The Eye of Creation
The Eye Of Creation is a potent magic symbol. It is the first letter in the Language of Creation and its akin to a vowel. Its the first symbol aprentice magicians learn. Legend has it that an Akkadian wizard first drew this symbol in the sands out side Ninevah after a dream he had while napping. After he drew it, the young mage was torn in half by two opposing forces. He was the first human to realise the Eternal Struggle, and both sides claimed him as their own. The Eye of Creation is not just a symbol it is also a map of Creation. Mages are instructed on its key points, as well as protocols, and how to behave if ever they happen to travel to those points.
Here is a simple map and explaination of this glyph. Be warned, a little knowlege is a dangerous thing.
1. This is Heaven. Here can be found the Creator, Elohim. He is the Balance. The fulcrum. The perfect point in the exact center of Order and Chaos. The Fulcrum is a singluarity and is paradoxically the smallest point of all, yet it houses the Infinite Mansions of God.
2.This is the Iron City of Dis. This infinite city is located as far away from the Fulcrum as one can be, yet still be within the boarders of Neutrality. It is a Realm of Law and Order. Chaos and Disrule are chased out and extinguished with severe persecution. It is the last place a material body can exist before leaving the jurisdiction of Elohim and entering the jurisdiction of Bahamat. Beyond Dis there is pure Order. Chemcial reactions can not happen, and the process of organic life can not happen.
3. Pandemonium: This is the City of Demons, of infinite Chaos. This is as far as you can get from the Fulcrum and still be within god's creation. Here Chaos is king, entropy is the way. The landscape changes, as do the seasons. It is a harsh place to call home as nothing is consistant. The laws of physics are merely hints here. It is the last place a material body can exist before all physical laws break down and matter can not form. Beyond is the jurisdiction of Tiamat. Organic life is impossible there.
4. The "North" Fontanelle. It is here that creation rotates on its Cosmic Axis. North being a term we humans give to make it easier for us. Here the realm of stablity where all the Wormholes from the Imagination come. If a wormhole does not enter creation from one of the two Fontanelles, it is unstable and may dissolve. Surrounding the Realm of Stablity can be found a being of immense power. It is made of Ectoplasm and takes the form of what ever the place the observer percieves as desirious. Here anything a traveller may need is found. Be warned, there is a price, part of your soul is drained while staying here. Its how the Creature feeds. Its a symbiotic relationship. It feeds, heals and shelters you, but you give it some of your soul. Some weak willed travelers never leave, and eventually fade away, becoming part of this Last Place. Travellers have many names for this living Location. Fiddler's Green, the Last Place, or Elysium.
5. Here at the "South" Fontanelle is the other end of the Cosmic Axis. It is pretty much the same as the North, but the being that resides here is a bit more benevolent and a bit more social. It manifests itself as a place were travellers can meet. Beings of all types can be seen here talking and trading information. The Intellegence here has two rules that are kept by threat of his immense powers. All must trade stories, for it loves gossip, and no one may fight. You will also be feed, sheltered and healed here, but you will give up some of your soul. Some people have elected to stay here also, but they retain their indivuality and work as staff in the Inn Between Worlds. Just as up North, there are many names for this place, Valhalla, The Inn Between, The Spirit Academy and many others.
6. Here is the area out side of Law, Chaos and Balance. This is the abyss or some have called it, Hell. It is filled with entities that defy description. Few have ventured there, and even fewer have returned.
Order and Chaos are two planes of existance that are slowely converging. When the plane of Order first clashed with the plane of Chaos Balance was created. This event, when balance was created has many names; the birth of god, the Big Bang etc.. As the two opposing planes creap closer and closer, Balance grows. Conflict has broken out, and the Eternal Struggle started. The Agents of Order have fought against the Minions of Chaos ever since the begining. Unfortunality, the only place they can fight is where Chaos and Order meet, which happens to be the only place where humans can exist, within Our Universe. As the two planes converge, tension builds. There are many theories as to what will happen when Order, Balance, and Chaos are all equal in the great Convergence. Will God, or Elohim, become supreme and absorb Bahamat of Order and Tiamat of Chaos? Will God begin to die as the planes then begin to pass each other and Balance dwindles into oblivion? Will Order become Chaos and Chaos become Order as, again, Balance dies and diminishes?
More notes on Order, Balance and Chaos.
Tiamat is the Intellegence that forms the entirety of Chaos. She is the Soul of that plane. All Chaos radiates from her. She is as upredictable as she is powerful.
Bahamat is the intellegence and the soul of Order. He is as resolute and as unchanging as he is powerful. All order radiates from his mind.
Elohim, or God, is the soul of our plane, the plane of Balance. He is the Fulcrum. He was "born" when Chaos married Order. Without either, He, and by extention, us, can not exist. The Plane of Balance houses all matter and material planes. It is said that there are an infinite amount of material planes, but the more common number is 144,000. Each has its own suborinate intellegence that rules each universe. And they all answer to Metatron, the viceroy to Elohim. Each Material Universe is seperated by a high energy realm refered to as Rifts. Sometimes the rifts breakdown and universes collide. This usually results in the destruction of both universes. Think of Balance as a diamond. In the exact center of that diamond can be found God. On the surface is the boundry of Creation. Once you leave the surface of this diamond you have left the Authority of God and are subject to either the rules of Bahamat, the whims of Tiamat, or worse, the unknown of the abyss*. On the inside of the Diamond, using the inside of the surface, can be found all the 144,000 material planes of existane, and between them, the Rifts that keep them seperated and safe. The space between the inside surface and the dot that is God, is the land of the Ethereal. A gray place of emptyness. Here can be found Demi planes, places where lesser intellegences have formed their own lesser, subordinalte universe. These tend to be less stable and either dissolve, or fall to the "surface" and form a new material plane. Some examples of these demiplanes are the Dark Plane of Orcus, or the Third Place**. Here angels can be seen leading souls to Heaven, or Necrophages eating a helpless spirit. Poltergeists roam in small herds, wrecking havok in the nearest material world.
Since we live on the inside surface of this "diamond" we think of heaven as UP. Hell is therefore DOWN as its on the other side and beyond god.
So to finish the diamond analogy, think of each material world as its own facet. The edges of each facet would represent the Rifts.
It has recently been discovered that the Eye of Creation casts a shadow. Since all light radiates from point one on that map, the lines formed by the intersections cast a shadow that penetrates into the Abyss beyond. This shadow is a universe unto itself, but a bleak, dreay universe filled with shadow life and horrors.
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