The Lords of Beasts & the Lady of Grains

Now, the Bright Gods, the First Children, had between Them created the Elementals, the Immortals, and the Mortals. The Elementals answered directly to the Bright Ones who held their Domain. The Immortals, but rarely, sought guidance from whosoever seemed most likely to give it. The Mortals, though, seemed never to cease poising questions. Among the First Children, Illyana alone was spared the greatest of grief by Her lack of physical Dominion.

Berrin, roaring His rage, called upon His Siblings to meet together that They might undo that which They had wrought. Alone among Her Siblings, Illyana refused.

Though They sought with all Their might to call back those portions of Their Domains given to Mortal Life, the strength of the souls within their forms was such that only the First Children united could unmake what was made.

Temos and Thira brought howling winds to scour Life from the Lands, but Mortal Life found shelter in the Earth or learned to soar upon the winds. When Levin shook the earth and split it asunder, the plants with their roots held Earth together. Cybel then tried to hide all the water of the Bright Lands, but there was too much to hide. Berrin sent Fire across the masses of the Bright Lands, but no matter how much He burned, Life sprung back.

Illyana, watching all this, conceived another Idea. She called Her weary Siblings together and asked what bothered Them so. They, to a One, answered that it was the almost ceaseless questionings.

She asked if the questions decreased, would They give up the pursuit of unmaking Mortal Life and They answered that They would. Thus satisfied, the Dark Goddess shared with Them Her Idea.

Illyana would gift each of Her Siblings with children, born not just of the essence of Their Domains, but of Their own Divine Essence. Her Siblings were at first shocked by such a suggestion.

To prove how such could be done, the Dark Goddess asked each for a portion of Their Essence. They each, but for Thira, reluctantly gave a very small portion of Their Divinity to the First Child’s demonstration. The Wind Rider stated Her objection as that She was not wholly angered by the questionings for the Man creature often amused Her.

And so it was that the Dark Goddess formed two child gods from the Divine Essence of the First Children, one Female and one Male. She brought forth from Her womb two souls whose time would not pass ere the Primal Darkness swallowed back up the Bright Lands and breathed them into the Divine forms.

Yet as the souls alighted within their new forms, the Boy-God’s soul split in twain. By the nature of His form, His body also split in two. And now there were Three: Llyra, Lady of Grains; Utaro, Master of the Hunt; and Wergun Dark Steed.

The Second-Born went out among Mortal Life and soon the torrent of questions lessened. The First Children, the Bright Gods, were satisfied for a time and would not part with more of Their Essence.