Nisumari's Creation Story

The Single Sight religion of the Scholarite culture wrote this story. The followers of the Single Sight believe this story to be factual, but is not among the other religions and sects of the world. 

Nisumari is a land filled with energy and wonder. Legends say that Chrono energy—the energy of time and space—was the very first. It lived beyond the Unkai, out in the deep unknown. It is said that Chrono became lonely and bored with its existence. So, it created life by transforming part of its energy into the energy of Gaia — the energy of life and nature. Chrono, the father of all energy, commanded Gaia to create life among the deep unknown. Obeying her creator, she did as commanded. Using her energy of life, she formed our world we call Unkai. Within the Unkai she placed a central star, which she named Koa, meaning core, to create heat and light. The creation of this star sparked life into Photon, the energy of light, darkness, and the first child of Gaia. 

As Gaia worked on Unkai, Photon wanted to impress his mother, so he created another star in the deep unknown to provide more light to Unkai. He aligned it to orbit around Unkai so that his light could shine on all his mother’s creations. Her son’s work pleased Gaia, and she allowed his star to shine. Being her first son, she named his star, Sun, a name we use when referring to Photon and all his glory. The creation of the Sun and its orbit around Unkai gave birth to Photon’s child, Force—the energy of gravity. Force used its energy to keep the Sun in a constant orbit around Unkai. This pleased his father and grandmother. 

As Photon worked on the Sun, Gaia continued with her work on Unkai. With the aid of her grandson, Gaia created a mass of earth to float around her star and named it Nisumari, protector of creation. Within Nisumari, she placed pools of magma that erupted out of the earth to create the mountains. She rained down water from the heavens to cool the mountains, which created oceans, rivers, and lakes. Nisumari’s transformation gave birth to her next child, Element—the energy of Air, Earth, Fire, Frost, Lightning, and Water. Element continued his mother’s work by creating seasons and different climates throughout Nisumari. This pleased Gaia.

Finally, it came time to cultivate the land and create resources for her children of Nisumari. Gaia's youngest child, Transmutation, filled the continents with minerals, ores, forests, and other resources. Wanting to please her mother, Transmutation took some resources and created all different flora and fauna for each climate of Nisumari. This also pleased Gaia. 

With Nisumari being whole, she turned her focus to creating life forms to live in her world. The first of her creatures was the reptilian dragons. Created with tough scales for protection, long sharp claws and teeth to hunt, large wings to soar and travel quickly through the lands. Element asked his mother if he could add one last component to her dragons. Seeing the initiative in Element, she allowed it. Element added scorching fire breath to allow his brothers and sisters to cook the foods they hunted and create heat for the colder nights and climates. Gaia was pleased. The creation of her first creatures gave birth to another child, Psion—the energy of the psionics, the mind, and chaos.

Psion gave his mother’s creatures sentient thought, allowing them to make their own choices. Gaia watched as her dragons settled into their new world. Generations of dragons would come and go, which sparked a new child of Gaia that she feared, the energy of death, Necrosis. She feared her because she sensed a potent power within Necrosis. A power that could destroy all she worked so hard on. 

As she watched her creatures, she felt something was missing with her creatures. She wanted to give them more, but was at a loss. She went to her father and asked him to look at her world and tell her what she was missing. Chrono, pleased with her hard work, looked at Unkai. He watched the deer run through the forests and the dragons hunt and play. He witnessed volcanos erupting and the desert winds spiraling sand into beautiful patterns. When he returned to Gaia, he told her she had created a beautiful and majestic world. But that her dragons were lonely. That there wasn’t enough life in her world. He told her to create more, to make different creatures for all different climates of her world. Gaia, excited with her father’s advice, rushed off and did just as he suggested. This pleased Chrono. 

Gaia gathered her children and grandchild and asked them for ideas on what new life she should create to live with the dragons. They all came up with brilliant concepts and in the end, she combined their ideas, creating the Cyclops. However, she created them to be large like her dragons and the Cyclops had problems reaching the resources of Element and Transmutation. So, Gaia took parts of the Cyclops and create smaller alternate versions of them. This created the original humanoid species of Nisumari that we know today. She created the Anthropomorphic from different species of animal. She used birds, desert sands, water, cats, swamps, underground, dirt, stones and snakes to make the aves, dwarves, elves, feline, gnomes, goblins, humans, orcs and reptilia. Gaia scattered her new creations around Nisumari and let them grow and thrive. 

When Gaia created the Cyclops, the dragons grew angry, as they felt they were no longer favored by their mother. Out of this anger, the dragons attacked the cyclops’s which started The First War. The war raged for many centuries but ended with the dragons defeated because of the help of Gaia’s other creations. The Dragons have since gone into hiding and are rare and dangerous sights to behold. However, most of the Cyclopes were driven mad from the war and roam the lands attacking wildly at any who come near. 

Millennia later, the humanoid species have evolved into sub-species of their own. Each sub-species adapting to their climates and environments by evolving with mutations to aid them. We are these humanoids, living our lives in the wondrous world created by the deities of old.