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The Bookkeepers

Prequel: The Origin of Thought

By Adrian ChamblissPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
The Bookkeepers
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In the beginning, there was Chaos; a great source of energy with the Universe. Chaos had a younger sister, Order. Together they formed the deities that shaped the stars. The deities were known as Primordials. These were Erebus, Nyx, Eros, Gaia, and Tartarus. Erebus and Nyx gave birth to Aether, atmosphere, and Hemera, daylight. Gaia and Tartarus gave birth to the creatures of Gaia; beasts of sky, earth, and sea. The primordials were in charge of the order of the Realm and were entrusted to Sister Chaos by Sister Order. Sister Order would return to the Realm beyond the Third Plane to forge the Afterlife.

Sister Chaos was promised with the task of never using Creation, a technique of Order, within the Third Plane, otherwise the balance of the Third Plane would be lost. Sister Chaos allowed the Primordials immortality and watched them in silence for a millenia. From the Primordials came the Titans; Mnemosyne, Themis, Oceanus, Epimethius, Rhea, Selene, Helios, Prometheus, Atlas, Cronus, and Aphrodite.

--------------------------------The Folly of Cronus---------------------------------

Cronus was the Titan of Time and Harvest. Jealous of the Immortality of the Primordials, Cronus traveled back to the beginning of Time and made Himself a Primordial, Uranus. Uranus and Gaia would give birth the beasts of earth, sea, and sky, Uranus would then attempt to trick Sister Chaos by naming one of his sons Cronus, in his place. Sister Chaos, however, discovered the rewrite of History from Mnemosyne, causing Sister Chaos to create a curse to punish Cronus. The son of Uranus would castrate him, causing the birth of the final Titan, Aphrodite, to be born a Goddess, instead.

After Cronus traps Uranus in Tartarus, he too learns of his Time jump and the memories that followed his father's treachery. Fearful of His children uprising against him as He did, Cronus swallowed his children and time had fractured the balance once again. This time, the Beasts of Before emerged from the Memories of the Primordials, destroying all Cronus had created in a never-ending war. Rhea, Cronus's wife, manages to hide away her last son, Zeus, amidst the Chaos of the Golden Age. Sister Chaos had only realized her mistake after Zeus had escaped his father's punishment; She had used Creation, the one Law she was bound to. Cronus had tricked Sister Chaos into fracturing the balance of the Third Plane to escape her wrath through Reincarnation.

Zeus, the Olympian God, defeats his father and saves the Olympian gods and goddesses; Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, and Hera. Time was restored, but the Realm remained fractured. Sister Chaos attempted to fix Time by having the Titans of Old compose a world of Memory, for this would allow her to see History amongst the fractured Time to find the original Cronus. This was the Creation of Word, and thus, a New Law was brought into existence in order to separate the Old and New. Only one Immortal Being may exist in one "Space". This forced all Immortals within the Realm of Chaos into the Fourth Plane of Order. Sister Chaos would then destroy all Realities within the Third Plane, forcing Time to submit to one, linear Timeline. In this timeline, Sister Chaos drowned her Gaia replica, Earth, with rising seas and Ancient God Beasts, effectively ending all of Cronus's creations.

In the Aftermath of her destruction, Sister had realized, again, her own downfall in her actions against Cronus. With the Immortals gone, no Memories existed within the Third Plane of existence, thus nothing existed in this plane. The Third Plane was now an abundance of Chaotic Energy that required direction. It was then she noticed one creature had survived the Cataclysm; a man that went by the name of Noah. Sister Chaos would atone to Noah's suffering by using his Memories to create a benevolent God to recreate the world. Thus, the Psychobabble of the Children of Noah was born within the Realm of Chaos.

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