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===Creation Myth=== There are multiple, some of which are in complementary and some of which are contradictory. Best I can do that is that there was a [[Skub|ouroboric dragon/pantheistic being/Glorantha herself/primordial pantheon/creation rune/world machine]] who came out of the ether and [[Skub|spat out/shat out/snorted out/breathed out/puked out/willed into being/built]] everything else. For a while Elves were ascendant because everything was just algae, forests, and prokaryotes, then the sun (Yelm) came out and gave Elves flowers; now he rules because [[Fail|they loved flowers so much]]. Yelm, the sun, was set up to rule a golden age of peace, prosperity, and stasis. A few years/few millennia/few million years/few days later, a god named Umath got mad at the stasis so he made war with Yelm and got badly beaten. Before this he managed to [[What|fuck a mountain]] and who knows what else, that he begets Orlanth and the Storm Tribe. Someone discovered what death is and some [[That guy|trickster]] [[Lulz|tested]] it on this universe's Adam [[Skub|and/or]] Eve, causing all of their descendants to become mortal. Orlanth, replacing his dad as king of the storm tribe, [[Skub|stole/borrowed/forcefully acquired]] death and used it on Yelm, [[Fail|sending the world into sunlessness]]. Orlanth, now technically ruler of the world in this new Storm Age, still has to fight threats to his domain in the so-called Godswar. These threats range anywhere between manageable (e.g, Yelm's heirs and tribe, rival gods and ideologies) to horrible such as [[Chaos]] and trolls, both of which stemming directly from Orlanth's irresponsibility. Chaos was introduced through tears in the world left by Yelm's death and Orlanth's rebellion whilst trolls are refugees from the Underworld now unbearably hot and bright from playing host to Yelm's perpetually burning corpse. This all comes to a head when Orlanth's brother [[Tzeench|Ragnaglar]] dramatically expanded Chaos' portfolio by inventing the concept of rape on his wife [[Slaanesh|Malia]] and his mistress [[Nurgle|Thed]] to create the literal [[Khorne|Devil]] who darkened the world, sent millions into extinction, and killed a fuckton of gods. During this Darkness Age, darkness, cold, and chaos were rampant (but they fight and hate each other), and only ended when Orlanth decided to man up and accept some responsibility for once in his life. He and his retinue, [[Crunch|Issaries]], [[Fluff|Lhankor Mhy]], [[Healslut|Chalana Arroy]], [[That guy|Eurmal the Trickster]], [[What|Flesh Man]], and [[DM|Ginna Jar]] went through a highly difficult and convoluted [[D&D 3E|quest]] to resurrect Yelm and have him re-light the world. While trying to make peace with Yelm, the Devil [[Fail|got himself killed]] so he can directly enter the Underworld and waylay the Lightbringers Quest until [[Skub|Glorantha herself/Ginna Jar/the Universe Itself]] decided they've had enough and caught the Devil in a web, using him as material for the legally-binding document called Time. Yelm was returned to light the world but only during the day as he had to include his Underworld empire, and every god of every culture was made to sign the Great Compromise so they can live eternally in a separate, ever-repeating, but constricting Godsplane while their mortal constituents live in a free middle plane (ideally) protected from the clutches of Chaos by the fabric of time/an actual dating system and so, history starts from here.
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