This blog post begins my Fantasy Fridays series on the Tenets from the Law of Creation.
Every culture has some kind of creation myth. A story about where they as a people come from, where the Earth comes from, and how the world works.
If you’re world-building for an imagined story, there is no more grounding principle than the creation mythos that defines the beliefs of that world. The Law of Creation is a belief system and a philosophy about how the world is ordered.
In the Annals of the Last Emissary, I imagined the world as a kind of pre-Genesis Earth. The world would still be new and imperfect. The people would possess a kind of “Genesis-like” understanding of how their world was organized. Something that would help them survive with all of the old evils that still remained from the chaos out of which the universe was formed.
In this early version of Earth, I imagined an understanding of creation that would help define the world view for all the principles and mechanics for a people caught between turmoils. Between The Last Battle and the coming threat from Lord Morgrom The Divider.
I envisioned the Tenets from the Law of Creation as a philosophy that would guide and bind people together in a common understanding about the tenuous world they all lived in.
Life begets life
Life preserves life
Life adapts to the world,
and the world adapts to life
The earth yields plants
Trees and plants bear fruit
according to their kind
Seed to root, seed to life
Seeds, earth, and life are intertwined
Love and life are intertwined
Life and death are intertwined
Creation is a process and a principle
The process reveals the principle
Tenets from the Law of Creation
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