Creation Story

This is how the Ghostwise Moiety tell of the creation:

In the beginning, God Sublime, called 绝伦 Jué Lún, created ten wardens, puissant and clever. But some were more clever than others. They were tasked with creating a universe worthy of glory. They were together, they were united, and they were: kingfisher, dragon, raven, stag, luftwhale, tortoise, flying squirrel, locust, salamander, and carp. 

They had almost come to a consensus to unify and collaborate on one magnificent world under the leadership of the kingfisher herself and the guiding will of the tortoise (who was always overflowing with ideas) when the dragon whispered to his neighbor “But what if kingfisher doesn’t value all our contributions equally?” Dragon had wanted to be the leader and was outraged to be following kingfisher.  The stag replied, “Of course she will, we are all in this together.” But he spoke too loudly and the luftwhale overheard him. When dragon saw the look in her eyes, he jumped in and they began to mutter together. 

After a long time of argument, the wardens agreed to tortoise’s new plan: create ten different worlds. Each would be a pure expression of their creator with no collaboration between them. This was when the raven said, “Where is luftwhale?”  They looked around and there were only nine of them. 

While they were searching the skies for luftwhale, dragon said to raven, “Why did kingfisher tell tortoise not to let us help each other?” Raven defended kingfisher loyally and looked suspiciously at dragon ever after this, but the locust took the question to heart and began arguing for collaboration again. 

After another long argument, tortoise proposed that each would choose a few friends to collaborate with and they would share each other’s burdens while building worlds. But raven said “Where is locust?”

This went on until dragon had eaten not only luftwhale, but also locust, carp, and flying squirrel. The next time an argument started raven was watching dragon very carefully. She saw dragon biting stag in half and yelled a warning to the others. Dragon escaped and raven was able to put the two halves of stag back together, although they were never the same after that.

So, kingfisher, tortoise, salamander, stag, and raven followed tortoise’s best plan and helped each other build the sun, the stars and the five worlds. Then they spun the worlds around each other, so that each world had four moons. Each warden had a leading role in making their world after their own image, but took help from the others and combined their strengths. 

The work wasn’t as good as it should have been. 

Not only because they missed their friends’ wisdom and help, but because dragon kept attacking them, or undoing work after they had finished it, or making tunnels everywhere they didn’t belong, and it took them a long time. The wardens had to work together, because the dragon was stronger than any of them individually having eaten so many of their friends. The In the end, dragon didn’t create anything for himself, he only ruined the work of the others.

The five are still guarding against the dragon, because he has not given up wanting to remake the worlds after himself. Welkin is the kingfisher's world, the best of them all, and Skrion is still Lord over all the others and Warden of our world.