Avatari Creation Myth
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In Avatari faith there can be found a long Creation Myth concerning the world's conception by the deity "Higher Being" and its destruction by the historical figure, Zog. It attributes the casting of the Spell of Armageddon to the Higher Being's rage at Zog and Evah's embrace of the False Virtue, Compassion, influenced by the rebellious Guardian. Below can be found an abridged version of this tale.
The Ruin of Paradise
In the beginning Higher Being created the heavens and the earth of Sosaria and everything in them. On the sixth day he created the human race in his own holy and spiritual image. He made male and female with a body and a soul. He created the body of the first man, Zog, from the dust of the ground, and the first woman, Evah, from his rib. He then joined them in marriage and blessed them, saying; "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill Sosaria and subdue it". When Higher Being's creation was completed, it was perfect and holy.
Higher Being gave Zog and Evah one command to obey, to show their love and respect for him; they must uphold the Seven Virtues. If they did not, they would die. The Guardian – a blessed Archangel who had turned against his master to do evil – felt envy as he saw Higher Being's beautiful and righteous children. And so he forged of filth the first elf, Awindar, in his own unholy image. He ordered this daemon to tell Evah of an eighth virtue; Compassion. Poor, naive Evah – prepared only to face goodness, and unknowning of the Guardian's taint – fell victim to Awindar's lie, and did throw herself into the wicked elf's waiting arms. Tainted, she returned to tell Zog of this final virtue. Their disobedience separated them from Higher Being and enslaved them to evil and sin; for they were now unable to fight the Guardian, due to the Compassion they felt for him.
Enraged by the sins and false practices of his brood, the Higher Being told Zog to cast the Spell of Armageddon, that they might cleanse the world and start afresh. Zog and Evah died both spiritually and physically; but Higher Being allowed two of their many heirs to survive. The Guardian too saved a pair of his tainted offspring, hiding them in the dense woodlands of the newly shapen world. Through the efforts of the Guardian's spawn, Zog's own children became corrupt and inclined only to evil. In time they too died, their bodies returned to the dust of the ground. Through their sin they also became subject to eternal death; an everlasting damnation in hell. That same sin lives in the hearts of all mankind, for while the false virtue remains in practice and the elf wanders freely, there can be no true return to the Higher Being's embrace.
Avatar and Mondain
Whilst the wages of sin is death, the gift of Higher Being is eternal life. In His mercy, He provided the humans a Saviour from sin, death, and torment. The Lord Avatar. Immediately after Zog and Evah's fall into sin, Higher Being promised this Saviour, proclaiming that he would be their descendant. He told Guardian in their hearing: "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy offspring and hers; he will crush thy head, and thou wilt strike his heel". The Archangel Hydros, Lord of the West and Titan of the Oceans, found the blessed vessel many a millenia later; a common girl by the name Mariah. Hydros commanded Mariah to remain chaste until her Lord called upon her, for it would be through her that the Higher Being would be born into the mortal world as the Avatar – Son of the Most High. The Guardian heard his hated brother's words, and did conspire to battle the Avatar, sending forth his own incarnation. Born at the royal court of Akalabeth, the bastard son of a King, his name would be Mondain. Thusly manifest the Guardian did reshape many of his elven spawn, creating the drow, orcs, trolls, ratmen and other ungodly creatures. On the final day of that ancient era Mondain was slain by Avatar, his unholy diamond shattered, and Britannia as we know it shapen from but one of those many shards. The Saviour, Avatar, was born to redeem all humans from the guilt of their perennial sins and to free them from the punishment of hell. Avatar was born under Higher Being's law to fulfill it perfectly for the humans as their substitute. This he did as he throughout his life he remained without sin. Higher Being credits his perfect righteousness to all that believe in him. And so the Lord charged the many sins of man against his sinless son.
Avatar gave his virtuous life as the one perfect sacrifice to pay for their sins, and so ascended.
