The Sun begat Elham Terrafax, the Moon begat Anna Blackheart. They in turn begat three children. Their Eldest was Darren DarkBrother, though that title is yet to be given; and the twins, Ithican FlightBrother and Trixia SeaBlood. With the first and most powerful "Outsider" member of the godhood, Taimion FlamesKeep, they created The Known Universe. Elhams power is for Day; Anna's is for Night; Ithican is Air; Trixia is Water, Darren is Earth; and finally Taimion took Fire.
Once this chore was over, the gods set to creating the heavens. Ithican married the beautiful mortal princess Amdia and they birthed the first of the first generation of gods--Denard TallMoon. Darren married the next "outsider " God, Maestre HearthenStone, and they birthed Lyra, Goddess of the Dawn. After the marriage of Anna and Taimion, they quickly beget Tralix, Right Hand to the Coyotes and just as quickly nullified the marriage because of her involvement with Darren in creating the last god in this generation: The Enormous Midren IronFist.
To the horror of all, Trixia started the second generation by disgustingly and unnaturally creating Tallington Adna'na Tar through what she claimed was a magical "accident. " Next, Lyra and Ithican were lawfully wed, after Amdia's natural death, of course, and Lyra birthed Tallah Fire Hair, much to the chagrin of her parents. The last God of this generation was the mortal named Dumsin Tandlemaker, who was cursed by Anna after a deed best not mentioned, who won the mantle of Godhood through suffering and perseverance.
The next and last generation of higher gods started with an unholy discovery. After the failure of Dumsin, Anna began exploring other realms (of existence or non) and unlocked the knowledge of Blaastis, who has since protruded His existence on all other religions and all other races. Unknown to His father, Taimion, Tarros ThroatCutter was birthed as a mortal but soon proved to be far more, going as far as confronting his father, laying the seeds of dissension between those two that are legendary. The last God to be born into the higher heavens is Andin StarWalker, whose mother is Trixia but whose father is still a mystery.
Since that time there has been the creation of many other demigods, too numerous to mention, but this is the history and origins of the Family of the Gods as seen by my mortal hand.
- --Zangares Forthe
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