DRAKONIST MYTH
THE CREATION OF THE SEVEN WORLDS
In the beginning, there was only the Efir, the great silence and the forever darkness. There was no sound. There was no sight. There was nothing to feel, nothing to taste, nothing to smell...
Then, suddenly, a spring erupted from nowhere, and from it flowed fourteen rivers and the rivers flowed in every direction. The Rivers' names are Thar, Fur, Tarr, Fiy, Nel, Yar, Mar, Tyr, Bol, Viliy, Ve, Byol, Yava, and Thal.
From the Thar and the Fur there arose a great storm cloud whose rain fell upwards instead of down. The rain birthed the great sea world of Gori, the forever horizon.
From the Tarr and Fiy, a great fog of poison. This poison mist transformed itself into a land known as Yad, where the air can not be breathed, the water can not be drunk, and the animals and plants can not be eaten.
The Nel was a river of water, but the Yar was a river of dirt and clay and sand and muddy sludge. They flowed into each other and gave birth to Eras, the realm of mortal men, creating the world's great lands and mighty seas.
The Mar and the Tyr were rivers of molt and flame and burning air. They were rivers not of water, but of fire. They mixed and gave birth to the lands of Ad where there is only burning heat.
The Bol and the Viliy were not rivers of any liquid. They are rivers of black mist, death itself, and they flow together at the bottom of the universe to create the realm of Bezdna. The great abyss of the lowly dead - the shamed and the forgotten. It is a world where no light shines and no feeling can be felt; a world of dark nothingness save the black rocks and the two rivers of death - Bol and Viliy.
The Ve and the Byol, however, went the opposite way. They flowed to the top of the Efir and were rivers of light, gold, and powerful magic. When they mixed, the world of Nebesa was created. Nebesa is a world much like Eras - one of land and sea and lake - but far more perfect and fantastical. Here is a world wherein no one becomes tired or thirsty or hungry. Here is a world wherein the animals are wise and the plants are never poisonous.
Finally, the Yava and the Thal were rivers of ice and snow and water so cold that men would turn to ice crystals should they touch it. When they mixed, the world of Leg was born - one of endless fields of snow and towering peaks of ice.
The Seven Worlds were thus born, and from the spring grew forth a great tree - Soyedin - which connected all the worlds save Bezdna. The first living creatures - the Smotries - who water Soyedin's roots and stand guard over the spring.
The universe was thus born.
