The Creation of the First Eager to begin, as all children are eager to start that which they know nothing of, Aiia began to create life.
First she took the stuff of Sylrien, the water, and created most beautiful and mystical beings. Sleek of body and fluid of motion, the glimmering creatures would move through the water as its kin. Aiia took the first and poured some of her glimmering cargo into the creature. She gave then the spark of her own fire, and watched expectantly. The spark glimmered and shone within the thing's brow, but then began to fade. It was not long until the energy shimmered and failed, wasted. The spark of life had refused to take. Aiia sent away the creatures then, failed as they were to swim endlessly in their unlife. These she named the Iklothri, the failed of the sea.

Our goddess was saddened by the wasted life and the failed possibility. She wandered for some time through the land and body of Sylrien. After a time she came to an enormous mirror, extending as far as the eye could see in every direction. She walked to it and touched it, her hand moving through and out into something that was not the liquid she had become accostomed to. She moved out into this new land, and marveled at its substance. Here she found that she could move quickly in a thin, ever shifting environment. She rode the winds, danced within cyclones, tasted for the first time, what we know now as air. Excited with her new experience, and with anticipation, Aiia quickly got to work.

The creatures she created were silent and thin as the air they were made from, quick to change form and flit about in an endless dance of shape and motion. Aiia poured the energy within them and lit the spark with her own firey lifeblood.

The spark did not take and the warmth and light, as before, shimmered to nothingness. Aiia sent away her failed people in great sadness, naming them Alassasuren, the failed of the air.

Aiia spent more time in mourning, thinking her work perhaps impossible. Then she picked up her head, a warmth blazing from her eyes. An idea had sparked, and in response she quickly flew to the great divide, the barrier between water and air.

There she took a bit of the stuff of the sea, and a bit of the stuff of the air. She mixed the two into an ingenious form, with bellows like lungs and veins that coursed liquid, the perfect marriage between the air and the water. She then filled the creature with light and warmth, sparking forth her own energy to complete the mixture. The being's soul flared to life, and it looked out with amazement from its new eyes. Aiia wept and rejoiced. The first soul was born.

She formed a flat disc of hard dead substance and allowed the new soul to stand upon it, seeing that it must only live on the side facing the air, for it would breathe the air, and upon becoming thirsty it would walk to the water and draw the water into its veins.

She took the soul aside one day and spoke to it.

Aiia told her...My dear child, you are my most wondorous of creations. Beware your soulless brothers and sisters that fly the air and mingle with the sea, for they will be jealous of you and may harm you given opportunity.

Aiia told her...I shall give you many gifts throughout your life, but the first and most valuable I give you now. You, whom I shall call woman, you have within you the power to create life, just as I have. I will create another to seed you as a fertile field, and you shall bear fruit, that fruit being the life and soul of another. Take care of this new soul, as it will in turn bear others who will create others. Treat this gift well, and you shall mother an endless stream of new life. Such is the gift I give to you.

Aiia told her...I shall create this other to seed you, so that you may bear forth and create. This other I will call man. I will make him strong, and he will protect you from harm. I will make him brave, and he shall bring you nourishment out of danger. I will make him honorable, and he will give you respect and homage for who you are, though that falls to his own mind and the purity of his actions. You in turn must guide him and advise him, for you are the life bringers.

Aiia told her...I will create creatures to aid you in life, both those that will toil for you and those that will be your sustenance. They will be like you in body and similar in mind, but they will be of feeling and not of thought. You will respect them as fellow souls and take only what you need, as it is their function to give, but not to be slaughtered.

Aiia told her...All these things will I do for you. For me you shall only live, and live well.

And such was the creation of the first.