expand_less To settle an argument we once had, no, I do not remember everything. 
I do not want to remember everything.
Do you remember everything? I didn't think so.
 
I haven't seen it all. But you're right in saying I've been around for a good while. 
Longer than you have or ever will be anyway.
 
Now you know I've spoken of gods before, and great magic, 
and I know your disbelief, but you'll just have to listen.
There are gods. I've met one, I think. 
On thisthis, I've always been somewhat unclear.
What is it when your first memories are not your own? 
When sometimes you see things that aren't in front of you?
Well, that is how it is between myself and Thysx, Thysx, a
a great goddess. She's never said this explicitly.
But I don't know what else it would be. I'm not in love with her.
She hasn't been around for thousands of years anyhow.
So, yeah, moving on.
 
Whenever that happened, it wasn't the start of it all,
but it wasn't late enough that I couldn't ask around, you know?
The desert remembered a lot. The rivers kind of don't shut up about it honestly. 
Which does make me doubt it sometimes. But we all somehow know her.
 
Anyways, here is a short account of the order of things back in the age of gods. 
It was mostly told to me by an old river.
 
 
 
 
Once Chaos became jealous of the Void's ultimately ultimately eternal
eternal existence and as always impatient with Order,Order, they
 they took matters into their own hands.
From the Void Chaos created Sace, a goddess of sex/creation/birth/death.
 ThoughThough she viewed Chaos as
a loving father, it was the Void she loved truly and most intensely. 
She spread her arms as far as she could around it, it, and
and this is what holds us close to the void still.
They were immediately in love, and from their love was born Kasys.
 KasysKasys was born upon the first light and first star, star, which
which made the Void admittedly less chaotic for a time.
Annoyed by this, Chaos pulled from the Void a sister for Sace, DauDau.
. She was a great wrestler made of fire, fire, and
and neither Kasys or any other thing could hold onto her without causing some dismay.
While Kasys brought the stars across the sky, Dau would bring them down.
 AndAnd when Kasys brought the light and energy energy to
to the world, Dau no sooner wrestled Kasys for it and in the the result
result spread storms and natural disaster and ultimately death. Now Chaos Chaos was
was pleased. And so the light in in the
the sky came to be challenged and represent a kind of necessary but temporary order.
And the moon, made from the sky's ashes moved along by Dau, came to be known as as something
something of a sigil for Chaos and the underworld.
 
As Kasys chained the celestial bodies together, once again Order began to restore itself. 
Chaos, Sace's father, father, and
and Dau - her sister, looked down upon Sace for not being able to control her offspring Kasys.
 AfraidAfraid of Chaos, Kaysys had begun to hide among the stars
in hope of preserving himself, and in doing so had taken a deep interest in in leading
leading godly and mortal business upon worlds, where stars and moons
can have great effect upon fields and seas and even life in nature.
Sace began to resent her sister and father, and this drove her further inward and into the void.
Part of her is forever bound bound with the void, but in that time even more of her was lost, and and for
for a time Chaos did not know
if Sace was speaking as the void itself, and it feared that in this time Sace could swallow 
swallow even Chaos up. [Player opportunity]
However, at the end of this timetime, Sace bore from her breasts a god named Thsyx instead. 
 
Thsyx learned quickly of Chaos' terrible influence upon her family,family and set out to resist resist against
against it. 
Thsyx called out to her brother and hatched a plan.
Thsyx goaded Dau into wrestling Ra.
Kasys always lost lost this fight.
But this time the goal was to neither win nor lose, but prolong Dau.
And so Kasys did. The god of Sky and the God of Fire tumble for eternity, and it was at this this time
time that Thysx fused them as the Goddess of the Fray.
From this came the first dragon who Thsyx was bound to, as she was now bound to her brother brother and
and her aunt, Dau.[Player opportunity] 
And so it was that the gods unified in this little way, protected by the first dragon, in in defiance
defiance of Chaos.
This was not the end of their disagreemants,disagreements, but it began an era of balance, nature, and the
 creation creation of life.
 
***
 
It was around this time I came into creation and was bound, like the first dragon, to Thsyx.
Or so I believe.
The river I got most of this story from is nearly dried up, 
and the silt beneath it does not remember a thing.
What I remember is something - I don't knowwknow - - something
something still diificultdifficult to focus on. And only after some time do I remember really knowing
I could articulate this way at all. And for a time she was with me or was a part of me.
And speaking was as if multitudes of life had decided to eject their words in every direction, direction, which
which is as confusing as it sounds. 
That was when this place was more green and the life hadn't spread yet.
And then less so or at least she said less.
 
So that's all I really know. 
That and what the desert tells me, which isn't much, but sometimes I can see it hiding hiding things
things behind the sand. We can be this way towards one another, us old things. 
You go from naive to intimately familiar, to a kind of vulnerability so blaring
you become paranoid of your oldest associates.
 WhatWhat they know. What they remember about yourself, that you yourself forgot ages ago.
 
I would like a nap. I'll speak to you soon again.
 
 - Kashaf
 
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Dear Mountain,
 
I find it odd that you don't remember this.
I am almost sure we have had this discussion before.
But okay, if you would like me totellto tell it again,
I don't mind.
 
   ---
 
Chaos was rather jealous back then.
The Void, which has never, in my memory, done
much to anyone especially, was as it has always been,
and Chaos found this initimidating.intimidating. Or maybe belittling belittling is
is the right word.
FurthermoreFurthermore, Chaos had quickly gotten to odds with Order,
as you can imagine.
And so Chaos decided to make some moves.
First they reached into the Void,Void and created from it
Sace, the goddess of love, which, back then at least,
love waswas, in factfact, quite a destabilizing thing. A kind of
element of change really.
 
Sace loved Chaos, her Father, but it was the Void Void she
she found
a deep sympathy for. It is hard to say even now what it is.
Not quite a friendship or a marriage. In some ways ways similar
similar to what we have.
This connection compelled her arms to to stretch
stretch around the Void entirely,entirely and
and forever hold it tight to her. 
And though you may doubt me, this is what holds us us still
stll close to the void.
It is just a fact, as undetectable as it is, is, that
that is there.
 
From the bond between Sace and the unknowable expanse
came another god. The first I would consider
relevant to you and I,me, Kasys, god of the first star.
He's the sun you know. He really is.
 
Kasys was the first light in not just this desert,dessert, but at all.
Little Kasys.
HonestlyHonestly, I have no clue his size. 
Gods are so hard to look at. OhOh, but you wouldn't know.
 
Anyways, with Kasys regained some place for Order, and this
Annoyed, Chaos went again to the Void and pulled from it
the great wrestler of fire, Dau, sister of Sace.
 
Now Dau was made of a fire so intense and everlasting,
that there was not much point in wrestlnig her and and expecting
expecting to win.
Gods will attempt imppossible things anyway, of course.
And they did have some fun in both the chaos and fun of 
testing Dau's limits, and further, when they hadn't the interest,
Dau was a natural instigator, and constantly picking fights.
For every fight between Dau and another, dismay would result.
It is she who brings the sun down from Kasys,
and in the process always spreads something against his light:
storms, disaster, death.
 
And so Chaos was rather pleased with this situation, as you can imagine, and if
Daus Dau was his daughter, Kasys very much became became more of Sace's son
the family divided.
 
It is in this time that chaos became maligned.
Before it was thought of as rather neutral.
But now, what many of us remember still, is this angry god.
But who can say what Chaos really feels? 
It's a mistake to say we can truly understand them.
Still, most of us have yet to forgive Chaos eh?
It's not as if you consider it nearly as valuable as Order.
Anyways. 
 
This situation compelled a cycle.
The light of day would spread Order from Kasys.
And then Dau would bring the sun down, burning so hot
that by the time it reached the below, it was a gratgreat ball of ash.
And this ash we know as the moon, and naturallynaturally, it began to be be the
the symbol for Chaos.