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=The Gods' Age=
'''The First of the Gods and the end of the Giants. Huth’s Vow and Betrayal. Pasin and Newlaar. Huth builds the Mountains of the Stars. The Sun is Captured and Huth weds Newelaar. The Moon. The last of the Gods is born.''' 

==Queen Calla. Huth is born==
While the Sons of Lorn and the Daughters of Hatha were peopling the world, the '''Gods''' were born. '''Queen Calla''' was one of the most powerful of Hatha’s first daughters. It was she who invented '''language''' and had shown the others how to cast the first great spell. She was proud, though, and wanted a husband to match her, not one of these Men made out of mud.

So it was that she flew up to '''Sird'''’s Castle of Ice and there sought audience with her uncle. At first, the Red was angry and threw great boulders at her, or tried to cut her with his great iron sword. But this was no trouble to her, for she simply became the wind and laughed at her uncle. Eventually he tired, and sat down to listen to Calla. This was the moment of her victory, for as soon as she began to speak, the old Giant was enchanted and seduced. So was born the first and greatest of the Gods, '''Huth'''. 

There were many Gods. '''Children of Calla and Sird''', they built a '''court''' around their father’s icy throne and filled it with laughter and with tales of adventure. Soon Sird had forgoten all about the other Giants, and so their time ended. The remaining giants and their sons dispersing to the south, to the east and to the west, where they built kingdoms of their own. Only a few remained, among these '''Lorn''' the Father of Man. Calla herself is known as a Goddess, as are Hatha and Sird. The common man or woman often does not know who was first a Giant, a Witch or a true God, and it makes little difference except to the greybeards who devote their lives to such matters. Even some of the first Men are now called Gods, while some great kings believe they can travel up to the Castle of Ice and live with the Gods

Many Gods were born and a few died. They invented many of the things we know today: music, poetry, art, the rules of war, wine, gold and silver, languages. The greatest of the gods was named Huth. First and most beloved son of Sird and Calla, he was a beautiful god, strong and clever, fiercely loyal and given to great passions.

==Huth’s Vow to Queen Calla==
'''Huth''' grew to be a great God. He was the pride of his father Sird but in the world, he acted as his mother’s agent, for he loved his mother above all things. Of the many great events enacted by Huth, one of the greatest was that he sought his uncle and grandfather, '''Hatha''', and made peace with him on his '''mother'''’s behalf. After this, he sought to show her his love by gifting her with the most beautiful thing in the world. He swore to her that he would capture the '''Sun''' and bring it bound to her in the '''Castle of Ice'''.

==Huth meets Pasin==
Huth travelled down, out of his father’s mountainous realm, '''Sirdehaar''', to wamer lands where the Sun might more easily be found. He took with him a '''tribe of giants''', some of the younger and more venturous of his father’s subjects. He had heard tell of a place called the '''Land of the Sun''', so it was to this place that he led his band. 

Huth’s '''wanderings''' are the stuff of legend. Many were the travails he had and many were the contests won. But eventually he found himself in a beautiful land, a warm place of flowing wine, where the people had made instruments which sang even more beautifully than the sighings of the winds, and told great tales which matched even Huth’s own epic journey. Here, he saw that the '''Sun''' could indeed be seen lingering, and Huth thought he could understand why. Huth concluded that he had arrived in the Land of the Sun, so he asked to meet the lord of this land, the god '''Pasin'''. 

Huth had made no secret of the purpose of his quest, so Pasin knew that he had to be very clever. If this strange northern god took the Sun out of the sky and carried it north, the grapes would wither and Pasin’s people would have to go about in furs. Pasin spoke to Huth and learned that his resolve was great; he would not easily be dissuaded from his task. So Pasin vowed to help Huth, to be his boon companion and to do his all to help capture the Sun. Huth was greatly pleased, most especially when Pasin told him of the Sun’s habits.

==Huth and Newelaar==
The '''Sun''' was, as ever, proud and vain. Every day, as it travelled overhead, admiring things of beauty in the lands below, it would pause at the edge of Pasin’s realm, above the '''Placid Sea'''. Here it gazed upon the most beautiful thing in the world: its own reflection. '''Huth''' begged his new friend to take him to this Placid Sea and '''Pasin''', of course, did so. 

But there was one thing that Pasin had neglected to tell Huth. His sister, the Goddess '''Newelaar''', resided at the Placid Sea and was perhaps the most beautiful of the Goddesses. With Huth’s first look, his heart was taken. He vowed to himself that he would make this goddess his, and he was moved to swear to her all kinds of oaths, make all kinds of promises. When he finally asked her what in the world he could give her to make her his, she replied that only one prize would make her his. The Sun.

==The Star Mountains==
Blinded by love, '''Huth''' swore that he would do exactly this. He would build a great tower into the sky and there would capture the sun for his goddess. So began the construction of the first of the '''Star Mountains''', on the shores of the '''Placid Sea'''. This was the first time such an undertaking had been taken on since the Rend had roamed the world. But Huth had with him his '''twelve companions''', themselves sons of the world builders, so before too many lifetimes had passed, his mountain was up among the clouds.

During this time, his companions had themselves met twelve of Newelaar`s handmaidens, '''Hathari nymphs'''. Just as their lord had done, each had fallen deeply in love with his respective nymph and they had, emulating their mistress, bid each of their suitors to gift them a '''star'''. So, while Huth built his own tower, his companions each built their own, each one a demonstration of love. Each of these towers, built on the shores of the Placid Sea, was of such dimensions that they each became a mountain, the '''Star Mountains'''. Each of these giants, each of his brides, and each of the stars, is a story in its own right. '''INSERT LINK'''

==Huth’s Gift==
When '''Huth''' finally finished his mountain, he reached for the '''Sun''' and siezed hold of it. Despite the agony of holding the ball of flame, he brought it down to '''Newelaar''' and proferred it to her as his wedding gift. With perhaps the most beautiful smile which ever adorned a face, the goddess told her suitor that he had shown the depth of his devotion and he must now place the Sun back in its place. This he did and the two were wed.

==Calla’s Anger. The Moon and The Bastard God==
Although the '''nymphs''' bore many children to '''Huth’s companions''', his own marriage to '''Newelaar''' was barren. Eventually, he learned from the goblin seer '''Herak''' that his mother, '''Queen Calla''', had laid a curse on the union and that the fruitless union was but the first consequence of the curse. Huth had always been one for appeasement so he sought out old '''Hatha''' for advice. His uncle and grandfather, knowing his daughter better than any, told Huth that only a gift from Newelaar, one of equal beauty to the Sun, would appease his mother. Newelaar agreed to this.

To craft her gift, the goddess inspired herself on the Sun. She herself had seen the Sun gazing upon its reflection day after day so she constructed an image of the Sun, one of the same size and the same form, but crafted out of her own silvery substance. This was the '''Moon''' and Huth took it north to his mother. Although partly consoled by the gift, '''Queen Calla''' was by nature vengeful. She took the gift and gave it a place in the sky, but demanded one more gift of her son, that she, his mother, carry the seed of Huth’s firstborn rather than his bride. 

Thus, although Huth and Newelaar had many children, '''Huth’s firstborn''' was the '''Bastard God, Umer'''.