Creation (lore)

This is the creation of the world of Jagdas, as is orally told by the villagers who survived the reshuffling of the world.

The void spit out four siblings- the twins Froyim and Hadst, and the twins Pax and Jagdas. Froyim and Hadst were born from the void first, and together they agreed to shake the void until it came to bear substance in the form of blocks. Hadst formed the sky above, and Froyim pushed down the void below. Hadst formed the sun and the moon from the blocks and placed them into the sky. Froyim shook the void as slowly as he could, and formed a table of bedrock below. The sister and brother lifted the world, suspending it by the sun and the moon, and holding it above the void on bedrock. But growing proud of their creations, the brothers found themselves at odds.

“The sun I have made has given me warmth and light, this world must be warm for our people,” Hadst said. But Froyim disagreed, “From the void, all our things were created. From the dark coldness, this world’s true nature is shown.” The two challenged each other to split the world between their likings- strips of the land would be hot, strips of the land would be cold, and much in between would be affected. They grew trees and mountains and rivers in their contest to outdo each other, great ice spikes and mushroom forests. They punched tunnels under each other's work in sabotage. Out of their parts of the world, they secretly shook their own new realms into existence, and each developed it in their own way with their own power

Disgusted with their treatment, the void spat onto them the second twins- Pax and Jagdas. Pax followed his brothers up to the world and heeded their instructions. He cut off his feet to bring clay to life as animals and villagers, and he cut off his hands to give them farming, building, and writing. The villagers built temples, strongholds, and dungeons in service to their people and the gods. But as Pax did this, Jagdas remained in the void and heeded the chaos and true nature of his world. Jagdas invaded the world and corrupted the villagers with their own advanced enchantments, and he created mobs that would destroy the villager civilization. The old temples and strongholds are now desolate, the enchanting technology is now lost, and Jagdas has melded his mobs with the fabric of the world. Froyim and Hadst banished Jagdas to the void for his troublemaking. But this failed, for Jagdas bound his soul to a hidden black sheep. Jagdas struck himself with lightning and was resurrected. He threw the unprepared Froyim and Hadst into the void, and in their fall, Hadst’s soul was scattered around the nether, and Froyim’s soul was scattered around the end. Jagdas then created portals so he could extract the fruits of his brother’s fragmented spirits.

At his brother’s unrelenting wrath, Pax split the lands and filled them with water. This could slow Jagdas down, but not fight against him. Pax took the flesh and ingredients of every mob and mixed them all into a single plains villager, and created Steve and Alex. Pax then cut off his head and split it between the pair, giving them the ability to reimagine the overworld. Steve and Alex then multiplied and began discovering the world and its physics, but when Jagdas had learned that Pax had been dismembered, he reshuffled the world so his brother wouldn’t be able to find his way in it. The fragmented souls of Froyim and Hadst have recently begun to grow stronger; the nether and end are becoming bigger. This is the status quo of the world of Jagdas, governed by the wrathful god, but littered with the children of Pax, who are prophesied to bring balance and peace as the world had originally been created.

From the descendants of Steve and Alex came the age of the heroes, whose deeds laid in pillaging and exploring the land. The first generation of these found themselves with magical abilities, with the ability to fly and build invincible structures. The pillar created to hold the center of the world in place was constructed by one such descendant of Steve and Alex named Veriss.

Some remained in service to Jagdas, but others cooperated with each other as aspects of Pax.