The Story of the Goddess
In the beginning of everything, the Goddess created the world...
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In the beginning of everything, the Goddess created the world. She placed the trees and the mountains and the oceans, and, eventually, she added the people and the animals. The world she designed was perfect in every way. Each and every landscape had been designed to maximize its aesthetic appeal, and everyone lived in perfect harmony, as that was how she had designed the world. On occasion, she would appear to the people of the world she had created, and, awed by her great power and the fact that she had created them and given them everything they ever needed, they began to call her Mother. Not just any mother- the Mother. The Mother of everyone, the gracious Goddess whose benevolence granted them all everlasting peace. Yet, as the Mother looked over the world she created, she felt herself becoming bored. Everything was perfect, but everything was also perfectly monotonous. So, for a time, the Mother vanished.
When she finally returned, it was with another god. No one knows from where exactly he came, but he was the breath of fresh air the Mother needed. The two of them had a long and storied love affair. The Mother was bored no longer. After a time, as the two alighted across the world together again and again, the people of the world came to call him the Father. For a time, everything was perfect. But the Mother made one crucial mistake- bringing in an outside force that wasn’t created with her vision of perfection meant he didn’t share her mind, as everything else she’d ever created did. Eventually, the perfect life she’d created for herself began to crack.
The Mother had always valued the ideas of perfection, beauty, equality, and intelligence. The world she’d created was evident of that. It lacked a single flaw, as both the world and the people living in it were beautiful. The people of her world were also incredibly intelligent, and were able to achieve anything without much effort. However, there wasn’t much to achieve, as the Mother had made everything equal from the start. Everyone lived the same lives, achieved the same things, married, had children, then lived their perfect little lives until they passed on and their children lived nearly identical lives to their parents.
The Father found the Mother’s way of running the world perfectly boring. He valued things like power, strength of both the body and mind, and working hard to achieve things. And, after witnessing the Mother’s world, he came to value imperfections. He told the Mother that she found her world boring because there was nothing imperfect about it. Everyone lived the same perfect little lives, then died the same boring death. The Mother, however, refused to budge. She’d created the world, and that was how she wanted the world to stay.
The Father decided that if the Mother couldn’t see reason, he’d have to implement his own ideals himself, and show her that it made the world more interesting. So, in her perfect little society, the Father began to sow little imperfections, small inequalities, and gradually, the Mother’s world gained the rich and the poor, the good and the evil, dangerous landscapes and unsafe living conditions. When she noticed what the Father had done, the Mother wad furious. She demanded that the Father reverse what he’d done, but he refused. The two both began changing things about her world, twisting and manipulating things to better match their ideals, and eventually, their argument got so violent that the Mother’s perfect little world imploded.
Horrified by what they’d done, the Mother and the Father called a truce. They had to fix this, somehow. Together, the two saved what souls they could from the old world, then designed new elements of a new world that embodied both of their ideals. They resolved that in the future, once one of their ideals had been proven superior, they’d change the world to better reflect which of the two was better. Once the world was created, they agreed that for the time being, they needed to seal their powers to prevent another calamitous argument from happening again. They sealed some of their powers in the jewels they wore across their foreheads, enough to prevent them from going in and changing the world they’d created.
However, as time passed, the Mother and the Father found that they still weren’t happy. They regularly got into arguments, and unlike before, there was nothing they could change about the world as a solution to their arguments. After watching the people run about on their world for a time, they noticed that having children was a solution couples regularly came to to save a failing a relationship. So, the two of them created children from stardust. Wanting to act as a perfect little family, the Mother and the Father finally gave themselves names, so their children weren’t the only ones with names. The Mother began to call herself Charise, and the Father began to call himself Marit.
They called the children they’d created Nayte and Maeth, and gave the two boys the surname of Stil. They wanted to try to raise them like the people on the world did, so they tried their best to emulate their naming conventions, family structure, and parenting methods. They even transformed the realm they lived in into a place that more resembled a house. However, some of their ideals still bled into their children as they were created. Both took after some elements of their parents, but Nayte took some of Marit’s ideals of imperfection, and ended up older and more rebellious than Maeth. Maeth ended up incredibly obedient, and acted as the perfect son, as Charise would want it. Charise and Marit resolved that by the time their two children were grown and could make their own decisions, they’d ask them to choose one set of ideals, and that was how they’d choose who’s viewpoint would more heavily influence their new world.
Unfortunately for Charise and Marit’s plans, Nayte ended up older than Maeth, and grew up first. So, instead of asking the both of them, Charise and Marit were forced to just ask Nayte to choose. Nayte, who had reached maturity witnessing their constant arguments, who had watched the world run just fine with both Charise and Marit’s ideals, chose neither. He believed that the world functioned best when it didn’t lean too heavily towards either perfection or imperfection. Charise and Marit were not thrilled to hear that. They’d spent so many years as parents to get a solid answer, and they didn’t receive it.
The two of them got in yet another fight, yet instead of over the world, this time, the two fought each other with their weakened powers. Even weakened, their power threatened the very fabric of the realm they lived in and the world they created. So, the two of them called on Maeth, and told him that even though he was still young, he would have to make a decision once they returned. With that done, the two of them temporarily removed themselves from both their realm and moved far away from their world to prevent them both from being destroyed.
As Maeth reflected on what he was going to do, Nayte solidified his decision to support neither Charise or Marit by choosing a crown that featured neither Marit’s red gems, or Charise’s blue gems. Doing so would have aligned himself with one of them, and Nayte refused to do so. The two needed to see that not everything was black and white, and this was the best way he was able to do so. After choosing his crown, he talked with Maeth, and Maeth, who’d been given Charise’s gift of obedience, was so loyal to both parents that he couldn’t make up his mind about which to choose.
Eventually, Charise and Marit returned. Nayte and Maeth confronted them, and Nayte spoke for Maeth. He told them that Maeth wouldn’t be able to make a decision, as he was loyal to the both of them and hated seeing the two of them fight all the time. He told them both that whatever wrath they had towards Maeth for failing to make a decision, he would endure, as he’d made the first choice that had thrown everything into chaos. Charise and Marit were furious. Not at Nayte or Maeth, but at each other for wasting time on such a dumb solution to their problem.
The two of them went to their world, where their powers would be weaker, as they were not in their realm. There, the two had a vicious duel, their unbridled rage trumping any romantic feelings they had towards each other. At the end of the battle, Charise emerged victorious, having successfully defeated Marit. Following that day, Marit was never seen again. Wether or not that’s because he’s dead is unclear.
Following Marit’s defeat, Charise resolved that it was time for her to rest. She was, quite frankly, exhausted. So, she began to prepare for her disappearance from the world she’d created that she loved so much. The first thing she needed to do was deal with his children. So, she took both Nayte and Maeth to a desert somewhere in the world. Once there, she cast spells on them that gave them both new identities, identities that would force them to live out normal lives as normal people in her world. Her children would live out perfectly boring little lives in an endless loop until the day came for Charise to return to her world. Her children had disappointed her, and the last thing she wanted to do was wake up from her long slumber to discover that her children had ruined her world more than Marit had.
Following that, Charise began to set up a convoluted way for her children to eventually awaken her. Once that was done, she appeared to a select few of her followers most faithful to her, and granted them the story of her and Marit, and told them of Nayte and Maeth and the way to wake her if she was ever needed again. She also granted them a scroll that told them of the 8 fundamentals she wanted her world to aspire to in the absence of her guidance. This came to be known as the Blessed Scroll.
- Have Compassion for Those Less Fortunate
- Judgement Comes For All
- Interior Beauty is Just as Important as Exterior
- Respect Other's Ideals
- Love Must be Taken at it's Purest Form
- A Union of Two Souls Must only Exist if the Love is True
- Humility is Crucial
- Constant Reflection is Important for Day to Day Life
With all said and done, Charise retreated to her realm and cursed herself into a deep slumber, only to be awoken in the most dire of circumstances. As time passed following her disappearance, the faithful she’d given her guidance hid away the story of her life, only allowing the top ranking members of churches faithful to her to ever lay eyes upon it. And so, Marit, Nayte, and Maeth all faded into obscurity, being completely forgotten by the general public. Even Charise’s name was eventually forgotten, and she came to be known as only the Goddess, or the Mother. And thus, the way to awaken her has been nearly all but lost to history, and Charise continues to sleep an eternal slumber.