“And these, the Ambassadors of Earth were given the face

of the Beast, so that Nature would not flee, and also they were given the hand of Man,

so that they might reach into his world, and remind him from whence he came.”

Origins

In the Deep Time tales and myths told by the Ambassadors of Earth, it is said that there was, before all else, a great Womb called Chimquatka ('The Sky Soil'), a swirling and fertile darkness embraced by a density of shimmering light. It is told that this light was the first in the Universe and that, light being light, it was not content to remain unto itself.

In this sky soil ripe with many seeds, the first children of the megacosm took root, and their brightness was akin to a garden of nebulous blossom, springing forth from the cosmic viscera. Youngest of these was Glynmarra, a breadth of glittering flight whose wings spanned across unimaginable distances. And from the womb Glynmarra flew.

Being born of Chimaquatka, it seemed to the great bird that there must be other such dwellings in which she might nest, or on which she might perch. But as none had passed through the vastness before her, it was only Glynmarra's light that shone in the emptiness, and it was only her shape, her brave flight, that filled the abyss. In utter aloneness, Glynmarra fell under a darkening spell of grief, and in her gaze stirred great pools of sadness. Into the unmade and the unknown still she flew, and at last the grief and solitude welling within her filled her beyond what even her celestial form could withstand, and from her eyes the first tears fell. These became the stars of the heavens.

Eventually Glynmarra's form began to tatter and to fray, and as she flew she began to leave bits of herself behind. These fragments of the first child of the Universe became young worlds in the ocean of emptiness, and thus Glynmarra's children were the planets on which life and light fell ever after.

Other children of Chimaquatka followed, among them Minotajo the Mantid, who gave order to the heavens, and Suryama, the great String of Beads that Broke, becoming time, so that all would not happen at once. Also there were the four elements, Creatoli, serpent of Fertility, L'wambwah the Lake, the Vapor, and the Stream. Brother to Creatoli was Yirdilfi the Flame, and sibling to L'wambwah was I'quatha'ipir, the Flow, and the Air.

There were three stages as the Universe began to speak – the first was silence, and then there were the faint heartbeats of Glynmarra's wings. Also there were the footsteps of Minotajo, and later the surging pulses of Creatoli, L'wambwah, and the pearlescent tones of Suryamas beads as they fell one by one. But it was Akhenn, later born in the womb of Chimaquatka, who had heard these utterances and taken them into the great pool of himself. And beginning to sing from within his center, he reverberated outward much in the same way as the light that had been his womb.

It is said that Akhenn's song was the first true sound which became all others. It was with his voice that the first of the Ambassadors spoke on Earth. It was in the likeness of many of the Universal children that life first appeared on Earth, in the Deep Time, before the breaking of the world.