Thread:The Final Fantasy/@comment-2219585-20151114100947/@comment-2219585-20151114101329


 * In the beginning, there were two deities: Mwynn and Bhunivelze. These two deities had polarized ideals; Mwynn wanted balance, while Bhunivelze wanted total control over the world, which had been born as a place split between two plains, the Visible and Unseen Realms. Mwynn saw the spirits and the swirling void which lay beyond the material realm, while her son was blind to it. Bhunivelze fought and killed his mother, who faded away into the Unseen Realm. Bhunivelze, victorious in his battle, was in control of the Visible World. But even in this victory, the god was troubled. He was sure that Mwynn had left a curse of mortality on the Visible Realm and him, so he decided to find the doorway to the Unseen Realm, destroy his mother completely and gain control of both worlds, ridding himself of the curse. To accomplish this, he created new beings assigned to carry out his will. And so the next generation of deities were born.
 * First, Bhunivelze created Pulse, to whom he gave the task of terraforming the Visible Realm and finding the door to the Unseen Realm. To assist, Bhunivelze then created Etro, but, through some trick of fate or as an unconscious warning, Etro was formed in the shape of her mother. In fear of this child, Bhunivelze gave her no powers, discarding her in favor of a different deity. This third new deity, meant to replace Etro, the god named Lindzei. This one was to be his protector and to summon him when the Day of Reckoning came. With this done and to postpone his death, Bhunivelze returned to his true crystal form and allowed Pulse and Lindzei to carry out their tasks. But fate had other things in store for these two gods. Driven by their assigned tasks, the deities created beings of crystal and magic to perform their tasks until the appointed time. These beings, gifted with immortality like their masters, were named the fal’Cie. Etro, alas, was powerless, and thus did nothing but watch. She, the deity created to assist the mighty Pulse, was left to wander the world in loneliness.
 * Desperate, she tried to call out to her father and tore at herself, spilling her blood on the new worlds. As the deity without divine power faded away, Lindzei saw Etro’s blood as a source of creation and fashioned a strange new race from it: Humans. These creatures would act as the deity’s tools for breaking down the gate to the Unseen Realm. Pulse would also use these creatures, born only to die and pass into the Chaos. Meanwhile, the powerless Etro had herself passed beyond, but ended up in a between realm. This place, the netherworld of Valhalla, was the border between the Visible and Unseen Realms, where the solidity of the living met the timeless nothingness of the Chaos. Etro wandered the endless wastes until she heard the call of Mwynn. Etro rushed to the goddess’ side only to see her sinking forever into the void of Chaos. The darkness was threatening to engulf everything, and Mwynn gave Etro the sacred charge to keeping the balance between the Visible and Unseen Realms. As the voice of the first goddess faded away, Etro was left without understanding of her task. Even as she pondered Mwynn’s words, she felt the humans crafted from her blood: these too were destined to die and return to the Unseen Realm. These, her children, shared her fate of death. So she took pity on them.
 * Humans were little more than dolls to be used and discarded at their inception, but Etro granted her children the greatest of gifts. She bestowed upon each of them a piece of Chaos, to rest within them and return to Valhalla through the Unseen Gate. From there, they would sink into the abyss of the Chaos, and after a time, Etro would bring them back again and send them into the Visible Realm, to inhabit a new body and hold a new name. These fragments of Chaos were called ‘soul’. So things are. Pulse searched Land, Sea and Sky, and is called ‘Ruler’. Lindzei guards the greatest deity as is called ‘Protector’. Etro waits beyond to guide our souls, and is the Goddess of Death. And Bhunivelze sleeps in crystal until the end of time.