Creation Myth

Billions of years ago, the universe was void of anything except for a tiny planet called Nadoon. On this planet lived a bustling species, each harnessing the ability to create anything imaginable with their mind. There was a catch, though – they could not destroy anything directly; that is, they would need to come up with an opposing force to rid the universe of said object.

            One bright, sunny day, a set of twins was born. The princess was named Helene, while the prince was called Luke. The two siblings always got along swimmingly, sharing everything and going directly to each other for advice. Sixteen years later, the twins were celebrating their birthday. In Nadoon, royal birthdays were grand occasions, hundreds of people attending and each bringing a plethora of gifts for the royals to choose from. Most were of the latest technology, while others focused on music culture. The king and the queen gave the two a single galaxy to share. It too was completely blank, allowing the twins to do whatever they wanted with it.

            And so Luke and Helene went on planning their galaxy, drawing everything out first to make sure it was up to their standard before actually creating it (it would, after all, be quite messy to destroy a planet if they were not satisfied with its outcome). They both agreed to having millions of stars scattered around, bringing light to their galaxy. Although it wasn’t the hottest or the biggest one, Luke took a particular liking to a singular star, and decided to name it the Sun. And after much debate, they created nine planets to rotate around this Sun. They divided the ownership in half (Helene got five planets because of her brother’s claiming of the Sun) and their work began.

Helene knew it would be particularly difficult to make life forms on all of her planets, so she decided to focus on one planet in particular. Third from the Sun, she covered most of it in water, and the other bit land of varying altitudes and humidity. She made greens identical to that of her home planet Nadoon. She noticed the grass was getting to long and causing the plants underneath it to die because of its lack of sunlight. She asked her brother what she should do, and he told her to create something to help keep the grass from growing too long. She then created plant-eating animals, but they multiplied to quickly and ate most of the greens. Her brother once again advised her to make something balance it out, and Helene made meat-eating animals next. And so it went for many more earth years (Nadoon time is slower) until the world was perfectly balanced out. The world spun perfectly around the sun, plants and animals in complete harmony. And yet, Helene felt that something was missing.

After weeks of thinking, she decided to add one final touch to the earth: a species modeled after the Nadoon race. Although she was smart, knowing that unlimited creation would be a bad idea for such a new planet, but she did give them an infinite imagination. The human race continued evolving, learning, changing, and growing, unaware that a teenager had created their entire existence.