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<p>Moirasars: /* A */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Adrien Brody<br /> * Anson Mount<br /> * Assad Zaman<br /> <br /> ==== D ====<br /> * David Bowie<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hugh Dancy<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jamie Campbell Bower<br /> * Jason Marnocha<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> * Kim Jae-hong (Amotti)<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mads Mikkelsen<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Robert Carlyle<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> * Wun Yi Hua<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> ==== G ====<br /> * Gillian Anderson<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Kirby Howell-Baptiste<br /> * Kris Statlander<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Rooney Mara<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=Face_claims&diff=339 2026-04-26T13:18:39Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Men */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Adrien Brody<br /> * Anson Mount<br /> <br /> ==== D ====<br /> * David Bowie<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hugh Dancy<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jamie Campbell Bower<br /> * Jason Marnocha<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> * Kim Jae-hong (Amotti)<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mads Mikkelsen<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Robert Carlyle<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> * Wun Yi Hua<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> ==== G ====<br /> * Gillian Anderson<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Kirby Howell-Baptiste<br /> * Kris Statlander<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Rooney Mara<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=Face_claims&diff=338 2026-04-26T12:22:32Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Women */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Adrien Brody<br /> * Anson Mount<br /> <br /> ==== D ====<br /> * David Bowie<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hugh Dancy<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jamie Campbell Bower<br /> * Jason Marnocha<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mads Mikkelsen<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Robert Carlyle<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> * Wun Yi Hua<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> ==== G ====<br /> * Gillian Anderson<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Kirby Howell-Baptiste<br /> * Kris Statlander<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Rooney Mara<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=Face_claims&diff=337 2026-04-11T20:31:12Z

<p>Moirasars: /* J */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Adrien Brody<br /> * Anson Mount<br /> <br /> ==== D ====<br /> * David Bowie<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hugh Dancy<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jamie Campbell Bower<br /> * Jason Marnocha<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mads Mikkelsen<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Robert Carlyle<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> * Wun Yi Hua<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> ==== G ====<br /> * Gillian Anderson<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hilary Swank<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Kirby Howell-Baptiste<br /> * Kris Statlander<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Rooney Mara<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=Face_claims&diff=318 2025-12-09T09:30:55Z

<p>Moirasars: /* A */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Adrien Brody<br /> * Anson Mount<br /> <br /> ==== D ====<br /> * David Bowie<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hugh Dancy<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jamie Campbell Bower<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mads Mikkelsen<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Robert Carlyle<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> * Wun Yi Hua<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> ==== G ====<br /> * Gillian Anderson<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hilary Swank<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Kirby Howell-Baptiste<br /> * Kris Statlander<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Rooney Mara<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=Face_claims&diff=316 2025-09-23T06:54:06Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Women */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Anson Mount<br /> <br /> ==== D ====<br /> * David Bowie<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hugh Dancy<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jamie Campbell Bower<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mads Mikkelsen<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Robert Carlyle<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> * Wun Yi Hua<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> ==== G ====<br /> * Gillian Anderson<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hilary Swank<br /> <br /> === K ===<br /> * Kirby Howell-Baptiste<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Rooney Mara<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=Face_claims&diff=311 2025-09-09T14:22:11Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Men */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> === A ===<br /> * Anson Mount<br /> <br /> ===D===<br /> * David Bowie<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mads Mikkelsen<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> === R ===<br /> * Robert Carlyle<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> * Wun Yi Hua<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hilary Swank<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Rooney Mara<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=History_of_Earth&diff=287 2025-07-20T12:38:39Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Modern times */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:History-of-earth.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> CEN's version of Earth's history is a '''fictional mix of scientific and biblical timelines''' and, therefore, considered its own piece of lore. Most events placed in recent modern times—i.e., the 20th and 21st centuries—are not included to allow more freedom in character creation. It is recommended you first read through [[World creation|world creation]], as it covers the timeline before Earth's formation and lays the groundwork for later events.<br /> <br /> However, if you're making a younger character, say, just a few centuries old, you may jump straight ahead to the [[History_of_Earth#Post-classical_history|post-classical history]], or even [[History_of_Earth#Modern_times|modern times]].<br /> <br /> Now, we'll dive deeper into the planet's history and, eventually, into the history of mankind.<br /> <br /> == Hadean eon ==<br /> <br /> '''At first, there was no life in the universe'''—even Earth was merely a molten rock formation orbiting one of the countless stars of the cosmos. As God focused on the first realm, the '''other primordials kept feeding and shaping the young universe with their presence'''.<br /> <br /> As the macrocosm aged, the '''very first formations came into existence''': galactic filaments and galaxy clusters, nebulae, and planetary systems. Eventually, the universe took the shape we recognize today: in the barred spiral Milky Way galaxy, the Solar System and its contents formed, '''leading to the birth of several inhabitable planets orbiting a single star'''.<br /> <br /> When God returned to the middle realm, the third planet from the star had created an outgassing of an atmosphere with no oxygen. Frequent collisions with other bodies and intense bombardment of meteorites caused extreme volcanism, resulting in a series of '''magma oceans and episodes of core formation'''. The most significant impact was with a planet-sized body, the resulting debris forming a smaller rock to orbit the planet: a natural satellite known as the Moon.<br /> <br /> Once the amount of loose matter diminished and the '''number of planets settled into eight''', Earth started to cool down, creating a solid crust that allowed liquid water to fill the planet's surface.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Abiogenesis ==<br /> <br /> As the universe continued to grow but remained dormant, the '''six primal primordials saw that it would flourish'''. Matter and Energy delivered the materials needed to the most promising destination, while Gravity, Magnetism, and Light saw that the newly formed organisms could thrive. Earth would turn from hostile to habitable during the next four billion years, granting God His wish and '''much more'''.<br /> <br /> The first life forms, anaerobic microorganisms or microbes, '''lived underwater'''. These organisms fed off the nitrogen- and carbon-heavy atmosphere, used retinal to convert green light into metabolic energy, and '''aided in warming the planet by turning excess hydrogen into methane'''. Together with the young central star's faint light, this process started turning the planet's purple surface biosphere blue.<br /> <br /> As the unicellular microbes evolved into multicellular bacteria, '''Earth's atmosphere began to fill with oxygen'''. This, in turn, forced the evolution of even more complex organisms—mitochondria—and allowed them to '''reproduce by genetic transmission''' rather than parasitic cannibalism. These organelles became the building blocks of all life, from plants to algae to fungi.<br /> <br /> Red algae introduced a new way to multiply: sexual reproduction. This led to the Cambrian explosion—a.k.a. the Biological Big Bang—where complex life '''rapidly increased and diversified'''. Jellyfish and sea anemones were among the first animals to evolve, followed by slugs, clams, starfish, sea cucumbers, worms, tardigrades, and many others. The first fish were eel-like and jawless, some armored with mineralized scales. As they evolved bones and jaws, the ancestors of sharks were born, along with rays, lobe-, and ray-finned fish. They, in turn, gave rise to the next evolutional step: '''amphibians'''.<br /> <br /> Life faced yet another significant challenge as the more evolved tetrapods '''had to learn to breathe oxygen'''. The proliferation of land plants caused the growth of '''aquatic vegetation''' by dropping their leaves into streams and rivers, attracting small, grazing fish but making the environment unsuitable for larger predators. Decomposition of the foliage caused less oxygen to dissolve into the water, forcing the early animals to replace their '''gills with lungs, grow legs, and transition to live on land'''. This led to the birth of reptiles—and, eventually, the evolution of '''dinosaurs'''.<br /> <br /> As the primordials fostered God's newest project, He grew increasingly '''displeased with the life He saw'''. He'd once filled Heaven and Limbo with handcrafted, extraordinary creatures with magical qualities—the dull, reptilian-dominated Earth was not what He'd planned. '''He wanted to start over'''.<br /> <br /> Despite the lesser primordials' protest, God's decision was final. However, this time, He wouldn't '''reset the whole realm'''—only the planet itself. He grabbed a massive asteroid and hurled it into Earth, wiping out three-quarters of all species and half of all genera. This allowed '''prehistoric birds and mammals''' to thrive and take over the planet, eventually evolving into more advanced '''primates'''.<br /> <br /> After the devastating Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the six primordials declared their '''participation in shaping Earth was over'''. This angered God, but with no authority over the primary elements, he could not force the cosmic entities into obeying Him. Instead, He had no choice but to focus on nurturing the planet Himself, '''carefully manipulating the evolution of primates into increasingly intelligent creatures'''.<br /> <br /> Yet, despite His best attempts, the primal humanoids still lacked purpose… Until God gave two of them fractures of Himself.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Old testament ==<br /> <br /> The man and woman would be known as Adam and Eve—'''the first humans to possess a soul'''. At first, all was well; the human pair enjoyed their life of infinite blessings, God's endless affection and attention, and sovereign rule over Earth's other beings… But by turning His back towards the other realms and ignoring His previous creations, '''God had made a new enemy:''' the first archangel, Samael.<br /> <br /> With their souls, the two humans had received a gift no other being in the universe had—'''a concept known as &quot;free will.&quot;''' They knew the rules: '''obey their creator and live under His blessing, or disobey and face His wrath.''' After spending eons fighting the deadly sins in Limbo, Samael's true form and personification of Humility had been irreversibly damaged, causing the archangel to grow '''prideful and resentful'''. He slipped onto Earth, turned into the first native animal he saw—'''a snake'''—and slithered to the blessed humans, addressing the female, Eve.<br /> <br /> As Samael learned about the pair's origins, he also discovered they were '''never to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and learn things they weren't meant to understand'''. But Samael was cunning and claimed he'd eaten from the tree without ill effects, thus creating the '''first lie'''. By the time Eve sank her teeth into the forbidden fruit and called for Adam to join her, Samael was gone, '''barely avoiding God's rage''' as His creations turned against Him once again.<br /> <br /> Rebelling didn't end with Paradise: '''without the archangel of Humility, humankind's hubris only grew as time went by.''' As humans kept reaching for godhood, God's attempts to control His creations '''failed time after another''': despite speaking different languages, witnessing judgment fall upon their kin, experiencing plagues, floods, and miracles—no matter how vengeful, creative, or benevolent God acted, '''mankind ignored His warnings and wishes.''' What was supposed to be His magnum opus had turned into a '''disobedient menace''', and the primordial ruler was beyond furious. Whatever His plans entailed for humanity's future would be forgotten as the '''divided nations failed to find common ground and share the world peacefully.'''<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-3.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Post-classical history ==<br /> <br /> '''Humankind's creativity saw no limit''', and as technology evolved, so did the means of '''traveling'''. As the territory of different clans grew and continued to conquer new land, '''several religions began to form within individual groups''', and the concept of a shared, universal truth seemed impossible. Suddenly, humanity wasn't interested in overtaking God's place but instead in '''convincing their enemies of their chosen deity's supremacy.''' Centuries of bloody and violent religious wars followed as Christians, Muslims, and Romans clashed against one another. '''During this time, the first [[Angels#Erelim|erelim]] were born''', as human martyrs were taken to their afterlife and resurrected as angels, '''regardless of their personal beliefs or religion'''.<br /> <br /> Over the next thousand years, countless wars were declared and fought, converting more and more people to Christianity. However, '''it didn't unite the people but tore them apart and divided them as the initial''', exemplary tenets were twisted to serve those in power. Corruption had taken root and turned impossible to weed out, '''leaving Heaven powerless against the spreading plague of demonic influence.'''<br /> <br /> While God watched His most precious and cherished creation fall to ruin, kingdoms, empires, and entire civilizations were wiped off Earth. This would invoke the last divine punishment upon humankind—'''the Black Death'''—as God attempted to control the unruly masses once more, '''wiping out almost half of Europe's population'''.<br /> <br /> Eventually, humanity's desire for violence would be replaced with curiosity, and the Age of Discovery would begin with the Portuguese systematically exploring the Atlantic Coast of Africa at the end of the 15th century. Yet, this would only lead to a new problem: '''colonization and forceful conversion.'''<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-4.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Modern times ==<br /> The Age of Enlightenment and the following Scientific Revolution carried humanity into a new era of knowledge: '''the emergence of modern science.''' Mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, and understanding of human anatomy changed society's view of nature and themselves. '''Learning and observation slowly replaced fear of the unknown''', leading to new inventions like '''gunpowder and modern banking.''' Despite people still fighting and enslaving one another in an endless battle of factitious superiority, they were heading into a new world filled with abundance and opportunity. Europe was enamored with the '''Renaissance;''' China entered the '''Qing Dynasty;''' Japan experienced its '''Edo period;''' America fought and won independence against the British colonies in the '''Revolutionary War''' under George Washington's command.<br /> <br /> As the Industrial Revolution transformed the global economy, '''machines took over hand production''', accelerating production and population growth. Ideas of '''socialism, communism, and anarchism''' were born, and the standard of living for the general population began to increase. With industrialism came capitalism, creating even more contrast between wealthy and poor countries. Steam power gave birth to '''engines, vehicles, and locomotives''', leading to the taming and death of the American frontier, also known as the Wild West.<br /> <br /> The Western world kept advancing and expanding its power; European imperialism brought much of Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa under colonial rule. '''Japan was the only Eastern country that managed to follow Europe's industrial advancements''' with the Meiji Restoration—both China and the Ottoman Empire failed in their attempts to keep up with industrialization. As the United States created an empire of its own with Japan behind it, '''the world entered the 20th century''', bringing forth unprecedented scopes of warfare.<br /> <br /> By the time World War I began, '''it had become painfully clear humanity was not going to be God's final, perfect masterpiece''' but a cesspool of flaws and sin—a failure of a project that drove away its creator. It would take a miracle to steer humankind away from their inner pride and bring God back to the universe…<br /> <br /> Or another mass destruction of primordial proportions to '''restart it all over again.'''<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-5.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=History_of_Earth&diff=286 2025-07-20T12:34:35Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Post-classical history */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:History-of-earth.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> CEN's version of Earth's history is a '''fictional mix of scientific and biblical timelines''' and, therefore, considered its own piece of lore. Most events placed in recent modern times—i.e., the 20th and 21st centuries—are not included to allow more freedom in character creation. It is recommended you first read through [[World creation|world creation]], as it covers the timeline before Earth's formation and lays the groundwork for later events.<br /> <br /> However, if you're making a younger character, say, just a few centuries old, you may jump straight ahead to the [[History_of_Earth#Post-classical_history|post-classical history]], or even [[History_of_Earth#Modern_times|modern times]].<br /> <br /> Now, we'll dive deeper into the planet's history and, eventually, into the history of mankind.<br /> <br /> == Hadean eon ==<br /> <br /> '''At first, there was no life in the universe'''—even Earth was merely a molten rock formation orbiting one of the countless stars of the cosmos. As God focused on the first realm, the '''other primordials kept feeding and shaping the young universe with their presence'''.<br /> <br /> As the macrocosm aged, the '''very first formations came into existence''': galactic filaments and galaxy clusters, nebulae, and planetary systems. Eventually, the universe took the shape we recognize today: in the barred spiral Milky Way galaxy, the Solar System and its contents formed, '''leading to the birth of several inhabitable planets orbiting a single star'''.<br /> <br /> When God returned to the middle realm, the third planet from the star had created an outgassing of an atmosphere with no oxygen. Frequent collisions with other bodies and intense bombardment of meteorites caused extreme volcanism, resulting in a series of '''magma oceans and episodes of core formation'''. The most significant impact was with a planet-sized body, the resulting debris forming a smaller rock to orbit the planet: a natural satellite known as the Moon.<br /> <br /> Once the amount of loose matter diminished and the '''number of planets settled into eight''', Earth started to cool down, creating a solid crust that allowed liquid water to fill the planet's surface.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Abiogenesis ==<br /> <br /> As the universe continued to grow but remained dormant, the '''six primal primordials saw that it would flourish'''. Matter and Energy delivered the materials needed to the most promising destination, while Gravity, Magnetism, and Light saw that the newly formed organisms could thrive. Earth would turn from hostile to habitable during the next four billion years, granting God His wish and '''much more'''.<br /> <br /> The first life forms, anaerobic microorganisms or microbes, '''lived underwater'''. These organisms fed off the nitrogen- and carbon-heavy atmosphere, used retinal to convert green light into metabolic energy, and '''aided in warming the planet by turning excess hydrogen into methane'''. Together with the young central star's faint light, this process started turning the planet's purple surface biosphere blue.<br /> <br /> As the unicellular microbes evolved into multicellular bacteria, '''Earth's atmosphere began to fill with oxygen'''. This, in turn, forced the evolution of even more complex organisms—mitochondria—and allowed them to '''reproduce by genetic transmission''' rather than parasitic cannibalism. These organelles became the building blocks of all life, from plants to algae to fungi.<br /> <br /> Red algae introduced a new way to multiply: sexual reproduction. This led to the Cambrian explosion—a.k.a. the Biological Big Bang—where complex life '''rapidly increased and diversified'''. Jellyfish and sea anemones were among the first animals to evolve, followed by slugs, clams, starfish, sea cucumbers, worms, tardigrades, and many others. The first fish were eel-like and jawless, some armored with mineralized scales. As they evolved bones and jaws, the ancestors of sharks were born, along with rays, lobe-, and ray-finned fish. They, in turn, gave rise to the next evolutional step: '''amphibians'''.<br /> <br /> Life faced yet another significant challenge as the more evolved tetrapods '''had to learn to breathe oxygen'''. The proliferation of land plants caused the growth of '''aquatic vegetation''' by dropping their leaves into streams and rivers, attracting small, grazing fish but making the environment unsuitable for larger predators. Decomposition of the foliage caused less oxygen to dissolve into the water, forcing the early animals to replace their '''gills with lungs, grow legs, and transition to live on land'''. This led to the birth of reptiles—and, eventually, the evolution of '''dinosaurs'''.<br /> <br /> As the primordials fostered God's newest project, He grew increasingly '''displeased with the life He saw'''. He'd once filled Heaven and Limbo with handcrafted, extraordinary creatures with magical qualities—the dull, reptilian-dominated Earth was not what He'd planned. '''He wanted to start over'''.<br /> <br /> Despite the lesser primordials' protest, God's decision was final. However, this time, He wouldn't '''reset the whole realm'''—only the planet itself. He grabbed a massive asteroid and hurled it into Earth, wiping out three-quarters of all species and half of all genera. This allowed '''prehistoric birds and mammals''' to thrive and take over the planet, eventually evolving into more advanced '''primates'''.<br /> <br /> After the devastating Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the six primordials declared their '''participation in shaping Earth was over'''. This angered God, but with no authority over the primary elements, he could not force the cosmic entities into obeying Him. Instead, He had no choice but to focus on nurturing the planet Himself, '''carefully manipulating the evolution of primates into increasingly intelligent creatures'''.<br /> <br /> Yet, despite His best attempts, the primal humanoids still lacked purpose… Until God gave two of them fractures of Himself.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Old testament ==<br /> <br /> The man and woman would be known as Adam and Eve—'''the first humans to possess a soul'''. At first, all was well; the human pair enjoyed their life of infinite blessings, God's endless affection and attention, and sovereign rule over Earth's other beings… But by turning His back towards the other realms and ignoring His previous creations, '''God had made a new enemy:''' the first archangel, Samael.<br /> <br /> With their souls, the two humans had received a gift no other being in the universe had—'''a concept known as &quot;free will.&quot;''' They knew the rules: '''obey their creator and live under His blessing, or disobey and face His wrath.''' After spending eons fighting the deadly sins in Limbo, Samael's true form and personification of Humility had been irreversibly damaged, causing the archangel to grow '''prideful and resentful'''. He slipped onto Earth, turned into the first native animal he saw—'''a snake'''—and slithered to the blessed humans, addressing the female, Eve.<br /> <br /> As Samael learned about the pair's origins, he also discovered they were '''never to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and learn things they weren't meant to understand'''. But Samael was cunning and claimed he'd eaten from the tree without ill effects, thus creating the '''first lie'''. By the time Eve sank her teeth into the forbidden fruit and called for Adam to join her, Samael was gone, '''barely avoiding God's rage''' as His creations turned against Him once again.<br /> <br /> Rebelling didn't end with Paradise: '''without the archangel of Humility, humankind's hubris only grew as time went by.''' As humans kept reaching for godhood, God's attempts to control His creations '''failed time after another''': despite speaking different languages, witnessing judgment fall upon their kin, experiencing plagues, floods, and miracles—no matter how vengeful, creative, or benevolent God acted, '''mankind ignored His warnings and wishes.''' What was supposed to be His magnum opus had turned into a '''disobedient menace''', and the primordial ruler was beyond furious. Whatever His plans entailed for humanity's future would be forgotten as the '''divided nations failed to find common ground and share the world peacefully.'''<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-3.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Post-classical history ==<br /> <br /> '''Humankind's creativity saw no limit''', and as technology evolved, so did the means of '''traveling'''. As the territory of different clans grew and continued to conquer new land, '''several religions began to form within individual groups''', and the concept of a shared, universal truth seemed impossible. Suddenly, humanity wasn't interested in overtaking God's place but instead in '''convincing their enemies of their chosen deity's supremacy.''' Centuries of bloody and violent religious wars followed as Christians, Muslims, and Romans clashed against one another. '''During this time, the first [[Angels#Erelim|erelim]] were born''', as human martyrs were taken to their afterlife and resurrected as angels, '''regardless of their personal beliefs or religion'''.<br /> <br /> Over the next thousand years, countless wars were declared and fought, converting more and more people to Christianity. However, '''it didn't unite the people but tore them apart and divided them as the initial''', exemplary tenets were twisted to serve those in power. Corruption had taken root and turned impossible to weed out, '''leaving Heaven powerless against the spreading plague of demonic influence.'''<br /> <br /> While God watched His most precious and cherished creation fall to ruin, kingdoms, empires, and entire civilizations were wiped off Earth. This would invoke the last divine punishment upon humankind—'''the Black Death'''—as God attempted to control the unruly masses once more, '''wiping out almost half of Europe's population'''.<br /> <br /> Eventually, humanity's desire for violence would be replaced with curiosity, and the Age of Discovery would begin with the Portuguese systematically exploring the Atlantic Coast of Africa at the end of the 15th century. Yet, this would only lead to a new problem: '''colonization and forceful conversion.'''<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-4.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Modern times ==<br /> The Age of Enlightenment and the following Scientific Revolution carried humanity into a new era of knowledge: the emergence of modern science. Mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, and understanding of human anatomy changed society's view of nature and themselves. Learning and observation slowly replaced fear of the unknown, leading to new inventions like gunpowder and modern banking. Despite people still fighting and enslaving one another in an endless battle of factitious superiority, they were heading into a new world filled with abundance and opportunity. Europe was enamored with the Renaissance; China entered the Qing Dynasty; Japan experienced its Edo period; America fought and won independence against the British colonies in the Revolutionary War under George Washington's command.<br /> <br /> As the Industrial Revolution transformed the global economy, machines took over hand production, accelerating production and population growth. Ideas of socialism, communism, and anarchism were born, and the standard of living for the general population began to increase. With industrialism came capitalism, creating even more contrast between wealthy and poor countries. Steam power gave birth to engines, vehicles, and locomotives, leading to the taming and death of the American frontier, also known as the Wild West.<br /> <br /> The Western world kept advancing and expanding its power; European imperialism brought much of Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa under colonial rule. Japan was the only Eastern country that managed to follow Europe's industrial advancements with the Meiji Restoration—both China and the Ottoman Empire failed in their attempts to keep up with industrialization. As the United States created an empire of its own with Japan behind it, the world entered the 20th century, bringing forth unprecedented scopes of warfare.<br /> <br /> By the time World War I began, it had become painfully clear humanity was not going to be God's final, perfect masterpiece but a cesspool of flaws and sin—a failure of a project that drove away its creator. It would take a miracle to steer humankind away from their inner pride and bring God back to the universe…<br /> <br /> Or another mass destruction of primordial proportions to restart it all over again.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-5.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=History_of_Earth&diff=285 2025-07-20T12:31:00Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Old testament */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:History-of-earth.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> CEN's version of Earth's history is a '''fictional mix of scientific and biblical timelines''' and, therefore, considered its own piece of lore. Most events placed in recent modern times—i.e., the 20th and 21st centuries—are not included to allow more freedom in character creation. It is recommended you first read through [[World creation|world creation]], as it covers the timeline before Earth's formation and lays the groundwork for later events.<br /> <br /> However, if you're making a younger character, say, just a few centuries old, you may jump straight ahead to the [[History_of_Earth#Post-classical_history|post-classical history]], or even [[History_of_Earth#Modern_times|modern times]].<br /> <br /> Now, we'll dive deeper into the planet's history and, eventually, into the history of mankind.<br /> <br /> == Hadean eon ==<br /> <br /> '''At first, there was no life in the universe'''—even Earth was merely a molten rock formation orbiting one of the countless stars of the cosmos. As God focused on the first realm, the '''other primordials kept feeding and shaping the young universe with their presence'''.<br /> <br /> As the macrocosm aged, the '''very first formations came into existence''': galactic filaments and galaxy clusters, nebulae, and planetary systems. Eventually, the universe took the shape we recognize today: in the barred spiral Milky Way galaxy, the Solar System and its contents formed, '''leading to the birth of several inhabitable planets orbiting a single star'''.<br /> <br /> When God returned to the middle realm, the third planet from the star had created an outgassing of an atmosphere with no oxygen. Frequent collisions with other bodies and intense bombardment of meteorites caused extreme volcanism, resulting in a series of '''magma oceans and episodes of core formation'''. The most significant impact was with a planet-sized body, the resulting debris forming a smaller rock to orbit the planet: a natural satellite known as the Moon.<br /> <br /> Once the amount of loose matter diminished and the '''number of planets settled into eight''', Earth started to cool down, creating a solid crust that allowed liquid water to fill the planet's surface.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Abiogenesis ==<br /> <br /> As the universe continued to grow but remained dormant, the '''six primal primordials saw that it would flourish'''. Matter and Energy delivered the materials needed to the most promising destination, while Gravity, Magnetism, and Light saw that the newly formed organisms could thrive. Earth would turn from hostile to habitable during the next four billion years, granting God His wish and '''much more'''.<br /> <br /> The first life forms, anaerobic microorganisms or microbes, '''lived underwater'''. These organisms fed off the nitrogen- and carbon-heavy atmosphere, used retinal to convert green light into metabolic energy, and '''aided in warming the planet by turning excess hydrogen into methane'''. Together with the young central star's faint light, this process started turning the planet's purple surface biosphere blue.<br /> <br /> As the unicellular microbes evolved into multicellular bacteria, '''Earth's atmosphere began to fill with oxygen'''. This, in turn, forced the evolution of even more complex organisms—mitochondria—and allowed them to '''reproduce by genetic transmission''' rather than parasitic cannibalism. These organelles became the building blocks of all life, from plants to algae to fungi.<br /> <br /> Red algae introduced a new way to multiply: sexual reproduction. This led to the Cambrian explosion—a.k.a. the Biological Big Bang—where complex life '''rapidly increased and diversified'''. Jellyfish and sea anemones were among the first animals to evolve, followed by slugs, clams, starfish, sea cucumbers, worms, tardigrades, and many others. The first fish were eel-like and jawless, some armored with mineralized scales. As they evolved bones and jaws, the ancestors of sharks were born, along with rays, lobe-, and ray-finned fish. They, in turn, gave rise to the next evolutional step: '''amphibians'''.<br /> <br /> Life faced yet another significant challenge as the more evolved tetrapods '''had to learn to breathe oxygen'''. The proliferation of land plants caused the growth of '''aquatic vegetation''' by dropping their leaves into streams and rivers, attracting small, grazing fish but making the environment unsuitable for larger predators. Decomposition of the foliage caused less oxygen to dissolve into the water, forcing the early animals to replace their '''gills with lungs, grow legs, and transition to live on land'''. This led to the birth of reptiles—and, eventually, the evolution of '''dinosaurs'''.<br /> <br /> As the primordials fostered God's newest project, He grew increasingly '''displeased with the life He saw'''. He'd once filled Heaven and Limbo with handcrafted, extraordinary creatures with magical qualities—the dull, reptilian-dominated Earth was not what He'd planned. '''He wanted to start over'''.<br /> <br /> Despite the lesser primordials' protest, God's decision was final. However, this time, He wouldn't '''reset the whole realm'''—only the planet itself. He grabbed a massive asteroid and hurled it into Earth, wiping out three-quarters of all species and half of all genera. This allowed '''prehistoric birds and mammals''' to thrive and take over the planet, eventually evolving into more advanced '''primates'''.<br /> <br /> After the devastating Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the six primordials declared their '''participation in shaping Earth was over'''. This angered God, but with no authority over the primary elements, he could not force the cosmic entities into obeying Him. Instead, He had no choice but to focus on nurturing the planet Himself, '''carefully manipulating the evolution of primates into increasingly intelligent creatures'''.<br /> <br /> Yet, despite His best attempts, the primal humanoids still lacked purpose… Until God gave two of them fractures of Himself.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Old testament ==<br /> <br /> The man and woman would be known as Adam and Eve—'''the first humans to possess a soul'''. At first, all was well; the human pair enjoyed their life of infinite blessings, God's endless affection and attention, and sovereign rule over Earth's other beings… But by turning His back towards the other realms and ignoring His previous creations, '''God had made a new enemy:''' the first archangel, Samael.<br /> <br /> With their souls, the two humans had received a gift no other being in the universe had—'''a concept known as &quot;free will.&quot;''' They knew the rules: '''obey their creator and live under His blessing, or disobey and face His wrath.''' After spending eons fighting the deadly sins in Limbo, Samael's true form and personification of Humility had been irreversibly damaged, causing the archangel to grow '''prideful and resentful'''. He slipped onto Earth, turned into the first native animal he saw—'''a snake'''—and slithered to the blessed humans, addressing the female, Eve.<br /> <br /> As Samael learned about the pair's origins, he also discovered they were '''never to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and learn things they weren't meant to understand'''. But Samael was cunning and claimed he'd eaten from the tree without ill effects, thus creating the '''first lie'''. By the time Eve sank her teeth into the forbidden fruit and called for Adam to join her, Samael was gone, '''barely avoiding God's rage''' as His creations turned against Him once again.<br /> <br /> Rebelling didn't end with Paradise: '''without the archangel of Humility, humankind's hubris only grew as time went by.''' As humans kept reaching for godhood, God's attempts to control His creations '''failed time after another''': despite speaking different languages, witnessing judgment fall upon their kin, experiencing plagues, floods, and miracles—no matter how vengeful, creative, or benevolent God acted, '''mankind ignored His warnings and wishes.''' What was supposed to be His magnum opus had turned into a '''disobedient menace''', and the primordial ruler was beyond furious. Whatever His plans entailed for humanity's future would be forgotten as the '''divided nations failed to find common ground and share the world peacefully.'''<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-3.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Post-classical history ==<br /> <br /> Humankind's creativity saw no limit, and as technology evolved, so did the means of traveling. As the territory of different clans grew and continued to conquer new land, several religions began to form within individual groups, and the concept of a shared, universal truth seemed impossible. Suddenly, humanity wasn't interested in overtaking God's place but instead in convincing their enemies of their chosen deity's supremacy. Centuries of bloody and violent religious wars followed as Christians, Muslims, and Romans clashed against one another. During this time, the first [[Angels#Erelim|erelim]] were born, as human martyrs were taken to their afterlife and resurrected as angels, regardless of their personal beliefs or religion.<br /> <br /> Over the next thousand years, countless wars were declared and fought, converting more and more people to Christianity. However, it didn't unite the people but tore them apart and divided them as the initial, exemplary tenets were twisted to serve those in power. Corruption had taken root and turned impossible to weed out, leaving Heaven powerless against the spreading plague of demonic influence.<br /> <br /> While God watched His most precious and cherished creation fall to ruin, kingdoms, empires, and entire civilizations were wiped off Earth. This would invoke the last divine punishment upon humankind—the Black Death—as God attempted to control the unruly masses once more, wiping out almost half of Europe's population.<br /> <br /> Eventually, humanity's desire for violence would be replaced with curiosity, and the Age of Discovery would begin with the Portuguese systematically exploring the Atlantic Coast of Africa at the end of the 15th century. Yet, this would only lead to a new problem: colonization and forceful conversion.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-4.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Modern times ==<br /> The Age of Enlightenment and the following Scientific Revolution carried humanity into a new era of knowledge: the emergence of modern science. Mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, and understanding of human anatomy changed society's view of nature and themselves. Learning and observation slowly replaced fear of the unknown, leading to new inventions like gunpowder and modern banking. Despite people still fighting and enslaving one another in an endless battle of factitious superiority, they were heading into a new world filled with abundance and opportunity. Europe was enamored with the Renaissance; China entered the Qing Dynasty; Japan experienced its Edo period; America fought and won independence against the British colonies in the Revolutionary War under George Washington's command.<br /> <br /> As the Industrial Revolution transformed the global economy, machines took over hand production, accelerating production and population growth. Ideas of socialism, communism, and anarchism were born, and the standard of living for the general population began to increase. With industrialism came capitalism, creating even more contrast between wealthy and poor countries. Steam power gave birth to engines, vehicles, and locomotives, leading to the taming and death of the American frontier, also known as the Wild West.<br /> <br /> The Western world kept advancing and expanding its power; European imperialism brought much of Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa under colonial rule. Japan was the only Eastern country that managed to follow Europe's industrial advancements with the Meiji Restoration—both China and the Ottoman Empire failed in their attempts to keep up with industrialization. As the United States created an empire of its own with Japan behind it, the world entered the 20th century, bringing forth unprecedented scopes of warfare.<br /> <br /> By the time World War I began, it had become painfully clear humanity was not going to be God's final, perfect masterpiece but a cesspool of flaws and sin—a failure of a project that drove away its creator. It would take a miracle to steer humankind away from their inner pride and bring God back to the universe…<br /> <br /> Or another mass destruction of primordial proportions to restart it all over again.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-5.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=History_of_Earth&diff=284 2025-07-20T12:25:54Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Abiogenesis */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:History-of-earth.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> CEN's version of Earth's history is a '''fictional mix of scientific and biblical timelines''' and, therefore, considered its own piece of lore. Most events placed in recent modern times—i.e., the 20th and 21st centuries—are not included to allow more freedom in character creation. It is recommended you first read through [[World creation|world creation]], as it covers the timeline before Earth's formation and lays the groundwork for later events.<br /> <br /> However, if you're making a younger character, say, just a few centuries old, you may jump straight ahead to the [[History_of_Earth#Post-classical_history|post-classical history]], or even [[History_of_Earth#Modern_times|modern times]].<br /> <br /> Now, we'll dive deeper into the planet's history and, eventually, into the history of mankind.<br /> <br /> == Hadean eon ==<br /> <br /> '''At first, there was no life in the universe'''—even Earth was merely a molten rock formation orbiting one of the countless stars of the cosmos. As God focused on the first realm, the '''other primordials kept feeding and shaping the young universe with their presence'''.<br /> <br /> As the macrocosm aged, the '''very first formations came into existence''': galactic filaments and galaxy clusters, nebulae, and planetary systems. Eventually, the universe took the shape we recognize today: in the barred spiral Milky Way galaxy, the Solar System and its contents formed, '''leading to the birth of several inhabitable planets orbiting a single star'''.<br /> <br /> When God returned to the middle realm, the third planet from the star had created an outgassing of an atmosphere with no oxygen. Frequent collisions with other bodies and intense bombardment of meteorites caused extreme volcanism, resulting in a series of '''magma oceans and episodes of core formation'''. The most significant impact was with a planet-sized body, the resulting debris forming a smaller rock to orbit the planet: a natural satellite known as the Moon.<br /> <br /> Once the amount of loose matter diminished and the '''number of planets settled into eight''', Earth started to cool down, creating a solid crust that allowed liquid water to fill the planet's surface.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Abiogenesis ==<br /> <br /> As the universe continued to grow but remained dormant, the '''six primal primordials saw that it would flourish'''. Matter and Energy delivered the materials needed to the most promising destination, while Gravity, Magnetism, and Light saw that the newly formed organisms could thrive. Earth would turn from hostile to habitable during the next four billion years, granting God His wish and '''much more'''.<br /> <br /> The first life forms, anaerobic microorganisms or microbes, '''lived underwater'''. These organisms fed off the nitrogen- and carbon-heavy atmosphere, used retinal to convert green light into metabolic energy, and '''aided in warming the planet by turning excess hydrogen into methane'''. Together with the young central star's faint light, this process started turning the planet's purple surface biosphere blue.<br /> <br /> As the unicellular microbes evolved into multicellular bacteria, '''Earth's atmosphere began to fill with oxygen'''. This, in turn, forced the evolution of even more complex organisms—mitochondria—and allowed them to '''reproduce by genetic transmission''' rather than parasitic cannibalism. These organelles became the building blocks of all life, from plants to algae to fungi.<br /> <br /> Red algae introduced a new way to multiply: sexual reproduction. This led to the Cambrian explosion—a.k.a. the Biological Big Bang—where complex life '''rapidly increased and diversified'''. Jellyfish and sea anemones were among the first animals to evolve, followed by slugs, clams, starfish, sea cucumbers, worms, tardigrades, and many others. The first fish were eel-like and jawless, some armored with mineralized scales. As they evolved bones and jaws, the ancestors of sharks were born, along with rays, lobe-, and ray-finned fish. They, in turn, gave rise to the next evolutional step: '''amphibians'''.<br /> <br /> Life faced yet another significant challenge as the more evolved tetrapods '''had to learn to breathe oxygen'''. The proliferation of land plants caused the growth of '''aquatic vegetation''' by dropping their leaves into streams and rivers, attracting small, grazing fish but making the environment unsuitable for larger predators. Decomposition of the foliage caused less oxygen to dissolve into the water, forcing the early animals to replace their '''gills with lungs, grow legs, and transition to live on land'''. This led to the birth of reptiles—and, eventually, the evolution of '''dinosaurs'''.<br /> <br /> As the primordials fostered God's newest project, He grew increasingly '''displeased with the life He saw'''. He'd once filled Heaven and Limbo with handcrafted, extraordinary creatures with magical qualities—the dull, reptilian-dominated Earth was not what He'd planned. '''He wanted to start over'''.<br /> <br /> Despite the lesser primordials' protest, God's decision was final. However, this time, He wouldn't '''reset the whole realm'''—only the planet itself. He grabbed a massive asteroid and hurled it into Earth, wiping out three-quarters of all species and half of all genera. This allowed '''prehistoric birds and mammals''' to thrive and take over the planet, eventually evolving into more advanced '''primates'''.<br /> <br /> After the devastating Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the six primordials declared their '''participation in shaping Earth was over'''. This angered God, but with no authority over the primary elements, he could not force the cosmic entities into obeying Him. Instead, He had no choice but to focus on nurturing the planet Himself, '''carefully manipulating the evolution of primates into increasingly intelligent creatures'''.<br /> <br /> Yet, despite His best attempts, the primal humanoids still lacked purpose… Until God gave two of them fractures of Himself.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Old testament ==<br /> <br /> The man and woman would be known as Adam and Eve—the first humans to possess a soul. At first, all was well; the human pair enjoyed their life of infinite blessings, God's endless affection and attention, and sovereign rule over Earth's other beings… But by turning His back towards the other realms and ignoring His previous creations, God had made a new enemy: the first archangel, Samael.<br /> <br /> With their souls, the two humans had received a gift no other being in the universe had—a concept known as &quot;free will.&quot; They knew the rules: obey their creator and live under His blessing, or disobey and face His wrath. After spending eons fighting the deadly sins in Limbo, Samael's true form and personification of Humility had been irreversibly damaged, causing the archangel to grow prideful and resentful. He slipped onto Earth, turned into the first native animal he saw—a snake—and slithered to the blessed humans, addressing the female, Eve.<br /> <br /> As Samael learned about the pair's origins, he also discovered they were never to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and learn things they weren't meant to understand. But Samael was cunning and claimed he'd eaten from the tree without ill effects, thus creating the first lie. By the time Eve sank her teeth into the forbidden fruit and called for Adam to join her, Samael was gone, barely avoiding God's rage as His creations turned against Him once again.<br /> <br /> Rebelling didn't end with Paradise: without the archangel of Humility, humankind's hubris only grew as time went by. As humans kept reaching for godhood, God's attempts to control His creations failed time after another: despite speaking different languages, witnessing judgment fall upon their kin, experiencing plagues, floods, and miracles—no matter how vengeful, creative, or benevolent God acted, mankind ignored His warnings and wishes. What was supposed to be His magnum opus had turned into a disobedient menace, and the primordial ruler was beyond furious. Whatever His plans entailed for humanity's future would be forgotten as the divided nations failed to find common ground and share the world peacefully.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-3.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Post-classical history ==<br /> <br /> Humankind's creativity saw no limit, and as technology evolved, so did the means of traveling. As the territory of different clans grew and continued to conquer new land, several religions began to form within individual groups, and the concept of a shared, universal truth seemed impossible. Suddenly, humanity wasn't interested in overtaking God's place but instead in convincing their enemies of their chosen deity's supremacy. Centuries of bloody and violent religious wars followed as Christians, Muslims, and Romans clashed against one another. During this time, the first [[Angels#Erelim|erelim]] were born, as human martyrs were taken to their afterlife and resurrected as angels, regardless of their personal beliefs or religion.<br /> <br /> Over the next thousand years, countless wars were declared and fought, converting more and more people to Christianity. However, it didn't unite the people but tore them apart and divided them as the initial, exemplary tenets were twisted to serve those in power. Corruption had taken root and turned impossible to weed out, leaving Heaven powerless against the spreading plague of demonic influence.<br /> <br /> While God watched His most precious and cherished creation fall to ruin, kingdoms, empires, and entire civilizations were wiped off Earth. This would invoke the last divine punishment upon humankind—the Black Death—as God attempted to control the unruly masses once more, wiping out almost half of Europe's population.<br /> <br /> Eventually, humanity's desire for violence would be replaced with curiosity, and the Age of Discovery would begin with the Portuguese systematically exploring the Atlantic Coast of Africa at the end of the 15th century. Yet, this would only lead to a new problem: colonization and forceful conversion.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-4.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Modern times ==<br /> The Age of Enlightenment and the following Scientific Revolution carried humanity into a new era of knowledge: the emergence of modern science. Mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, and understanding of human anatomy changed society's view of nature and themselves. Learning and observation slowly replaced fear of the unknown, leading to new inventions like gunpowder and modern banking. Despite people still fighting and enslaving one another in an endless battle of factitious superiority, they were heading into a new world filled with abundance and opportunity. Europe was enamored with the Renaissance; China entered the Qing Dynasty; Japan experienced its Edo period; America fought and won independence against the British colonies in the Revolutionary War under George Washington's command.<br /> <br /> As the Industrial Revolution transformed the global economy, machines took over hand production, accelerating production and population growth. Ideas of socialism, communism, and anarchism were born, and the standard of living for the general population began to increase. With industrialism came capitalism, creating even more contrast between wealthy and poor countries. Steam power gave birth to engines, vehicles, and locomotives, leading to the taming and death of the American frontier, also known as the Wild West.<br /> <br /> The Western world kept advancing and expanding its power; European imperialism brought much of Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa under colonial rule. Japan was the only Eastern country that managed to follow Europe's industrial advancements with the Meiji Restoration—both China and the Ottoman Empire failed in their attempts to keep up with industrialization. As the United States created an empire of its own with Japan behind it, the world entered the 20th century, bringing forth unprecedented scopes of warfare.<br /> <br /> By the time World War I began, it had become painfully clear humanity was not going to be God's final, perfect masterpiece but a cesspool of flaws and sin—a failure of a project that drove away its creator. It would take a miracle to steer humankind away from their inner pride and bring God back to the universe…<br /> <br /> Or another mass destruction of primordial proportions to restart it all over again.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-5.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=History_of_Earth&diff=280 2025-07-20T12:19:30Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Hadean eon */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:History-of-earth.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> CEN's version of Earth's history is a '''fictional mix of scientific and biblical timelines''' and, therefore, considered its own piece of lore. Most events placed in recent modern times—i.e., the 20th and 21st centuries—are not included to allow more freedom in character creation. It is recommended you first read through [[World creation|world creation]], as it covers the timeline before Earth's formation and lays the groundwork for later events.<br /> <br /> However, if you're making a younger character, say, just a few centuries old, you may jump straight ahead to the [[History_of_Earth#Post-classical_history|post-classical history]], or even [[History_of_Earth#Modern_times|modern times]].<br /> <br /> Now, we'll dive deeper into the planet's history and, eventually, into the history of mankind.<br /> <br /> == Hadean eon ==<br /> <br /> '''At first, there was no life in the universe'''—even Earth was merely a molten rock formation orbiting one of the countless stars of the cosmos. As God focused on the first realm, the '''other primordials kept feeding and shaping the young universe with their presence'''.<br /> <br /> As the macrocosm aged, the '''very first formations came into existence''': galactic filaments and galaxy clusters, nebulae, and planetary systems. Eventually, the universe took the shape we recognize today: in the barred spiral Milky Way galaxy, the Solar System and its contents formed, '''leading to the birth of several inhabitable planets orbiting a single star'''.<br /> <br /> When God returned to the middle realm, the third planet from the star had created an outgassing of an atmosphere with no oxygen. Frequent collisions with other bodies and intense bombardment of meteorites caused extreme volcanism, resulting in a series of '''magma oceans and episodes of core formation'''. The most significant impact was with a planet-sized body, the resulting debris forming a smaller rock to orbit the planet: a natural satellite known as the Moon.<br /> <br /> Once the amount of loose matter diminished and the '''number of planets settled into eight''', Earth started to cool down, creating a solid crust that allowed liquid water to fill the planet's surface.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Abiogenesis ==<br /> <br /> As the universe continued to grow but remained dormant, the six primal primordials saw that it would flourish. Matter and Energy delivered the materials needed to the most promising destination, while Gravity, Magnetism, and Light saw that the newly formed organisms could thrive. Earth would turn from hostile to habitable during the next four billion years, granting God His wish and much more.<br /> <br /> The first life forms, anaerobic microorganisms or microbes, lived underwater. These organisms fed off the nitrogen- and carbon-heavy atmosphere, used retinal to convert green light into metabolic energy, and aided in warming the planet by turning excess hydrogen into methane. Together with the young central star's faint light, this process started turning the planet's purple surface biosphere blue.<br /> <br /> As the unicellular microbes evolved into multicellular bacteria, Earth's atmosphere began to fill with oxygen. This, in turn, forced the evolution of even more complex organisms—mitochondria—and allowed them to reproduce by genetic transmission rather than parasitic cannibalism. These organelles became the building blocks of all life, from plants to algae to fungi.<br /> <br /> Red algae introduced a new way to multiply: sexual reproduction. This led to the Cambrian explosion—a.k.a. the Biological Big Bang—where complex life rapidly increased and diversified. Jellyfish and sea anemones were among the first animals to evolve, followed by slugs, clams, starfish, sea cucumbers, worms, tardigrades, and many others. The first fish were eel-like and jawless, some armored with mineralized scales. As they evolved bones and jaws, the ancestors of sharks were born, along with rays, lobe-, and ray-finned fish. They, in turn, gave rise to the next evolutional step: amphibians.<br /> <br /> Life faced yet another significant challenge as the more evolved tetrapods had to learn to breathe oxygen. The proliferation of land plants caused the growth of aquatic vegetation by dropping their leaves into streams and rivers, attracting small, grazing fish but making the environment unsuitable for larger predators. Decomposition of the foliage caused less oxygen to dissolve into the water, forcing the early animals to replace their gills with lungs, grow legs, and transition to live on land. This led to the birth of reptiles—and, eventually, the evolution of dinosaurs.<br /> <br /> As the primordials fostered God's newest project, He grew increasingly displeased with the life He saw. He'd once filled Heaven and Limbo with handcrafted, extraordinary creatures with magical qualities—the dull, reptilian-dominated Earth was not what He'd planned. He wanted to start over.<br /> <br /> Despite the lesser primordials' protest, God's decision was final. However, this time, He wouldn't reset the whole realm—only the planet itself. He grabbed a massive asteroid and hurled it into Earth, wiping out three-quarters of all species and half of all genera. This allowed prehistoric birds and mammals to thrive and take over the planet, eventually evolving into more advanced primates.<br /> <br /> After the devastating Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the six primordials declared their participation in shaping Earth was over. This angered God, but with no authority over the primary elements, he could not force the cosmic entities into obeying Him. Instead, He had no choice but to focus on nurturing the planet Himself, carefully manipulating the evolution of primates into increasingly intelligent creatures.<br /> <br /> Yet, despite His best attempts, the primal humanoids still lacked purpose… Until God gave two of them fractures of Himself.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Old testament ==<br /> <br /> The man and woman would be known as Adam and Eve—the first humans to possess a soul. At first, all was well; the human pair enjoyed their life of infinite blessings, God's endless affection and attention, and sovereign rule over Earth's other beings… But by turning His back towards the other realms and ignoring His previous creations, God had made a new enemy: the first archangel, Samael.<br /> <br /> With their souls, the two humans had received a gift no other being in the universe had—a concept known as &quot;free will.&quot; They knew the rules: obey their creator and live under His blessing, or disobey and face His wrath. After spending eons fighting the deadly sins in Limbo, Samael's true form and personification of Humility had been irreversibly damaged, causing the archangel to grow prideful and resentful. He slipped onto Earth, turned into the first native animal he saw—a snake—and slithered to the blessed humans, addressing the female, Eve.<br /> <br /> As Samael learned about the pair's origins, he also discovered they were never to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and learn things they weren't meant to understand. But Samael was cunning and claimed he'd eaten from the tree without ill effects, thus creating the first lie. By the time Eve sank her teeth into the forbidden fruit and called for Adam to join her, Samael was gone, barely avoiding God's rage as His creations turned against Him once again.<br /> <br /> Rebelling didn't end with Paradise: without the archangel of Humility, humankind's hubris only grew as time went by. As humans kept reaching for godhood, God's attempts to control His creations failed time after another: despite speaking different languages, witnessing judgment fall upon their kin, experiencing plagues, floods, and miracles—no matter how vengeful, creative, or benevolent God acted, mankind ignored His warnings and wishes. What was supposed to be His magnum opus had turned into a disobedient menace, and the primordial ruler was beyond furious. Whatever His plans entailed for humanity's future would be forgotten as the divided nations failed to find common ground and share the world peacefully.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-3.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Post-classical history ==<br /> <br /> Humankind's creativity saw no limit, and as technology evolved, so did the means of traveling. As the territory of different clans grew and continued to conquer new land, several religions began to form within individual groups, and the concept of a shared, universal truth seemed impossible. Suddenly, humanity wasn't interested in overtaking God's place but instead in convincing their enemies of their chosen deity's supremacy. Centuries of bloody and violent religious wars followed as Christians, Muslims, and Romans clashed against one another. During this time, the first [[Angels#Erelim|erelim]] were born, as human martyrs were taken to their afterlife and resurrected as angels, regardless of their personal beliefs or religion.<br /> <br /> Over the next thousand years, countless wars were declared and fought, converting more and more people to Christianity. However, it didn't unite the people but tore them apart and divided them as the initial, exemplary tenets were twisted to serve those in power. Corruption had taken root and turned impossible to weed out, leaving Heaven powerless against the spreading plague of demonic influence.<br /> <br /> While God watched His most precious and cherished creation fall to ruin, kingdoms, empires, and entire civilizations were wiped off Earth. This would invoke the last divine punishment upon humankind—the Black Death—as God attempted to control the unruly masses once more, wiping out almost half of Europe's population.<br /> <br /> Eventually, humanity's desire for violence would be replaced with curiosity, and the Age of Discovery would begin with the Portuguese systematically exploring the Atlantic Coast of Africa at the end of the 15th century. Yet, this would only lead to a new problem: colonization and forceful conversion.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-4.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Modern times ==<br /> The Age of Enlightenment and the following Scientific Revolution carried humanity into a new era of knowledge: the emergence of modern science. Mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, and understanding of human anatomy changed society's view of nature and themselves. Learning and observation slowly replaced fear of the unknown, leading to new inventions like gunpowder and modern banking. Despite people still fighting and enslaving one another in an endless battle of factitious superiority, they were heading into a new world filled with abundance and opportunity. Europe was enamored with the Renaissance; China entered the Qing Dynasty; Japan experienced its Edo period; America fought and won independence against the British colonies in the Revolutionary War under George Washington's command.<br /> <br /> As the Industrial Revolution transformed the global economy, machines took over hand production, accelerating production and population growth. Ideas of socialism, communism, and anarchism were born, and the standard of living for the general population began to increase. With industrialism came capitalism, creating even more contrast between wealthy and poor countries. Steam power gave birth to engines, vehicles, and locomotives, leading to the taming and death of the American frontier, also known as the Wild West.<br /> <br /> The Western world kept advancing and expanding its power; European imperialism brought much of Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa under colonial rule. Japan was the only Eastern country that managed to follow Europe's industrial advancements with the Meiji Restoration—both China and the Ottoman Empire failed in their attempts to keep up with industrialization. As the United States created an empire of its own with Japan behind it, the world entered the 20th century, bringing forth unprecedented scopes of warfare.<br /> <br /> By the time World War I began, it had become painfully clear humanity was not going to be God's final, perfect masterpiece but a cesspool of flaws and sin—a failure of a project that drove away its creator. It would take a miracle to steer humankind away from their inner pride and bring God back to the universe…<br /> <br /> Or another mass destruction of primordial proportions to restart it all over again.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-5.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=History_of_Earth&diff=277 2025-07-20T12:17:20Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Introduction */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:History-of-earth.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> CEN's version of Earth's history is a '''fictional mix of scientific and biblical timelines''' and, therefore, considered its own piece of lore. Most events placed in recent modern times—i.e., the 20th and 21st centuries—are not included to allow more freedom in character creation. It is recommended you first read through [[World creation|world creation]], as it covers the timeline before Earth's formation and lays the groundwork for later events.<br /> <br /> However, if you're making a younger character, say, just a few centuries old, you may jump straight ahead to the [[History_of_Earth#Post-classical_history|post-classical history]], or even [[History_of_Earth#Modern_times|modern times]].<br /> <br /> Now, we'll dive deeper into the planet's history and, eventually, into the history of mankind.<br /> <br /> == Hadean eon ==<br /> <br /> At first, there was no life in the universe—even Earth was merely a molten rock formation orbiting one of the countless stars of the cosmos. As God focused on the first realm, the other primordials kept feeding and shaping the young universe with their presence.<br /> <br /> As the macrocosm aged, the very first formations came into existence: galactic filaments and galaxy clusters, nebulae, and planetary systems. Eventually, the universe took the shape we recognize today: in the barred spiral Milky Way galaxy, the Solar System and its contents formed, leading to the birth of several inhabitable planets orbiting a single star.<br /> <br /> When God returned to the middle realm, the third planet from the star had created an outgassing of an atmosphere with no oxygen. Frequent collisions with other bodies and intense bombardment of meteorites caused extreme volcanism, resulting in a series of magma oceans and episodes of core formation. The most significant impact was with a planet-sized body, the resulting debris forming a smaller rock to orbit the planet: a natural satellite known as the Moon.<br /> <br /> Once the amount of loose matter diminished and the number of planets settled into eight, Earth started to cool down, creating a solid crust that allowed liquid water to fill the planet's surface.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Abiogenesis ==<br /> <br /> As the universe continued to grow but remained dormant, the six primal primordials saw that it would flourish. Matter and Energy delivered the materials needed to the most promising destination, while Gravity, Magnetism, and Light saw that the newly formed organisms could thrive. Earth would turn from hostile to habitable during the next four billion years, granting God His wish and much more.<br /> <br /> The first life forms, anaerobic microorganisms or microbes, lived underwater. These organisms fed off the nitrogen- and carbon-heavy atmosphere, used retinal to convert green light into metabolic energy, and aided in warming the planet by turning excess hydrogen into methane. Together with the young central star's faint light, this process started turning the planet's purple surface biosphere blue.<br /> <br /> As the unicellular microbes evolved into multicellular bacteria, Earth's atmosphere began to fill with oxygen. This, in turn, forced the evolution of even more complex organisms—mitochondria—and allowed them to reproduce by genetic transmission rather than parasitic cannibalism. These organelles became the building blocks of all life, from plants to algae to fungi.<br /> <br /> Red algae introduced a new way to multiply: sexual reproduction. This led to the Cambrian explosion—a.k.a. the Biological Big Bang—where complex life rapidly increased and diversified. Jellyfish and sea anemones were among the first animals to evolve, followed by slugs, clams, starfish, sea cucumbers, worms, tardigrades, and many others. The first fish were eel-like and jawless, some armored with mineralized scales. As they evolved bones and jaws, the ancestors of sharks were born, along with rays, lobe-, and ray-finned fish. They, in turn, gave rise to the next evolutional step: amphibians.<br /> <br /> Life faced yet another significant challenge as the more evolved tetrapods had to learn to breathe oxygen. The proliferation of land plants caused the growth of aquatic vegetation by dropping their leaves into streams and rivers, attracting small, grazing fish but making the environment unsuitable for larger predators. Decomposition of the foliage caused less oxygen to dissolve into the water, forcing the early animals to replace their gills with lungs, grow legs, and transition to live on land. This led to the birth of reptiles—and, eventually, the evolution of dinosaurs.<br /> <br /> As the primordials fostered God's newest project, He grew increasingly displeased with the life He saw. He'd once filled Heaven and Limbo with handcrafted, extraordinary creatures with magical qualities—the dull, reptilian-dominated Earth was not what He'd planned. He wanted to start over.<br /> <br /> Despite the lesser primordials' protest, God's decision was final. However, this time, He wouldn't reset the whole realm—only the planet itself. He grabbed a massive asteroid and hurled it into Earth, wiping out three-quarters of all species and half of all genera. This allowed prehistoric birds and mammals to thrive and take over the planet, eventually evolving into more advanced primates.<br /> <br /> After the devastating Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the six primordials declared their participation in shaping Earth was over. This angered God, but with no authority over the primary elements, he could not force the cosmic entities into obeying Him. Instead, He had no choice but to focus on nurturing the planet Himself, carefully manipulating the evolution of primates into increasingly intelligent creatures.<br /> <br /> Yet, despite His best attempts, the primal humanoids still lacked purpose… Until God gave two of them fractures of Himself.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Old testament ==<br /> <br /> The man and woman would be known as Adam and Eve—the first humans to possess a soul. At first, all was well; the human pair enjoyed their life of infinite blessings, God's endless affection and attention, and sovereign rule over Earth's other beings… But by turning His back towards the other realms and ignoring His previous creations, God had made a new enemy: the first archangel, Samael.<br /> <br /> With their souls, the two humans had received a gift no other being in the universe had—a concept known as &quot;free will.&quot; They knew the rules: obey their creator and live under His blessing, or disobey and face His wrath. After spending eons fighting the deadly sins in Limbo, Samael's true form and personification of Humility had been irreversibly damaged, causing the archangel to grow prideful and resentful. He slipped onto Earth, turned into the first native animal he saw—a snake—and slithered to the blessed humans, addressing the female, Eve.<br /> <br /> As Samael learned about the pair's origins, he also discovered they were never to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and learn things they weren't meant to understand. But Samael was cunning and claimed he'd eaten from the tree without ill effects, thus creating the first lie. By the time Eve sank her teeth into the forbidden fruit and called for Adam to join her, Samael was gone, barely avoiding God's rage as His creations turned against Him once again.<br /> <br /> Rebelling didn't end with Paradise: without the archangel of Humility, humankind's hubris only grew as time went by. As humans kept reaching for godhood, God's attempts to control His creations failed time after another: despite speaking different languages, witnessing judgment fall upon their kin, experiencing plagues, floods, and miracles—no matter how vengeful, creative, or benevolent God acted, mankind ignored His warnings and wishes. What was supposed to be His magnum opus had turned into a disobedient menace, and the primordial ruler was beyond furious. Whatever His plans entailed for humanity's future would be forgotten as the divided nations failed to find common ground and share the world peacefully.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-3.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Post-classical history ==<br /> <br /> Humankind's creativity saw no limit, and as technology evolved, so did the means of traveling. As the territory of different clans grew and continued to conquer new land, several religions began to form within individual groups, and the concept of a shared, universal truth seemed impossible. Suddenly, humanity wasn't interested in overtaking God's place but instead in convincing their enemies of their chosen deity's supremacy. Centuries of bloody and violent religious wars followed as Christians, Muslims, and Romans clashed against one another. During this time, the first [[Angels#Erelim|erelim]] were born, as human martyrs were taken to their afterlife and resurrected as angels, regardless of their personal beliefs or religion.<br /> <br /> Over the next thousand years, countless wars were declared and fought, converting more and more people to Christianity. However, it didn't unite the people but tore them apart and divided them as the initial, exemplary tenets were twisted to serve those in power. Corruption had taken root and turned impossible to weed out, leaving Heaven powerless against the spreading plague of demonic influence.<br /> <br /> While God watched His most precious and cherished creation fall to ruin, kingdoms, empires, and entire civilizations were wiped off Earth. This would invoke the last divine punishment upon humankind—the Black Death—as God attempted to control the unruly masses once more, wiping out almost half of Europe's population.<br /> <br /> Eventually, humanity's desire for violence would be replaced with curiosity, and the Age of Discovery would begin with the Portuguese systematically exploring the Atlantic Coast of Africa at the end of the 15th century. Yet, this would only lead to a new problem: colonization and forceful conversion.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-4.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Modern times ==<br /> The Age of Enlightenment and the following Scientific Revolution carried humanity into a new era of knowledge: the emergence of modern science. Mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, and understanding of human anatomy changed society's view of nature and themselves. Learning and observation slowly replaced fear of the unknown, leading to new inventions like gunpowder and modern banking. Despite people still fighting and enslaving one another in an endless battle of factitious superiority, they were heading into a new world filled with abundance and opportunity. Europe was enamored with the Renaissance; China entered the Qing Dynasty; Japan experienced its Edo period; America fought and won independence against the British colonies in the Revolutionary War under George Washington's command.<br /> <br /> As the Industrial Revolution transformed the global economy, machines took over hand production, accelerating production and population growth. Ideas of socialism, communism, and anarchism were born, and the standard of living for the general population began to increase. With industrialism came capitalism, creating even more contrast between wealthy and poor countries. Steam power gave birth to engines, vehicles, and locomotives, leading to the taming and death of the American frontier, also known as the Wild West.<br /> <br /> The Western world kept advancing and expanding its power; European imperialism brought much of Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa under colonial rule. Japan was the only Eastern country that managed to follow Europe's industrial advancements with the Meiji Restoration—both China and the Ottoman Empire failed in their attempts to keep up with industrialization. As the United States created an empire of its own with Japan behind it, the world entered the 20th century, bringing forth unprecedented scopes of warfare.<br /> <br /> By the time World War I began, it had become painfully clear humanity was not going to be God's final, perfect masterpiece but a cesspool of flaws and sin—a failure of a project that drove away its creator. It would take a miracle to steer humankind away from their inner pride and bring God back to the universe…<br /> <br /> Or another mass destruction of primordial proportions to restart it all over again.<br /> <br /> [[File:History-of-earth-5.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=World_creation&diff=256 2025-07-20T11:43:02Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Mankind */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:World-creation.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> === Related ===<br /> <br /> * [[History of Earth]]<br /> * [[Primordials]]<br /> <br /> == Chaos vs. Order ==<br /> <br /> What was before time, space, or matter? Technically, nothing—and yet, a slumbering consciousness that allowed everything to come into existence. Out of Chaos came a paradox, and that paradox was Order. A '''singularity that gave birth to two primordials''', born outside of any comprehensible concept. Creation had started with two equal forces, violently separating them from each other and forcing them to awaken.<br /> <br /> At first, the two consciousness clashed with hostility: as '''Order attempted to subdue Chaos, Chaos tried to rip Order apart''', resulting in countless attempts to overpower the other primordial. Between each terrifying Word of War spanned neither quettaseconds or Planck units, as there was no timeline to measure between epochs, yet it took ages upon ages to regain the power to create and destroy new concepts.<br /> <br /> Eventually, Order prevailed—'''with the command of Silence, the second primordial disarmed their opponent''', leaving Chaos without power to undo whatever was to follow. Without their destructive counterpart, Order was finally free to fill the emptiness and after gaining the upper hand, force Chaos into an eternal slumber, never to be awoken and allowed to ruin yet another project.<br /> <br /> This marked the first recorded epoch of creation, yet not the start of the universe we know.<br /> <br /> == Creating the universe(s) ==<br /> <br /> '''The first created universe was everything Order wanted''': symmetrical in all forms, beautiful and without flaw. Made of perfect shapes and nothing else, it was the epitome of Order's design—and '''yet, without life, it was… Empty. Boring. Without purpose.''' There was a limit to Order's imagination, and no amount of raw creation was going to break the mold. But how to start anew without the power to destroy what was once created? Order had never been more powerful, surrounded by perfection, yet oddly… Lonely.<br /> <br /> What if there were other primordials, ones that obeyed Order's command? And so, '''into existence came the six primary elements''': Time, Matter, Gravity, Magnetism, Light, and Energy. They helped Order create the second universe: full of life, but otherwise like the first, filled with calming shapes and not much more. '''It was a study of everything the seven primordials could do''', testing their powers to their limits, breaking and fixing whatever they broke in the process. Time was split into multiverses; matter and antimatter created their own spaces; gravity pulled and crushed everything it touched, while magnetism repelled and spread whatever remained across multiple timelines. Finally, light and energy transformed everything they came across, creating a repeating cycle of change.<br /> <br /> These were the building blocks Order wanted to build upon. But '''the second universe was as unstable and hostile as it was magnificent'''; with no limits and rules, nothing could survive for long without being inevitably destroyed or transformed. What needed to change and how much, exactly?<br /> <br /> Eventually, '''the primordials settled for a single timeline where actions had consequences''', some of them irreversible. As long as change was gradual and linear, things made sense and upkeeping the rules was simple. But once again, the second universe had to be discarded in order to start a new project, yet this one was going to be Order's magnum opus. Creation had to start small, as small as Matter could make it, and then bind together to form larger objects. Gravity and Magnetism would help distribute it across the universe, where Light and Energy could take over to create life. '''This would become the human universe''', starting with a Big Bang as the primordials were released into it.<br /> <br /> However, '''there was a dark secret hiding in the universe's fabric''', something Order couldn't have foreseen: a remnant of Chaos, while still slumbering, slowly and unavoidably affecting everything as time went on. And there was nothing Order could have done to prevent it, even if it had been caught earlier…<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Heaven and Hell ==<br /> <br /> Oblivious to the spreading imperfections across the universe, '''Order grew impatient waiting for time to pass''' and the universe to support life, but instead of creating another universe, '''another subspace—a realm—was formed'''. It featured the most beautiful parts of the previous universe: endless blue skies spanning across the horizon, enormous clouds of pure white, green meadows covered in all the colors of the rainbow. '''This realm would later be known as Heaven''', but in the beginning, it was merely a distraction from the slog that was life's insufferably slow evolution.<br /> <br /> And what was life like? Bacteria. Fungi. Viruses. The lesser primordials were scolded several times for not speeding things up, but without the power to straight-up create what they wanted, natural evolution was the only way to proceed. So, '''Order left Earth'''—the single planet that had generated in a perfect location and situation—'''and created the first non-primordial creatures to inhabit Heaven''': the archangels, each representing a concept that would be known as a virtue. They inherited a part of Order's power, who'd know decided to differentiate from other primordials by claiming a title of a more supreme being: '''God'''.<br /> <br /> For a while, things seemed perfect: the primordials kept working on Earth, and the archangels took care of building Heaven exactly as God asked of them. '''But once again, the Creator grew impatient''', and after checking on Earth and it's newly formed life-forms, deemed them unworthy of further fostering. With merely more than a thought, '''God slammed an asteroid into Earth's crust''', killing off most of the planet's reptilian inhabitants in the impact's aftermath. This time, the six lesser primordials gave up and left Order to care for the planet without their assistance, rightfully frustrated in the self-appointed dictator's decisions.<br /> <br /> While the planet recovered, God decided to flex His powers one last time, in the form of another realm He would personally fill with life He'd handcraft from the start.<br /> <br /> === The lost paradise ===<br /> Finally, a third realm was born: a '''seemingly perfect home for all kinds of mythical creatures''', this realm was God's pet project, as He came up with more and more magical animals and beasts, commanding the first angels to watch over them. Inspired by the universe, '''the realm received its own moons, a night sky, day and night cycles, and all the things that made Earth unique'''. Unicorns, dragons, griffins, phoenixes… The realm was beautiful, called '''Eden''', and it could have been the final home of humans, if God's planned weren't once again ruined—'''though, this time, by His own hand.'''<br /> <br /> Inadvertently, instead of balancing seven primordials with seven angels, God had '''unintentionally created something equally powerful''', but less virtuous and more… Sinful.<br /> <br /> '''The seven deadly sins''', in fact. Massive beasts, who'd eaten their way out of their own realm, and infiltrated Eden. They kept killing and eating their way through the realm, eventually running into the seven archangels guarding the lands.<br /> <br /> Taken by surprise and appalled by the unholy creatures, '''the archangels declared war against the primal monstrosities'''. Battles lasting over several millennia ravaged the realm and led to the destruction of both its landscape and wildlife, each side spawning more and more soldiers of their own kind in an effort to turn the battle's tide. But there was no winning; '''the realm was slowly poisoned to death, killing whatever life survived the battles.'''<br /> <br /> By the time Order realized what had happened and intervened, '''Eden had turned into a graveyard. An ageless, timeless limbo for the lost''', filled with fog and the ghosts of the dead. The archangels were called back to Heaven and '''made to promise destruction like this would never happen again''', not when Order had finally reformed Earth to His liking. Dinosaurs had made way to mammals, animals capable of higher intellect, far superior in potential than anything Order had previously created.<br /> <br /> And thus, the realm in the middle was abandoned for good.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Earth ==<br /> <br /> Primates were evolving rapidly, growing smarter and losing their fur, '''rising up to walk on two legs and creating tools to ensure their survival'''. This sparked God's curiosity, as He'd never seen another creature besides Himself show signs of imagination. From now on, '''primal humans were Order's proudest''' creation, the true magnum opus He'd been waiting for. Feeling excitement for the first time, '''God descended onto Earth''', spending His time admiring the clever apes and rewarding their remarkable progress with '''knowledge of fire'''.<br /> <br /> But the first humans were barely anything more than the animals they hunted; '''functioning based on instinct, focused on surviving and multiplying.''' Still, Order had spent all His time fostering the hairless apes, destroyed entire universes to fulfill His vision, and He wasn't about to give up. To '''raise humans above other creatures''', He gave them a tiny spark of Himself—'''a soul to guide them and inspire them to greatness, the gift of language and words, and free will''' to form Earth to their liking. A Tree of Knowledge was grown to '''reveal the universe's secrets when the time was right''' and the human race would be able to handle the responsibility, but for now, the '''first two blessed humans'''—Adam and Eve—were to do nothing more than name animals they saw and worship the God that had created them.<br /> <br /> Yet once again creation surprised Order as the oldest archangel, Samael, had grown resentful of God's divided attention, and '''coaxed the woman to rebel and eat from the Tree of Knowledge'''. Infuriated by the betrayal, '''God banished the couple from the promised paradise''', the small piece of Heaven on Earth, and returned to Heaven to deal with the rebellious angels. '''Humans were left to fend for themselves''', populating the Earth and forming the first civilizations, taking pride in their ability to imagine and create like God had intended.<br /> <br /> === Mankind ===<br /> By now, the delicate balance across all creation had been irreversibly shaken, and '''vices took over humanity'''. As more and more souls ended up in Hell instead of their intended destination, '''angels were commanded on Earth to keep the demonic forces at bay'''. However, without the permission to start another war and ruin the planet, all skirmishes were futile, and the deadly sins' power over the human population grew steadily stronger. Even worse, '''humans had started to rebel on their own''', ignoring all of God's wishes and choosing vices instead.<br /> <br /> Whatever Order had envisioned, '''this was far from it'''.<br /> <br /> Insulted like never before, God took out His anger on the last creation defying him: He instilled humans with the '''ability to pick out patterns, giving them a sense of comfort when they could predict the outcome of their actions and rely on their surroundings'''. Humans learned to be afraid of disorder and paradoxes, things they didn't know. To make them dependent of His light, their '''imagination was twisted to fill the darkness with unknown horrors''' so that they might be scared back into submission. Everything that had been used against God was corrupted and turned against the offenders, but humans had spread too far and wide to be so easily manipulated.<br /> <br /> Finally, as the universe turned its back on God, '''God returned the favor and left'''. To start anew once more, or to try again with another planet, nobody knew—and thus came the dark age of total silence.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-3.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=World_creation&diff=255 2025-07-20T11:41:03Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Earth */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:World-creation.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> === Related ===<br /> <br /> * [[History of Earth]]<br /> * [[Primordials]]<br /> <br /> == Chaos vs. Order ==<br /> <br /> What was before time, space, or matter? Technically, nothing—and yet, a slumbering consciousness that allowed everything to come into existence. Out of Chaos came a paradox, and that paradox was Order. A '''singularity that gave birth to two primordials''', born outside of any comprehensible concept. Creation had started with two equal forces, violently separating them from each other and forcing them to awaken.<br /> <br /> At first, the two consciousness clashed with hostility: as '''Order attempted to subdue Chaos, Chaos tried to rip Order apart''', resulting in countless attempts to overpower the other primordial. Between each terrifying Word of War spanned neither quettaseconds or Planck units, as there was no timeline to measure between epochs, yet it took ages upon ages to regain the power to create and destroy new concepts.<br /> <br /> Eventually, Order prevailed—'''with the command of Silence, the second primordial disarmed their opponent''', leaving Chaos without power to undo whatever was to follow. Without their destructive counterpart, Order was finally free to fill the emptiness and after gaining the upper hand, force Chaos into an eternal slumber, never to be awoken and allowed to ruin yet another project.<br /> <br /> This marked the first recorded epoch of creation, yet not the start of the universe we know.<br /> <br /> == Creating the universe(s) ==<br /> <br /> '''The first created universe was everything Order wanted''': symmetrical in all forms, beautiful and without flaw. Made of perfect shapes and nothing else, it was the epitome of Order's design—and '''yet, without life, it was… Empty. Boring. Without purpose.''' There was a limit to Order's imagination, and no amount of raw creation was going to break the mold. But how to start anew without the power to destroy what was once created? Order had never been more powerful, surrounded by perfection, yet oddly… Lonely.<br /> <br /> What if there were other primordials, ones that obeyed Order's command? And so, '''into existence came the six primary elements''': Time, Matter, Gravity, Magnetism, Light, and Energy. They helped Order create the second universe: full of life, but otherwise like the first, filled with calming shapes and not much more. '''It was a study of everything the seven primordials could do''', testing their powers to their limits, breaking and fixing whatever they broke in the process. Time was split into multiverses; matter and antimatter created their own spaces; gravity pulled and crushed everything it touched, while magnetism repelled and spread whatever remained across multiple timelines. Finally, light and energy transformed everything they came across, creating a repeating cycle of change.<br /> <br /> These were the building blocks Order wanted to build upon. But '''the second universe was as unstable and hostile as it was magnificent'''; with no limits and rules, nothing could survive for long without being inevitably destroyed or transformed. What needed to change and how much, exactly?<br /> <br /> Eventually, '''the primordials settled for a single timeline where actions had consequences''', some of them irreversible. As long as change was gradual and linear, things made sense and upkeeping the rules was simple. But once again, the second universe had to be discarded in order to start a new project, yet this one was going to be Order's magnum opus. Creation had to start small, as small as Matter could make it, and then bind together to form larger objects. Gravity and Magnetism would help distribute it across the universe, where Light and Energy could take over to create life. '''This would become the human universe''', starting with a Big Bang as the primordials were released into it.<br /> <br /> However, '''there was a dark secret hiding in the universe's fabric''', something Order couldn't have foreseen: a remnant of Chaos, while still slumbering, slowly and unavoidably affecting everything as time went on. And there was nothing Order could have done to prevent it, even if it had been caught earlier…<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Heaven and Hell ==<br /> <br /> Oblivious to the spreading imperfections across the universe, '''Order grew impatient waiting for time to pass''' and the universe to support life, but instead of creating another universe, '''another subspace—a realm—was formed'''. It featured the most beautiful parts of the previous universe: endless blue skies spanning across the horizon, enormous clouds of pure white, green meadows covered in all the colors of the rainbow. '''This realm would later be known as Heaven''', but in the beginning, it was merely a distraction from the slog that was life's insufferably slow evolution.<br /> <br /> And what was life like? Bacteria. Fungi. Viruses. The lesser primordials were scolded several times for not speeding things up, but without the power to straight-up create what they wanted, natural evolution was the only way to proceed. So, '''Order left Earth'''—the single planet that had generated in a perfect location and situation—'''and created the first non-primordial creatures to inhabit Heaven''': the archangels, each representing a concept that would be known as a virtue. They inherited a part of Order's power, who'd know decided to differentiate from other primordials by claiming a title of a more supreme being: '''God'''.<br /> <br /> For a while, things seemed perfect: the primordials kept working on Earth, and the archangels took care of building Heaven exactly as God asked of them. '''But once again, the Creator grew impatient''', and after checking on Earth and it's newly formed life-forms, deemed them unworthy of further fostering. With merely more than a thought, '''God slammed an asteroid into Earth's crust''', killing off most of the planet's reptilian inhabitants in the impact's aftermath. This time, the six lesser primordials gave up and left Order to care for the planet without their assistance, rightfully frustrated in the self-appointed dictator's decisions.<br /> <br /> While the planet recovered, God decided to flex His powers one last time, in the form of another realm He would personally fill with life He'd handcraft from the start.<br /> <br /> === The lost paradise ===<br /> Finally, a third realm was born: a '''seemingly perfect home for all kinds of mythical creatures''', this realm was God's pet project, as He came up with more and more magical animals and beasts, commanding the first angels to watch over them. Inspired by the universe, '''the realm received its own moons, a night sky, day and night cycles, and all the things that made Earth unique'''. Unicorns, dragons, griffins, phoenixes… The realm was beautiful, called '''Eden''', and it could have been the final home of humans, if God's planned weren't once again ruined—'''though, this time, by His own hand.'''<br /> <br /> Inadvertently, instead of balancing seven primordials with seven angels, God had '''unintentionally created something equally powerful''', but less virtuous and more… Sinful.<br /> <br /> '''The seven deadly sins''', in fact. Massive beasts, who'd eaten their way out of their own realm, and infiltrated Eden. They kept killing and eating their way through the realm, eventually running into the seven archangels guarding the lands.<br /> <br /> Taken by surprise and appalled by the unholy creatures, '''the archangels declared war against the primal monstrosities'''. Battles lasting over several millennia ravaged the realm and led to the destruction of both its landscape and wildlife, each side spawning more and more soldiers of their own kind in an effort to turn the battle's tide. But there was no winning; '''the realm was slowly poisoned to death, killing whatever life survived the battles.'''<br /> <br /> By the time Order realized what had happened and intervened, '''Eden had turned into a graveyard. An ageless, timeless limbo for the lost''', filled with fog and the ghosts of the dead. The archangels were called back to Heaven and '''made to promise destruction like this would never happen again''', not when Order had finally reformed Earth to His liking. Dinosaurs had made way to mammals, animals capable of higher intellect, far superior in potential than anything Order had previously created.<br /> <br /> And thus, the realm in the middle was abandoned for good.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Earth ==<br /> <br /> Primates were evolving rapidly, growing smarter and losing their fur, '''rising up to walk on two legs and creating tools to ensure their survival'''. This sparked God's curiosity, as He'd never seen another creature besides Himself show signs of imagination. From now on, '''primal humans were Order's proudest''' creation, the true magnum opus He'd been waiting for. Feeling excitement for the first time, '''God descended onto Earth''', spending His time admiring the clever apes and rewarding their remarkable progress with '''knowledge of fire'''.<br /> <br /> But the first humans were barely anything more than the animals they hunted; '''functioning based on instinct, focused on surviving and multiplying.''' Still, Order had spent all His time fostering the hairless apes, destroyed entire universes to fulfill His vision, and He wasn't about to give up. To '''raise humans above other creatures''', He gave them a tiny spark of Himself—'''a soul to guide them and inspire them to greatness, the gift of language and words, and free will''' to form Earth to their liking. A Tree of Knowledge was grown to '''reveal the universe's secrets when the time was right''' and the human race would be able to handle the responsibility, but for now, the '''first two blessed humans'''—Adam and Eve—were to do nothing more than name animals they saw and worship the God that had created them.<br /> <br /> Yet once again creation surprised Order as the oldest archangel, Samael, had grown resentful of God's divided attention, and '''coaxed the woman to rebel and eat from the Tree of Knowledge'''. Infuriated by the betrayal, '''God banished the couple from the promised paradise''', the small piece of Heaven on Earth, and returned to Heaven to deal with the rebellious angels. '''Humans were left to fend for themselves''', populating the Earth and forming the first civilizations, taking pride in their ability to imagine and create like God had intended.<br /> <br /> === Mankind ===<br /> By now, the delicate balance across all creation had been irreversibly shaken, and '''vices took over humanity'''. As more and more souls ended up in Hell instead of their intended destination, '''angels were commanded on Earth to keep the demonic forces at bay'''. However, without the permission to start another war and ruin the planet, all skirmishes were futile, and the deadly sins' power over the human population grew steadily stronger. Even worse, '''humans had started to rebel on their own''', ignoring all of God's wishes and choosing vices instead.<br /> <br /> Whatever Order had envisioned, '''this was far from it'''.<br /> <br /> Insulted like never before, God took out His anger on the last creation defying him: He instilled humans with the ability to pick out patterns, giving them a sense of comfort when they could predict the outcome of their actions and rely on their surroundings. Humans learned to be afraid of disorder and paradoxes, things they didn't know. To make them dependent of His light, their imagination was twisted to fill the darkness with unknown horrors so that they might be scared back into submission. Everything that had been used against God was corrupted and turned against the offenders, but humans had spread too far and wide to be so easily manipulated.<br /> <br /> Finally, as the universe turned its back on God, '''God returned the favor and left'''. To start anew once more, or to try again with another planet, nobody knew—and thus came the dark age of total silence.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-3.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=World_creation&diff=251 2025-07-20T11:04:02Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Earth */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:World-creation.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> === Related ===<br /> <br /> * [[History of Earth]]<br /> * [[Primordials]]<br /> <br /> == Chaos vs. Order ==<br /> <br /> What was before time, space, or matter? Technically, nothing—and yet, a slumbering consciousness that allowed everything to come into existence. Out of Chaos came a paradox, and that paradox was Order. A '''singularity that gave birth to two primordials''', born outside of any comprehensible concept. Creation had started with two equal forces, violently separating them from each other and forcing them to awaken.<br /> <br /> At first, the two consciousness clashed with hostility: as '''Order attempted to subdue Chaos, Chaos tried to rip Order apart''', resulting in countless attempts to overpower the other primordial. Between each terrifying Word of War spanned neither quettaseconds or Planck units, as there was no timeline to measure between epochs, yet it took ages upon ages to regain the power to create and destroy new concepts.<br /> <br /> Eventually, Order prevailed—'''with the command of Silence, the second primordial disarmed their opponent''', leaving Chaos without power to undo whatever was to follow. Without their destructive counterpart, Order was finally free to fill the emptiness and after gaining the upper hand, force Chaos into an eternal slumber, never to be awoken and allowed to ruin yet another project.<br /> <br /> This marked the first recorded epoch of creation, yet not the start of the universe we know.<br /> <br /> == Creating the universe(s) ==<br /> <br /> '''The first created universe was everything Order wanted''': symmetrical in all forms, beautiful and without flaw. Made of perfect shapes and nothing else, it was the epitome of Order's design—and '''yet, without life, it was… Empty. Boring. Without purpose.''' There was a limit to Order's imagination, and no amount of raw creation was going to break the mold. But how to start anew without the power to destroy what was once created? Order had never been more powerful, surrounded by perfection, yet oddly… Lonely.<br /> <br /> What if there were other primordials, ones that obeyed Order's command? And so, '''into existence came the six primary elements''': Time, Matter, Gravity, Magnetism, Light, and Energy. They helped Order create the second universe: full of life, but otherwise like the first, filled with calming shapes and not much more. '''It was a study of everything the seven primordials could do''', testing their powers to their limits, breaking and fixing whatever they broke in the process. Time was split into multiverses; matter and antimatter created their own spaces; gravity pulled and crushed everything it touched, while magnetism repelled and spread whatever remained across multiple timelines. Finally, light and energy transformed everything they came across, creating a repeating cycle of change.<br /> <br /> These were the building blocks Order wanted to build upon. But '''the second universe was as unstable and hostile as it was magnificent'''; with no limits and rules, nothing could survive for long without being inevitably destroyed or transformed. What needed to change and how much, exactly?<br /> <br /> Eventually, '''the primordials settled for a single timeline where actions had consequences''', some of them irreversible. As long as change was gradual and linear, things made sense and upkeeping the rules was simple. But once again, the second universe had to be discarded in order to start a new project, yet this one was going to be Order's magnum opus. Creation had to start small, as small as Matter could make it, and then bind together to form larger objects. Gravity and Magnetism would help distribute it across the universe, where Light and Energy could take over to create life. '''This would become the human universe''', starting with a Big Bang as the primordials were released into it.<br /> <br /> However, '''there was a dark secret hiding in the universe's fabric''', something Order couldn't have foreseen: a remnant of Chaos, while still slumbering, slowly and unavoidably affecting everything as time went on. And there was nothing Order could have done to prevent it, even if it had been caught earlier…<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Heaven and Hell ==<br /> <br /> Oblivious to the spreading imperfections across the universe, '''Order grew impatient waiting for time to pass''' and the universe to support life, but instead of creating another universe, '''another subspace—a realm—was formed'''. It featured the most beautiful parts of the previous universe: endless blue skies spanning across the horizon, enormous clouds of pure white, green meadows covered in all the colors of the rainbow. '''This realm would later be known as Heaven''', but in the beginning, it was merely a distraction from the slog that was life's insufferably slow evolution.<br /> <br /> And what was life like? Bacteria. Fungi. Viruses. The lesser primordials were scolded several times for not speeding things up, but without the power to straight-up create what they wanted, natural evolution was the only way to proceed. So, '''Order left Earth'''—the single planet that had generated in a perfect location and situation—'''and created the first non-primordial creatures to inhabit Heaven''': the archangels, each representing a concept that would be known as a virtue. They inherited a part of Order's power, who'd know decided to differentiate from other primordials by claiming a title of a more supreme being: '''God'''.<br /> <br /> For a while, things seemed perfect: the primordials kept working on Earth, and the archangels took care of building Heaven exactly as God asked of them. '''But once again, the Creator grew impatient''', and after checking on Earth and it's newly formed life-forms, deemed them unworthy of further fostering. With merely more than a thought, '''God slammed an asteroid into Earth's crust''', killing off most of the planet's reptilian inhabitants in the impact's aftermath. This time, the six lesser primordials gave up and left Order to care for the planet without their assistance, rightfully frustrated in the self-appointed dictator's decisions.<br /> <br /> While the planet recovered, God decided to flex His powers one last time, in the form of another realm He would personally fill with life He'd handcraft from the start.<br /> <br /> === The lost paradise ===<br /> Finally, a third realm was born: a '''seemingly perfect home for all kinds of mythical creatures''', this realm was God's pet project, as He came up with more and more magical animals and beasts, commanding the first angels to watch over them. Inspired by the universe, '''the realm received its own moons, a night sky, day and night cycles, and all the things that made Earth unique'''. Unicorns, dragons, griffins, phoenixes… The realm was beautiful, called '''Eden''', and it could have been the final home of humans, if God's planned weren't once again ruined—'''though, this time, by His own hand.'''<br /> <br /> Inadvertently, instead of balancing seven primordials with seven angels, God had '''unintentionally created something equally powerful''', but less virtuous and more… Sinful.<br /> <br /> '''The seven deadly sins''', in fact. Massive beasts, who'd eaten their way out of their own realm, and infiltrated Eden. They kept killing and eating their way through the realm, eventually running into the seven archangels guarding the lands.<br /> <br /> Taken by surprise and appalled by the unholy creatures, '''the archangels declared war against the primal monstrosities'''. Battles lasting over several millennia ravaged the realm and led to the destruction of both its landscape and wildlife, each side spawning more and more soldiers of their own kind in an effort to turn the battle's tide. But there was no winning; '''the realm was slowly poisoned to death, killing whatever life survived the battles.'''<br /> <br /> By the time Order realized what had happened and intervened, '''Eden had turned into a graveyard. An ageless, timeless limbo for the lost''', filled with fog and the ghosts of the dead. The archangels were called back to Heaven and '''made to promise destruction like this would never happen again''', not when Order had finally reformed Earth to His liking. Dinosaurs had made way to mammals, animals capable of higher intellect, far superior in potential than anything Order had previously created.<br /> <br /> And thus, the realm in the middle was abandoned for good.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Earth ==<br /> <br /> Primates were evolving rapidly, growing smarter and losing their fur, '''rising up to walk on two legs and creating tools to ensure their survival'''. This sparked God's curiosity, as He'd never seen another creature besides Himself show signs of imagination. From now on, '''primal humans were Order's proudest''' creation, the true magnum opus He'd been waiting for. Feeling excitement for the first time, '''God descended onto Earth''', spending His time admiring the clever apes and rewarding their remarkable progress with '''knowledge of fire'''.<br /> <br /> But the first humans were barely anything more than the animals they hunted; '''functioning based on instinct, focused on surviving and multiplying.''' Still, Order had spent all His time fostering the hairless apes, destroyed entire universes to fulfill His vision, and He wasn't about to give up. To '''raise humans above other creatures''', He gave them a tiny spark of Himself—'''a soul to guide them and inspire them to greatness, the gift of language and words, and free will''' to form Earth to their liking. A Tree of Knowledge was grown to '''reveal the universe's secrets when the time was right''' and the human race would be able to handle the responsibility, but for now, the '''first two blessed humans'''—Adam and Eve—were to do nothing more than name animals they saw and worship the God that had created them.<br /> <br /> Yet once again creation surprised Order as the oldest archangel, Samael, had grown resentful of God's divided attention, and coaxed the woman to rebel and eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Infuriated by the betrayal, God banished the couple from the promised paradise, the small piece of Heaven on Earth, and returned to Heaven to deal with the rebellious angels. Humans were left to fend for themselves, populating the Earth and forming the first civilizations, taking pride in their ability to imagine and create like God had intended.<br /> <br /> === Mankind ===<br /> By now, the delicate balance across all creation had been irreversibly shaken, and vices took over humanity. As more and more souls ended up in Hell instead of their intended destination, angels were commanded on Earth to keep the demonic forces at bay. However, without the permission to start another war and ruin the planet, all skirmishes were futile, and the deadly sins' power over the human population grew steadily stronger. Even worse, humans had started to rebel on their own, ignoring all of God's wishes and choosing vices instead.<br /> <br /> Whatever Order had envisioned, this was far from it.<br /> <br /> Insulted like never before, God took out His anger on the last creation defying him: He instilled humans with the ability to pick out patterns, giving them a sense of comfort when they could predict the outcome of their actions and rely on their surroundings. Humans learned to be afraid of disorder and paradoxes, things they didn't know. To make them dependant of His light, their imagination was twisted to fill the darkness with unknown horrors so that they might be scared back into submission. Everything that had been used against God was corrupted and turned against the offenders, but humans had spread too far and wide to be so easily manipulated.<br /> <br /> Finally, as the universe turned its back on God, God returned the favor and left. To start anew once more, or to try again with another planet, nobody knew—and thus came the dark age of total silence.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-3.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=World_creation&diff=250 2025-07-20T11:01:57Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Earth */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:World-creation.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> === Related ===<br /> <br /> * [[History of Earth]]<br /> * [[Primordials]]<br /> <br /> == Chaos vs. Order ==<br /> <br /> What was before time, space, or matter? Technically, nothing—and yet, a slumbering consciousness that allowed everything to come into existence. Out of Chaos came a paradox, and that paradox was Order. A '''singularity that gave birth to two primordials''', born outside of any comprehensible concept. Creation had started with two equal forces, violently separating them from each other and forcing them to awaken.<br /> <br /> At first, the two consciousness clashed with hostility: as '''Order attempted to subdue Chaos, Chaos tried to rip Order apart''', resulting in countless attempts to overpower the other primordial. Between each terrifying Word of War spanned neither quettaseconds or Planck units, as there was no timeline to measure between epochs, yet it took ages upon ages to regain the power to create and destroy new concepts.<br /> <br /> Eventually, Order prevailed—'''with the command of Silence, the second primordial disarmed their opponent''', leaving Chaos without power to undo whatever was to follow. Without their destructive counterpart, Order was finally free to fill the emptiness and after gaining the upper hand, force Chaos into an eternal slumber, never to be awoken and allowed to ruin yet another project.<br /> <br /> This marked the first recorded epoch of creation, yet not the start of the universe we know.<br /> <br /> == Creating the universe(s) ==<br /> <br /> '''The first created universe was everything Order wanted''': symmetrical in all forms, beautiful and without flaw. Made of perfect shapes and nothing else, it was the epitome of Order's design—and '''yet, without life, it was… Empty. Boring. Without purpose.''' There was a limit to Order's imagination, and no amount of raw creation was going to break the mold. But how to start anew without the power to destroy what was once created? Order had never been more powerful, surrounded by perfection, yet oddly… Lonely.<br /> <br /> What if there were other primordials, ones that obeyed Order's command? And so, '''into existence came the six primary elements''': Time, Matter, Gravity, Magnetism, Light, and Energy. They helped Order create the second universe: full of life, but otherwise like the first, filled with calming shapes and not much more. '''It was a study of everything the seven primordials could do''', testing their powers to their limits, breaking and fixing whatever they broke in the process. Time was split into multiverses; matter and antimatter created their own spaces; gravity pulled and crushed everything it touched, while magnetism repelled and spread whatever remained across multiple timelines. Finally, light and energy transformed everything they came across, creating a repeating cycle of change.<br /> <br /> These were the building blocks Order wanted to build upon. But '''the second universe was as unstable and hostile as it was magnificent'''; with no limits and rules, nothing could survive for long without being inevitably destroyed or transformed. What needed to change and how much, exactly?<br /> <br /> Eventually, '''the primordials settled for a single timeline where actions had consequences''', some of them irreversible. As long as change was gradual and linear, things made sense and upkeeping the rules was simple. But once again, the second universe had to be discarded in order to start a new project, yet this one was going to be Order's magnum opus. Creation had to start small, as small as Matter could make it, and then bind together to form larger objects. Gravity and Magnetism would help distribute it across the universe, where Light and Energy could take over to create life. '''This would become the human universe''', starting with a Big Bang as the primordials were released into it.<br /> <br /> However, '''there was a dark secret hiding in the universe's fabric''', something Order couldn't have foreseen: a remnant of Chaos, while still slumbering, slowly and unavoidably affecting everything as time went on. And there was nothing Order could have done to prevent it, even if it had been caught earlier…<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Heaven and Hell ==<br /> <br /> Oblivious to the spreading imperfections across the universe, '''Order grew impatient waiting for time to pass''' and the universe to support life, but instead of creating another universe, '''another subspace—a realm—was formed'''. It featured the most beautiful parts of the previous universe: endless blue skies spanning across the horizon, enormous clouds of pure white, green meadows covered in all the colors of the rainbow. '''This realm would later be known as Heaven''', but in the beginning, it was merely a distraction from the slog that was life's insufferably slow evolution.<br /> <br /> And what was life like? Bacteria. Fungi. Viruses. The lesser primordials were scolded several times for not speeding things up, but without the power to straight-up create what they wanted, natural evolution was the only way to proceed. So, '''Order left Earth'''—the single planet that had generated in a perfect location and situation—'''and created the first non-primordial creatures to inhabit Heaven''': the archangels, each representing a concept that would be known as a virtue. They inherited a part of Order's power, who'd know decided to differentiate from other primordials by claiming a title of a more supreme being: '''God'''.<br /> <br /> For a while, things seemed perfect: the primordials kept working on Earth, and the archangels took care of building Heaven exactly as God asked of them. '''But once again, the Creator grew impatient''', and after checking on Earth and it's newly formed life-forms, deemed them unworthy of further fostering. With merely more than a thought, '''God slammed an asteroid into Earth's crust''', killing off most of the planet's reptilian inhabitants in the impact's aftermath. This time, the six lesser primordials gave up and left Order to care for the planet without their assistance, rightfully frustrated in the self-appointed dictator's decisions.<br /> <br /> While the planet recovered, God decided to flex His powers one last time, in the form of another realm He would personally fill with life He'd handcraft from the start.<br /> <br /> === The lost paradise ===<br /> Finally, a third realm was born: a '''seemingly perfect home for all kinds of mythical creatures''', this realm was God's pet project, as He came up with more and more magical animals and beasts, commanding the first angels to watch over them. Inspired by the universe, '''the realm received its own moons, a night sky, day and night cycles, and all the things that made Earth unique'''. Unicorns, dragons, griffins, phoenixes… The realm was beautiful, called '''Eden''', and it could have been the final home of humans, if God's planned weren't once again ruined—'''though, this time, by His own hand.'''<br /> <br /> Inadvertently, instead of balancing seven primordials with seven angels, God had '''unintentionally created something equally powerful''', but less virtuous and more… Sinful.<br /> <br /> '''The seven deadly sins''', in fact. Massive beasts, who'd eaten their way out of their own realm, and infiltrated Eden. They kept killing and eating their way through the realm, eventually running into the seven archangels guarding the lands.<br /> <br /> Taken by surprise and appalled by the unholy creatures, '''the archangels declared war against the primal monstrosities'''. Battles lasting over several millennia ravaged the realm and led to the destruction of both its landscape and wildlife, each side spawning more and more soldiers of their own kind in an effort to turn the battle's tide. But there was no winning; '''the realm was slowly poisoned to death, killing whatever life survived the battles.'''<br /> <br /> By the time Order realized what had happened and intervened, '''Eden had turned into a graveyard. An ageless, timeless limbo for the lost''', filled with fog and the ghosts of the dead. The archangels were called back to Heaven and '''made to promise destruction like this would never happen again''', not when Order had finally reformed Earth to His liking. Dinosaurs had made way to mammals, animals capable of higher intellect, far superior in potential than anything Order had previously created.<br /> <br /> And thus, the realm in the middle was abandoned for good.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Earth ==<br /> <br /> Primates were evolving rapidly, growing smarter and losing their fur, '''rising up to walk on two legs and creating tools to ensure their survival'''. This sparked God's curiosity, as He'd never seen another creature besides Himself show signs of imagination. From now on, '''primal humans were Order's proudest''' creation, the true magnum opus He'd been waiting for. Feeling excitement for the first time, '''God descended onto Earth''', spending His time admiring the clever apes and rewarding their remarkable progress with '''knowledge of fire'''.<br /> <br /> But the first humans were barely anything more than the animals they hunted; '''functioning based on instinct, focused on surviving and multiplying.''' Still, Order had spent all His time fostering the hairless apes, destroyed entire universes to fulfill His vision, and He wasn't about to give up. To '''raise humans above other creatures''', He gave them a tiny spark of Himself—'''a soul to guide them and inspire them to greatness, the gift of language and words, and free will to form Earth to their liking'''. A Tree of Knowledge was grown to reveal the universe's secrets when the time was right and the human race would be able to handle the responsibility, but for now, the '''first two blessed humans'''—Adam and Eve—were to do nothing more than name animals they saw and worship the God that had created them.<br /> <br /> Yet once again creation surprised Order as the oldest archangel, Samael, had grown resentful of God's divided attention, and coaxed the woman to rebel and eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Infuriated by the betrayal, God banished the couple from the promised paradise, the small piece of Heaven on Earth, and returned to Heaven to deal with the rebellious angels. Humans were left to fend for themselves, populating the Earth and forming the first civilizations, taking pride in their ability to imagina and create like God had intended.<br /> <br /> === Mankind ===<br /> By now, the delicate balance across all creation had been irreversibly shaken, and vices took over humanity. As more and more souls ended up in Hell instead of their intended destination, angels were commanded on Earth to keep the demonic forces at bay. However, without the permission to start another war and ruin the planet, all skirmishes were futile, and the deadly sins' power over the human population grew steadily stronger. Even worse, humans had started to rebel on their own, ignoring all of God's wishes and choosing vices instead.<br /> <br /> Whatever Order had envisioned, this was far from it.<br /> <br /> Insulted like never before, God took out His anger on the last creation defying him: He instilled humans with the ability to pick out patterns, giving them a sense of comfort when they could predict the outcome of their actions and rely on their surroundings. Humans learned to be afraid of disorder and paradoxes, things they didn't know. To make them dependant of His light, their imagination was twisted to fill the darkness with unknown horrors so that they might be scared back into submission. Everything that had been used against God was corrupted and turned against the offenders, but humans had spread too far and wide to be so easily manipulated.<br /> <br /> Finally, as the universe turned its back on God, God returned the favor and left. To start anew once more, or to try again with another planet, nobody knew—and thus came the dark age of total silence.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-3.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=World_creation&diff=249 2025-07-20T06:31:11Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Heaven and Hell */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:World-creation.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> === Related ===<br /> <br /> * [[History of Earth]]<br /> * [[Primordials]]<br /> <br /> == Chaos vs. Order ==<br /> <br /> What was before time, space, or matter? Technically, nothing—and yet, a slumbering consciousness that allowed everything to come into existence. Out of Chaos came a paradox, and that paradox was Order. A '''singularity that gave birth to two primordials''', born outside of any comprehensible concept. Creation had started with two equal forces, violently separating them from each other and forcing them to awaken.<br /> <br /> At first, the two consciousness clashed with hostility: as '''Order attempted to subdue Chaos, Chaos tried to rip Order apart''', resulting in countless attempts to overpower the other primordial. Between each terrifying Word of War spanned neither quettaseconds or Planck units, as there was no timeline to measure between epochs, yet it took ages upon ages to regain the power to create and destroy new concepts.<br /> <br /> Eventually, Order prevailed—'''with the command of Silence, the second primordial disarmed their opponent''', leaving Chaos without power to undo whatever was to follow. Without their destructive counterpart, Order was finally free to fill the emptiness and after gaining the upper hand, force Chaos into an eternal slumber, never to be awoken and allowed to ruin yet another project.<br /> <br /> This marked the first recorded epoch of creation, yet not the start of the universe we know.<br /> <br /> == Creating the universe(s) ==<br /> <br /> '''The first created universe was everything Order wanted''': symmetrical in all forms, beautiful and without flaw. Made of perfect shapes and nothing else, it was the epitome of Order's design—and '''yet, without life, it was… Empty. Boring. Without purpose.''' There was a limit to Order's imagination, and no amount of raw creation was going to break the mold. But how to start anew without the power to destroy what was once created? Order had never been more powerful, surrounded by perfection, yet oddly… Lonely.<br /> <br /> What if there were other primordials, ones that obeyed Order's command? And so, '''into existence came the six primary elements''': Time, Matter, Gravity, Magnetism, Light, and Energy. They helped Order create the second universe: full of life, but otherwise like the first, filled with calming shapes and not much more. '''It was a study of everything the seven primordials could do''', testing their powers to their limits, breaking and fixing whatever they broke in the process. Time was split into multiverses; matter and antimatter created their own spaces; gravity pulled and crushed everything it touched, while magnetism repelled and spread whatever remained across multiple timelines. Finally, light and energy transformed everything they came across, creating a repeating cycle of change.<br /> <br /> These were the building blocks Order wanted to build upon. But '''the second universe was as unstable and hostile as it was magnificent'''; with no limits and rules, nothing could survive for long without being inevitably destroyed or transformed. What needed to change and how much, exactly?<br /> <br /> Eventually, '''the primordials settled for a single timeline where actions had consequences''', some of them irreversible. As long as change was gradual and linear, things made sense and upkeeping the rules was simple. But once again, the second universe had to be discarded in order to start a new project, yet this one was going to be Order's magnum opus. Creation had to start small, as small as Matter could make it, and then bind together to form larger objects. Gravity and Magnetism would help distribute it across the universe, where Light and Energy could take over to create life. '''This would become the human universe''', starting with a Big Bang as the primordials were released into it.<br /> <br /> However, '''there was a dark secret hiding in the universe's fabric''', something Order couldn't have foreseen: a remnant of Chaos, while still slumbering, slowly and unavoidably affecting everything as time went on. And there was nothing Order could have done to prevent it, even if it had been caught earlier…<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Heaven and Hell ==<br /> <br /> Oblivious to the spreading imperfections across the universe, '''Order grew impatient waiting for time to pass''' and the universe to support life, but instead of creating another universe, '''another subspace—a realm—was formed'''. It featured the most beautiful parts of the previous universe: endless blue skies spanning across the horizon, enormous clouds of pure white, green meadows covered in all the colors of the rainbow. '''This realm would later be known as Heaven''', but in the beginning, it was merely a distraction from the slog that was life's insufferably slow evolution.<br /> <br /> And what was life like? Bacteria. Fungi. Viruses. The lesser primordials were scolded several times for not speeding things up, but without the power to straight-up create what they wanted, natural evolution was the only way to proceed. So, '''Order left Earth'''—the single planet that had generated in a perfect location and situation—'''and created the first non-primordial creatures to inhabit Heaven''': the archangels, each representing a concept that would be known as a virtue. They inherited a part of Order's power, who'd know decided to differentiate from other primordials by claiming a title of a more supreme being: '''God'''.<br /> <br /> For a while, things seemed perfect: the primordials kept working on Earth, and the archangels took care of building Heaven exactly as God asked of them. '''But once again, the Creator grew impatient''', and after checking on Earth and it's newly formed life-forms, deemed them unworthy of further fostering. With merely more than a thought, '''God slammed an asteroid into Earth's crust''', killing off most of the planet's reptilian inhabitants in the impact's aftermath. This time, the six lesser primordials gave up and left Order to care for the planet without their assistance, rightfully frustrated in the self-appointed dictator's decisions.<br /> <br /> While the planet recovered, God decided to flex His powers one last time, in the form of another realm He would personally fill with life He'd handcraft from the start.<br /> <br /> === The lost paradise ===<br /> Finally, a third realm was born: a '''seemingly perfect home for all kinds of mythical creatures''', this realm was God's pet project, as He came up with more and more magical animals and beasts, commanding the first angels to watch over them. Inspired by the universe, '''the realm received its own moons, a night sky, day and night cycles, and all the things that made Earth unique'''. Unicorns, dragons, griffins, phoenixes… The realm was beautiful, called '''Eden''', and it could have been the final home of humans, if God's planned weren't once again ruined—'''though, this time, by His own hand.'''<br /> <br /> Inadvertently, instead of balancing seven primordials with seven angels, God had '''unintentionally created something equally powerful''', but less virtuous and more… Sinful.<br /> <br /> '''The seven deadly sins''', in fact. Massive beasts, who'd eaten their way out of their own realm, and infiltrated Eden. They kept killing and eating their way through the realm, eventually running into the seven archangels guarding the lands.<br /> <br /> Taken by surprise and appalled by the unholy creatures, '''the archangels declared war against the primal monstrosities'''. Battles lasting over several millennia ravaged the realm and led to the destruction of both its landscape and wildlife, each side spawning more and more soldiers of their own kind in an effort to turn the battle's tide. But there was no winning; '''the realm was slowly poisoned to death, killing whatever life survived the battles.'''<br /> <br /> By the time Order realized what had happened and intervened, '''Eden had turned into a graveyard. An ageless, timeless limbo for the lost''', filled with fog and the ghosts of the dead. The archangels were called back to Heaven and '''made to promise destruction like this would never happen again''', not when Order had finally reformed Earth to His liking. Dinosaurs had made way to mammals, animals capable of higher intellect, far superior in potential than anything Order had previously created.<br /> <br /> And thus, the realm in the middle was abandoned for good.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Earth ==<br /> <br /> Primates were evolving rapidly, growing smarter and losing their fur, rising up to walk on two legs and creating tools to ensure their survival. This sparked God's curiosity, as He'd never seen another creature besides Himself show signs of imagination. From now on, primal humans were Order's proudest creation, the true magnum opus He'd been waiting for. Feeling excitement for the first time, God descended onto Earth, spending His time admiring the clever apes and rewarding their remarkable progress with knowledge of fire.<br /> <br /> But the first humans were barely anything more than the animals they hunted; functioning based on instinct, focused on surviving and multiplying. Still, Order had spent all His time fostering the hairless apes, destroyed entire universes to fulfill His vision, and He wasn't about to give up. To raise humans above other creatures, He gave them a tiny spark of Himself—a soul to guide them and inspire them to greatness, the gift of language and words, and free will to form Earth to their liking. A Tree of Knowledge was grown to reveal the universe's secrets when the time was right and the human race would be able to handle the responsibility, but for now, the first two blessed humans—Adam and Eve—were to do nothing more than name animals they saw and worship the God that had created them.<br /> <br /> Yet once again creation surprised Order as the oldest archangel, Samael, had grown resentful of God's divided attention, and coaxed the woman to rebel and eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Infuriated by the betrayal, God banished the couple from the promised paradise, the small piece of Heaven on Earth, and returned to Heaven to deal with the rebellious angels. Humans were left to fend for themselves, populating the Earth and forming the first civilizations, taking pride in their ability to imagina and create like God had intended.<br /> <br /> === Mankind ===<br /> By now, the delicate balance across all creation had been irreversibly shaken, and vices took over humanity. As more and more souls ended up in Hell instead of their intended destination, angels were commanded on Earth to keep the demonic forces at bay. However, without the permission to start another war and ruin the planet, all skirmishes were futile, and the deadly sins' power over the human population grew steadily stronger. Even worse, humans had started to rebel on their own, ignoring all of God's wishes and choosing vices instead.<br /> <br /> Whatever Order had envisioned, this was far from it.<br /> <br /> Insulted like never before, God took out His anger on the last creation defying him: He instilled humans with the ability to pick out patterns, giving them a sense of comfort when they could predict the outcome of their actions and rely on their surroundings. Humans learned to be afraid of disorder and paradoxes, things they didn't know. To make them dependant of His light, their imagination was twisted to fill the darkness with unknown horrors so that they might be scared back into submission. Everything that had been used against God was corrupted and turned against the offenders, but humans had spread too far and wide to be so easily manipulated.<br /> <br /> Finally, as the universe turned its back on God, God returned the favor and left. To start anew once more, or to try again with another planet, nobody knew—and thus came the dark age of total silence.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-3.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=World_creation&diff=248 2025-07-20T06:29:52Z

<p>Moirasars: /* The lost paradise */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:World-creation.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> === Related ===<br /> <br /> * [[History of Earth]]<br /> * [[Primordials]]<br /> <br /> == Chaos vs. Order ==<br /> <br /> What was before time, space, or matter? Technically, nothing—and yet, a slumbering consciousness that allowed everything to come into existence. Out of Chaos came a paradox, and that paradox was Order. A '''singularity that gave birth to two primordials''', born outside of any comprehensible concept. Creation had started with two equal forces, violently separating them from each other and forcing them to awaken.<br /> <br /> At first, the two consciousness clashed with hostility: as '''Order attempted to subdue Chaos, Chaos tried to rip Order apart''', resulting in countless attempts to overpower the other primordial. Between each terrifying Word of War spanned neither quettaseconds or Planck units, as there was no timeline to measure between epochs, yet it took ages upon ages to regain the power to create and destroy new concepts.<br /> <br /> Eventually, Order prevailed—'''with the command of Silence, the second primordial disarmed their opponent''', leaving Chaos without power to undo whatever was to follow. Without their destructive counterpart, Order was finally free to fill the emptiness and after gaining the upper hand, force Chaos into an eternal slumber, never to be awoken and allowed to ruin yet another project.<br /> <br /> This marked the first recorded epoch of creation, yet not the start of the universe we know.<br /> <br /> == Creating the universe(s) ==<br /> <br /> '''The first created universe was everything Order wanted''': symmetrical in all forms, beautiful and without flaw. Made of perfect shapes and nothing else, it was the epitome of Order's design—and '''yet, without life, it was… Empty. Boring. Without purpose.''' There was a limit to Order's imagination, and no amount of raw creation was going to break the mold. But how to start anew without the power to destroy what was once created? Order had never been more powerful, surrounded by perfection, yet oddly… Lonely.<br /> <br /> What if there were other primordials, ones that obeyed Order's command? And so, '''into existence came the six primary elements''': Time, Matter, Gravity, Magnetism, Light, and Energy. They helped Order create the second universe: full of life, but otherwise like the first, filled with calming shapes and not much more. '''It was a study of everything the seven primordials could do''', testing their powers to their limits, breaking and fixing whatever they broke in the process. Time was split into multiverses; matter and antimatter created their own spaces; gravity pulled and crushed everything it touched, while magnetism repelled and spread whatever remained across multiple timelines. Finally, light and energy transformed everything they came across, creating a repeating cycle of change.<br /> <br /> These were the building blocks Order wanted to build upon. But '''the second universe was as unstable and hostile as it was magnificent'''; with no limits and rules, nothing could survive for long without being inevitably destroyed or transformed. What needed to change and how much, exactly?<br /> <br /> Eventually, '''the primordials settled for a single timeline where actions had consequences''', some of them irreversible. As long as change was gradual and linear, things made sense and upkeeping the rules was simple. But once again, the second universe had to be discarded in order to start a new project, yet this one was going to be Order's magnum opus. Creation had to start small, as small as Matter could make it, and then bind together to form larger objects. Gravity and Magnetism would help distribute it across the universe, where Light and Energy could take over to create life. '''This would become the human universe''', starting with a Big Bang as the primordials were released into it.<br /> <br /> However, '''there was a dark secret hiding in the universe's fabric''', something Order couldn't have foreseen: a remnant of Chaos, while still slumbering, slowly and unavoidably affecting everything as time went on. And there was nothing Order could have done to prevent it, even if it had been caught earlier…<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Heaven and Hell ==<br /> <br /> Oblivious to the spreading imperfections across the universe, '''Order grew impatient waiting for time to pass''' and the universe to support life, but instead of creating another universe, '''another subspace—a realm—was formed'''. It featured the most beautiful parts of the previous universe: endless blue skies spanning across the horizon, enormous clouds of pure white, green meadows covered in all the colors of the rainbow. '''This realm would later be known as Heaven''', but in the beginning, it was merely a distraction from the slog that was life's insufferably slow evolution.<br /> <br /> And what was life like? Bacteria. Fungi. Viruses. The lesser primordials were scolded several times for not speeding things up, but without the power to straight-up create what they wanted, natural evolution was the only way to proceed. So, '''Order left Earth'''—the single planet that had generated in a perfect location and situation—'''and created the first non-primordial creatures to inhabit Heaven''': the archangels, each representing a concept that would be known as a virtue. They inherited a part of Order's power, who'd know decided to differentiate from other primordials by claiming a title of a more supreme being: '''God'''.<br /> <br /> For a while, things seemed perfect: the primordials kept working on Earth, and the archangels took care of building Heaven exactly as God asked of them. '''But once again, the Creator grew impatient''', and after checking on Earth and it's newly formed life-forms, deemed them unworthy of further fostering. With merely more than a thought, '''God slammed an asteroid into Earth's crust, killing off most of the planet's reptilian inhabitants in the impact's aftermath'''. This time, the six lesser primordials gave up and left Order to care for the planet without their assistance, rightfully frustrated in the self-appointed dictator's decisions.<br /> <br /> While the planet recovered, God decided to flex His powers one last time, in the form of another realm He would personally fill with life He'd handcraft from the start.<br /> <br /> === The lost paradise ===<br /> Finally, a third realm was born: a '''seemingly perfect home for all kinds of mythical creatures''', this realm was God's pet project, as He came up with more and more magical animals and beasts, commanding the first angels to watch over them. Inspired by the universe, '''the realm received its own moons, a night sky, day and night cycles, and all the things that made Earth unique'''. Unicorns, dragons, griffins, phoenixes… The realm was beautiful, called '''Eden''', and it could have been the final home of humans, if God's planned weren't once again ruined—'''though, this time, by His own hand.'''<br /> <br /> Inadvertently, instead of balancing seven primordials with seven angels, God had '''unintentionally created something equally powerful''', but less virtuous and more… Sinful.<br /> <br /> '''The seven deadly sins''', in fact. Massive beasts, who'd eaten their way out of their own realm, and infiltrated Eden. They kept killing and eating their way through the realm, eventually running into the seven archangels guarding the lands.<br /> <br /> Taken by surprise and appalled by the unholy creatures, '''the archangels declared war against the primal monstrosities'''. Battles lasting over several millennia ravaged the realm and led to the destruction of both its landscape and wildlife, each side spawning more and more soldiers of their own kind in an effort to turn the battle's tide. But there was no winning; '''the realm was slowly poisoned to death, killing whatever life survived the battles.'''<br /> <br /> By the time Order realized what had happened and intervened, '''Eden had turned into a graveyard. An ageless, timeless limbo for the lost''', filled with fog and the ghosts of the dead. The archangels were called back to Heaven and '''made to promise destruction like this would never happen again''', not when Order had finally reformed Earth to His liking. Dinosaurs had made way to mammals, animals capable of higher intellect, far superior in potential than anything Order had previously created.<br /> <br /> And thus, the realm in the middle was abandoned for good.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Earth ==<br /> <br /> Primates were evolving rapidly, growing smarter and losing their fur, rising up to walk on two legs and creating tools to ensure their survival. This sparked God's curiosity, as He'd never seen another creature besides Himself show signs of imagination. From now on, primal humans were Order's proudest creation, the true magnum opus He'd been waiting for. Feeling excitement for the first time, God descended onto Earth, spending His time admiring the clever apes and rewarding their remarkable progress with knowledge of fire.<br /> <br /> But the first humans were barely anything more than the animals they hunted; functioning based on instinct, focused on surviving and multiplying. Still, Order had spent all His time fostering the hairless apes, destroyed entire universes to fulfill His vision, and He wasn't about to give up. To raise humans above other creatures, He gave them a tiny spark of Himself—a soul to guide them and inspire them to greatness, the gift of language and words, and free will to form Earth to their liking. A Tree of Knowledge was grown to reveal the universe's secrets when the time was right and the human race would be able to handle the responsibility, but for now, the first two blessed humans—Adam and Eve—were to do nothing more than name animals they saw and worship the God that had created them.<br /> <br /> Yet once again creation surprised Order as the oldest archangel, Samael, had grown resentful of God's divided attention, and coaxed the woman to rebel and eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Infuriated by the betrayal, God banished the couple from the promised paradise, the small piece of Heaven on Earth, and returned to Heaven to deal with the rebellious angels. Humans were left to fend for themselves, populating the Earth and forming the first civilizations, taking pride in their ability to imagina and create like God had intended.<br /> <br /> === Mankind ===<br /> By now, the delicate balance across all creation had been irreversibly shaken, and vices took over humanity. As more and more souls ended up in Hell instead of their intended destination, angels were commanded on Earth to keep the demonic forces at bay. However, without the permission to start another war and ruin the planet, all skirmishes were futile, and the deadly sins' power over the human population grew steadily stronger. Even worse, humans had started to rebel on their own, ignoring all of God's wishes and choosing vices instead.<br /> <br /> Whatever Order had envisioned, this was far from it.<br /> <br /> Insulted like never before, God took out His anger on the last creation defying him: He instilled humans with the ability to pick out patterns, giving them a sense of comfort when they could predict the outcome of their actions and rely on their surroundings. Humans learned to be afraid of disorder and paradoxes, things they didn't know. To make them dependant of His light, their imagination was twisted to fill the darkness with unknown horrors so that they might be scared back into submission. Everything that had been used against God was corrupted and turned against the offenders, but humans had spread too far and wide to be so easily manipulated.<br /> <br /> Finally, as the universe turned its back on God, God returned the favor and left. To start anew once more, or to try again with another planet, nobody knew—and thus came the dark age of total silence.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-3.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=World_creation&diff=247 2025-07-20T06:28:24Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Heaven and Hell */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:World-creation.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> === Related ===<br /> <br /> * [[History of Earth]]<br /> * [[Primordials]]<br /> <br /> == Chaos vs. Order ==<br /> <br /> What was before time, space, or matter? Technically, nothing—and yet, a slumbering consciousness that allowed everything to come into existence. Out of Chaos came a paradox, and that paradox was Order. A '''singularity that gave birth to two primordials''', born outside of any comprehensible concept. Creation had started with two equal forces, violently separating them from each other and forcing them to awaken.<br /> <br /> At first, the two consciousness clashed with hostility: as '''Order attempted to subdue Chaos, Chaos tried to rip Order apart''', resulting in countless attempts to overpower the other primordial. Between each terrifying Word of War spanned neither quettaseconds or Planck units, as there was no timeline to measure between epochs, yet it took ages upon ages to regain the power to create and destroy new concepts.<br /> <br /> Eventually, Order prevailed—'''with the command of Silence, the second primordial disarmed their opponent''', leaving Chaos without power to undo whatever was to follow. Without their destructive counterpart, Order was finally free to fill the emptiness and after gaining the upper hand, force Chaos into an eternal slumber, never to be awoken and allowed to ruin yet another project.<br /> <br /> This marked the first recorded epoch of creation, yet not the start of the universe we know.<br /> <br /> == Creating the universe(s) ==<br /> <br /> '''The first created universe was everything Order wanted''': symmetrical in all forms, beautiful and without flaw. Made of perfect shapes and nothing else, it was the epitome of Order's design—and '''yet, without life, it was… Empty. Boring. Without purpose.''' There was a limit to Order's imagination, and no amount of raw creation was going to break the mold. But how to start anew without the power to destroy what was once created? Order had never been more powerful, surrounded by perfection, yet oddly… Lonely.<br /> <br /> What if there were other primordials, ones that obeyed Order's command? And so, '''into existence came the six primary elements''': Time, Matter, Gravity, Magnetism, Light, and Energy. They helped Order create the second universe: full of life, but otherwise like the first, filled with calming shapes and not much more. '''It was a study of everything the seven primordials could do''', testing their powers to their limits, breaking and fixing whatever they broke in the process. Time was split into multiverses; matter and antimatter created their own spaces; gravity pulled and crushed everything it touched, while magnetism repelled and spread whatever remained across multiple timelines. Finally, light and energy transformed everything they came across, creating a repeating cycle of change.<br /> <br /> These were the building blocks Order wanted to build upon. But '''the second universe was as unstable and hostile as it was magnificent'''; with no limits and rules, nothing could survive for long without being inevitably destroyed or transformed. What needed to change and how much, exactly?<br /> <br /> Eventually, '''the primordials settled for a single timeline where actions had consequences''', some of them irreversible. As long as change was gradual and linear, things made sense and upkeeping the rules was simple. But once again, the second universe had to be discarded in order to start a new project, yet this one was going to be Order's magnum opus. Creation had to start small, as small as Matter could make it, and then bind together to form larger objects. Gravity and Magnetism would help distribute it across the universe, where Light and Energy could take over to create life. '''This would become the human universe''', starting with a Big Bang as the primordials were released into it.<br /> <br /> However, '''there was a dark secret hiding in the universe's fabric''', something Order couldn't have foreseen: a remnant of Chaos, while still slumbering, slowly and unavoidably affecting everything as time went on. And there was nothing Order could have done to prevent it, even if it had been caught earlier…<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Heaven and Hell ==<br /> <br /> Oblivious to the spreading imperfections across the universe, '''Order grew impatient waiting for time to pass''' and the universe to support life, but instead of creating another universe, '''another subspace—a realm—was formed'''. It featured the most beautiful parts of the previous universe: endless blue skies spanning across the horizon, enormous clouds of pure white, green meadows covered in all the colors of the rainbow. '''This realm would later be known as Heaven''', but in the beginning, it was merely a distraction from the slog that was life's insufferably slow evolution.<br /> <br /> And what was life like? Bacteria. Fungi. Viruses. The lesser primordials were scolded several times for not speeding things up, but without the power to straight-up create what they wanted, natural evolution was the only way to proceed. So, '''Order left Earth'''—the single planet that had generated in a perfect location and situation—'''and created the first non-primordial creatures to inhabit Heaven''': the archangels, each representing a concept that would be known as a virtue. They inherited a part of Order's power, who'd know decided to differentiate from other primordials by claiming a title of a more supreme being: '''God'''.<br /> <br /> For a while, things seemed perfect: the primordials kept working on Earth, and the archangels took care of building Heaven exactly as God asked of them. '''But once again, the Creator grew impatient''', and after checking on Earth and it's newly formed life-forms, deemed them unworthy of further fostering. With merely more than a thought, '''God slammed an asteroid into Earth's crust, killing off most of the planet's reptilian inhabitants in the impact's aftermath'''. This time, the six lesser primordials gave up and left Order to care for the planet without their assistance, rightfully frustrated in the self-appointed dictator's decisions.<br /> <br /> While the planet recovered, God decided to flex His powers one last time, in the form of another realm He would personally fill with life He'd handcraft from the start.<br /> <br /> === The lost paradise ===<br /> Finally, a third realm was born: a '''seemingly perfect home for all kinds of mythical creatures''', this realm was God's pet project, as He came up with more and more magical animals and beasts, commanding the first angels to watch over them. Inspired by the universe, '''the realm received its own moons, a night sky, day and night cycles, and all the things that made Earth unique'''. Unicorns, dragons, griffins, phoenixes… The realm was beautiful, called Eden, and it could have been the final home of humans, if God's planned weren't once again ruined—'''though, this time, by His own hand.'''<br /> <br /> Inadvertently, instead of balancing seven primordials with seven angels, God had '''unintentionally created something equally powerful''', but less virtuous and more… Sinful.<br /> <br /> '''The seven deadly sins''', in fact. Massive beasts, who'd eaten their way out of their own realm, and infiltrated Eden. They kept killing and eating their way through the realm, eventually running into the seven archangels guarding the lands.<br /> <br /> Taken by surprise and appalled by the unholy creatures, '''the archangels declared war against the primal monstrosities'''. Battles lasting over several millennia ravaged the realm and led to the destruction of both its landscape and wildlife, each side spawning more and more soldiers of their own kind in an effort to turn the battle's tide. But there was no winning; '''the realm was slowly poisoned to death, killing whatever life survived the battles.'''<br /> <br /> By the time Order realized what had happened and intervened, '''Eden had turned into a graveyard. An ageless, timeless limbo for the lost''', filled with fog and the ghosts of the dead. The archangels were called back to Heaven and '''made to promise destruction like this would never happen again''', not when Order had finally reformed Earth to His liking. Dinosaurs had made way to mammals, animals capable of higher intellect, far superior in potential than anything Order had previously created.<br /> <br /> And thus, the realm in the middle was abandoned for good.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Earth ==<br /> <br /> Primates were evolving rapidly, growing smarter and losing their fur, rising up to walk on two legs and creating tools to ensure their survival. This sparked God's curiosity, as He'd never seen another creature besides Himself show signs of imagination. From now on, primal humans were Order's proudest creation, the true magnum opus He'd been waiting for. Feeling excitement for the first time, God descended onto Earth, spending His time admiring the clever apes and rewarding their remarkable progress with knowledge of fire.<br /> <br /> But the first humans were barely anything more than the animals they hunted; functioning based on instinct, focused on surviving and multiplying. Still, Order had spent all His time fostering the hairless apes, destroyed entire universes to fulfill His vision, and He wasn't about to give up. To raise humans above other creatures, He gave them a tiny spark of Himself—a soul to guide them and inspire them to greatness, the gift of language and words, and free will to form Earth to their liking. A Tree of Knowledge was grown to reveal the universe's secrets when the time was right and the human race would be able to handle the responsibility, but for now, the first two blessed humans—Adam and Eve—were to do nothing more than name animals they saw and worship the God that had created them.<br /> <br /> Yet once again creation surprised Order as the oldest archangel, Samael, had grown resentful of God's divided attention, and coaxed the woman to rebel and eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Infuriated by the betrayal, God banished the couple from the promised paradise, the small piece of Heaven on Earth, and returned to Heaven to deal with the rebellious angels. Humans were left to fend for themselves, populating the Earth and forming the first civilizations, taking pride in their ability to imagina and create like God had intended.<br /> <br /> === Mankind ===<br /> By now, the delicate balance across all creation had been irreversibly shaken, and vices took over humanity. As more and more souls ended up in Hell instead of their intended destination, angels were commanded on Earth to keep the demonic forces at bay. However, without the permission to start another war and ruin the planet, all skirmishes were futile, and the deadly sins' power over the human population grew steadily stronger. Even worse, humans had started to rebel on their own, ignoring all of God's wishes and choosing vices instead.<br /> <br /> Whatever Order had envisioned, this was far from it.<br /> <br /> Insulted like never before, God took out His anger on the last creation defying him: He instilled humans with the ability to pick out patterns, giving them a sense of comfort when they could predict the outcome of their actions and rely on their surroundings. Humans learned to be afraid of disorder and paradoxes, things they didn't know. To make them dependant of His light, their imagination was twisted to fill the darkness with unknown horrors so that they might be scared back into submission. Everything that had been used against God was corrupted and turned against the offenders, but humans had spread too far and wide to be so easily manipulated.<br /> <br /> Finally, as the universe turned its back on God, God returned the favor and left. To start anew once more, or to try again with another planet, nobody knew—and thus came the dark age of total silence.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-3.png|frame|center]]</div>

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<p>Moirasars: /* Heaven and Hell */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:World-creation.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> === Related ===<br /> <br /> * [[History of Earth]]<br /> * [[Primordials]]<br /> <br /> == Chaos vs. Order ==<br /> <br /> What was before time, space, or matter? Technically, nothing—and yet, a slumbering consciousness that allowed everything to come into existence. Out of Chaos came a paradox, and that paradox was Order. A '''singularity that gave birth to two primordials''', born outside of any comprehensible concept. Creation had started with two equal forces, violently separating them from each other and forcing them to awaken.<br /> <br /> At first, the two consciousness clashed with hostility: as '''Order attempted to subdue Chaos, Chaos tried to rip Order apart''', resulting in countless attempts to overpower the other primordial. Between each terrifying Word of War spanned neither quettaseconds or Planck units, as there was no timeline to measure between epochs, yet it took ages upon ages to regain the power to create and destroy new concepts.<br /> <br /> Eventually, Order prevailed—'''with the command of Silence, the second primordial disarmed their opponent''', leaving Chaos without power to undo whatever was to follow. Without their destructive counterpart, Order was finally free to fill the emptiness and after gaining the upper hand, force Chaos into an eternal slumber, never to be awoken and allowed to ruin yet another project.<br /> <br /> This marked the first recorded epoch of creation, yet not the start of the universe we know.<br /> <br /> == Creating the universe(s) ==<br /> <br /> '''The first created universe was everything Order wanted''': symmetrical in all forms, beautiful and without flaw. Made of perfect shapes and nothing else, it was the epitome of Order's design—and '''yet, without life, it was… Empty. Boring. Without purpose.''' There was a limit to Order's imagination, and no amount of raw creation was going to break the mold. But how to start anew without the power to destroy what was once created? Order had never been more powerful, surrounded by perfection, yet oddly… Lonely.<br /> <br /> What if there were other primordials, ones that obeyed Order's command? And so, '''into existence came the six primary elements''': Time, Matter, Gravity, Magnetism, Light, and Energy. They helped Order create the second universe: full of life, but otherwise like the first, filled with calming shapes and not much more. '''It was a study of everything the seven primordials could do''', testing their powers to their limits, breaking and fixing whatever they broke in the process. Time was split into multiverses; matter and antimatter created their own spaces; gravity pulled and crushed everything it touched, while magnetism repelled and spread whatever remained across multiple timelines. Finally, light and energy transformed everything they came across, creating a repeating cycle of change.<br /> <br /> These were the building blocks Order wanted to build upon. But '''the second universe was as unstable and hostile as it was magnificent'''; with no limits and rules, nothing could survive for long without being inevitably destroyed or transformed. What needed to change and how much, exactly?<br /> <br /> Eventually, '''the primordials settled for a single timeline where actions had consequences''', some of them irreversible. As long as change was gradual and linear, things made sense and upkeeping the rules was simple. But once again, the second universe had to be discarded in order to start a new project, yet this one was going to be Order's magnum opus. Creation had to start small, as small as Matter could make it, and then bind together to form larger objects. Gravity and Magnetism would help distribute it across the universe, where Light and Energy could take over to create life. '''This would become the human universe''', starting with a Big Bang as the primordials were released into it.<br /> <br /> However, '''there was a dark secret hiding in the universe's fabric''', something Order couldn't have foreseen: a remnant of Chaos, while still slumbering, slowly and unavoidably affecting everything as time went on. And there was nothing Order could have done to prevent it, even if it had been caught earlier…<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-1.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Heaven and Hell ==<br /> <br /> Oblivious to the spreading imperfections across the universe, '''Order grew impatient waiting for time to pass''' and the universe to support life, but instead of creating another universe, '''another subspace—a realm—was formed'''. It featured the most beautiful parts of the previous universe: endless blue skies spanning across the horizon, enormous clouds of pure white, green meadows covered in all the colors of the rainbow. '''This realm would later be known as Heaven''', but in the beginning, it was merely a distraction from the slog that was life's insufferably slow evolution.<br /> <br /> And what was life like? Bacteria. Fungi. Viruses. The lesser primordials were scolded several times for not speeding things up, but without the power to straight-up create what they wanted, natural evolution was the only way to proceed. So, '''Order left Earth'''—the single planet that had generated in a perfect location and situation—'''and created the first non-primordial creatures to inhabit Heaven''': the archangels, each representing a concept that would be known as a virtue. They inherited a part of Order's power, who'd know decided to differentiate from other primordials by claiming a title of a more supreme being: '''God'''.<br /> <br /> '''For a while, things seemed perfect''': the primordials kept working on Earth, and the archangels took care of building Heaven exactly as God asked of them. '''But once again, the Creator grew impatient''', and after checking on Earth and it's newly formed life-forms, deemed them unworthy of further fostering. With merely more than a thought, '''God slammed an asteroid into Earth's crust, killing off most of the planet's reptilian inhabitants in the impact's aftermath'''. This time, the six lesser primordials gave up and left Order to care for the planet without their assistance, rightfully frustrated in the self-appointed dictator's decisions.<br /> <br /> While the planet recovered, God decided to flex His powers one last time, in the form of another realm He would personally fill with life He'd handcraft from the start.<br /> <br /> === The lost paradise ===<br /> Finally, a third realm was born: a '''seemingly perfect home for all kinds of mythical creatures''', this realm was God's pet project, as He came up with more and more magical animals and beasts, commanding the first angels to watch over them. Inspired by the universe, '''the realm received its own moons, a night sky, day and night cycles, and all the things that made Earth unique'''. Unicorns, dragons, griffins, phoenixes… The realm was beautiful, called Eden, and it could have been the final home of humans, if God's planned weren't once again ruined—'''though, this time, by His own hand.'''<br /> <br /> Inadvertently, instead of balancing seven primordials with seven angels, God had '''unintentionally created something equally powerful''', but less virtuous and more… Sinful.<br /> <br /> '''The seven deadly sins''', in fact. Massive beasts, who'd eaten their way out of their own realm, and infiltrated Eden. They kept killing and eating their way through the realm, eventually running into the seven archangels guarding the lands.<br /> <br /> Taken by surprise and appalled by the unholy creatures, '''the archangels declared war against the primal monstrosities'''. Battles lasting over several millennia ravaged the realm and led to the destruction of both its landscape and wildlife, each side spawning more and more soldiers of their own kind in an effort to turn the battle's tide. But there was no winning; '''the realm was slowly poisoned to death, killing whatever life survived the battles.'''<br /> <br /> By the time Order realized what had happened and intervened, '''Eden had turned into a graveyard. An ageless, timeless limbo for the lost''', filled with fog and the ghosts of the dead. The archangels were called back to Heaven and '''made to promise destruction like this would never happen again''', not when Order had finally reformed Earth to His liking. Dinosaurs had made way to mammals, animals capable of higher intellect, far superior in potential than anything Order had previously created.<br /> <br /> And thus, the realm in the middle was abandoned for good.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-2.png|frame|center]]<br /> <br /> == Earth ==<br /> <br /> Primates were evolving rapidly, growing smarter and losing their fur, rising up to walk on two legs and creating tools to ensure their survival. This sparked God's curiosity, as He'd never seen another creature besides Himself show signs of imagination. From now on, primal humans were Order's proudest creation, the true magnum opus He'd been waiting for. Feeling excitement for the first time, God descended onto Earth, spending His time admiring the clever apes and rewarding their remarkable progress with knowledge of fire.<br /> <br /> But the first humans were barely anything more than the animals they hunted; functioning based on instinct, focused on surviving and multiplying. Still, Order had spent all His time fostering the hairless apes, destroyed entire universes to fulfill His vision, and He wasn't about to give up. To raise humans above other creatures, He gave them a tiny spark of Himself—a soul to guide them and inspire them to greatness, the gift of language and words, and free will to form Earth to their liking. A Tree of Knowledge was grown to reveal the universe's secrets when the time was right and the human race would be able to handle the responsibility, but for now, the first two blessed humans—Adam and Eve—were to do nothing more than name animals they saw and worship the God that had created them.<br /> <br /> Yet once again creation surprised Order as the oldest archangel, Samael, had grown resentful of God's divided attention, and coaxed the woman to rebel and eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Infuriated by the betrayal, God banished the couple from the promised paradise, the small piece of Heaven on Earth, and returned to Heaven to deal with the rebellious angels. Humans were left to fend for themselves, populating the Earth and forming the first civilizations, taking pride in their ability to imagina and create like God had intended.<br /> <br /> === Mankind ===<br /> By now, the delicate balance across all creation had been irreversibly shaken, and vices took over humanity. As more and more souls ended up in Hell instead of their intended destination, angels were commanded on Earth to keep the demonic forces at bay. However, without the permission to start another war and ruin the planet, all skirmishes were futile, and the deadly sins' power over the human population grew steadily stronger. Even worse, humans had started to rebel on their own, ignoring all of God's wishes and choosing vices instead.<br /> <br /> Whatever Order had envisioned, this was far from it.<br /> <br /> Insulted like never before, God took out His anger on the last creation defying him: He instilled humans with the ability to pick out patterns, giving them a sense of comfort when they could predict the outcome of their actions and rely on their surroundings. Humans learned to be afraid of disorder and paradoxes, things they didn't know. To make them dependant of His light, their imagination was twisted to fill the darkness with unknown horrors so that they might be scared back into submission. Everything that had been used against God was corrupted and turned against the offenders, but humans had spread too far and wide to be so easily manipulated.<br /> <br /> Finally, as the universe turned its back on God, God returned the favor and left. To start anew once more, or to try again with another planet, nobody knew—and thus came the dark age of total silence.<br /> <br /> [[File:World-creation-3.png|frame|center]]</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=Face_claims&diff=224 2025-07-07T21:15:52Z

<p>Moirasars: /* Women */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> ==== Related ====<br /> * [[Character list]]<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> * Wun Yi Hua<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hilary Swank<br /> <br /> ==== R ====<br /> * Rooney Mara<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=Face_claims&diff=223 2025-07-07T20:39:26Z

<p>Moirasars: /* J */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> ==== Related ====<br /> * [[Character list]]<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> * Wun Yi Hua<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hilary Swank<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

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<p>Moirasars: /* Women */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> ==== Related ====<br /> * [[Character list]]<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> * Wun Yi Hua<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> ==== H ====<br /> * Hilary Swank<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=Face_claims&diff=221 2025-07-07T20:37:54Z

<p>Moirasars: /* W */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> ==== Related ====<br /> * [[Character list]]<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> * Wun Yi Hua<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

Moirasars https://cen.wiki.ridiculusmus.lol/index.php?title=Face_claims&diff=220 2025-07-07T20:37:32Z

<p>Moirasars: /* J */</p> <hr /> <div>This page lists all used and reserved face claims. If you're looking for a particular name, use your browser's search function.<br /> <br /> To '''reserve a face claim''', ping a @Staff member in the ''#general-chat'' or ''#character-workshop'' channels.<br /> <br /> ==== Related ====<br /> * [[Character list]]<br /> <br /> == Men ==<br /> <br /> ==== J ====<br /> * Jeffrey Dean Morgan<br /> * Jason Momoa<br /> <br /> ==== K ====<br /> * Keanu Reeves<br /> <br /> ==== M ====<br /> * Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)<br /> * Mark Pellegrino<br /> <br /> ==== T ====<br /> * Tom Hiddleston<br /> <br /> ==== W ====<br /> * Willem Dafoe<br /> <br /> == Women ==<br /> <br /> == Non-binary/other ==<br /> <br /> ==== A ====<br /> * Asia Kate Dillon</div>

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