🐉 Creation Myths of the Ember Dream
Collected from ancient scrolls, whispered by flamebound elders, and etched into the bones of the earth itself.
🌍 Overview:
The world of The Ember Dream was not born of light — it was forged in flame, shaped in sorrow, and sung into life by a divine, serpentine being known only in the oldest tongue as Namsae — the first iMoogi.
The stories that explain the world’s origin vary across cultures and belief systems. What follows are the four dominant creation myths, each preserved by a different people. None of them are entirely true — and all of them are.
📜 Myth #1 — The Ember Womb
Told by the Ashen Path and druidic orders.
In the beginning, there was only fire. A vast, sleeping flame cradled in darkness. From within it coiled Namsae, the Dreaming Serpent, and from her breath came life.
She shed her scales to form the lands, cried rivers into being, and sang stars into the skies. From her heart grew the Heartroot Tree, a living tether between flame and flesh, sky and soil.
But when she curled into the earth to sleep, she left behind her magic — wild, untamed, and sacred. It is said all magic is merely the echo of her dreaming.
Key Symbolism:
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Namsae as life-giver
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Heartroot as literal world-tree
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Magic is natural, not constructed
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Deep reverence for nature, balance, and dreams
🦴 Myth #2 — The Bone Forge of the First Flame
Preserved by the Ember Court’s oldest scholars and Vaelkin oathkeepers.
Before time, the world was a forge — black, burning, and infinite. From its crucible came the Forgers, divine smiths who bound chaos with law.
They shaped dragons from flame, carved the mountains from cooled stone, and sparked life into mortals as experiments in choice.
But their greatest failure was pride: one forger attempted to wield the Heartroot itself — and was devoured by it. From his bones came the oathbound Vaelkin, born to guard balance and never again forge fate.
Key Symbolism:
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Magic as a force to be shaped, but never owned
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Creation as craftsmanship
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Oaths and balance are sacred
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Possibly metaphor for the fall of the gods or ancient dragons
🩸 Myth #3 — The Hollow Crown
Taught in secret by some vampires, especially older Noctari scholars.
Once, there were two moons — twin sentinels of night. They watched over the dragons and their brood, guardians of time and blood.
When the iMoogi rose from the Heartroot and gifted magic to mortals, the elder dragons rebelled. A war shattered the sky, and one moon was consumed in a final, blasphemous spell.
The survivors — broken and blood-hungry — became the first vampires. They crowned themselves kings of night beneath a false sky and bound the world in shadow.
They claim only when both moons return will the curse be lifted.
Key Symbolism:
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Vampirism as the result of magical hubris
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The sky is unnatural
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Dragons as divine, then fallen
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Hints that the false sky (bloodfalls, eternal night) is the result of a massive world-altering spell — this is true
🌊 Myth #4 — The Weeping Flame and the Tide of Ash
Held by pirate cults, rogue scholars, and mad prophets at sea.
The world is not born. It is drowned and reborn, over and over. Each age ends in fire, and each new world is grown from ash.
In one such age, the iMoogi came to a dying girl — gifted her its flame — and from her tears was born the tide that quenched the old world.
Those touched by fire or sea are marked by the cycle. They are the Ashkind. They are never truly free.
Key Symbolism:
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Cyclical apocalypse
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iMoogi as both destroyer and redeemer
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Ravyn and Talon may be seen as Ashkind
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Hints at multiple failed worlds before this one
🧠 Meta Notes for Lore Builders:
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All myths contain threads of truth. Together, they almost tell the real story.
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In truth:
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Namsae did birth the Heartroot
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There was a war among dragons
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Vampires did alter the sky with a massive blood magic spell
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One moon was destroyed, enhancing vampiric physiology and muting dragon memory
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No single race knows it all.
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The truth may be recoverable through the Heartroot, the iMoogi, or the mother (Elaria).