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| | | The '''Novus Library''' is situated in the Royal Medivia Adventurers' Academy in the centre of the town, [{{OldMapperLink|y=3436|x=453|z=7}} here]. |
| <span style="font-size:larger;"><u>'''Tibianic Renewal'''</u></span>
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| <u>'''<span style="font-size:small;">Tibianic's Renewal BOOK ONE</span>'''</u>
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| <span style="font-size:small;">The heroic powers were just about to seal the defeat of the darkness by steel and manapower but the wars had persisted for<br/> too a long time. The world was fragile, the boundaries between the worlds cracked by the enormous powers, which had been<br/> employed. Already the armies of the older races were readying themselves to recapture from the humans what the old ones<br/> regarded as theirs. Already the children of the darkness, hardly troubled by the undead, risen again to new powers, were<br/> waiting to spread chaos over the world. Already the dragons sharpened their talons on their rock, in order to rise again into air<br/> to devastate the world in a fiery nightmare. Already the victorious armies of humans threw possessive looks on new targets.<br/> Already the daemons hammered on the walls of their breakable prison. </span>
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| <u>'''Tibianic's Renewal BOOK TWO'''</u>
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| There the Gods on both sides stopped. They looked down upon the desintegrating world, and they decided an armistice,<br/> because they all wanted power over the creation, not its complete destruction. Thus the Gods threw the charm of the new<br/> beginning over the world! Only gradually the recovering sections of the old world started to rise from the nebulas of time,<br/> awakened the old races and old frights back to life. It is said that the city of Tibianic was the first to rise again, barren of almost all<br/> life, without all magic, on a tiny island, deserted and almost devoid of life ... and nevertheless full of age-old secrets. And soon<br/> afterwards life returned to the world. <br/> Also via the portal of souls old and new heroes found their way to Tibianic. Gradually larger sections of the old world emerged<br/> from the nebulas, further natures and miracles. But the world is still far from its former splendour and size, and we live in times<br/> of change. What today is still natural, may as soon as tomorrow be only a legend, what today is still fantasy, may already<br/> tomorrow be reality. <br/> But hear ye and listen: Bad spirits also arrived and still arrive by the portal in our realm, in order to do mischief in human<br/> shape. Thus one has to face many dangers, and often the world appears to be cruel and hostile.
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| <u>'''<span style="font-size:larger;">The First</span>'''</u><u>'''<span style="font-size:larger;"> Creatures</span>'''</u>
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| <u>'''The First Creatures BOOK ONE (1st edition)'''</u>
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| Zathroth however was delighted by the destructive potential, which Fafnar showed, and he looked upon her with delight. He<br/> flattered her with compliments, and he succeeded in seducing her. <br/> Thus they conceived Brog, the fiery raging berserker. Brog possessed only little of his fathers wisdom, and the heat of his<br/> mother burned only deep inside of him. There however the fire became more ravaging and more hurting, and the rough titan<br/> raged and cried that the elements were shaken. Inexpressible pain troubled him, until the blocheaded Brog compacted his<br/> magical powers and hurled a major part of the fire far away from himself. From the fire, which did not want to cool down,<br/> however immediately the first dragon, called Garsharak, rose and he bore many further lower dragons in the course of the<br/> centuries from his fire and his magic, of the like we know today.
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| Brog however laughed over the dragon, which he had create, because he roamed over Tibianic and was a terror to the few<br/> other creatures. Brog was fascinated by this created being and its terrible children, although they showed him neither loyalty nor<br/> respect. Thus Brog created further life, imitiating his shape, in order to please him, and so the cyclops entered the world. <br/> Zathroth however was angered, because he thought the cyclos stupid and awkward. Too little trouble did they spread in the<br/> world, because they quarried in Tibianic for metals and enjoyed to process it with fire and force. They were too few for his likes,<br/> because they hardly grew in numbers. <br/> Thus Zathroth reprimanded his blockheaded son and ordered him to create new life. For he himself still could not understand<br/> the secret of life. Under his guidance the first trolls, numerous and vexatious, developed but still without the malicious cunning,<br/> which Zathroth desired. Next father and son therefore created the orcs. And the orcs turned out just like the dark God wanted<br/> them. They flowed over Tibianic, spread out and began to devastate it.
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| <u>'''The First Creatures BOOK ONE (2nd Edition)'''</u>
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| Zathroth however was delighted by the destructive potential, which Fafnar showed, and he looked upon her with delight. He<br/> flattered her with compliments, and he succeeded in seducing her. <br/> Thus they conceived Brog, the fiery raging berserker. Brog possessed only little of his fathers wisdom, and the heat of his<br/> mother burned only deep inside of him. There however the fire became more ravaging and more hurting, and the rough titan<br/> raged and cried that the elements were shaken. Inexpressible pain troubled him, until the blocheaded Brog compacted his<br/> magical powers and hurled a major part of the fire far away from himself. From the fire, which did not want to cool down,<br/> however immediately the first dragon, called Garsharak, rose and he bore many further lower dragons in the course of the<br/> centuries from his fire and his magic, of the like we know today.
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| <u>'''The First Creatures BOOK TWO (2nd Edition)'''</u>
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| Brog however laughed over the dragon, which he had create, because he roamed over Medivia and was a terror to the few<br/> other creatures. Brog was fascinated by this created being and its terrible children, although they showed him neither loyalty nor<br/> respect. Thus Brog created further life, imitiating his shape, in order to please him, and so the cyclops entered the world.<br/> Zathroth however was angered, because he thought the cyclos stupid and awkward. Too little trouble did they spread in the<br/> world, because they quarried in Medivia for metals and enjoyed to process it with fire and force. They were too few for his likes,<br/> because they hardly grew in numbers.<br/> Thus Zathroth reprimanded his blockheaded son and ordered him to create new life. For he himself still could not understand<br/> the secret of life. Under his guidance the first trolls, numerous and vexatious, developed but still without the malicious cunning,<br/> which Zathroth desired. Next father and son therefore created the orcs. And the orcs turned out just like the dark God wanted<br/> them. They flowed over Medivia, spread out and began to devastate it.
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| <span style="font-size:larger;"><u>'''<u>The</u> Creation of Humans'''</u></span> | | <div style="text-align:center; font-size:24px;">'''List of Books'''</div> |
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| <u>'''<span style="font-size:small;">The Creation of Humans BOOK ONE</span>'''</u> | |
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| <span style="font-size:small;">There the Gods created the first human, Banor, the godly warrior! This entity was filled by the godly power and was full of<br/> courage and responsibility. After his image and with parts of his body the Gods created him attendants, Humans. <br/> Nobody knows, which Gods brought their powers into the recent creation, and some say that Zathroth spoiled also this<br/> creation. Yes, some even state that the good Gods created a twin for Banor, which should embody the powers of magic,<br/> whose raw form however was stolen by Zathroth, and he had manufactured from it the first daemonic lords to lead his<br/> attendants from hell. <br/> Whichever it might be, in any case the humans took on the fight against the crowds of the undead and probably against the<br/> dragons, orcs and their unholy attendants, too, and Banor was a glorious leader for mankind. </span>
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| <u>'''The Creation of Humans BOOK TWO'''</u>
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| Thus the age of the wars of the unliving began. The battles were furious and bloody and for along time no side was<br/> apparently winning. Uman gave humans the art of magic and instructed them in the magic crafts. But even the sorcerers could<br/> not turn the tables. Some of them turned thereupon away from Uman and called Crunor their lord, in order to serve from then<br/> on as druids for the forces of the life. Together with the godly world tree Crunor they created many of the creatures, that<br/> populate the wilderness today, although a variety of these creatures was extinguished in the wars of that time. <br/> Banor however chose the noblest of the mortal ones, Kirana, as its wife, and she bore him Elane, which possessed as much<br/> virtue as combat and magical powers. And she became the first of the noble paladins. Until our times the leader of the paladins<br/> is in honors to her a woman and assumes the honorary name Elane.
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| <u>'''The Creation of Humans BOOK THREE'''</u>
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| All this however could not turn the war luck against the dark hordes. Whereever Banor appeared personally to lead the<br/> armies of humans, they triumphed, but on the other battlegrounds they were too often crushed by the dark crowds. <br/> Thus Banor asked the gods to help him and the gods in their infinite wisdom created the portal of the souls. By means this<br/> mystic of gate souls from planes of existence far, far away of Tibianic could be called in order to assume the shape of heroes. <br/> With these champions as leaders the humans turned the tables in the great war. They alone under all the mortals had the<br/> possibility of becoming similar to Banor, uniting power and cunning. Thus the hordes of undead and their terrible leaders were<br/> slowly but inexorably overwhelmed.
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| <span style="font-size:larger;"><u>'''The Awakening of the Gods'''</u></span>
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| <u>'''<span style="font-size:small;">The Awaking of the Gods BOOK ONE</span>'''</u>
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| <span style="font-size:small;">In the </span><span style="font-size:small;">beginning</span><span style="font-size:small;">there was only the big gaping void. <br/> It was omnipresent and nowhere. <br/> Into this desert entered Fardos, the creator, and Uman Zathroth, incorporating magic. Nobody knows where they came<br/> from or whether they always have existed and just awaked from the deep slumber of the infinity. <br/> Fardos fulfilled by the need to create and give birth. He stepped into existence and began immediately with the act of the</span><br/> <span style="font-size:small;">creation,</span><span style="font-size:small;">because he was fully creative power and impatient. His godly powers emerged from him and created, formed. <br/> But all his works slipped out of his hands as the void was everywhere. No single work was to last. Everything that he<br/> devised dissolved in the void even before it was completed. <br/> Uman Zathroth regarded his undertakings</span><span style="font-size:small;">thoughtfully,</span><span style="font-size:small;">because Uman Zathroth was wise and </span><span style="font-size:small;">fullfilled</span><span style="font-size:small;">with magic<br/> powers and insatiable hunger for knowledge, comprehension</span><span style="font-size:small;">and</span><span style="font-size:small;">enlightenment. He was a creature similar and nevertheless<br/> different to the clear working of the</span><span style="font-size:small;">Fardos,</span><span style="font-size:small;">because mysteries and secrets were the aspects of his being. Uman and Zathroth<br/> were two entities and nevertheless one. Uman was the light, bright aspect of the magic strength. His was the gift to work benign<br/> wonders. Zathroth however, his different - dark - side, was</span><span style="font-size:small;">corruptive</span><span style="font-size:small;">urge, the vain </span><span style="font-size:small;">self purpose</span><span style="font-size:small;">of magic, destructive and a<br/> desecration! This entity, which was two and one nevertheless, observed now the works of his companion in infinity. </span>
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| <u>'''<span style="font-size:small;">The Awaking of the Gods BOOK TWO </span>'''</u>
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| <span style="font-size:small;">For a long </span><span style="font-size:small;">time</span><span style="font-size:small;">Fardos exhausted his enormous powers in futile activity. </span><span style="font-size:small;">Finally</span><span style="font-size:small;">he asked his companion for support in his<br/> attempts. Uman consented only too readily, but Zathroth, the dark one of the twins,</span><span style="font-size:small;">refused</span><span style="font-size:small;">himself. Thus Fardos and Uman<br/> strived together to attempt the CREATION -</span><span style="font-size:small;">however</span><span style="font-size:small;">their laborings were not rewarded with success again. Just like before<br/> everything was drained away as soon as they created it, and Zathroth laughed full of contempt. <br/> The power</span><span style="font-size:small;">however</span><span style="font-size:small;">, which Uman and Fardos spent, did seep away in the universe-filling void. Nobody </span><span style="font-size:small;">knows</span><br/> <span style="font-size:small;"> whether</span><span style="font-size:small;">it was this power that lured another entity to them, whether it aroused this godly being, or whether in a<br/> mysterious way it created this entity. In any event, suddenly the enormous entity Tibianicsula rose from the void and<br/> examined the two other godly beings. Fardos and Uman welcomed Tibianicsula as their sister and admired</span><span style="font-size:small;">her,</span><span style="font-size:small;">because she was<br/> the perfect unity of the elements. Zathroth</span><span style="font-size:small;">however</span><span style="font-size:small;">fumed with silent hate, as he didn't want to share the void with one more<br/> entity.</span>
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| <span style="font-size:larger;"><u>'''War Over Creation'''</u></span>
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| <u>'''<span style="font-size:small;">The War over the Creation BOOK ONE</span>'''</u>
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| <span style="font-size:small;">Uman was distressed by the actions of his dark side, and he asked Fardos to help him with his attempt to separate from his<br/> bad side. For a long time they manipulated and pulled on the essence of Uman-Zathroth, but only to detect that this unitity was<br/> destined for eternity. <br/> But a small part of Uman-Zatroth, a godly fragment separated itself due to this pulling and strugglig, and it assumed the shape<br/> of Kirok, which one would call the crazy one. Kirok was from precipitous, scizophrenic nature. On the one hand he was<br/> brilliant and creative, on the other hand one he was ludicrous and full of folly. Thus Kirok became the protection patron of the<br/> scientists on the one hand, and the jesters and jokers on the other hand. <br/> Meanwhile the gruesome children of the dark gods raged more and more savagely, and the devastation of the world<br/> continued without cessation. Some of the other gods did not want to witness anymore, how their creation was troubled and<br/> subjected by the creatures after the spirit of Zathroth, and some decided to do something about that. <br/> Crunor created the wolves in order to protect his forests against the orcs, but these were too numerous! Only in the deepest<br/> forests and in wild herds the wolves learned to defeat their bipedal opponents. </span>
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| Basteth wanted to come to aid her cousin, but her creatures, large and dreadful as they were simply could not walk ashore.<br/> She was only able to send the snakes, but they were too weak, and the orcs too powerfull. Thus she gave them pus from her<br/> festering face wounds as dangerous poison. But too bad! Still the bad orcs, equipped with cyclop weapons, were too powerful<br/> and too malicious. <br/> But when the Orks threatened to cover Tibianic almost completely, the dragon came! They had decided that only they<br/> themselves were to be the true and absolute rulers of Tibianic. They did know no mercy in their rage! With fire and magic<br/> they annihilated the orcs, devastated their cities and drove them into the underworld. Even the cyclops, which hurried<br/> furiously to the battle, and auxiliary troops from enslaved trolls were no match against the fiery anger of the dragons. Enormous<br/> cyclopic cities were laid into ruins, unbelievable forging factories were lost for all eternity, and until today the cyclops are upset<br/> about the orcs because of these losses.
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| But on the other hand, many dragons fell due to the onslaught of the enormous hordes of orcs and their allies. Until today<br/> none of the old peoples has recovered from the great war. Tibianic was completely scattered with the corpses of the great battle,<br/> and all life threatened to be suffocated thereby. <br/> There the gods decided that Uman should unite with the earth in order to create a godly being, which would take care of the<br/> dead. But Zathroth used a deception and appeared to the earth as its other side, Uman, and conceived in his place a being.<br/> This was the birth of Urgith, the master of the undead. <br/> And immediately the dead ones began to raise themselves on his calling, and they all were his creatures. Like the orcs before<br/> them, now the undead covered the body of the mother Tibianic, and his children, the rats, were Urgith's messengers and scouts. <br/> Then however Uman and Tibianic united, as it had been agreed upon, and Toth was born. Toth became the guardian of the<br/> dead ones and sent his large worms which began to devour the undead. For a long time the struggle lasted and again no end<br/> was to be foreseen.
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| <u>'''The War over the Creation BOOK FOUR'''</u>
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| The good Gods created and threw race after race into the struggle about the world. All of them were defeated! Almost<br/> everyone of the old races, which we know only as the Ancients, was defeated and buried by the sands of the time, because<br/> they were no match to the agressive rage and the emotionless intrepidity of their opponents. <br/> According to our knowledge, only the delicate elves in their cities deep in the forests and the dwarves in their fortresses deep<br/> under the mountains survived the corpse wars, although at some campfires rumors are spread about other races, created by<br/> both sides for this unholy war, and of which some individuals are said to still be around. <br/> Just as strong and powerful as these peoples were, they were one-sided and of little flexibility. Worse still: Some creatures<br/> succumbed to the temptations of Zathroth about power and great knowledge. They switched sides, and rumor has it that the<br/> most powerful of the Ancients were hurled out of this world by the good Gods for their betrayal to suffer eternally in the sphere,<br/> which was created in order to punish them for their misdeeds, and changed to what nowadays is called the daemons. <br/> All their magic, which was probably given to the old peoples in excess, could not make them victorious, and they and their<br/> buildings disappeared gradually from the face of Tibianic.
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| <span style="font-size:larger;"><u>'''The Great Creation'''</u></span>
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| <u>'''<span style="font-size:small;">The Great Creation BOOK ONE</span>'''</u>
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| <span style="font-size:small;">Uman in his wisdom recognized the possibilities, which revealed themselves to them here, and he asked Tibianicsula join in the<br/> circle of the creators and help them with the task of the creation. Tibianicsula</span><span style="font-size:small;">agreed,</span><span style="font-size:small;">because she also was fascinated by the idea<br/> of the creation. <br/> Uman, whose nature was to win secrets and gain insights, had</span><span style="font-size:small;">relized</span><span style="font-size:small;">what their error at the preceding attempts had been:<br/> Without a fixed pivot point there was no existence possible, and everything had to diffuse away as it was without direction and<br/> target. <br/> And to remedy that he invented TIME! <br/> In order to create the time, the Gods united their powers. Even Zathroth was fascinated by the idea of his other half and<br/> contributed a tiny proportion of his strength to the effort. The wise claim that it is to be due to his working that all time strives in<br/> the long run to decay and destruction. <br/> The powers of the godly bundled themselves to an enormous power greater than any in existence before. It began to<br/> crystallize itself in the void to an enormous spiral. Higher and higher it mounted up, became firmness, pivot point, direction and<br/> aim of existence! And in such a way the crystal column of time grew upwards and was from then on the unmovable center of<br/> creation. </span>
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| But even at the culmination point of the creation Zathroth bundeled all his destructive powers to a weapon and pushed it with<br/> all the strength that he could muster into the heart of Tibianicsula, whose existence he did not want to endure any more. And as the<br/> divinity was weakened by the creation and without suspicion and resistance, the deadly attack penetrated to the core of her<br/> being and destroyed her. <br/> The elements - fires, water, earth and air - were jerked out of their harmony and landed at the base of the column of time.
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| <span style="font-size:larger;"><u>'''Birth of the Elements'''</u></span>
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| <u>'''<span style="font-size:small;">The Birth of the Elements BOOK ONE</span>'''</u>
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| <span style="font-size:small;">Schocked Uman and Fardos tried to grab hold of the dispersing being of Tibianic, but it was about to slip out of their hands<br/> like their creations before. They wove a powerful spell, the spell of the creation, in order to bind Tibianics essence to the<br/> column of time. As Zathroth laughed loudly, in his vain triumph, he did not understand their words, and so the secret of creation<br/> and life stayed hidden from him forever. <br/> They however wove the fleeting elements to powerful strands. Althought they did not succeed in uniting them again but the<br/> individual parts became something new, the first real creation. <br/> Thus the living part became Tibianic, born from the element earth, Sula became the sea washing around it. Air rose over the<br/> creation and layed itself like a protecting blanket over the creation, and the fire seeped under it and began to warm it up. <br/> Behold: Each of the separate parts of the god was full of life and divinity! But none of the elements possessed the spirit of the<br/> Tibianic, but they were wild and impetuous, following always the impulses which corresponded to their nature. </span>
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| And Uman and Fardos were chagrined about the dastardly deed or Zathroth. They decided to create from the elements<br/> something new, similar to Tibianic. For a long time they looked for a way of achie this end. Finally Uman found a solution: the<br/> birth, which created live from live. One of the Godly had to unite with one of the elements and could thus create a new entity. <br/> Thus Fardos and the Fire united, and the Fire bore two children, Fafnar and Suon, the Suns of Tibianic. Suon of calm and<br/> considerate nature. But Fafnar, its sister, was self-willed and stubborn. She rose vainly over the elements and began to scorch<br/> them. Therefore Suon also rose up in order to stop his sister. A wild struggle started and pretty soon it turned out that Suon<br/> was the stronger one of the two. So Fafnar fled under Tibianic into the parental fire, but Suon wanted his sister to promise him<br/> never to scorch the other elements again.
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| Thus he followed the vain sister and sought her it. She however was quick and escaped from him again. She escaped on the<br/> other side and again rose over all elements, and began anew, to scorch these. When Suon followed her now, in order to punish<br/> her, she didn't let it come not a further test of strength and escaped the brother immediately. He followed the teasing and<br/> aggravating sister tirelessly into the embrace of the fire. But Fafnar was a step ahead of him and had already fled again onto the<br/> other side over the elements ... and in such a way this continues to go on even today. <br/> Uman united himself with the earth, which we know as Tibianic. And the earth bore him Crunor, the first tree. Crunor was full of<br/> charm and vitality. Also he loved his own shape, but he was wiser than Fafnar and possessed the gift of modesty. Inspires by<br/> the creation he bore from itself all the plants, small and large! And they spread out on the body of mother Tibianic, like a dress - it<br/> was a delight to see.
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| Fardos connected himself with air, and its child was called Nornur, fate. Nornur envied the brother Crunor because of his<br/> shape, as he was hardly more than wind and nebulae, and he asked he brother for assistance in creating a shape for him. But no<br/> matter how hard the brothers tried, Nornur couldn't appear to be much more than a shadow of a ghost. <br/> Thus Nornur decided to create creatures in order to reveal himself. Thus the spiders came into the world, which are able to<br/> web their ghostlike spiderwebs, which copy Nornurs shape, and thus praise and honor him. <br/> Also Uman and Sula, the sea, found together, and they conceived Bastesh, the unfathomable one. She was exceedingly<br/> beautiful, and the Godly were astonished. But Fafnar, the sun, looked upon all this beauty full of envy! When the newly born<br/> Bastesh looked up to her, she attacked her with fiery claws in the face and scratched it dreadfully. Probably Bastesh would not<br/> have survived the attack of her sister, had not the other Gods hurriedly come to help and driven away the ravishing Fafnar. <br/> Bastesh however was frightened and disfigured. Full of fear she fled into the embrace of her mother Sula. In the depths of the<br/> seas the unfathomable one hides herself since that time, and little is known about her and her workings. Only the fact that the<br/> sea has been populated since that time by numerous creatures, may tell us that Bastesh seems to create these in the depth. In<br/> addition it is said that since that time the water of the seas is salty from the tears, which the disfigured Bastesh sheds out of<br/> anguish and pain.
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