the story of madness
In the beginning, nothing existed.
Nothing but Madness.
A primordial deity so unpredictable, so unstable.
He could be kind,or he could be evil.
A vast sea of nothingness, holding the benevolence of creation, and the tyranny of destruction.
Millenia passed,and he was all alone.
he made a beautiful world for himself.
green, yellow, crimson , and any other color you could ever think of.
Until he created the first two gods - reflection and illusion.
but the two turned on him, and stole the power of creation,
the good side of Madness.
the two gods fled,leaving him in despair.
every few centuries,he'd scream and rage his fury on the world he created,
using destruction.
the two gods used their stolen gifts to create a beautiful world,filled with colors, life, and energy
lush green jungles,flowing waters, hundreds of uniquely colored flowers.
magical creatures roaming everywhere,insects buzzing.
it was a perfect world,more than any god could imagine.
but the two gods were careless- they did not trap madness or prison him .
In a few centuries,the land around madness had turned into a barren and desolate wasteland.
After that, he couldn't hold back his tide of anger.
He let it flow, all over the world.
bleaching the world in despair and fury.
illusion and reflection noticed it; and they did nothing.
all around them the world was dying and drowining in madness,but they didn't care.
they were protected by creation, the one thing madness could not do anything to, using destruction.
they just kept on creating ,creating, creating.
like mad people.
The two didn't know that madness was flexible and agile.
it twisted its way into their minds.
And they were terribly arrogant and ignorant, hence madness had been able to worm its
way into their minds.
Every time they made something new, a residue was left behind.
It started building up,day by day,year by year.
and out of it, came Knowledge, a being made from bits and peices of everything, the omniscient one.
he was a being of purity, of truth.
He hated the false creations of the two , that were made to cover up the wasteland of madness.
he hated the world around him, a false word.
He knew , with his knowledge, that the only way to restore balance was to return creation.
and then, he stole creation.
He set out on the journey to the wasteland of madness.
The journey took him five centuries.
It should have been enough to cleave his sanity in two, right down the middle.
But it did not happen.
It didn't happen because he, knowledge, was never greedy, he was not like the others.
He didnt hunger for more and more.
He only wanted one thing, and would go to extraordinary lengths to get it.
he wanted peace.
he had been born into a world of peace.
But it was slowly being eaten away, eaten away by the festering remnants of the plague of madness.
It would have died, crumbled away into nothing, had knowledge not intervened.
after the 500 years desperately trying to get to madness,he finally reached.
the primordial diety was even more fearsome up close,in person.
A humanoid figure, streching out of a vast glittering expanse of dark blue vapour and liquid.
He was taller than everything, dwarfing his surroundings.
With a dark blue visage, roils of steam boiling off his skin, stars scattered on his arms, legs, and back.
his cruel face , with a chiselled jawline, luminous white eyes that were brighter than a thousand stars,
He was the most fearsome and magnificent being knowledge had ever gazed on.
Every few moments, he would writhe and twist and scream.
knowledge dropped to his knees before the great deity.
he bellowed at the top of his lungs ' Oh ,Great One, I have come to return creation!'
The roaring and whistling suddenly stopped.
Madness arched his back and looked around until he found the source of the voice.
WHO ARE YOU?
madness didnt make any sound , he communicated through minds.
it still felt to knowledge like his head was being smashed into walls,so powerful was madness.
trying not to lose consciousness, knowledge replied.
'I..... I am Knowledge, a..and I have come to return the gift of creation.'
the diety chuckled with genuine amusement 'CREATION? DO NOT LIE TO ME.'
'I am not lying.' said knowledge with indignation in his voice.
'OH? PROVE IT.'
knowledge,using creation, turned his immediate surroundings lush and green.
madness' eyes narrowed.his body became tense.
'SO. IT'S TRUE.'
'yes,madness,it is true' replied Knowledge.
'Take the power of creation, please, and restore peace in this unbalanced world' he pleaded.
madness pondered over this for a long time.
'KEEP IT' said madness.
'I...AM UNWORTHY OF IT ,I HAVE ALLOWED IT TO BE STOLEN.BUT YOU WON'T, AND YOU ARE MY TRUE SUCCESOR'
'NOW I CAN FINALLY LET GO OF THIS TERRIBLE HALF - LIFE'
'but, but you will die, you'll be no more' said knowledge
'YES,I WILL DIE' conceded madness
'BUT SO WILL DESTRUCTION'
'HENCE, I GIVE YOU THIS AMULET'
'IT WILL WORK ONLY FOR YOU'
'CALL ON ME, AND I SHALL BE THERE FOR YOU'
'IT WILL BE THE LAST TIME DESTRUCTION AND I WILL EVER WORK TOGETHER, AND THEN WE WILL TRULY DIE'
madness raised his arms and out of the vast blue sea, a tiny amulet formed itself and wound itself around knowledge.
madness' body started shrinking,turning grey and withered.
bits and pieces of his body started falling into the sea of madness.
dissolving,flying into the acrid air, turning to dust.
as the light from madness' eyes winked out and became dark, knowledge thought he heard a whisper.
'WE SHALL MEET AGAIN.'
'GOODBYE,KNOWLEDE,MY TRUE SUCCESSOR.'
Blinking back tears,knowledge set of to his homeland.
The journey took him another 500 years.
and then he finally reached.
in the 1000 years that knowledge had been gone, illusion and reflection had forgotten about him.
but when knowledge reached, they were nowhere to be seen.
he searched for them, and found them in a desolate corner of their world.
It turned out that without the power of creation, they had been overpowered by the animals.
they hated the two for enslaving them.
the moment knowledge had been out of the boundaries of their world,they had rebelled against the two.
they had overpowered them and pushed them to the very corner of their world.
hearing this, knowledge knew that they had been taught their lesson and he returned creation to them,
after extracting a promise that they would not abuse it and only use it for the good of all,
the two returned to their old royalty and power.
