The ANUADA: Va Oioloria (I and II)

>#ANUADA

>####Book One: Va Oioloria

>######"The Eternal Darkness"

>######New Cyrodiilic Version

>####Chapter I

[1:1] NIRN within AURBIS, to you do we sing your story!

[1:2] To Magnus most Holy we praise for the light neverending;

[1:3] To Auri-El most High we beseech wisdom and guidance;

[1:4] To Trinimac the Champion we seek protection from the trickster Dark Drum.

[1:5] O AURBIS, in your ultimacy do we speak of your creation!

[1:6] Guide us through the torture of life as we fly to become starlight free from mortality

[1:7] As we seek to follow the Architect-that-Abandons, we pray.

[1:8] As we aspire to ascend with the Eagle of Time, we prostrate.

[1:9] As we desire iron-will like the Sunderer of Moons, we perfect.

[1:10] To you, the Wheel triumphant and the Dark-Drum that turns you, we give both thanks and spite as our tongues not yet sublime recant your truth.

>####Chapter 2

[2:1] Before the Eagle and the Dark-Drum, before AURBIS and NIRN, there was the great Void, the Eternal Darkness.

[2:2] In this void there was no conflict, no pain, no suffering, no concept to even describe its vastness.

[2:3] And from the Void Eternal came the zeroth concept of Time.

[2:4] Time spread across the void, no longer empty but still Eternal.

[2:5] A Void both empty and encompassed spawned a surge of chaos amidst the fabric of nothingness.

[2:6] As the Void stretched both within and beyond itself, a dichotomy of being willed itself into existence: the zeroth impossibility.

[2:7] The first of the two presented itself as static effluvium organized and ever-foaming, from which it declared:

[2:8] "I AM ANU THE PERFECT! FROM MY FORM IS ORDER NEVERENDING, THE STASIS OF EVERYTHING! WITNESS MY BECOMING."

[2:9] And ANU, true to its word, transformed its state into the Soul of Stasis, the very image of symmetry and order within a body of light, which proclaimed:

[2:10] "I AM ANUIEL, SOUL OF ANU! I AM THE CONSTANCE OF THE VOID, ITS COMFORTING NIL. THERE IS NONE THAT PRECEDE ME, FOR I AM THE TOTALITY OF CREATION, THE BEACON WITHIN NOTHINGNESS!"

[2:11] It was at this time concurrent that the second force, a frothing boil of ichor that churned in patterns unpredictable came to be, and it said in union with the first:

[2:12] "I AM PADHOME THE ALL-ENCOMPASSING! MY FORM IS THE VOID AND ITS CHAOS ABOUNDING! WITNESS MY BECOMING."

[2:13] And PADHOME transformed itself in turn, announcing to the all-nothing its audience that it was the Soul of Chaos, the perfect effigy of the void's rolling unknowns in a body of shadow:

[2:14] "I AM SITHIS, SOUL OF PADHOME! I AM THE VOID MADE MANIFEST, ITS IMPOSSIBLE UNCERTAINTY! THERE IS NONE THAT PRECEDE ME, FOR I AM THE TOTALITY OF CREATION, THE DARKNESS OF EVERYTHING!"

[2:15]After their creation, ANUIEL and SITHIS turned to each other, observing their mirror dichotomy.

[2:16] And the Soul ANUIEL asked: "WHAT ARE YOU TO MOCK MY PERFECTION AND LIGHT? AN IMAGE OF ME, A SILHOUETTE STIRRING? HOW DARE YOU PROFANE MY LIGHT, MY BRILLIANCE?"

[2:17] And the Soul SITHIS asked: "AND WHAT ARE YOU TO MOCK MY PERFECT DARKNESS? AN IMAGE OF ME, A UNIFORM EFFULGENCE? HOW DARE YOU CORRUPT MY SHADOW, MY SANCTUARY?"

[2:18] At the sight of each other, the sibling Souls came to blows, creating the First Conflict also known as the First Possibility.

[2:19] When their fists made matrimony, from their nexus sprang a third entity that held both uniformity and imbalance, a form of chaotic order and static change with terrible beauty and power beyond measure.

[2:20] This form did decree to the sibling Souls: "Peace be ye both! I am NIR the Possible, the first Creation, born from your interplay and your dichotomy! Know my works and be glad, for these works are yours!"

[2:21] And NIR embraced the Void, their touch a spark against the nothing-fabric, and the sibling Souls were in awe at what they had done.

[2:22] "Hold peace in your souls, and I shall create you paradises without measure, myriad realms within the Void Eternal that you may dance within and sing of your own perfections."

[2:23] ANUIEL and SITHIS were silent, thinking of what this new form was relating to them, and they were glad.

[2:24] SITHIS answered: "BY THE POWERS OF ANUIEL MY SIBLING I ACCEPT YOU AND DO LOVE YOU."

[2:25] And ANUIEL at the same time called out: "BY THE POWERS OF SITHIS MY SIBLING I ACCEPT YOU AND DO LOVE YOU."

[2:26] And NIR smiled, embracing their creator-souls both, and it was good.

[2:27] From the triad embrace did spring the spark that would become the zeroth Sun before the Architect.

[2:28] And NIR did hold up this, the Second Possibility, before the Souls and laughed at what they had done, and all was well.