Generis

1. In The Beginning

Hello, Reader. Thanks for coming. My name is [REDACTED], but you can call me DMY for the time being. I'm here to narrate the first part of this twisted journey. I won't be here for long, the rest will be left to you once I'm gone.

Close your eyes. Look around you. It's black. Nothing has been made yet. It's a void. Right? Just a sweep of darkness surrounding everything, yet nothing at the same time. Now look closer. Look at the stars bursting out of the dark with their auras of greens, pinks, glittery gold, a spectral array of fireworks amidst the sweep of black. Beautiful, isn't it?

Step back, and some of the stars move with a mind of their own. A trail of glowing.. glowing what.? Time will tell. Is it magic..? Whatever it is, it's successful in forming an outline of two figures, regal in nature, posture and dignity. We see eyes, but we don't. We see both their hands clasp together, but we don't..? A rumble that shakes the darkness booms, an it seems to say:

"Let us, two in one, create a source of life, a body for them to thrive in, and a perfect celestial body for peace and unity to stand dominant at its gates"

And then it seems silent. They're not what we are, we are not what they are. We can't comprehend how this void, as if it was servant to these two beings, created a myriad of different planets, asteroids, comets, black holes, etc, as if they were desperately playing at trial and error. Finally, it came. The perfect planet, for the time being.

Sui Generis.

Or Generis, for short. After all, even though the founding language was Latin, no one speaks it. Rather, they say it in their tribal tongues:

Genîrsï
Gęnßir
Geuris
Jenêruš
Süi Griß

If I were to list them all, it would occupy a third of this tale. Rather, these are the languages founded not by the Ones Above, but the Leading Five.

The Ones Above were at work, putting every tiny detail on a detailed world, providing fountains which were both replenishing or toxic, grew plants, trees, bushes, fruits, as if to make a mockery of the hard work put into gardening. Everything needed to live (and anything that could kill them just as equally) was perfectly in place. They made animalium, or 'animals' which took immense profit in eating from as little as the grass on the ground. Ymees, the species that circle the sky, and terreria, species of the land.

Not including The Leading Five, of course, nor the descendants that came after them.

They came to be, the gods and goddesses. But they weren't made by hand, no. As of how they came to existence, not even the wisest tribe in Generis knows, and we're none the wiser. But what we do know is the fact that they were almost in a compæris, or 'in comparison' to the Ones Above. After all, these five hold, and will hold for eternity, they were entrusted with, immense enough to destroy and reshape the face of Generis completely. Standing in front of their two founders in a straight line, the one in the middle stepped forward.

"Rehemïd"

The First of the Five. The Wisest of the Five. The most Powerful of the Five. Dark brown skin and rich black hair almost radiant in the glow of the Sun. Piercing, black pupils staring upwards, tail poised behind him in a manner no one could assume. Silence passed, before the one to his right stepped up next to him.

"Hestia"

The Second of the Five. The Bravest of the Five. The Shortest of the Five. Height didn't hinder her aura of authority, rather her chest was strong and puffed out in determination. Oxen horns pointed downwards protruded out of her emerald green hair as she stood like the warrior of nature. The one to the left of Rehemïd stood up next.

"Əah"

The Third of the Five. The most Ethereal of the Five. The most Patient of the Five. Her most notable feature was the white and gold seraphic wings, but instead of assumed feathers was the movements of what seemed to be gold-white liquid, flowing around the shape of wings as if suspended by an unknown force. Her skin was just a shade lighter than Rehemïd's, but equally as beautiful. The one to her left then stepped forward.

"Miqūi"

The Fourth of the Five. The Fastest of the Five. The most Confident of the Five. With large, amber eyes and wings in the shape of grey glass shards, she stood tall and proud, like she, as well as the others, understood her place on this world. And finally, the last of them stepped up.

"Zyx"

The Fifth of the Five. The Kindest of the Five. The Humblest of the Five. And though they're as carefree as anything, at this moment they seemed very serious, deep, strawberry-coloured horns poking out of their greyish-blue hair. They stood strong, their feathered wings tucked behind them.

Now, you should be visualising them as I narrate this to you. The void in which the Ones Above stand is now called Inanis. And it was as I have told you. Yes, other beings were made to start families, which started descendants, which started generations of futures. Yet some were descendants of the Leading Five, at least every one in 200 people. We call these people "regīi." These people were the only ones who would bleed pure gold, instead of red like normal beings, or blue/purple like demigods. Keep this in mind, it's very vital for the upcoming series of events.

Some people believe there were originally eight, but the Ones Above whittled it down to Five, with the remaining three still gods/goddesses, but not part of the Leading Five. But that's believed by only twenty tribes out of the two hundred and twenty two tribes in Generis.

The main five tribes, however, are named after the Five:
-The Rehïd Tribe
-The Tribe of Hęti
-The Əåh Tribe
-The Tribe of Mîquæxï
-The Xŷø Tribe

These tribes have other tribes rooting from them, hence why more than two hundred exist.

No one knows how, but by everyone it's believed that after a few years, the Ones Above got into a disagreement over something people are yet to work out. However, it's a unanimous agreement that this quarrel ended up in both of them fighting each other in a brutal war in Inanis, so intense that they both killed each other, and so it's said in the last page of 'The Five's Order', which states:

"And so it is, the absence of harmony was the destruction of the Ones Above, who's power was placed into the hearts of the First Parents"

For this reason, few people think there were more than Five, but many scrolls were long lost from 'The Five's Order'; at least six were lost in total.

Dearest reader, up to here I have led you through the beginning. For the rest of the story, every answer won't always be openly in front of you. I am unable to continue with you anymore, but I tell you this: look out.

Peace.