[IC] Let There Be Light (God RP)

[Duthguy]

Ybris was surprised at what his siblings had done with his first creations, though it did make his job easier as he no longer needed to create life from scratch. Though it seemed that due to some force unknown to him he suddenly felt it was necessary to limit how long each life would last. So while it saddened it him to do he placed a maximum lifespan on anything mortal, not with a snap of his fingers but by bowing his head as he grieved.

While still saddened he suddenly sensed something he considered a true travesty, a life had ended not because of anything he or one of the other Gods did but because another living creature. He instantly appeared at the site of the first murder and saw the culprit, some kind of corrupted animal. While he felt the urge to remove the life from the beast, he couldn't bring himself to do it. Instead he decided to talk to Finnos, ready to punish him somehow if he was indeed behind the creation of this monster.Taking on a physical form he grabbed the bird and teleported to his younger brother to demand answers.

[The Grey Dust]

The Ald-Father made a child by the child he made.
Unraveling the cryptic statement beyond him.
Now blest was life, with thought and knowledge, but they were not yet complete.
All things in creation had thus knelt to divinity without objection.
Even now, the Ald-Father demanded thus.

All was under control. Exactly that which was what Synn had meant. He was patient and watched the others make their wanton toys. It was all under control, and thus did not amuse him. Was good was creation in total control of another. They had made a machine, a world which obeyed, taking input from his siblings and forming output the gods desired. They had made a perfect slave to serve them: toys indeed to children. Unravelling himself through the cosmos he untangled his metaphysical form across reality, and since the creation of time, it could be said it was time for Synn to bestow his gift upon creation.

He appeared to them, these strange fascinating creatures, upright of posture and smooth of flesh, lacking in ability of flight or speed or ways to breathe the waters. A curious creation indeed: animated by Ybris, made in the image of Finnos, and given knowledge by Cyrilla. And before the others could impart their remaining gifts, as Slatera had already began the spread of Corruption, and surely Draumur shall grant them Slumber, Dreams and perhaps even Hope, Synn would impart his blessings to them, yet he bore not one gift, but rather two.

Synn reached across the realm, grasping at the strings, his fingers skillfully manipulating the fabric as it unwound and rewound in his work. For this they may damn him, and for this they may revere him. He would come as both liberator and tyrant, yet fulfill the Ald-Father's demand for him to partake in creation.

"These two creatures set before Synn at the beginning of time and dawn of creation, thrice-blessed by Ybris, Finnos and Cyrilla, before any others, may Synn entered their world with blessings twice-fold.

The first blessing Synn shall bestow upon these creatures shall be of Control, and Synn grants the creatures and its kin, progeny and descendants dominion over all creation such that they shall rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, over every living creation that moves on the ground or beneath it; and it shall be done so that these creatures may know divinity and become like us as to impart their will into their own world.

The second blessing Synn shall bestow upon these creatures shall be of Freedom, and Synn grants the creatures and its kin, progeny and descendants free will to defy and deny their creators such that no divinity may control them as they would rule all others in creation without impunity nor ramifications thereof; and it shall be done so that these creatures may know freedom and become unlike us as to impart their will into their own world.

Now it shall be as so, by the will of Synn, God of Control."

He had finished the weave, and reality would be compelled obey him. It would distort and warp, before settling in as new cloth was made as a grand ripple through what was, is and will be as the mandate gave dominion and free will to these strange creatures who lacked anything but the blessings of the gods to separate them from the rest of creation. They were truly humans now, not homunculi nor machines, they had their own slice of divinity, their own control over their realm.

And this act shall be known to all as how Synn entered the world.

[DancingEagle]

Balsis's expression turned from intrigued to enraged. "Defy their creators? You're letting all that is roaming upon the Earth your approval to rebel against us creators? You are not hurting the innocent or destroying creation, at least not yet, so I will not prosecute you, but if I find one hint of harm or terror against our creation, you will be, I can guarantee you that."

"I need to check on the Earth. I've made my point here." Balsis teleported to the Earth, looking with a smile at his children's creation. But at one of the deserts, Balsis sees, at the corner of his eye, a creature that resembles him, walking aimlessly in the desert. "He must be the manifestation of the Gods, a creature smarter than all, capable of great things!" Balsis thought. "I shall reveal to him and tell him of his goal and call it 'Man' for it is a manifestation of us Gods."

And the Man heard a voice from above. "Human!", the voice shouted from above. The Man turned looked up, his skin whitened. "Fear not, my child, for I am Balsis, the Father of those who created you, for you are the smartest and most skilled of the animals. Your world is as yours as ours, and you shall worship us and build large communities and live in peace and harmony." The Man smiled and dropped on his knees. Balsis raised his voice: "But remember that if you rebel in us then your fate will be bitter!".

And the Man nodded, and Balsis materialized in front of him, and Balsis waved his hand up and down, and miraculously, a small body of sweet water appeared right in front of the two. "Here, my child drink, for this body shall be called 'Human' for the first human who had drunk from it."
Then Balsis disappeared while the Man was drinking...

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

Empyron looked on the world below, and opened a mysterious portal into the whole world, across the entire world. He looked around the world, and noticed a lack of the supernatural, in a way. Sure, the gods were creating with their mysterious powers. The Humans, mean while, were stuck with their sticks, their skins, furs and leathers, as well as slings at the most. Not even the wheel nor the bow had been made. They hunted to survive and foraged in the wilds. For now, their existence was meager and almost useless. Empyron looked across the world. He came to the world and granted the first generation of Men, up to the first thousand, immortality.

"Mankind, your first existence shall be never ending. You cannot die of disease or deterioration of the body. Even poison and magical plagues will have great difficulty harming you. However, you can still die from violence or incidences of negative kinds. Be careful, take care of your bodies and you will not die, even after thousands of years. Your children, grand children and great grandchildren will die. The first generation shall live for one thousand years, and each generation will live one hundred fewer years until they reach the age of one hundred. Finally, the world will begin to die, signalling the coming of the Twilight of the World. and Mankind will live fewer than one hundred years, and by reason may perhaps live longer than that for the oldest of them."

"But the entirety of Mankind shall receive the gifts of mystical expression of powers from the gods and the Heavens."

[Katakon]

Spatium watched in amusement as she watches the old god and Synn argue. "Interesting~" She purred as she heard of Synn's gift. After Balsis threatened Synn and leaved Spatium teleported in front of Synn. She smiles. "You gifted Free Will and Control?" She questioned her brother. "That is interesting to see how that shall pan out." He smiles in her usual catty smile. "I was worried they would be our slaves, which would have been boring but you and Cyrilla made them interesting, smart and can think for themselves~" She giggled in excitement. She flashed a bright green and she was gone from the tower.

She appeared on her favorite place she has created, Luna. From here she watch thought-out the entire universe and she can see her siblings actions and the universe reaction from the moon.
She heard of Empyron ‘gift’ to the humans, she smirked. Shorter and shorter lives with each child but can use the gifts of the gods in exchange, it was quite a two faced gift. But she should bestow a gift of her own. She smiled a sincere for once. She had an idea for a gift for the humans. Spatium has teleported off the moon. She knew who to give her gifts too.

A woman was walking though the sands of a beach. She looked lost and confused. And to her shock a green flash appeared in front of her. The woman looked at the white, eyeless cat in confusion and fear.

Spatium found the human to give her gift. “Do not be scared, human.” Spatium spoke to the human though her Cat-form mouth, she sounded sincere. The woman relaxed. “I am daughter of Blasis, Spatium Goddess of Space.” The cat-like god introduced herself. The woman looked surprised and she bowed knowing the name of Blasis. Spatium smiled cattily. “I am here to give woman a gift and either man or women a reward if you please me, or impress me, or anything that gets a personal interest from me.”
“First shall be my gift.” She said with a smile aimed at the woman. “My gift is for all woman, either you and all that shall be born from you, is that when you find something that fallen from the stars I shall grant the finder of the fallen item, one wish, one of my powers, albeit weaker, but you would be stronger than any normal human. “Spatium said in a booming voice. She had a mischievous smirk. She can’t wait for a woman to find and do that.
“And for my reward for any human, is immortality, if you or any human impress me, or please me and gets my personal notice, I shall make you and your legacy immortal. If you get the reward I shall turn you into a constellation and you shall be remembered forever.” Spatium grinned. “Let’s hope you and or your children won’t make me wait too long.” She purred and suddenly sparked and vanishes after a green flash. The woman looked at where the Goddess was and she looked up to the skies.

[DancingEagle]

GM Post

The man and woman are completely overwhelmed by the amount of spirituality appearing in front of their eyes. They bow down and give their gratitude for each God that appears in front of them - not forgetting Synn's questionable gift of "Freedom", however - and then continue in their journey to find food, always coming back to Human, Balsis's new lake, to drink. One might say it has become their shelter - although they have no roof to protect them. They are growing tired of scavenging for food, but the promise of immortality comforts them.

They are both terrified every time Slatera's "impure" bird dances above them - it looks terrifying. Then again, they've yet to learn how to hunt the "birds" flying around the Earth, let alone cook or generate fire.

It is now around noon.

[22xander]

Artis smiles, watching the other gods bestow gifts on these 'humans'. "Well," said a young lad next to him, a manifested bit of his thought. "I suppose we had better give them something."

"I don't know," said an older fellow, also a part of his thoughts. "These humans, they seem a bit to... Orderly for our tastes."

"Purrfect," cam a voice from a figure simular to his sister. "I propose we give them our blessing, but I think we aught to wait until they procreate."

"Yeah!" Came all the voices at once. "Let us wait to bestow our gifts, we don't wish to be orderly and give it to them now."

[Kafka Komedy]

Amos had a blank looked plastered across his face as his brothers and sisters had given to Man their gifts. He found it only fitting to give the small creatures a gift, for they would most likely not survive without it. He descended to earth, and appeared before the man and the woman as they are drinking from Human.

"I am Amos, God of Sands. I have created the ground you walk on." Amos said, his small figure betraying his booming voice that seemed to surround the area they inhabited. "I am proud of this fact, and I am proud of you, so I bestow upon thee a gift." Amos spoke. He turned away from the petty mortals, and began building up the sand, solidifying it and turning it into sandstone. With a few masterful strokes of the hand, he had built up a small shelter for the humans, as well as two slabs to rest their objects or themselves on under it. "This is shelter. It will protect you from Slatera's flying beast, and will allow you a place to rest. For it is the first of its kind it needs a name, and it shall be called Home."

And with that, Amos returned to his place with his other gods, content with the gift he had given Man. Hopefully, with the wisdom Cyrilla had given them, they would understand how to replicate this structure, and improve upon it, though he did doubt the humans could.

[Spades]

Finnos was still increasingly busy at work as all of his siblings and Father were bestowing their gifts, some that would aid, some not. Finnos was on the earth now, crouched by a small river. His tanned feet dangled in the riverbed, as he was sitting on an overhanging branch. This new feeling of water between his wriggling toes was extremely satisfying.
His hands, though, were sculpting with astonishing speed. The micro organims he again picked and prodded at, and with the help of mutation that his chaotic brother had given, he was able to shape humans in multiple ways. Like his animals, he wanted their race to be diverse and beautiful. He had already created several species of Man, some darker skinned, some olive skinned, a few tall and a few short, with different facial and body stuctures, and their bodies lay beside him in a trance-like state, not yet having been given Life or Wisdom.

Content with his creation of more Man, Finnos leaned forward and scooped some mud from the riverbed. He tossed it in mid-air, and as it fell towards the water it began to take a humanoid-form. After landing in the water, it emerged. It's skin was chocolate in color, and it held the form of a Woman, except with animalistic mannerisms. It looked confusedly at him with wide amber eyes. Water slipped off Its figure, and the river continued to calmly flow just as before. It could easily be said It surpassed the beauty of the Humans he had created.
"Hello there!" Finnos waved at his frightened newborn creation. It's eyes roved around, trying to determine where it was. Finnos explained succinctly. "I took a piece of my essence and bestowed it upon you, so that you may assist me in my fine Task. You are not a god, but not Human, and neither Animal. " He paused, and It nodded for him to continue.
"You have the abilities of animal creation, and you will go forth as my emmisary and spread my gift of Instinct to all my Animals. After you have completed that, you will start your own Work making my Insects. Begone."
"What is my name?" It asked, eyes narrowing. "What will my people be called if You see fit to have us also fill this place I walk upon?"
"It is up to Ybris my brother and Balsis my father if after you are done to continue living. If so, I will create for you a mate. For now, oh singular child bourne from a part of my very being, you will be called the Faenos."
With a bow of its head, Finnos dismissed It and It teleported away to start the job commanded.

Looking to the side at his inanimate Humans, Finnos thought of his Brother Ybris, and how he would ask for Life once more for these new creations. In that instant he appeared.
"Brother..!" He started, but trailed off when he saw the despisable thing in his hand. His face contorted from cherubic to infuriated, utterly confused and unhappy.
"Did you Twist this Life I had made with your aid, brother? Why would you?" Finnos felt betrayed. He had never intended for any of his creations to end up this way. He saw the blood on it's beak, and sensed far away that one of the other 'birds' he had made was gone from this world. Finnos let out a feral growl. "This abomination cannot be allowed to live." His white teeth clenched, and he held his hand out. "Give it to me."

-

The first Faenos wandered, and wherever It went, it blessed animals, bird, and fish with Finnos's gift of Instinct. They were no longer worthlessly dumb, but not gifted with Wisdom like the humans were. They would still be lesser to them. Still, It fondly looked at all the beasts that It encountered.

The first Faenos then, as It traveled, weaved from plant, water and micro-organism, the Insects It had been told to create.They flew, crawled, and scuttled about by the thousands when It was done.
Brought with pity for these dimmunitive things, the first Faenos gifted them secretly a small bit of Instinct. It watched in admiration as they busied themselves, some by pollenating flora and fauna so that they too, could fill the earth and make it beautiful.

[The Grey Dust]

It is as Synn had envisioned it.
These humans, now filled with potency, would be the greatest creation of the gods.
With Freedom, they would have their own thoughts, their own actions and their own life.
With Control, they would have their own realm to forge and manipulate as they saw fit.
The Ald-Father made them kneel before him, but he could see humans would one day be as gods.
They would one day create worlds from creation, and become like their creators.
Then they, the gods, shall gaze upon their works and tremble.

The comings and goings of the gods busily creating their realm to befit their creation. While knowledge was the first gift to these new humans, following such knowledge was Synn's endowment. The first steps into society, taken slowly but surely, until they will create kingdoms of men and assemble themselves into ordered systems. The things set in motion had already began, as the reality made itself subject to the mandate, and they would need to forge no more for food. But all was in good time, for the advent of farming shall arrive within the change of the generations and seasons, and thus keep Synn's edict that Man shall be given reign over the greener living things. For farming was control over their food sources, where these creatures can survive outside of the fickle whims of creation. They will learn to manipulate the seeds of plants, and tend them to bear flowers and grow fruit. Even now as Finnos created his avatar, to give the other creatures Instinct, it had made insects which would make it possible. Indeed Synn had wielded Finnos' power as if his own, as even now he stood before another creature, one covered in fur and walked upon four legs as it found him as he strode past the realm and watched Faenos work.

The creature stared at the god, and the god stared back. It had eyes faced forward, like the face of Man, yet it was far more equipped to survive by the natural endowments Finnos had gave it. It had fur covered powerful flesh bound upon bone and body, superior olfactory and auditory sense, and upon four legs it could run. It was without fear or hesitation, did not flee or cower before divinity, nor kneel and bow before him when the others did. This creature would dare to remain standing before the God of Subjugation?

"For not prostrating itself in in the presence of Synn, Synn shall reward this creature. For no longer shall it be as others of its kin and brood, as this creature as dared to face a god. From this day forth, this creature shall be given the name 'Alpha' and shall be granted the right to control and preside over its kin and brood who shall follow it. And should it remain as it was in beginning of creation, able to repeat its actions and face a god, it will continue to have such right and may it spring forth progeny of equal tenacity such that they will also be given the title of its forefather.

For not prostrating itself in in the presence of Synn, Synn shall punish this creature. For its descendants will be the first to be enslaved by Humans, as Synn has bequeath all other creatures to Humans at the dawn of creation and beginning of time. From this day forth, the descendants of this creature shall be under the rule of Humans, and those which are under the dominion of Humans shall be given the name 'Dog' as a reminder of their ancestor who had faced a god. And they shall serve Humans as faithful subjects, subservient to their masters, and become their eternal companion.

Such shall it be, by will of Synn, God of Control."

Now from the first canids, Synn had made wolves as a reflection of the society he had envisioned for humans, and from these wolves he would had made dogs to serve them. With this, he had made the second contribution to shaping creation as dominance and dominion began to slowly emerge.