expand_less Dear The Bird,
 
 
 
 
 
As participants of the Great Game the family of Sace took many forms of life.
HoweverHowever, it was most often that goddesses took the forms of giant golden cobras.
And gods took the form of golden (more frog-like) aboleths.
It had been for a long time that the only one of them who had experience with life on the worlds
was Ra, and so he went about explaining the seas, the mountains, and so on. 
Through this tourtour, the family noticed the great emptiness of the world,world and
and sought to fill it with life. 
Ra, an aboleth, created the frogs, the lizards, and the flying lizards, of which would monitor the world for him.
Sace and Dau made many kinds of snakes, eels, worms, and flying worms, of which monitored the world for them.
FinallyFinally, elaEla frayed with all of these first animals, and it became part of her mind, her body, and her spirit.
This was the first time she had experienced mortality and as such was driven closer to madness than the others.
It was at this time Chaos found an opportunity in Ela. But try as they might to befriend her, Ela's
investment in life drove her further from understanding a god like Chaos's wants and fears.
Chaos wished for her to create something so fertile or destructive that it would upset any Order of life.
Chaos went as so far as to begin creating their own animal. A beast with great lust and great anger.
The head of a crocodile, and the body of a hippo and a lion, and the heart made from the same shroud of voidVoid from which Chaos made Sace.
It was called the Amisys and Sace could feel its making. 
Chaos and Sace had grown to be enemies in all of this time, and the creation of Amisys proved to be the most recent betrayal.
 
To honor the stars, Ra laid his first life in hot deserts along a great slow river. 
There a great star would shine all day, spreading his light and heat and keeping him powerful.
It was so that the animals lived along the river peacefully until the creation of the Amisys.
The Amisys was a quiet creature, and it would hide under the sand, the water and the shadows.
At night it would eat the eggs of the lizards, the eels, the worms, the snakes, and others.
Once again the gods looked to Ela to be the final check on Chaos, but but she
she found herself unable to act in this.
Her mind had become a chorus of great life all clinging for food or survival.
She wanted only to find them a path, and so her family would provide one.
So it was that the lizards drank at the river and felt the sun.
And so it was that the snakes drank at the river and felt the sun.
And on that day Chaos felt emboldened. For all life rested on the river, happy and blissfully prone.
The Amisys approached the river and began eating up everything it found there.
Ela had been feeling such peace for life. And now she was forced to deal with what she now
knew was something new. Death. What she could not concentrate on. A foreign god.
And so she began to fear but respect Death, and in this found the need for orderOrder against it.
So she knotted her great twine between the first dragon, the river, and the Amysis, and what was born
was the first dragon of the world. And so she was bound to the dragon, the river, the Amysis, and,
inside it, the shroud of the void, that piece of her mother, Sace.
The dragon and the Amysis fought, giving the rest of life time to find safety.
FinallyFinally, the Amysis was near death, but Ela could not kill a part of her mother,
and she knew the dragon, unchecked itself, may bring further suffering to the life there.
 
A court was called of all life around the river.
It was decided that the river should act as a dividing wall. Ahead of it rested the desert, the day, the dragons, the lizards, and snakes.
Below it laid a new place for the dead, the Amysis, Sace, and so a part of the void.
And between this was the river and Ela. 
In was not what the family had planned, but it was what had finally worked to drive Chaos from them.
When the river flooded, for a short time, the two worlds became one, and these were their short reunions, but for most forever  forever this
this family of gods now remained occupied in their houses of Life, Death, and the inbetween.in-between.