Ascenscience Mythos

Age of Origin; The Visage, Eone, and Qiel

In the beginning of everything, there was absolutely nothing; there was no dark, no light, none at
all, it was beyond imaginable(even I the God of Wisdom still cannot grasp the idea of the
nothingness)—then, the universe came forth in the form of the 'Visage', an entity compact of
fundamental material. The Visage is essentially the progenitor of all, it is the creator, and the
universe in and of itself. The moment that the Visage emerged, it had this unrelenting urge to
‘swell', to dominate the nothingness that it set as its rival. From the fragmenting flakes of the void
that rose as the Visage slowly expanded and filled the nothingness, the first god was born—the
void fragments coalesced and ignited into the star-mother, Eone. Eone is one of the three
fundamental gods, the eldest. Eone would collect the void fragments, which are by-products of the
Visage's expansion in the void(also known as the nothingness). Soon, Eone would give birth to
stars, in the same way that she was born—molding and setting the cluster of fragments ablaze; she
created stars beyond counting, and each and every those stars were full of brilliance and beauty.
The emergence of light in the universe(Visage), paved the way for the emergence of dark. The
dark fragments are the by-products of light's expansion as it illuminate the universe; the dark
fragments gave birth to the second fundamental god through almost the same process—
coalescence, but this time without the ignition, and instead through gravitation that steadily took
form. The second fundamental god is the world-forger, Qiel, Eone's younger brother. While Eone
collected void fragments, Qiel collected dark fragments(or shadow fragments as it is sometimes
called), and this act of collection continued for eons; with Eone creating stars whenever she had
collected sufficiently(to bolster the expanse of light), and Qiel, however, simply held on to the
dark fragments he had amassed. That order was unbroken for time beyond counting, even the
Visage itself would not dare count—it was that long... Until the very balance of the universe's
order became somewhat sentient, it tipped, and it revolted against the system, the order itself; this
particular event is hailed as the "Time of Revolt".
Entropic Age; Time of Revolt(the first catalyst), the birth of Kyth the chaos-
born; the creation of Cistareone, the Sun, and the Primordial Soul
As the expansion of the universe continues and seems to be unending(it really is unending though),
for the nothingness beyond the edge of the gushing darkness seems to also be unending, infinite...
And the expansion of Eone's starlight races at quite the same pace—this process began to show
the emptiness brewing within the universe, for only bright and burning stars are found in it. The
balance slowly tipped until after millions of years, this tipping finally culminated into the anomaly
that would cause the order's imbalance—the leaning to chaos, a natural phenomenon(entropy). As
light shone over the darkness, and the illuminated space's nothingness is revealed, another
fragmentation ensued—Kyth, the chaos-born, is the result of that. Kyth is the crucible of life, born
from the sooting fragments of the fleeting darkness under the eternal shower of light. Kyth, unlike
Eone and Qiel, bore an indefinite shape—it is a black and burning cloud, it is a collection of
fragments, but it did not coalesce, it only clumped and burned. Kyth is the third fundamental god,
but again, unlike Eone and Qiel, the chaos-born showed no form of sentience, but the other two
sensed it flickering within it; it simply floated in the universe. Kyth was also a collector, it amassed
the fragments that spawned it, chaos fragments, that would soon be life, be soul. The Visage grew
weary, and pitied, of Kyth's inactivity, as the chaos-born would "boringly" absorb the chaos
fragments that rose from the heated shadows. Eventually, the Visage would manifest its only
intervention—the Visage compelled Qiel through visions to contain and mold Kyth into a form
that is something defined. From there, Qiel finally utilized the dark fragments he had gathered at
that point in time. He contained Kyth's cloud body in a sphere of dark fragments, then, he slowly
reduced the circumference of the sphere and added additional layers of fragments, essentially
compressing Kyth into a condensed sphere of smoldering smoke. The fragments began accreting,
then Kyth began to ignite and heated this coat of dark fragments; eventually, the entire sphere(kyth
and the dark fragments containing it) caught inferno and burned for millions of years—Eone
collected the flames and gave birth to the Sun(central star, guardian of Kyth), and when the flames
were gone, the sphere solidified firmly, becoming what is known as a planet. Kyth is the center(the
core) of this new-born planet, and Qiel has succeeded in bestowing form to his younger sibling.
When Kyth was being compressed, it was still absorbing chaos fragments from everywhere in the
universe but can no longer bind those fragments into his condensed and saturated body—as such,
the unbound chaos fragments were accumulated in the layers of solidified dark fragments(now
earth, or the ground) but as Kyth continued to burn and radiate, the unbound fragments were
essentially smelted and took on a new form, soul; specifically, primordial soul.
Time of the Second Catalyst; the fuel, and the creation of death
Kyth produced countless primordial soul due to the infinite amount of void fragments there
are(which are stuck between the earthen layers then heated through Kyth's radiation), It is Qiel
however that first bound this 'primordial soul'. Qiel constructed the first vessel, he named it
Cerva(the first deity), and the earliest of the primordial souls was bound to Cerva(Cerva is made
of many primordial soul). Qiel who is ever-busy collecting dark fragments, tasked Cerva numerous
and universally-significant tasks: collect other primordial souls, construct vessels, bind the
primordial souls, and distribute these now-beings throughout the planet, which Cerva named
Cistareone. Hundreds of years after, the fundamental god Eone ran into a problem(catalyst)—her
stars were dying, were running out of fuel; and she needs each and every of her stars in order to
illuminate the darkness of the Visage's expansion(the Visage is hell-bent on conquering the
nothingness that is why the expansion is still ongoing). Eone tried simply feeding the flames of
the stars void fragments(its former state), but to no avail—dark fragments did not work as well;
chaos fragments on the other hand, excited the flames but did not really sustain them. As such, she
searched for another, something more refined than the raw chaos fragments—souls. Cerva, deity
of being, have at this point created the primordial dragons, giants, and elder trees. Eone had a hold
of a primordial soul and fed it to one of her stars, it did the same as a chaos fragment albeit more
intense. In this time, every being was immortal, every being simply existed to serve as a vessel of
primordial souls... However everything does lean to chaos, none can escape this, even gods
themselves. Eone sought the aid of Cerva into having hands on a primordial soul that has been
bounded, as the servant of the gods, Cerva agreed. Cerva plucked out a primordial soul from the
first elder tree—the first death. When Eone fed a once-bounded primordial soul to one of her stars,
it did just what she wanted; it successfully intensified the flames and sustained it, prolonging its
life and reigniting its glorious brilliance—thus, Eone needed more primordial souls. Eone and
Cerva learned that the longer the primordial soul is bounded, the greater fuel it becomes(this is
because an unbounded primordial soul is chaotic but inactive, and when it is bound it begins to
lean into order, be it an order of goodness or wrongness, stars feed on this order). She ordered
Cerva again to resolve this. Cerva, felt that the task laid by the star-mother would be too consuming
of his grand time, he has other things to do, much more than what Eone, Qiel, and Kyth do—thus
he bestowed sentience and sapience, just like what Cerva has, to the ancient beings(primordial
dragons, giants, and the elder trees) but removed them of their immortality so that the primordial
soul will stay and be refined in the vessel for as long as possible; Cerva have now created death.
Eone was free of her worries, and the expansion of her starlight ensued and was even more brighter.
Qiel, as long as the expansion ensues, there are dark fragments to collect. After the creation of
death, life evolved on Cistareone.
Time of the Third Catalyst, the First Murder; creation of the Heaven, Hell,
and Purgatory—the Soul dimensions; Creation of the Law of Reciprocation
After that cosmic commotion, the third problem(a catalyst) occured—the first murder. At first,
Cerva contemplated that the bestowment of sapience would be a mistake, but he stood firmly, he
saw it as a way of ascension and a refinement of the soul, of the primordial soul. A primordial
dragon, bearing the name of Yaldin, killed a giant out of infuriation. The primordial soul stored in
the giant was not refined to its utmost time, but it still served a great fuel for yet another dying
star—Cerva grew curious about the primordial soul, he wanted to understand it completely and
maybe utilize it in some way, he also realized that he still have not served the chaos-born Kyth.
After thousands of years, he gained several understandings about the primordial soul; bestowing
value to primordial soul helped Cerva understood it, he first assumed how things would progress,
and observations validated those assumptions that he made; since the vessels he created have
sapience, he created the basic morality—the first of those understandings is that the primordial
soul is malleable, it is indefinite, however, (so far)the only way to alter it is through the doings of
its vessel and not by some external or governing force; the next is that when a vessel is damaged,
the bounded primordial soul within it is disturbed(the refinement of the chaos within the primordial
soul as it leans to order is momentarily stopped, or at least slowed), what is damaged is the
primordial soul of the attacker vessel(their primordial soul leans to chaos even more than it was
previously). Upon this foundation of knowledge, Cerva created other dimensions in order to
systematically control and contain the flow of the primordial soul—Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven;
Hell is divided into four layers(the mirror, the grave, the coffin, and the crucible) this is where
primordial souls whose order is that of wrongness at the moment of their death are arduously
purified in order to be used as a fuel, Heaven is simply the pathway of primordial souls of goodness
towards their stars(a single primordial soul of goodness is enough to fuel a star; a single purified
wrong however cannot and thus, is first needed for about hundreds to be collected for it to become
just as sufficient as a primordial soul of goodness); Purgatory is a chaotic dimension where
everything exists simultaneously, it is where everything struggles to take control, it is where
primordial souls whose values are somehow reduced are thrown—the value of a primordial soul
that is reduced, whether of goodness or wrongness, is deemed unfit to be a fuel. In addition to the
creation of these dimensions, Cerva created a law: the Law of Reciprocation, the law determines
what order a primordial soul would lean—when a being successfully abided a demand, they lean
to the order of goodness; failure to comply to a demand, leans one to wrongness(it is quite a tool
to redeem your order when you are still living). The law does not really control the value of a
primordial soul, as a primordial soul is governable only by the actions of the vessel—the law of
reciprocation functions simply by the enforcement of consequential fear, and hell is the
consequence.
Age of Gods; creation of the Servant Deities, and the birth of Humanity
After yet another eon, Cerva gave birth to deities more inferior than him, in order to distribute the
burden of the work and ensure that everything flows as it is intended—to name a few: Sartorius,
watcher of heavens; Baronganthur, the grave-lord; Corvettus, the grave-tender; and Vesreitas, the
world arbiter. After the birth of those deities, a new age ushered—the Age of Gods. Life on
Cistareone thrived as expected by Cerva, primordial dragons dominated the skies, the elder trees
towered over the mountains, and giants ventured from the different lands. Cerva then created a
lesser version of him, Vecier, the molder; and through Vecier, humanity was born—Vecier grew
tired of molding giants, so he would mold smaller ones whenever Cerva focuses his attention on
other things... When Cerva took notice, it did not really budge him(Cerva and Vecier is quite the
same afterall).
Time of the Final Catalyst, Kyth's Starvation; creation of the New Soul,
emergence of the Progenitor Flame and the Corrotion
After about millions of years, the fourth problem(catalyst) occured. As the edge of expansion
became cosmically far from Cistareone, the chaos fragments took almost eternally long to arrive
at the reaches of Kyth—as such, at one point, Kyth was parched. His heat grew weak and most of
the buried chaos fragments in the earth were not smelted properly—resulting in the 'new soul'(no
longer a primordial as it was different from the old); the new soul is simply a lesser version of the
primordial soul, it is less richer but nevertheless still whole. As such, vessels who inherited the
new soul have a much shorter life span compared to those who inherited a primordial soul; this is
because the chaos within the new soul leans more faster to order(humanity inherited most of the
new souls). Not only that, some part of Kyth's condensed body collapsed and released fumes,
fumes of absolute chaos—the fumes seeped through the earth and brought bizzare and arcane
things to the surface(of Cistareone), neither of which were purely good. Flames of unprecedented
energy that would soon be turned into magic, the Progenitor Flame, first discovered by the
primordial dragons then humans which eventually laid the foundation of early civilizations; and
the other, is the 'corrotion', a sort of curse that tarnishes the value of the primordial soul and the
new soul, sealing the chaos within the souls, preventing the leaning to order. Cerva felt the
uselessness of Qiel and Eone in this time, he took it to himself and proclaimed himself a god before
resolving what is happening to the chaos-born Kyth. Cerva and his lesser self, Vecier, wrung their
essence out into devising the right action. Eventually, they triumphed—Cerva collected the lesser
soul, the new soul, and bounded it to the soul-less humanity but bestowed them the capacity to
transform and ascend, unlike other beings before them; Vecier revamped Hell itself, he changed
the flow of the purified souls of wrongness, for instead of it being used as fuel to the stars, all
purified souls at that point will be used to feed Kyth... Quench the chaos-born of its thirst(this
however, would prove to be quite a devastating mistake as Kyth's contained chaos grew more and
more chaotic); then, Cerva created another law, the Law of Being—that when something, be it a
feeling, an emotion, an entity overwhelms the material plane(dimension containing Cistareone), a
being of higher authority, specifically a deity, can collect this excess, this mass, and give birth to
a spawn; Cerva fully knows that Kyth will grew more chaotic, and imbalances that weigh on the
surface contribute to the speed of this descend into chaos, and in order to at least lessen the
instances of that, the second law was created. After that, Kyth was tended, was fed, it stabled...
For now. When Cerva bestowed to himself godhood, he also bestowed Vecier complete autonomy,
becoming an entity of his own—he also became the deity of being, replacing Cerva.
From there, civilization took over. The Age of Man ushered... And soon, the Age of Ruin
 The tale of the Suntouched, the First of the Flame, the Sun-wielder, the
Allsage, the God of Wisdom, the Narrator, the Writer—Agorix
In the time just before the Second Catalyst, there were only primordial dragons, giants, and elder
trees... No mortals yet. Cistareone was stale in those time, nothing but rock, mountains, and the
sky. A primordial dragon by the name of Agorix rose through the other dragons purely with his
ambition—while the others conquered and flocked the ashen sky, he wanted to venture beyond;
he, Agorix, adored the Sun so much that he wanted to fly to it, he wanted to intimately connect
with the Sun. Thus, he did. He waited for the right time, when the Sun was the closest to
Cistareone(the Sun revolves around Cistareone). When the right time came, he extended his wings
to the utmost and flapped... He almost created a storm at that moment. In an instant, he broke
through the sky, and reached beyond it—he found himself in the speck of the universe, there, he
discovered millions of other stars(other than that, is the seemingly infinite emptiness). He was
amazed and mesmerized by the sight of millions of flickering light scattered throughout the pitch-
black universe, but his eyes were set to the Sun. He loved the Sun. Agorix flapped his wings unto
nothing, the universe is empty—for days he struggled so much that his body began to accumulate
cracks, for days he flew. Eventually, fueled with absolute determination, he entered the crown of
the Sun(an area of intensified heat, where rays of light are pillars of flame). As Agorix drew closer
and closer to the Sun, the cracks in his body widened and his primordial soul began to leak; the
flames of the crown intensified as it came in contact with the primordial soul. When Agorix finally
reached the sun, his body was full of fissures and his wings were burnt black... No longer can he
fly, and Agorix's mind was certain of his impending demise even though death have yet to truly
manifest and be integrated by Cerva. Amidst all of the pain, joy and glory filled Agorix, the
emptiness growing within him as his primordial soul leak were quenched—To celebrate, agorix
bit the beautifully-raging flames of the Sun and filled every space within his mouth with it, then,
with his cheeks crumbling as it burned, he swallowed the sunfire. While the flames were running
down his throat, he bit more flames... As much as he could. When the swallowed fires of Sun
reached Agorix's primordial soul deep within his body, Agorix exploded into blazing fragments.
Little did he know, that his courageous(foolish) and admirable act was being watched by the star-
mother herself, Eone. All along, Eone took her notice... The Sun is one of her children after all.
Eone, moved by Agorix's adoration of the Sun, collected his burning fragments(of his former body
and primordial soul) and from there, molded Agorix anew... She resurrected him. Agorix no longer
was a primordial dragon, he seems to resemble the form of the would-be man(a dragonborn to be
exact). The star-mother greatly admired Agorix, she fell to an extent—Eone bestowed Agorix the
power to wield the Sun itself; call forth a blade of sunfire, or be wherever the rays of the Sun
would reach, Agorix gained immense knowledge throughout the expanse of time and space.
Agorix became a god(just significantly higher than a deity), albeit lesser than the fundamentals.
Agorix never knew what a god is before that encounter... All beings on Cistareone never knew. He
fell for the goddess, as the goddess fell for him—they shared a stare of intimacy. Then, the goddess
returned to her duty(collecting void fragments and creating more stars) and Agorix returned to
Cistareone; where he watched and worshipped the Sun, as he learns about the entirety of the
universe, from before his time and beyond it. Beyond the highest peak, where the rays of the Sun
are blindingly bright, Agorix rests... As he bathed in the light of his love.