The Fall of Icin
When Adoneem befell the stars and kissed each one with light, the void began to move, and from its vast toils, Edara was born.
Edara. He placed her not too close to the sun and gave her the night star, to brighten the darkness on her other side.
In these first ages of Edara, Adoneem called upon his four children and gave them clay to mould her shape. They churned and curved Edara and in a magical explosion, Mountains, Seas and Rivers were born. Life came about soon after that.
Tiny, it was at first and the brothers watched each moment as the Eltus grew tall and stretched its leaves into the sunshine. Leisurely the roots dug deep beneath the soil. A second tree began to grow beside a ridge and then more beyond that. After a time Edara was covered in a beautiful green blanket.
Adoneem stripped the bark of the first tree and took from it, the heart of life. He broke the heart into four and divided it between each son. Hana breathed his share into the wind, where bird and butterfly took to the skies. Lugol touched the soils and rocks; he buried the fraction he had been given, deep into the earth below him. From under his feet a new world began, worm, ant, deer, bore, tiger, and many creatures appeared. Astragolus took his to the oceans where the heart gave birth to fish, whales and all sea creatures. Edara suddenly flourished with life that reached every stream and every pool, it covered every mountain and very rock. The skies were rich in colour and song as the first tree fell dying fell and breathed a last sigh, the branches, slipped over Gillies Rock into cascading waters where life and magic was turning to depart from the place whence it had begun.
Icin of fire, knew that he could not give Edara life. His gift could only destroy all that was done. In shame he hung his head away from his brothers. One tear of fire fell from his face onto the object in his hand and. in anger; he threw it into the waterfall. The forest burst into a sorrowful flame. His act could not be undone and Adoneem raised his mighty hand to put out the fire. Each of his sons had given a gift and he could not take away the gift of his youngest. He decided then to change it and as the waters began to dance, from it the dwellers of these lands climbed forth.
First the Menehune, pixies, fairies and magical folk. The Kwell, the Elf, the Dwarf and lastly, Mankind. When the waters had finished giving life, a ring of fire sealed the pool. No-one could enter and no-one could escape. The gods called this place Elixim. They vowed to hide it deep within the belly of Gillies forest so that it could not be found.
Icin raged at the sight of this and when it was quiet, he looked upon his brothers and on Edara’s fields. The furnace within him was bright as he wished Edara for himself. He wanted to be a creator and with all his might he took his gift of fire, waved it at the world and breathed his filthy wroth upon the skies. The songs of the Dragon-bird ceased. They grew into giant beasts. From their lungs now came great flames. All living things began to fear them as they played upon the fields of golden sand.
Astragulos spoke softly to the oceans and rain fell to Edara, putting out the firestorms. While Hana whispered to the sky, wind began to blow and it cast away the ashes of destruction. Lugol forged tools of stone and metal to protect beings from the beasts.
Icin was not pleased and from his furnace came the Goblin, Gremlin and Gaul. He had learned to create creatures that were complex in nature and that would serve him alone. The Gaul were, as tall as the Kwell, the Goblin as quick as the Elf and the Gremlin was small and mischievous but as gifted as the Menehune.
When the furnace within Icin burned brightest, they began to eat flesh and drink the blood of men.
Adoneem saw all that was bad. He was angry and had to punish Icin for the pain that was inflicted on the creatures of Edara. He called a council and before the gods, he banished Icin from Edara. The “lord of fire” would not retreat and that is where the greatest war began.
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