History of Tibia
The Awaking of the Gods
In
the beginning there was only the big gaping void.
It was omnipresent and nowhere.
Into this desert entered Fardos, the creator, and Uman Zathroth, incorporating
magic. Nobody knows where they came from or whether they always have existed and
just awaked from the deep slumber of the infinity.
Fardos fulfilled by the need to create and give birth. He stepped into existence
and began immediately with the act of the creation, because he was fully
creative power and impatient. His godly powers emerged from him and created,
formed.
But all his works slipped out of his hands as the void was everywhere. No single
work was to last. Everything that he devised dissolved in the void even before
it was completed.
Uman
Zathroth regarded his undertakings thoughtfully, because Uman Zathroth was wise
and fullfilled with magic powers and insatiable hunger for knowledge,
comprehension and enlightenment. He was a creature similar and nevertheless
different to the clear working of the Fardos, because mysteries and secrets were
the aspects of his being. Uman and Zathroth were two entities and nevertheless
one. Uman was the light, bright aspect of the magic strength. His was the gift
to work benign wonders. Zathroth however, his different - dark - side, was
corruptive urge, the vain self purpose of magic, destructive and a desecration!
This entity, which was two and one nevertheless, observed now the works of his
companion in infinity.
For
a long time Fardos exhausted his enormous powers in futile activity. Finally he
asked his companion for support in his attempts. Uman consented only too
readily, but Zathroth, the dark one of the twins, refused himself. Thus Fardos
and Uman strived together to attempt the CREATION - however their laborings were
not rewarded with success again. Just like before everything was drained away as
soon as they created it, and Zathroth laughed full of contempt.
The
power however, which Uman and Fardos spent, did seep away in the
universe-filling void. Nobody knows whether it was this power that lured another
entity to them, whether it aroused this godly being, or whether in a mysterious
way it created this entity. In any event, suddenly the enormous entity Tibiasula
rose from the void and examined the two other godly beings. Fardos and Uman
welcomed Tibiasula as their sister and admired her, because she was the perfect
unity of the elements. Zathroth however fumed with silent hate, as he didn't
want to share the void with one more entity.
The Great Creation
Uman in his wisdom recognized the
possibilities, which revealed themselves to them here, and he asked Tibiasula
join in the circle of the creators and help them with the task of the creation.
Tibiasula agreed, because she also was fascinated by the idea of the creation.
Uman, whose nature was to win secrets and gain insights, had realized what their
error at the preceding attempts had been: Without a fixed pivot point there was
no existence possible, and everything had to diffuse away as it was without
direction and target.
And to remedy that he invented TIME!
In order to create the time, the Gods united their powers. Even Zathroth was
fascinated by the idea of his other half and contributed a tiny proportion of
his strength to the effort. The wise claim that it is to be due to his working
that all time strives in the long run to decay and destruction.
The
powers of the godly bundled themselves to an enormous power greater than any in
existence before. It began to crystallize itself in the void to an enormous
spiral. Higher and higher it mounted up, became firmness, pivot point, direction
and aim of existence! And in such a way the crystal column of time grew upwards
and was from then on the unmovable center of creation.
But even at
the culmination point of the creation Zathroth bundeled all his destructive
powers to a weapon and pushed it with all the strength that he could muster into
the heart of Tibiasula, whose existence he did not want to endure any more. And
as the divinity was weakened by the creation and without suspicion and
resistance, the deadly attack penetrated to the core of her being and destroyed
her.
The elements - fires, water, earth and air - were jerked out of their harmony
and landed at the base of the column of time.