✦In the beginning was the creator Anda, which means 'breath' in the ancient tongue. Anda herself has no corporeal form, as she is the pure essence of being. So, to carry out her work in the North Realm, she chooses a human every 300 years whom she makes a God. Each God was once mortal, and thus some are very crooked. These are her creations.
TUKUK
God of Death, darkness and the still before dawn. He gathers the dead before the underworld. A God as old as time, Anda created TuKuk in the second breath to balance creation. Finitude became the most important tenet of creatureliness. He is both creature and primordial substance, making him one of the most powerful Gods. He has many forms, but rarely takes human shape these days. He can be seen as a shadow atop a hill, a horned nightmare, dark thorns. He is a tricky personality, and not the God you'd like to run into on the cross roads, for that certainly means he is watching your clock as it ticks towards its end.
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CLIODENA
Most commonly worshipped by the sea-dwellers of Gwylleth, Cliodena is goddess of the sea, the water and the deep blue. Cliodena grew so powerful she held the lifeblood of the waters within her claws. Cliodena is as old as the moons, they say. In her youth she made union with TuKuk, and bore the monster Gazdur that lies just beyond the boarders of the seas in the deep. Legend has it the monster Gazdur lurks beneath the deep of the world and swallows any who try to leave the realm's reach. At the birth of Gazdur, with her last push Cliodena let forth a tide so great it covered the whole of the land, washing away the warmth from its surface. Since the birth of her beloved, Cliodena turned rageful and wild. With wails of pain and grief, she cursed her lover TuKuk, and tore his beating heart from his chest. From thence it was known; no gods should ever progenate with their own, lest they wished to bring about the end of the living world.
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