I. Genesis
"I am the Eternal Spirit, I am the Sun that rose from the Primeval Waters. My soul is God, I am the creator of the word. Evil is my abomination, I see it not. I am the creator of the order wherein I live, I am the word, which will never be annihilated in this my name of 'soul.'"
𝕭efore life began and before even the universe existed, there was only the Light. The Light existed as a boundless sea of living energy, swelling across all of existence, unfettered by time and space. Yet as the ever-shifting sea expanded, pockets of cold nothingness appeared. From these, the Deep was born. The Deep quickly grew and began to move against the Light. Eventually, the mounting tension between the two forces ignited a series of explosions that ruptured the very fabric of creation, giving birth to the physical universe and Anu. The energies released from the clash between Light and Darkness raged across the nascent universe, forming countless primordial worlds. For long epochs, the ever-expanding universe broiled in a maelstrom of fire and magic. Shards of Light were flung throughout reality, suffusing worlds with the spark of life.
II. THE CREATOR |
𝖂ho is "Anu?" The only true thing known about Him was that He was there to witness the creation of the universe. He was the first utterance apart from time, apart from the worlds, the planes, far before they existed, in fact. Anu was everything. He has all faults and all glories, all elements and all knowledge, all concepts and all theories. His glory veils even the Sun. It is said, in some parts, the sun's rays only shine in the space left behind by Anu's radiance, the sun existing only in deference and awe. Splendor submits to Anu and beauty fails before Anu. He is the fulcrum of what we call the Light, its one true herald. The sky withers and retracts and all that can remain without Anu languishes in mediocrity. Yes, Anu is greatness, but the price of knowing such brilliance is the sundering of one's own 'self'. Why should we bother to know our own visage or to look even at the Sun while we choose to remain so ignorant of what Anu is? It is all darkness by comparison... He knows of every quasar in the universe to every apple on each tree. He watches as a universe begins to create around him, different systems and quadrants with their own unique pantheons and gods. He sees the tips of Ash Tree's branches that splay across the starry sky sprout from the size of a mustard seed..he takes note of Adam and Eve's plight, the parting and closing of the Red Sea. With a fleeting glance he beholds a poor carpenter turn water into wine.
Anu in his vastness created two different beings in succession, bequeathing a piece of his eternal power within each. He did this to give his newfound children the power to create in their image. He had created Kronos and En-il in that order. And by doing so, as their father watched, he had started the two divine races that would come to dominate the universe for eons to come. Kronos would fashion the Emanations, and En-il the Isu Pantheon. As Anu's children grew fat in knowledge, they began to retain extraordinary powers. Anu gave a "plane" to each of his children to populate and shepherd, so that the mantle of creator can be passed to each of them and Anu can finally observe, as he once had, without interfering. To En-il, Elysium was given as it was suggested that the Isu were most capable of protecting Anu while he entered god-stasis within the Primeval Waters. En-il had assigned his child he determined most capable, Erragal to maintain the Isu's position in Elysium, as he went to host the Material Plane to shepherd the different species across the known galaxy. Fickle from birth was Kronos, who received the dismal pits of the Netherworld . Silent, Kronos begrudgingly did all that was asked of him, inseparably loyal to his father.
Anu in his vastness created two different beings in succession, bequeathing a piece of his eternal power within each. He did this to give his newfound children the power to create in their image. He had created Kronos and En-il in that order. And by doing so, as their father watched, he had started the two divine races that would come to dominate the universe for eons to come. Kronos would fashion the Emanations, and En-il the Isu Pantheon. As Anu's children grew fat in knowledge, they began to retain extraordinary powers. Anu gave a "plane" to each of his children to populate and shepherd, so that the mantle of creator can be passed to each of them and Anu can finally observe, as he once had, without interfering. To En-il, Elysium was given as it was suggested that the Isu were most capable of protecting Anu while he entered god-stasis within the Primeval Waters. En-il had assigned his child he determined most capable, Erragal to maintain the Isu's position in Elysium, as he went to host the Material Plane to shepherd the different species across the known galaxy. Fickle from birth was Kronos, who received the dismal pits of the Netherworld . Silent, Kronos begrudgingly did all that was asked of him, inseparably loyal to his father.
III. The king of kings
𝓐t first, the Emanations were massive, peaceful forces of nature. They sought relaxation and for the natural order of things to take place without interruption. All but their father, Kronos, lived this way. Kronos came into contact with a primordial force that existed even before he; the aforementioned Darkness, who referred to itself as "the Winnower." Kronos was coerced into feeling envious of his own father. Over the course of the Creation Saga, he demonstrated a strong capacity for arrogance. He styled himself as the "lord of the pantheon" and "the greatest of these [gods]" and demanded praise from the other gods. This escalated into outright conflict with En-il, who challenged him in these assertions; causing a schism in the universe, with most of the deities supporting one or other of them. This need for chronical adoration also inevitably led him to hate Anu, whom he accused as "an usurper of the Winnower". Although his desire for praise placed him in conflict with En-il, neither could slay the other, but this didn't stop them from fighting savagely. In the battle, Erragal's weapon as he fought alongside his father fell from the heavens and was taken by a frightened and young daemon known as Atriox. Years later, when Atriox happened to encounter Kronos again, he was displeased with Atriox and tried to destroy him to acquire the staff, but was prevented from doing so by its own power. Instead, he saw fit to make Atriox his "champion", and converted the staff into a hellish version of itself. Across the rest of the saga, his conflict with En-il scalated to a war among his own brethren.
Kronos began to commune with the Darkness, seduced by its philosophies of a Final Shape, adopting the powers of the Deep. His ultimate goal became to bring about an end-state of the universe in which the only entities that exist are those that have overcome all possible obstacles to their survival, and which have the strength to continue existing forever. The Darkness referred to this goal as the "final shape" of the universe. Following the trauma of this revelation and disillusioned with meaningless hedonism, the Emanations became progressively more ambitious. The natural order of things in the Netherworld had become a farce to Kronos, and he refused to play the fool. Where once Kronos lived only for the moment, his newfound awareness of his role in it all has ruined his ability to lose himself in the bedlam. He refused to succumb to listlessness, and just as he had been known to push revelries a few steps too far, Kronos began working a plan to elevate himself from Emanation to Creator.
With his play on words and outspoken cleverness, he brewed a passion within the Emanations that was unprecedented, and all immediately rallied to his call. All but one, the wily Prometheus, who grew wary of his cousin--but knew better than his younger brother to do battle with Kronos. Prometheus went to En-il, Father of the Isu and told him of Kronos’ dangerous intent of annexing their father. En-il knew to go to Ra, both of which concluded that their hand was forced to action to defend Anu , who would be vulnerable in his current state of god-stasis.
And so Kronos caught and enslaved Giru in his first act of war, as a captive resource to hammer out powerful Artifacts of which he would supply his Emanation brethren with. For Kronos he made a weapon that could only be brandished by beings of extraordinary strength. In it contained the trapped essence of the energies of the beforetimes, when the universe was a cosmic broil of chaos, untamed power and untouched energy. This staff had the potential to mow down entire civilizations like wheat in a field. Lunastra was its name, and it very quickly accumulated enough power to become the sole existing object in the universe that posed any threat to Anu. He began the steady march toward the Primeval Waters, one that shook the universe. In his path he built a contemporary empire, conquering all in his way and enslaving those who did not acquiesce to the philosophy of the Deep.
Kronos began to commune with the Darkness, seduced by its philosophies of a Final Shape, adopting the powers of the Deep. His ultimate goal became to bring about an end-state of the universe in which the only entities that exist are those that have overcome all possible obstacles to their survival, and which have the strength to continue existing forever. The Darkness referred to this goal as the "final shape" of the universe. Following the trauma of this revelation and disillusioned with meaningless hedonism, the Emanations became progressively more ambitious. The natural order of things in the Netherworld had become a farce to Kronos, and he refused to play the fool. Where once Kronos lived only for the moment, his newfound awareness of his role in it all has ruined his ability to lose himself in the bedlam. He refused to succumb to listlessness, and just as he had been known to push revelries a few steps too far, Kronos began working a plan to elevate himself from Emanation to Creator.
With his play on words and outspoken cleverness, he brewed a passion within the Emanations that was unprecedented, and all immediately rallied to his call. All but one, the wily Prometheus, who grew wary of his cousin--but knew better than his younger brother to do battle with Kronos. Prometheus went to En-il, Father of the Isu and told him of Kronos’ dangerous intent of annexing their father. En-il knew to go to Ra, both of which concluded that their hand was forced to action to defend Anu , who would be vulnerable in his current state of god-stasis.
And so Kronos caught and enslaved Giru in his first act of war, as a captive resource to hammer out powerful Artifacts of which he would supply his Emanation brethren with. For Kronos he made a weapon that could only be brandished by beings of extraordinary strength. In it contained the trapped essence of the energies of the beforetimes, when the universe was a cosmic broil of chaos, untamed power and untouched energy. This staff had the potential to mow down entire civilizations like wheat in a field. Lunastra was its name, and it very quickly accumulated enough power to become the sole existing object in the universe that posed any threat to Anu. He began the steady march toward the Primeval Waters, one that shook the universe. In his path he built a contemporary empire, conquering all in his way and enslaving those who did not acquiesce to the philosophy of the Deep.
IV. hour of devastation
"The world crumbled beneath the heel of the mighty Kronos, and an unnamed hour dawned as the blood red sun drowned the land in crimson. And thus, the Hour of Devastation reigned, and, the Emanation-God completed his great plan, leaving behind ruin while darkness consumed and unmade the entirety of the galaxy."
𝖂hen the second sun finally came fell in line with the rest of the solar system, all the Protogenoi were prepared and they came to stand before the gate of the Primeval Waters to welcome their brother, who had returned home after so long. It had been many years since the Isu had gathered in one place. Each god served a purpose in Anu’s grand design, guiding mortals through their own trials, watching over the universe in their own and distinct way. En-il had not stood in the presence of the others in some time. Yet here they were now, standing before the gate. At their feet were mortals conscripted into the battle, better known today as Annunaki, made to counteract Kronos’ army. The gods saw them as inferior life, though they still understood the power they held. Some bowed their heads in deference, others gazed up in awe, bathed for the first time in the presence of all divinities at once. Several Furies in the sky, all of whom had overseen all the occurrences without interference, suddenly threw their heads back and spread their arms and wings, their eyes ablaze with a sickly green glow as they shouted in unison, "The Immortals come!" As the Furies repeated their cry, the gates of the mausoleum opened. A dread figure, tall as a god, cloaked in darkness and shaped in the likeness of a wraith, came striding through the open gates. And behind him, in the wake of his implacable dark divinity, came an army. It was an all-out war. They had to deal with the earth-shattering Emanations who followed Kronos , as well as twisted aberrations of creatures who were modeled after the great daemon Atriox. Their first attempt at capturing the lead Emanation , Hyperion, was foiled by Atriox , who used the energy from their hedron prison meant to seal the Emanation . Harnessing that energy, he reignited his dormant spark and became a Emanation himself through Apotheosis. En-il with Erragal took action to try and destroy Kronos . En-il managed to force him into physical form while Erragal brought his familiarity with magic that leeched life energies, but their plan failed. Kronos was too immense, too aberrant, and too powerful to destroy directly, and they were forced to consider a desperate course of action. Although they couldn't kill Kronos, Maarduk summarized that they could imprison the astral abomination on a single plane and throw away the key to preserve Elysium. By the time that this was determined as a final resort, many of the Gods had already been butchered by the likes of Gaia, Okeanos and Hyperion. The three remaining gods went to work to trap the Emanation's in the Blind Eternities, the space between planes. En-il directed the Emanation's appetite for power towards the Primeval Waters, luring them in with the promise of feeding on Anu's delectable energy. Marduuk's divine power blunted the Emanation's counterattacks, and he used special colorless magic to bind them to the Blind Eternities. Marduuk constructed a massive network of stone diamonds called hedrons, whose power would form the bars of a plane-wide prison, forever preventing the Emanation's from leaving. The very last necessity was to physically destroy their avatars that had been ravaging the Primeval Waters, and while they were sealed by the collective power of all three gods, keeping them bound would only last so long. And so it was up to the only present body left to destroy what was bound--Enoch. Either the mortal would destroy every part of the Emanation with a single technique, or they would lose everything. The dead Isu that had earlier fallen to the teeming ranks of Emanations possessed Enoch from limbo, causing him to ascend to godhood himself and cast Apotheosis, ensuring that his technique would be more than enough to scatter the Emanation's physical forms. The remaining Emanation's were consumed by the spell, manifested in physical form in the Blind Eternities, became confined by the magic of the network of hedrons, and thanks to the magic of the imprisonment spell, sank into harmless dormancy. After all was said and done, Enoch sacrificed his recently acquired spark in order to cast a spell of measureless power. He had rewound the deaths of each individual fallen god--Isu and Ennead alike—dying in the process, his fiery soul left behind as the First Flame, and cementing himself as the Hero of the Gods. The First Flame is the spark of life and Light itself, which emanates from the First Flame. Atriox himself had survived the battle and left as the Emanations crumbled, implying that they couldn't be saved. He prepared for a suitable place for himself in that eventuality, departing Elysium for Arda. Their mission complete, the gods disbanded and left the plane. |
Over time, Nibiru has developed a reputation as a deathtrap, a world humming with disproportionate peril. Its magic-infused lands and uniquely potent mana are still coveted by the Gods, but its magical defenses remain deadly. Nibiru is a world of adventure, its perils underscored by the long-forgotten Emanations lurking below. Entire religions have been shaped by the dim memories of Kronos, Gaia, and their brethren. Evidence of their ancient hedron prison remains to this day, and the strange power of sites formerly dominated by the Emanations still baffles adventurers. In present day, archaeologists and scholars have tried to chase elusive myths to learn of Nibiru's past. But after the crumbling ages since the Emanations last fed on the plane, few clues remain.