what she desired, and a new being came into the world, the first of the third generation. And because the demon had not chosen the part of the world she wrought with, but wrought with whichever she happened to be near, and because the demon was most familiar with Nara's earliest creations, those which had formed demons like herself, the new creature was in almost all ways like unto the other demons.
At first, the only major aspect the new being shared with the world was its existence, and since people have always called her one of the demons. However, the seeds of other-than-darkness were still founded deep in her and before long she would be the first being to throw over her allegience to her creator, and then declare her love for the gods and the demons equally. She was later called Harax, third of the eldest demons known in the world.
But after her creation, flushed with success, the eldest demon saw only that she had succeeded, and immediately began to experiment with creating more beings, and seeing her creations, the other demons quickly began to follow her example.
Some of these were created from the emptiest places in the world, and mostly resembled the existing demons, reduced in stature a little or a lot. Others were created from vibrant life-full parts of the world, and though always marked with their heritage, could be exuberant and mercurial and playful and mischeivous.
Thus were created the tribes of djinn and affrits, and of imps and sprits and spirits, and also thus was swelled the ranks of the lesser demons. And many of them cleaved to their creators as servants and followers, yet many others few out into the world and populated it, and many of those represent beings still in the world today.
And again, Nara was glad, and danced with Materre and with Los, and spoke with hope and hapiness of the image she'd long cherished. And Materre and Los saw that even lacking substance and lacking light and lacking joy, it had been a wonderful vision, and they joined with it, and with Nara, and brought forth the world.
And the world was more magnificent than anything else the gods had yet produced, for it contained all of their attributes multifold, and aspects of many they had not yet even considered themselves as possessing.
And Nara contributed her vision, which was the thing of her that contained almost none of her darkness, and so the world was almost all a thing of brightness and motion. For Nara, surrounded solely by darkness, had begun to hate it, and poured into her vision all else she had. And yet, darkness was as vital to the gods as substance or light or joy, it had merely been the first thing which they had had in abundance, and so scorned.
And so, as with all other aspects, the smallest spark of darkness flowed into the world from Nara, which influenced all things.
When they created the world, the gods marvelled, because it contained substance and darkness and light and joy, and yet also thousands of other aspects they had barely realised existed within themselves. And also, it was constantly evolving: all the things in the world, even the smallest, grew and changed and came together to make more things in the fashion that so far only the gods themselves had done.
But there was a problem, because Nara had created the world in the emptiness, and it took up a large part of it, and much of that part had been inhabited by demons, who now found themselves in the world.
And the demons also marvelled, because the world contained all of the things they yearned for, and for a while the demons took on the forms of things in the world and partook of it, and experienced a little time of hapiness. But as before, they came to resent the world for containing the joy they failed to bring out of themslves, and as they walked in the world, their caresses became violent, lashing out at the form of things that seemed to be taunting them.
When they first found themselves in the world, they took on the forms of many beautiful things that existed, or they saw in the shape of the world would exist in future. And for a little while, you could not have told them apart from the demigods, who came later, and likewise took on beautiful worldly forms.
But as they became angry and lost again, their forms reflected their continued turmoil. Some became beautiful but terrible, others became grotesque parodies, and some reverted to a formless shapelessness like unto their forms before they came into the world.
THE FIRST DEMON AND THE THIRD DEMON
The eldest demon, the first created, was one of those in the world, although she was soon to leave, and thus no name to call her by has come down to us, since the first names were given by the demigods to things in the world, and Nara alone was named by them in her absence, from the descriptions of Materre and Los.
The eldest demon had had longer than any of the others to grow jealous of the gods' new creations, and yet also, longer than any of the others to study the way the gods created. Before there was the world, the eldest demon had not been able to create anything new, since there was only herself and the emptiness, and she herself was generated almost entirely from the emptiness, and by coming together with it she could only create more emptiness.
But in the world were many other things that themselves grew and produced new things, and the eldest demon had long pondered whether she could duplicate the creation of Nara and the other gods. And so she came to the part of the world where she was, and reached for it in a bold attempt to fashion it into life as she herself had been, long ago.
And lo, because for all her anger and despair, she was still foremost the daughter of Nara, she tirelessly wrought what she desired, and a new being came into the world, the first of the third generation. And because the demon had not chosen the part of the world she wrought with, but wrought with whichever she happened to be near, and because the demon was most familiar with Nara's earliest creations, those which had formed demons like herself, the new creature was in almost all ways like unto the other demons.
At first, the only major aspect the new being shared with the world was its existence, and since people have always called her one of the demons. However, the seeds of other-than-darkness were still founded deep in her and before long she would be the first being to throw over her allegience to her creator, and then declare her love for the gods and the demons equally. She was later called Harax, third of the eldest demons known in the world.
But after her creation, flushed with success, the eldest demon saw only that she had succeeded, and immediately began to experiment with creating more beings, and seeing her creations, the other demons quickly began to follow her example.
Some of these were created from the emptiest places in the world, and mostly resembled the existing demons, reduced in stature a little or a lot. Others were created from vibrant life-full parts of the world, and though always marked with their heritage, could be exuberant and mercurial and playful and mischeivous.
Thus were created the tribes of djinn and affrits, and of imps and sprits and spirits, and also thus was swelled the ranks of the lesser demons. And many of them cleaved to their creators as servants and followers, yet many others few out into the world and populated it, and many of those represent beings still in the world today.