Creationis IV – VI

[Creationis, IV:1] And so did all life in the Verse live in harmony and bliss, content in admiring the Flame and its’ glorious incandescence for time immemorial.

[Creationis, IV:2] But after what could only be counted as eons, the Mason again stirred with discontent; for his most beloved children, the Archangels, sought to tend to their creations of animals, plants and Men rather than convene and parlay with the Mason, leaving their father to reign over the Heavens in lonesome solitude.

[Creationis, IV:3] This had made the Mason loathsome, and as the centuries passed, he turned away from the Archangels and their machinations, seeking to travel the currents of the Verse for solace from his antipathy.

[Creationis, IV:4] In time, the Mason had even forgotten the love and embrace of the Flame itself, and was nearly consumed by his animus and lonesomeness, until he was stricken with a great epiphany.

[Creationis, IV:5] The Mason would design a new progeny, a Thirteenth Archangel, one that would know only love for him, and not of the Flame and its’ power of creation.

[Creationis, IV:6] And so, with his great and powerful tools of creation, the Mason would take not from the Flame to make, but instead stole from the shadows of Hel in so that his child would never lust for the Light over he.

[Creationis, IV:7] And so, with a blackened heart and the darkness of Hel itself, the Thirteenth Archangel was crafted by the Mason’s hand. This would become known as the Prime Hubris.

[Creationis, IV:8] The Thirteenth was different than Her kindred Archangels, for Her skill was pale and sickly as harvested ivory, and Her wings bore a shade black as the longest, darkest night.

[Creationis, IV:9] Yet the Mason had been successful, for She loved Her father more than anything else in the entire Verse, and to the Mason’s eye, she had been the most beautiful creation he had ever wrought into the Verse.

[Creationis, IV:10] The Mason, elated with his new creation, summoned all the Archangels to Heaven to gaze upon his design, for he was eager to share his work with his kin and family.

[Creationis, IV:11] And so did the Archangels come in haste, beckoned as they were, for their father had been absent from the palaces of Heaven for so very long.

[Creationis, IV:12] But when the Angels had returned to Heaven, they did not share their father’s elation, but were instead overcome with disgust.

[Creationis, IV:13] For where the Mason had seen beauty within the Thirteenth, the Archangels could only perceive wickedness; they had looked upon their Sister with revulsion, mortified that their father would look upon such a creation with adoration.

[Creationis, IV:14] For the Archangels had known that the Thirteenth was not like they, for She was not born of the Flame, but of the darkness of Hel.

[Creationis, IV:15] And this appalled and terrified the Archangels, blessed as they were to be Children of the Flame.

[Creationis, IV:16] And so, the Archangels insisted their Sister be cast from the Heavens, to be destroyed and discarded to the shadows of Hel, for fear that She would taint the realms of Heaven and Eden with blight and defilement.

[Creationis, IV:17] But the Mason cherished the Thirteenth so much that he could not bear to cast Her away, and so did he bid Her to live with him in solitude, within the farthest corners of Heaven, away from Her brethren who would look upon her with disdain and call for her ruin.

[Creationis, IV:18] And so, the Mason was content for time immemorial, secluded in the farthest reaches of heaven with his daughter, lonely no longer.

[Creationis, V:1] As the eons came and passed, a dark force had begun to stir within the Thirteenth Archangel; the essence of Anger, a vice of which had never been known to that of Heaven or Eden.

[Creationis, V:2] Having faced the scorn and ridicule of her kindred Angels, the Thirteenth began judging them as flawed and broken creations, unworthy of Her own love and empathy.

[Creationis, V:3] For She could never forgive Her kin for insisting her destruction, even despite her father’s great and unconditional love.

[Creationis, V:4] And thus, Her Anger would turn to Loathing, and from Loathing, Pride; a vice in which the Thirteenth reveled in, learning to scorn her brethren Archangels, and seeing them as lesser to She in every way.

[Creationis, V:5] For it had been the Mason himself whom reassured Her for eons and eons that She was even more glorious and graceful as Her brethren born of the Flame, and that She was beauty incarnate to behold.

[Creationis, V:6] And so Pride had consumed the Thirteenth, and would in time stir even a darker, more sinister vice within her shadowy soul; a vice that would be come to known as Hatred, and that of which claimed dominion over the Thirteenth

[Creationis, V:7] This First Hatred is known to us as the Prime Hatred, and the Thirteenth delighted in its’ company.

[Creationis, V:8] The Prime Hatred would soon consume the Thirteenth, becoming part of Her very essence, and would drive Her to wish ruin upon everything that had worshiped or drew life from the Flame.

[Creationis, V:9] So zealous was Her hatred of the Flame, the Thirteenth would come to even loathe her own creator, the Mason, touched by the radiant incandescence as he was.

[Creationis, V:10] And so, one fateful eve, the Thirteenth denounced Her brethren and father, and would abscond from her place within the Heavens, abandoning the realm of the Archangels and The Mason for the sanctuary and shadows of Hel itself.

[Creationis, VI:1] The Thirteenth’s exodus from Heaven had saddened the Mason beyond words could ever communicate.

[Creationis, VI:2] His most beloved creation and child, the Thirteenth, had abandoned him, much like the Archangels had prior.

[Creationis, VI:3] The Mason knew that the Thirteenth would not survive long within the confines of Hel, for She was young and filled with ignorance and nativity; She would find no safe harbor amongst the Ancients or their domain, even having been created from their stolen shadows of Hel.

[Creationis, VI:4] Yet as heartbroken as he was, he could not face the expanses of Hel in search of his daughter, for it was the Ancients domain, and he had been cast off by them so many eons ago.

[Creationis, VI:5] And it was known to the Mason that he would know great pain for intruding upon the Ancients within their sacred home if he were to pursue his daughter into the depts of Hel.

[Creationis, VI:6] This thought had filled the Mason with fear, and as much as he loved and yearned to rescue his beloved daughter, he could not bring himself to disturb the Ancients and risk their wrath and ire.

[Creationis, VI:7] Thus, through the Mason’s fearfulness, the Thirteenth had been left to fend for herself within the domain of Hel, left to the devices and designs of the wicked Ancient Ones.

[Creationis, VI:8] This act of cravenness on behalf of the Mason would be come to known as the Prime Cowardice and would forsake the Verse and Eden for ever more.