The Time of the Karanduun The First Song is sung as thus... different stars and planets. In the middle of it all was the Great Weaveress, who wove the world into being with her Five Principle …a Time where all the gods were flourishing, Spindle. This time lasted for a very long time and had multiple kingdoms and castles in the and ended with the Aeon Strife of Highest Divinities, which consisted of various being arose and they made love, and gave birth to smashing and destroying planets in a war to two beautiful children: Paros, the Divine win the Most Beautiful Daughter of the Wind and Dagat, the Sea of Passion. Great Weaveress. Apung Paros wa, ever-changing and arrogant. This Time ended with the return to slumber He ruled with vast power over the winds and of Mangatia as She hid her daughter for the air. He was eventually defeated and eternity. The war ended with nobody bested in both war and love by Apung Dagat. winning, and with the ranks of the gods (and They lived a long life together in the world of every other planet) destroyed. Sea and Sky, but the diwata are not immortal. They are constricted to the movement of the winds. Eventually, Apung In the chaotic sea of chaos that was left, Paros died and his energy gave birth to the Maykapal, the Actor of Power, emerged, Lipod, a race of wind-people. being one of the only ones left alive by the Aeon Strife. He warred with the Primordial Dragon known as Orphaned Spirit and won. Apung Dagat was overcome with grief, and In the wake of his victory, The Actor of died from overwhelming sadness. At the crux Power threw Orphaned Spirit's body down to of her death throes, Diwata Magindang, Apo the conflux of stars and created the Sea. of the Ocean, was born, along with the magindara, a powerful race of water-people (of which the Naga are a part of). His friend, Wandering Spirit, was one of the Gods that survived. When Galang Kaluluwa died as well, Maykapal, in his grief, lifted him In addition to this, the resulting divinity that up, turning him into the Sky. arose from this and infused all of creation, and thus the other diwata arose, achieving conscience and sentience, embodying their And thus, the Sea and Sky Firmament was embodiments. made, which stood in the middle of the Sea of Stars, and then with that, The Actor of Power, left, seemingly to travel to other But these two powerful Apo did not live worlds, or maybe to seek out the Great alone. In their lovemaking they gave birth to Weaver. four powerful Primordial Apo: And from there, the first diwata arose. The Kalibutan, the Lakan of the Cosmos, was embodiments of nature. The Diwata known strong and tall, and his body was made of as Apung Maykaptan, the Supernal Sky, and craggy rocks. He had inherited his father's Apung Magu'yawan, the Guiding Ocean, vast power in addition to his own, and he and Bulan to seize the throne of Heaven was as arrogant as he was powerful. from their Grandfather, Apung Maykaptan. Kalibutan used his commanding presence to command legions of Lipod and Magindara, Adlaw, the Sun That Cleaved, was happy, as well as used his powers over the elements noble, and always optimistic. He was filled to blow open the gates of the Sky. Adlaw led with passion, and would've suggested the charge, fighting with vicious strength, Kalibutan to think twice about his plans, but assaulting his Grandfather’s biraddali his passionate love for his brother told him (angelic people) servants. Bulan had snuck otherwise, and he thusly went with his into Maka and gave the Apo the lay of the brother. In addition to this, he was a comely land, the weaknesses, the various weapons warrior, filled with tactics and intelligence. that were used there. He learned how to sabotage them, how to destroy them before they could even be used. Bulan, the Moon-Thief of the Sky, was comely, beautiful, and docile, and never questioned his brother's authority. He was In the wake of this heretical madness, the shifting and versatile like quicksilver, and so Supernal Sky was filled with anger, and He he was able to help his brothers without unleashed His Thunderbolt at the belligerent question. Many of the current Apo that children. In her confusion, Suga had also occupy Maka that have been there since the travelled to Maka to investigate what was Time of Divinity have said that Bulan was happening, but the Supernal Sky was blinded both a woman and a man at the same time, with anger. In his rage, he tore apart gentle depending on where you looked at him/her. Suga with his thunderbolt. Suga, the Sagess of a Thousand Lights, was The act of killing his children drove him lovely, perfectly beautiful, bright, intelligent, mad. and the only daughter. She knew of the secrets of her parents, and from there she extrapolated the inner workings of creation, He went down to the Seas and tore it apart, the pattern of the Great Weaver that hid in angry at Magu'yawan, but Magu'yawan plain sight. She thus became the first clarified that She did not know anything Sorceress that knew the secrets to creation, about what their grandchildren were the weaving of things, that only the Great planning. Defeated and saddened, the Weaver knew. Supernal Sky, now Mad, and the Guiding Oceans wept for their grandchildren. Kalibutan was arrogant and powerful, as he inherited the power of his Father, Paros. In Magu'yawan and Maykaptan gave Apung his hubris, he persuaded his siblings Adlaw Adlaw, Apung Bulan, and Apung Suga light, and they were placed among the firmament weight of the Mad Sky's tyranny. He sought of the world. Adlaw became the Sun, Bulan to reason with the Mad Sky, who only ended became the Moon, and Suga became the up cursing him and banishing him from the stars. world. Filled with wrathful revolution, he gave to Magu'yawan the instructions of creating powerful essences of pure, However, Kalibutan, being arrogant, was coruscating power -- he tasked Magu’yawan to given no light, and he became the earth upon collect the God-Shards of the Primordials: which the first shoot of bamboo grew from the Furious Rebellious Shard of Kalibutan, Magu'yawan, the Guiding Waters' tears. the Glorious Warrior Spirit of Adlaw, the Reaping Shadow Specter of Bulan, and the Burning Thousand Points of Suga. These And from the bamboo, arose mankind... four shards he sealed into his Storm-Breath, and into it -- like a craftsman would pour pouring hot lava into a cast -- the Actor of ...the Second Song continues... Power poured his unfiltered, uncalculable Raw Bala. … and it was Glorious. Before the humans even existed, it is worth mentioning that These Breaths were then forged with Apung there have been previous beings before them. Tolus Ka Gomanan, the Diwata of the Forge, The Lipod, the winged wind-people, and the to craft a vast Receptacle upon which the Magindara, the snake-tailed water-people, power could be forged. Tolus Ka Gomanan, have existed much before they have. the Ever-Gnashing Hammer, used the four divine materials mined from the God-Shards of each of the four dead Primordial Apo and And so, during the first few years of the created the Receptacle of Heroic Power Epoch of Heroes, the humans lived in constant fear of various halimaw and yawa, which came from the Sea, for the Sea was the These Receptacles were powerful enough to corpse of the Orphaned Spirit. The other hold even the infinite might of the Actor of races also subjugated humanity under their Power. With that, Actor of Power promised rule, even the Dragon Lords that were the that he will return in the future. eventual descendants of the Naga Tribe of the magindara. The Receptacle of Infinite Power only worked with those who had the potential for It wasn't long before The Actor of Power had power, and thus they imparted the returned from His voyage, and he found that Receptacle upon those humans yet to be all of the world was filled with death and born. When those imbibed with the power of travesty, crumbling underneath the crippling the Receptacle were birthed, they were observed to have grown twice as fast, Apo were proud of. All of this became the reaching adulthood at fifteen years of age, object of the Mad Sky's hatred, and he sought and becoming able to speak at Nine-months. to war with the heroes. Each one imbibed with the power of the Receptacle were birthed under unnatural circumstances, one way or another -- under The heroes, now after a thousand years of the singing of a tigmamanukan, or a vast prowess, creating vast technologies, and bamboo patch grows in the span of minutes binding the three worlds of Maka, around the house where the hero is born. Sanlibutan, and Sulad to their will, have become worthy of legends. And their names became that to reflect their achievements -- These young heroes -- who have yet to prove the heroes were then on known as themselves -- were given guidance by their “Karanduun”, Worthy of Songs. They ancestral spirits, otherwise known as their brought the world into the Golden Age. anito. These anito taught them to harness their infinite potential, and taught them about the nature of reality -- how the world The Mad Sky sought to create his own army was known as the Tapiserya, and everything of super-warriors.