[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/lk5kGso.png[/img][/center] [hr] Light, dwindling in the darkest corner as monsters and those who have sunk to the level of the same flee ever further from the dark to the last spots of light. Where above in the upper surface world lightning struck and brief flashes still gave illumination even as cold and dark set in so strongly. It was in the heart, the deep corners where heat radiated still from cooling and dying light from the cataclysmic energy of destruction that had befallen the old world. In that deep hidden pocket where living creatures had long abandoned with the chaos and quakes of the destructing world a coalescent came to be, a formation in that dying light around a single thought of a being not yet born. [i]No. Not yet done.[/i] Some unleashed thing with the apocalypse or disappearing divinity had sprung forth new hope and new creation. Light sprung forth anew with a new being born in its midst with words coming forth in the after effect of such a creation she spoke, [color=Gold]“Golly gosh it's darn cold here!”[/color] Perhaps not the most eloquent first words but firsts rarely are. She settled in form, clothing and body forming solid even as the radiance only grew stronger in that dark deep cavern, sealed by quake and rock. Black leathery wings and pale skin, glimmering hair of blue and gold. She gathered that light still radiant around her and formed a spear of light. Shining ever greater with power infused as she spoke to herself, [color=Gold]“I didn’t come into being just a few seconds ago to be trapped somewhere so boring.[/color] She lowered the spear pointing it at a sealed tunnel and her wings flared outstretched as she prepared to leap into flight, [color=Gold]“Even if I have to force my way out.”[/color] A blast of searing high energy boomed through the cavern as she took flight through the mix of plasma and gaseous rock, flying further out of the caves, blasting and melting her way through as needed. She maneuvered deftly, twirling her body this way or that, a half folded wing to change direction or a twist to pass through a small space. Still it took a while, a lot of melted and vaporized rock, paths carved and traveled, reversed and confused. While light returned it was trapped, still taking time to map and figure out how to move forward or get out. She never accepted that this was there was to see, she knew who she was as a name came to her mind, to put forth her identity. She was Ze’kelia, and she would not be denied her brilliant lighted world. Her speed and power scared trapped monsters and underworld beasts alike as she fought and flew and clawed her way forward, her way out. In truth although she tried a lot, the caves were too complicated and twisted with rock and quake changes, so it left only one option as it seemed the ground solidified. Boring a whole straight through solid rock was a hard task, but possible, especially if you had the brilliant energy of light to blast through. Ze’kelia finally flew out upon the side of the continental mass. Into open air and circled around, she pulled out some stone for an outcropping, or created a bit as it were, and rested. Laying back facing upward to sky she closed her eyes even as she had seen. [color=Gold]“This world stinks, but I guess here I am. So dark, so pointless, so… ...noisy?”[/color] She heard a strange sound, one she had not heard before, a rushing shushing, a crashing and breaking quiver through the air. It wasn’t an earthquake for one, it came from the air not her outcropping. She opened her eyes and sat up trying to locate the sound. She shot a light back from where she had come from, looked below the outcropping, off to the sides in the distance away from the small bit of cohesive land remaining. [color=Gold]“Huh, it sounds almost like its coming from above?”[/color] Ze’kelia located the source of the sound when she looked up, just in time to be hit with the full force of a new river coming over the edge of the land. So strong it knocked her back to the ground of her outcropping and then soon broke off the outcropping itself! Ze’kelia was not one for easy defeats, a blast of light to vaporize the water, and the rising up by flapping her wings and once more coming to a rest, this time on the side of the surface of the continental mass itself. She set down with the calmness one would have come to expect from her, this is to say, she kicked half a dozen rocks off the edge and screamed a bit before blasting some light to vaporize tha last bits of water on her before sitting down in frustration and exhaustion. [color=Gold]“It’s always the next thing! Well guess what you stupid world? I don’t agree, you’re cold and dark and I’m gonna make you better, no more darkness! No more pointless unending cold! No more stupid waterfalls out of nowhere!”[/color] With that out of the way, and the world at large properly chastised for its unladylike behavior, she laid back down and with a huff and closed her eyes once more. [color=Gold]“A big rock, no a disk, able to be as bright as I want it, and it could be warm and nice and this world could stop being so darn-”[/color] An approaching stomping caused her to bolt up and open her eyes, two large creatures, one approached fast on three legs, holding a rock. It was many times her size and she had to quickly open and flap her wings to get out of the way in a quick roll. [color=Gold]“Hey! Excuse you![/color] The creature just roared and beat its scaled and furred chest, gazing back with fifteen, it had clearly lost three, eyes. [color=Gold]“I’m so done with this,”[/color] she said raising her spear. [color=Gold]“Ha!”[/color] With that last exclamation and bolt of light seared skin and scale and burned fur, leaving lightly charred and burned flesh as what was that roaring creature fell backward as a remnant flesh. The other cautiously approached and dragged it a short distance before beginning to eat its former compatriot. Ze’kelia muttered, [color=Gold]“Ugh, this world just keeps getting better and better…”[/color] Ze’kelia had a thought as she sat down again, and she began carving. Or more precisely she began picking up rocks and melting them with light between her hands trying to get the shape she wanted, testing out ideas. Practicing. She was a quick study, you know, compared to the rocks, the dead creature, and his friend eating him. Several thousand attempts later she had got it! The perfect defender, servant, a being perfectly designed for destroying mean strangers and building the new world she wanted. A thrower of the sun, defender against threats big and small, smart and communicative too, with a good sense of art. They were to be mighty and big, large tusks to fight and stab and club, trunks with dexterous digits to manipulate and throw as good or better as her own hands could. Four large legs to support and carry its might, large ears to hear, and good but small eyes to see. They would drink water and eat all that this land could make. She had done countless tests. [color=Gold]“Grrr! Raauggh!”[/color] Ze’kelia made the noises as she smashed the Guardian figurine into a smaller one she had made of the creature that attacked earlier. Countless tests. And knew that this was truly the superior being, so as the two that had come upon her came into twos, so did she make two of her great Guardians! A new couple and bonded pair that would throw her enlightened power over the world so all could know light and warmth and such clearly good things! She also, thankfully, remembered to make the actual disk she meant to give them, it was a bit harshly bright so she adjusted it to be controllable by the thrower. One could choose how much of what kind of light, of a pattern or form. Although at its brightest it might be a bit hard to look at still… She was catching up her two Guardians, they clearly had a strong bond as they kept checking to look back at each other as she told her story, she knew they had such clear affection that wanted to check and make sure that the other was hearing the same tale! [color=Gold]“...and so that’s how I created you two! Now! What are your names, I thought of my own amazing name as I’m sure you could tell.”[/color] Ze’kelia paused to smile and give a flip to her hair as she stood speaking up to the two towering Guardians. [color=Gold]“Oh! I almost forgot, I’ll make bags that’ll have as much food and water as you need! But don’t be shy about getting any more, too many nasties about. What was I saying? Oh right! Your names!”[/color] Clearly this was of great import to them she could tell, they had to both look at eachother once more before one spoke, “I shall be Ur-Nikatel.” He spoke with a crisp voice, even as the other spoke soon after, adding a shrill of her trunk to the middle of her name. “And I shall be Ur-Alz(f)elia.” Now she had let them speak, Ze’kelia launched once more into communication, [color=Gold]“Great great great! So I’m gonna fly to that big mountain in the distance, kick whoever hit me with that river, and then give a signal that you two should start splitting up and throwing the Disk of Light between you two. It should be able to track between you two well enough if you give it a decent throw! Okay byeeee!”[/color] With that she took off in flight towards the mountain, a shooting light in the sky leaving the two giants alone together with their magic gifts and the ever so important disk… [hider=Summary]Ze’kelia is born! In a cave. Deep underground. Fear not, she makes a spear with light and starts blasting around, and can’t find her way out. Until she just goes in a straight line! And makes it out the side, resting on an outcropping she made. But what’s this? A sound onrushing! But she identifies it as the full force of water of a river going over the edge and about to hit her! One very drenched Goddess and a number of angrily thrown stones later she rests on the shore of the continent, bemoaning how it sucks and is dark and cold. She decides to do something about that, when she is attacked by a creature! She then basically just burns it with the light spear, not that hard when your a Goddess. A lot of thought, ‘testing’, and minor chaos later, she had created two Giant Guardians that… ...okay they’re basically big elephants with more intelligence and more and better digits on their trunks. She gives them a disk of light that could be a new sun for the world, some bags that magically give food and water, and tells them good luck I’m going to beat up who hit me with a river, I’ll send a signal from the mountain when you should split up and start the disk throwing![/hider] [hider=MA]Basically made two great big super Elephants to do cool stuff, immortal and all. Gave them magic bags for food and water. Also gave them the future sun/maybe moon in terms of light to throw across the sky when she gives the signal later. ABout it besides shooting off towards big central.[/hider]