There are many myths and various tales surrounding the very beginning of everything you are about to read. My aim is to tell the clearest rendition of our origins, piecing together the most commonly told myths and the oldest records known to date to our people.
The various peoples of our world have their own versions of the first beginning, some say the world was born from the tears of the Tidemother, or that Voel blossomed from a single seed planted long ago, or that Ar’Teeli stole a rock from the heavens to play with. Some even say it has existed forever, and was never brought into being.
Therefore, we will not begin there, but rather begin where the world agrees it begins, with the sacrifice of the first…
- an excerpt from Ru’Hale’s History of Voel













