Creation
The God Mani crafted Alba the future home planet of the dwarves. For too
long he had lived alone on his moon, floating throughout the universe. He
longed for a son, someone to pass his knowledge and wisdom onto, someone to
protect, someone to love. He began to prepare his moon, making it comfortable
and enjoyable for his sons. He built open seas and fresh flowing rivers for
them to swim in, he crafted mountain ranges for them to climb and great open
plains for them to run in. The world was vibrant, alive and beautiful. Mani
then populated the world with living creatures, filling the sky with birds and
the sound of their song and the sea with fish and crashing waves. His moon had
blossomed into a planet. Finally, Mani put a moon in the sky, “This I will take
for myself” he bellowed “ This I will call home”.
Mani continued to travel the universe with his new planet, looking for a
wife to bear his sons. For centuries he continued to search but to no avail, he
and the other gods were all male and had no way to sire offspring.
Mani could wait no longer; he went to his forge on the new moon of Alba and began to make
himself four sons. Picking stars from the sky and combining them with dust from
the moon he crafted himself four sons.
He placed his sons on Alba giving each a name as he did, “Gravelhelm,
you will be the strongest of my four sons. Stonebeard, you will be the
smartest, Grayfist you will be the wisest, and Onyxheart, you will be the glue.
You will hold your brothers together through anything to come.”
With that Mani left his children on Alba to grow and learn about the
planet. They built homes and began to live off the land. Many years passed and
soon Mani’s sons began to wish for the same thing their father had. Mani
crafted four wives for his sons and set them down on Alba. Before long the sons
families started to grow and expand, eventually splitting off into their own clans
and populating the far corners of the world. The new clans began to thrive in
their new homes, with each clan comprising of hundreds of families. Mani had
all the children he could ever want.
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