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| − | ==The Giants== | + | ==The first Giants, Sird and Hatha== |
In the beginning were the Giants. They were great workers of stone, and were driven by a great impulse. They strode across the world carving out the mountains and valleys we see today. They wrought things of great beauty, and they wrought sons to help in their labours and to people the world. | In the beginning were the Giants. They were great workers of stone, and were driven by a great impulse. They strode across the world carving out the mountains and valleys we see today. They wrought things of great beauty, and they wrought sons to help in their labours and to people the world. | ||
| − | Two of the greatest Giants were Sird, wrought of obsidian, and Hatha, wrought of granite. These two brothers made mountain ranges together and wielded great iron clubs in fierce | + | Two of the greatest Giants were Sird, wrought of obsidian, and Hatha, wrought of granite. These two brothers made mountain ranges together and wielded great iron clubs in fierce battles with other Giants. Sird was the more cunning of the pair and the better craftsman. He learned to pound his club into an edge, and to sharpen the edge on rocks. Hatha considered himself wiser and now stood apart from his brother, accusing him of folly. Naturally, this angered Sird, and the obsidian Giant struck his brother almighty blow which cut Hatha open. |
| − | The two Giants had fought one another many times before, and had fought the other Giants. But this was new. Water spilled forth from Hatha's wound, so much water that it covered the lands and | + | ==Water and Ice== |
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| + | The two Giants had fought one another many times before, and had fought the other Giants. But this was new. Water spilled forth from Hatha's wound, so much water that it covered the lands and gave birth to the oceans and seas. | ||
The two brothers never again understood one another, but from this act, much of the world as we know it began. Sird became the Chief of the Giants, cowing all the others with his new weapon. He moved up to the highest mountains to show his subjects how different he was fom his vanquished brother, Hatha creeping along the lowest grounds, with no substance. Still Sird loved his brother, so he took some of his essence wth him: he filled his helm with water and bore it up to his mountain fastness. Hatha, though, bore only cold indifference to Sird and the water froze, chilling the Chief of the Giant to his core. | The two brothers never again understood one another, but from this act, much of the world as we know it began. Sird became the Chief of the Giants, cowing all the others with his new weapon. He moved up to the highest mountains to show his subjects how different he was fom his vanquished brother, Hatha creeping along the lowest grounds, with no substance. Still Sird loved his brother, so he took some of his essence wth him: he filled his helm with water and bore it up to his mountain fastness. Hatha, though, bore only cold indifference to Sird and the water froze, chilling the Chief of the Giant to his core. | ||
| − | + | ==The Sun== | |
Sird had noticed, when he made his geat blade of iron and sharpened it on the rocks, that he also made great heat and sparks of light. So he took his sword and struck it against the rocks, wearing whole mountains down with his iron and gathring ther heat up into a great bright ball of fire and light. Thus was the Sun made. | Sird had noticed, when he made his geat blade of iron and sharpened it on the rocks, that he also made great heat and sparks of light. So he took his sword and struck it against the rocks, wearing whole mountains down with his iron and gathring ther heat up into a great bright ball of fire and light. Thus was the Sun made. | ||
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Hatha and Sird
The first Giants, Sird and Hatha
In the beginning were the Giants. They were great workers of stone, and were driven by a great impulse. They strode across the world carving out the mountains and valleys we see today. They wrought things of great beauty, and they wrought sons to help in their labours and to people the world.
Two of the greatest Giants were Sird, wrought of obsidian, and Hatha, wrought of granite. These two brothers made mountain ranges together and wielded great iron clubs in fierce battles with other Giants. Sird was the more cunning of the pair and the better craftsman. He learned to pound his club into an edge, and to sharpen the edge on rocks. Hatha considered himself wiser and now stood apart from his brother, accusing him of folly. Naturally, this angered Sird, and the obsidian Giant struck his brother almighty blow which cut Hatha open.
Water and Ice
The two Giants had fought one another many times before, and had fought the other Giants. But this was new. Water spilled forth from Hatha's wound, so much water that it covered the lands and gave birth to the oceans and seas.
The two brothers never again understood one another, but from this act, much of the world as we know it began. Sird became the Chief of the Giants, cowing all the others with his new weapon. He moved up to the highest mountains to show his subjects how different he was fom his vanquished brother, Hatha creeping along the lowest grounds, with no substance. Still Sird loved his brother, so he took some of his essence wth him: he filled his helm with water and bore it up to his mountain fastness. Hatha, though, bore only cold indifference to Sird and the water froze, chilling the Chief of the Giant to his core.
The Sun
Sird had noticed, when he made his geat blade of iron and sharpened it on the rocks, that he also made great heat and sparks of light. So he took his sword and struck it against the rocks, wearing whole mountains down with his iron and gathring ther heat up into a great bright ball of fire and light. Thus was the Sun made.
But when he was done, the Chief of the Giants found he could not control his new creation. In truth, the Sun was the first being to see Sird, and it told its creator that he was an ugly gnarled old thing not fit to be in the Sun's radiant presence. The Sun told Sird that the only beautiful thing about him was his mantle of ice and snow and that, so as not to risk melting this thing of beauty, it would flee Sird's gloomy realm and take a place in the sky where it could gaze at things of beauty in the world.
