The First Librarian's page

Since I'll be switching to the Librarian, I've only got one concept: Education. Of my other creations, I guess the moon still exists, as does the Great Axis plane, where Atheos will probably disappear into for the next cycle..

The Librarian, who was Atheos's assistant, and who served no one, handed Apedemak a book, How No One Stole Life from the Beastfather. And when the Lionheart had trouble with its contents, she began to explain, in wordless gestures. The Axis Hounds that roamed the Great Axis's empty streets could respond to a point, or a glance, moving in unity; these and other signs of domesticity, genetic and behavioral markers of obedience, were gradually made clear to Apedemak.

Zakaz had created life by killing the weak, forcing progress through struggle; the Librarian, and her written records, showed Apedemak how life could instead be created by breeding the strong, a civilized and ordered process bending natural selection to grow creatures less and less wild.

1 AP from the Librarian to create the simple concept of Education

But as Apedemak and Zakaz turned their attention elsewhere, they left behind a scene of carnage. Mountain ranges, crushed and trampled, their centers carved into new valleys; forests split in half; and everywhere pools of blood, from both gods, red puddles sprouting with new life.

And it was all wrong. Nothing natural should look quite like this. The Librarian pulled an old map out of her pocket, and began to make corrections. Jagged edges on mountainsides smoothed into erosion valleys; crushed forests softened into peat bogs. And pools of blood, as it were, separated, iron seeping into rich red clay, water running into rivulets and lakes.

Slowly, she observed, there was no longer a battlefield; simply lakes and rivers that had combined into one body of water running from the center of the continent to the sea. Mountains and forests parted where water ran through them, natural drainage shifted, as erosion and rich soil turned the water a ruddy orange. And, in the half-darkness—for there was still no sun, in those days—Zakaz's newest children flourished in the new ecosystem: bioluminescent algae, converting iron and sulfur into glowing light; fish that swam in the depths, and insects on the surface, themselves glowing from metabolism of the algae they ate.

Seeing her work done, the Librarian turned to her map, and named the new places that had come to exist.

Librarian spends 1 AP to create the Sea of Fire, a bioluminescent inland sea connected by rivers to the coast

If this is before Zakaz finishes the Cull, then there's no giant doggies for my servants to ride on yet. Ah, well.

Seconds after Zakaz tears into Aped, another rustle parts the grass, as a thin Irtaran climbs onto a patch of rocks for a better view. Saying nothing, she pulls a pad and paintbrush out of her pockets, and begins to sketch the fight at rapid speed.

And while the First Philosopher rested from examining his new creations, the Librarian quietly slipped away with a pair of Axis Hounds out to the Circle of Halls, and rode them through a portal to Kirtavo, curious what her former people might do with such simple and obedient creatures.