Manat Mythology (concept)
The Manat believe that the Gods once lived among humanity on Aeras, both ruling over them, and teaching them everything they know. The gods were ruled by Relyon, the first god, who created the universe, and his wife Astoret, who cared for humanity more than any other god. The Gods kept the vast amount of knowledge they had, which was more than even the most advanced societies of humans have today, within libraries all across Aeras, where all could acess them. However, one day, a human named Atar grew envious of the Gods, so he riled up a mob which began burning down all of the Gods' libraries, until only one remained. Left with only a single library, barely any of the vast stores of knowledge they once had, the Gods decided to leave Aeras, bringing their last library and the land around it with them, forming a great crater in the land, and that last library becoming the Divine Library of the Gods. This library now needed to be protected at all costs, so the god of war, Ashema, stepped up to do so, becoming the first librarian.
After the Gods left humanity behind, Astoret began to cry so hard she began to flood the world, creating the ocean. However, she would not stop crying, threatening to flood all of Aeras. To console her, Relyon told his wife he would allow the most righteous of humans, who still followed the laws set by the Sacred Texts left on Aeras, would be allowed to enter the Divine Library after death, for until then, all humans would have their souls devoured by the great worm Mod after they died. Astoret, gladdened by this plan, stopped crying, saving humanity. To determine whether people were following the Sacred Texts or not, the thousand-eyed goddess Yarikh was tasked to watch the humans on Aeras, though she could only do so while she was awake at night time, as the blinding light of the sun prevents the gods from seeing down to Aeras during the day. However, as the followers of Atar began to destroy the Sacred Texts, Relyon's youngest son Lokan began to feel that this arrangement was still unfair to the humans, as if they do not have the Sacred Texts, they have no way of knowing how to follow them. So, he began micheviously stealing texts from the Divine Library, and hiding them on Aeras, in the hopes that humans would find them.
Aliases: Ashema, Gods, Relyon