Creation

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The Erra Pater, Davism's holy book, explains how the world was created.

A great spring flooded a cosmic ocean beneath the burning heat of the sun, and the churning of fire and water birthed air in steam and earth in rock. This great tumult created a whirlpool, and in its first revolution the whirlpool shaped air, fire, earth and water into the world we know. The second revolution created the higher but imperfect beings that live on Urth, and the third created the perfect distillation of purity, the Lord of the Springs. Darkness cast out by the Lord's creation sunk to the bottom of the ocean, creating a cold and miserable void; shards of this darkness lodged in the souls of men, birthing evil. Those granted a larger portion of the darkness became mages, cursed with a taint that allowed them to touch the power of demons.

An important corollary of this story is that the Lord is not a creator god - he is a divine force of purity and goodness, but is not responsible for the existence of mankind or of magery. Davites worship the Lord not because he made them, but because he is worthy of worship, and living according to his example and his rules is how people become sufficiently good to become one with him after death.