Star People (The World)

...And when they left their homes and went up into the black sky, there they began to sweep together dust and light in order to make their own worlds. After many ages of careful sweeping together, the first and most powerful of the factitioners, whose name was Halem, created the first and largest star in the heavens. So much dust and light and magic had gathered around Halem's body that it began to whirl all on its own and formed around him a luminous globe that later people would call a star. Soon, many more stars lit up and before long, the whole sky was lit up by stars. Each star was connected to all the others by lines of force that allowed communication and the whole web of shi bound the stars of the sky into a connected world.

The leaders of these star people, of whom Halem was the most powerful, gathered around them many myriads of followers and the whole world was awhirl with dancing stars, each arrayed around her leader in the centre of the circle.

As time passed, the children of these first star people were born, but they were less powerful. They contented themselves with sweeping up the left-over dust and magic and formed the small dark stars that dance around their parents in the same way their parents are arrayed around their leaders.

It is these small dark stars that cooled, just like embers in a dying fire, that became worlds like our own. Yet, deep in the Heart of the World lives Yeola, who swept together our own world. In turn, it is Yeola who is the first mother of all Daine, the children of the Star People, and indeed even the others as well who live upon the world of her making.

Three brothers and seventeen sisters has Yeola, Camay being her twin. Varen in turn is their mother who is one of the Star People, and many thousands and myriads are her sisters and cousins who account Manael as their leader and Halem as their first ancestor.

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