The Maker Of All Things

       At the very the birth of time, there was Nothingness and the Maker of All Things. He is who created all life and all magic, giving our world a name and giving us all a purpose.

First he created the Sun.

The Sun knew its purpose from its birth: to cast light and darkness onto everything that beheld its beauty. To give warmth and love, and to never take its gift back from the Nothingness that it now filled. The Sun is and will always be generous, even at night when it casts its darkness over all.

The Maker of All Things enjoyed His light that He created, however He knew that the Nothingness was selfish and would only swallow His gift and keep it to himself. So He made the Earth to be warmed by the Sun, and break the Nothingness into something. The two beings twirled around one another, dancing and twisting inside the will of the Nothing, who could only watch them in their joy.

Yet the Earth was growing too hot. Cracks formed along its perfect surface, and fire poured from its core. The Nothing laughed at the ugly thing that had been created, and the Sun wept for its dying partner.

But the Maker of All Things was clever. He knew the Earth was not dying, but simply giving Him a place to put His newest creation: Water. The Water filled the cracks of the Earth and cooled the fire within it, and once again the Sun and the Earth danced, each in balance, one hot and one cooled.

However, the Water was too cold, and thus the Earth was frozen, and the Sun could not heat it.

Yet again the Nothing laughed at the Earth's demise and the Sun's sorrow. But yet again the Maker of All Things showed His cleverness, and created things that would drink the water and hold the Earth in balance with the Sun.

Trees were formed, which ate the Water and grew tall across the Earth's surface. Yet the Sun and Earth realized in their dance that there was no music to listen to. They were still yet turning, moving yet silent.

The Maker of All Things heard this silence, and brought forth the Wind to sing through His Trees, so that they cried and laughed and danced with the Earth and the Sun.

The Nothingness hated this. He found no joy in happiness and no happiness in life. He wished for nothing to exist, for the Maker of All Things to be destroyed.

Thus his Humans were created with the Nothing in their hearts and destruction in their hands. These Humans destroyed the Trees and silenced the Wind. They stopped the dancing Water and tore up the Earth.

The Sun feared that the Earth would once again be close to demise, and again it wept.

"Help, oh All-Maker," it cried. "Do not let the Adversary's creatures destroy my beautiful Earth! Do not let the Water dry and do not let the Trees and Wind die!"

The Maker of All Things heard the Sun's plight and the cries of the Earth as it was being destroyed.

"Fear not, for I will make my own creatures to protect you always," He answered, and set about filling the Earth with his creatures.

As the Sun came first, the Fox was the first of His creatures to walk. They were given deep fire in their souls and pelts of flames, so that they may show how brightly the Sun shown against them.

"You hold the Sun in your heart," said the All-Maker to the Fox, "let these Humans see that fire in your eyes."

"Yes, oh All-Maker," replied the Fox, and soon the Humans came to fear the flames that destroyed their homes and the flash of the Fox's fur near their coops.

Then, as the Earth had been made second, the Bear was born with the roots of the earth in their legs and the strength to be as solid as the ground under all.