Editing Angra Mainyu (section)

==THE ORIGIN OF ANGRA MAINYU==


In the beginning, there was no time or space, no meaning or purpose … and this was after Creation was pretty well finished. The Creator looked at the length of The World Tree, from the tip of perfection crowned with mysterious and deadly stars to the very depths of hell cloaked in a fiery blanket of corruption. But nothing moved; nothing felt. The angels lay sleeping, the worlds lay formed but motionless; the whole of the Tree awaited its birthing pain.


Cneph, greatest of all spirits, then became pregnant with possibility. He swelled and then birthed the twin Gods Ormazd and Angra Mainyu. Ormazd was born of light and Cneph's hopes for a long and glorious Creation, while Angra Mainyu was concieved and suckled on Cneph's doubt such a perfect vision would ever be complete. These two spirits became the first lords of the Spirit World and spawned all later Divine Ymera; they were Yin and Yang, Good and Evil, the Beginning and the End. Cneph had promised the Earth to the first of the True Gods to be born, and upon hearing this promise Angra Mainyu exploded out of Cneph’s wound as a roiling mass of crawling insects. They tore at the fabric of reality, and the damage they did was called Time, ever drawing Creation to its inevitable end.


Angra Mainyu howled for his birthright, and longed to plague Earth with darkness and pestilence. Cneph felt great sadness for the poor world, and so said that the Old God would rule Earth for only 9000 years and that after that Ormazd would have the crown. Mainyu agreed. His rule was a horrible time of eternal night and cavorting insect-demons. But this time passed, and with the rise of Ormazd came the War in Heaven and the rising of the New Gods. Lord Entropy, the spawn of Mainyu, became leader of the Council of Four, an outcome favourable enough to the Spirit King of Evil that he left it at that. 


Since that time, Angra Mainyu has come to Earth rarely. His cult, the Zurvanite Heresy, or ''Dei Arimanio'' is still widespread throughout the world, but hidden and small. The secrets to call on their dark master's power is held only by the most initiated dark Zoroastrian mystics. Angra Mainyu spends most of his time in the Spirit World, slowly consuming the potential energy and sliding everything from cause to effect. His control over the Spirit Kingdoms are weak, but he has had since the dawn of time to terrorize them. His darkness is ancient and legend, and his name is whispered in fear on all worlds of the Tree.  Here he takes the form of a tidal wave of bubbling Evil and electric Time, preceded by his chorus of insectile children.


But it was the return of Ormazd to Earth that inspired Angra Mainyu to come back to that little world. Ormazd is Good, Space and Hominids, and his enChancelment upon the Earth inspired a New Renaissance. Technology exploded and mankind took to the stars. Space technology lead to knowledge of other worlds, magic, and even the barest beginnings of Miraculous understanding. When the first Time Machines were built though, in the year 2511, that was what alerted the Bug Emperor to make himself known again. The first thing he did upon his return was consume the last 500 years of progress, resetting the clock to 2011. 


Let the games begin anew, brother, the Source of All Evil snickered.