The Origin of Fear

“Everything has an origin. From the order and civilization made of rules that humans regard as ethical laws of morality, to the emotions they believe they were born with. In truth, emotions originate from a set of beings. Deities who incarnated as Men in order to mingle with mankind. Upon their incarnation, they lost their sense of self, believed themselves to be mortals and gained the ability to live through countless life cycles. Through them, time was no longer linear and emotions were born. Without an end or a beginning, emotions and time together, simply existed. A mortal man once fathered such a being. He was a man born with nothing, who then turned nothing into everything and gave it to his sons. To those sons who had everything, he taught the value of hard work. Although he was not fond of such lessons, XORSAN, his oldest, turned everything he had been given into multitudes. When others looked at him, they were consumed by either admiration, envy or jealousy. That is, until every single one of his possessions was ripped away from him, leaving him with nothing but his name. As with wealth, XORSAN went through the hellish depths of loss and reached its peak. He had lost a father, brothers, a wife, sons, daughters and the riches he had accumulated over the years. Others would have understood if rage had consumed him then. If pain and misery had driven him to take his own life. He did not lament his fate. Instead, grief filed XORSAN inside and out. Until he was left with nothing but void. A howling nothingness. Something new was born inside him then. A thing that terrified his fellow man and brought low even those considered strong. XORSAN… He had become fear.”