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normal;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;letter-spacing: 0px;color: #444;}#sp-wp-tabs-wrapper_1921.sp-tab__lay-default > .sp-tab__tab-content .sp-tab__tab-pane ul li a, #sp-wp-tabs-wrapper_1921.sp-tab__lay-default .sp-tab__tab-content .sp-tab__tab-pane ol li a {color: #444;}<\/style>\t<h2 class=\"sp-tab__section_title_1921\"> Creatonis: I &#8211; III<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<div id=\"sp-wp-tabs-wrapper_1921\" class=\"sp-tab__lay-default sp-tab__default-accordion\" data-preloader=\"1\" data-activemode=\"tabs-activator-event-click\" data-anchor_linking=\"1\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-tab__preloader\">\n\t\t<div class=\"sp-tab__spinner\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"rect1\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"rect2\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"rect3\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"rect4\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"rect5\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<ul class=\"sp-tab__nav sp-tab__nav-tabs\" id=\"sp-tab__ul\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sp-tab__nav-item\" role=\"presentation\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sp-tab__nav-link sp-tab__active\" data-sptoggle=\"tab\" for=\"#tab-19211\" role=\"tab\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"tab_title_area\"><H4 class=\"sp-tab__tab_title\">Chapter I<\/H4><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sp-tab__nav-item\" role=\"presentation\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sp-tab__nav-link\" data-sptoggle=\"tab\" for=\"#tab-19212\" role=\"tab\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"tab_title_area\"><H4 class=\"sp-tab__tab_title\">Chapter II<\/H4><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sp-tab__nav-item\" role=\"presentation\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sp-tab__nav-link\" data-sptoggle=\"tab\" for=\"#tab-19213\" role=\"tab\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"tab_title_area\"><H4 class=\"sp-tab__tab_title\">Chapter III<\/H4><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<div class=\"sp-tab__tab-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-19211\" class=\"sp-tab__card sp-tab__tab-pane sp-tab__show sp-tab__active\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"aria-tab-19211\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"\" data-sptoggle=\"collapse\" for=\"#collapse-19211\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"collapse-19211\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Chapter I\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-tab__card-header\" id=\"heading-19211\">Chapter I<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"collapse-19211\" class=\"sp-tab__collapse sp-tab__show\" data-parent=\"#content\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-19211\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-tab__card-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-tab-content animated fadeIn\"><div style=\"height: 300px;overflow: auto\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:1] In the beginning, there was only darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:2] All that existed in the time before Men and this world as we know it was an expanse of nothingness, a veil of shadow black as the darkest silk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:3] For millennia did this nothingness exist, a sea of darkness as still as a pool of tar that reached as far as the eye could see and the mind could perceive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:4] This great nothingness is known to us simply as the Void.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:5] Within this great Void does the story of Creation begin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:6] One fateful day, many millennia ago, the Void was rustled with a fervent uproar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:7] For countless centuries, the Void stirred most violently and unexpectedly, as water disturbed by a thrown stone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:8] From this turbulent torrent of activity did the first life in our great Verse truly begin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:9] While we, the remaining vestiges of mankind, look upon the blessing of new life as a glorious miracle, the creations birthed from the great void could hardly be considered blessed or holy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:10] These creatures, the first true life in our great Verse, were dark and evil things that reveled in the darkness they considered home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:11] And so was the first life of our Verse born, dark children of the Void\u2019s endless night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:12] Existing only to indulge in that which was not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:13] Their existence was as bleak and as dark as the shadows which had birthed them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:14] These wicked things are known to us as the Ancients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:15] The Void was a comfortable home to its dark children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:16] For many, many years, the Void was still and silent as it was before the birthing of the Ancients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:17] The Ancients drifted for centuries within their boundless black sea, content to simply exist in silence and solitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:18] But one day the winds of change blew through the Void yet again, molesting the dark stillness the Ancients called their home with a viscous prejudice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:19] From this agitation came a new creation, one far different from the Ancients...<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:20] This creation was light, the opposite of dark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:21] This light took the form of a great orb of fire, which the Ancients came to know as the Flame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, I:22] This Flame stood defiantly against the darkness of the Void, illuminating it with zealous radiance and casting its light upon that which knew only darkness since the dawn of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-19212\" class=\"sp-tab__card sp-tab__tab-pane \" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"aria-tab-19212\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"collapsed\" data-sptoggle=\"collapse\" for=\"#collapse-19212\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-19212\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Chapter II\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-tab__card-header\" id=\"heading-19212\">Chapter II<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"collapse-19212\" class=\"sp-tab__collapse \" data-parent=\"#content\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-19212\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-tab__card-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-tab-content animated fadeIn\"><div style=\"height: 300px;overflow: auto\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:1] The Ancient ones were immediately loathsome of the Flame, for its light had shone through all but the thickest shadows of the Void, its brilliance threatening their very existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:2] Their home had been invaded by an intolerable presence, and thus they sought to remove it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:3] For centuries did the Ancients attempt to destroy the Flame, yet their efforts were in vain, for the Flame only grew stronger with every failed attempt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:4] In their desperation, the Ancients bid their most powerful and eldest kin to sacrifice themselves in a grand ritual, one that would create a great tool that could be used to craft a new home for their kind; a realm of shadow and darkness that the Flame could never pierce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:5] And so did the strongest and wisest of the Ancients take part in said ritual, combining their powers to create the great tool that would create them a new home...<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:6] And so came into being was the one known to us as the Mason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:7] The Mason had been a powerful creature, one born but for a single purpose; to craft the Ancients a new home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:8] With his immeasurable powers, the Mason manipulated the Void, rending it in half. In one half, he placed the Flame, and called it the Verse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:9] The other half he filled with shadow and darkness, and called it Hel. It was here that the Ancients fled, forever abandoning the Flame and the Mason, leaving their servant to perish to the Flame\u2019s light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:10] But as the ages had past, the Mason did not perish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:11] In fact, he thrived. As years turned to decades, decades to centuries, and centuries to millennium, he had grown drawn to the Flame, mesmerized by its beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:12] Over time, the Mason was transformed by the Flame. It would bestow wisdom upon him, and showed him virtues such as love and empathy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:13] In time, the Mason grew to love the Flame, vowing to serve it and its needs until the end of everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:14] And thus, the Mason had a new purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:15] And so did he tend to the Flame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:16] Heeding its call, the Mason once again took up the mantle of creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:17] With his great power, he again ripped the Verse in half.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:18] In one half, he left the Flame and its Verse, and in the other, he crafted a home to live within.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:19] This home he called the Heavens, and from there, he tended the Flame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, II:20] The Heavens were a beautiful place of light, devoid of the shadows that populated Hel, and was a fitting tribute to the glory that was the Flame.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-19213\" class=\"sp-tab__card sp-tab__tab-pane \" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"aria-tab-19213\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"collapsed\" data-sptoggle=\"collapse\" for=\"#collapse-19213\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-19213\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Chapter III\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-tab__card-header\" id=\"heading-19213\">Chapter III<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"collapse-19213\" class=\"sp-tab__collapse \" data-parent=\"#content\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-19213\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-tab__card-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-tab-content animated fadeIn\"><div style=\"height: 300px;overflow: auto\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:1] For time immemorial, the Mason existed in his palace of Heaven, content that he had brought order to the Verse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:2] Yet as the centuries turned to millennia he grew discontent, for the Ancients had long abandoned him, and the Mason became lonesome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:3] For having only the solace of Heaven was a lonesome existence, and he yearned for companionship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:4] Yet the only spark of vitality in all the Verse had been the Flame, and nothing else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:5] One day, the Mason conceived a great and wonderous plan; a plan that would bring him closer to the Flame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:6] The Mason would share his love of the Flame with the Verse by creating others that would bring him kinship and come to love the Flame as he did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:7] And so did the Mason draw from the power of the Flame to create once more, creating creatures that would be a fitting tribute to their birthright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:8] Hundreds of these creatures did he create, and he named them Angels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:9] They were everything he had hoped for; beautiful and animated, compassionate and wise, and they tended the Flame and enlightened the Mason in the mysteries only beings born of the light knew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:10] For the Mason had been the spawn of both Light and Dark, and while he loved the Flame greatly\u00a0 he could never know the full embrace of its' warmth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:11] And so did the Mason recognize that a few of the Angels he had created stood out from their brethren, exemplifying every aspect of the Flame that they so cherished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:12] Full of radiance and glory, they possessed not only the abilities of their kin, but the power the Mason himself wielded; the power of Creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:13] A dozen of these Angels existed, and the Mason bestowed upon them names of his own choosing, and came to know them as Archangels, the strongest of their kind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:14] He tasked these twelve with the duty of bringing order and purpose to the other Angels and becoming the stewards of Heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:15] For millennia, the angels and the Archangels tended to the Flame, loving it unconditionally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:16] As the Archangels grew, so did their powers, until one day they were wise and strong enough to fashion their very own creations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:17] And so did the Archangels create, drawing from the Flame as the Mason had before them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:18] Their creation was that of Eden, a massive, living orb that drew sustenance from the Flame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:19] Upon this orb they divined forth many more creations, such as plants, beings that grew and fed from the Flame\u2019s light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:20] They also created animals, beings that fed from the plants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:21] Their most prized creation, however, was that of a creature that could learn to love and appreciate the Flame as much as they had.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:22] Into this being the Archangels instilled the potential for all of the virtues that the Flame had imparted to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:23] They crafted them to feed from the plants and animals, forever reliant on the Flame\u2019s light to give them sustenance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:24] They gave them intelligence and the ability to communicate, in so that they could praise the Flame amongst one another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Creationis, III:25] The Archangels named these creatures Man and loved them dearly.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/requiemrpg.com\/wordpress\/hall-of-wisdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hall of Wisdom<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/requiemrpg.com\/wordpress\/creationis-iv-vi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creationis: IV &#8211; 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