The World of Gods and Men

  A popular artistic depiction of Thalor during the Creation. Though painted many centuries after the event itself, such imagery reflects the widespread belief that the Creator fashioned the World as an artist creates a masterpiece. Introduction Among all the questions that have occupied the minds of scholars, priests, and philosophers throughout the ages, none is older than that of our world's beginning. How was the World created? Where did humanity come from? And by what means did the Gods first come to walk amongst mortals?

History is a fragile thing. Kingdoms rise and fall. Libraries burn. Languages change. With each passing century, another fragment of the past is lost to time. Yet not all is forgotten.