Thread:TheHachi/@comment-26416415-20160409024011/@comment-26416415-20160409131905

That sounds good.

How advanced was Sohet magitech? Because I have an idea. One of my conceptions of the Sadu was as a race of enormous metal beastmen. (Their collapse forced the survivors to assume biological forms) So what if they originated as a race of mechanical servants for the Sohet, who survived the catastrophe that destroyed them and adopted much of their technology, then tried to succeed where they failed?

So this is my idea for the disaster that destroyed the Sadu. Can you tell me where a good place might be to fit the two deities that appear in it into the existing cosmology? (And also whether I'm accidentally copying someone else again.):

So in some way, shape or form, the Sadu (Translating to "ancient sages") are now the dominant power on the Sea of Sand and highly advanced in magic and technology. They use their magic in an attempt to puncture a hole into some sort of heavenly realm (Their cosmology being somewhat similar to Gnosticism, with an inherently evil "reality" AKA Koldenwelt and a paradisical "Realm of Truth" that reality was separated from.) but only succeed in finding the "Abyss", a realm containing the primordial, chaotic ocean that predates the creation of the world. The avatar of this realm is a formless, chaotic entity known as "Abussos" that is now very upset that its rest has been disturbed.

Abussos literally floods into the Sea of Sand, destroying Sadu cities. However, the benevolent knowledge-deity "Eri" feels sympathy for the Sadu and comes to their aid, sharing his knowledge with the Sadu so that collectively they can devise a ritual to seal Abussos away. Using a combination of Sohet-derived magitechnology and the divine powers of Eri, Abussos is sealed beneath the earth. While the chaotic waters of Abussos are always breaking free of its underground prison, Eri shaped them into orderly rivers and lakes, and taught the Sadu a form of ritualistic irrigation that also helped ensure the waters stayed orderly. In exchange for his help, the Sadu vow to worship Eri for the remainder of their existence, giving him the epithet "Lord of the Rivers" in reference to his expanded divine powers.

But that's not what wiped out the Sadu. What wiped them out was when they tried again. Abussos, now seemingly entirely under Sadu control, was seen as a new and useful tool. The Sadu used another ritual to harness Abussos' reality-altering powers in a bid to make themselves gods, under the assumption that by doing so they would then be able to safely access the heavenly realm they had sought for so long. This ritual required them to destroy their physical bodies, and as such there was no way out of it. At first, the ritual seemed to succeed, and the Sadu completely destroyed their old forms in their hurry to ascend.

However, whether due to lingering malevolence within Abussos or the simple fact that the Sadu had little idea what they were doing, there was an imperfection in the ritual. The now-divine Sadu began to rapidly fad from existence and dissolve into nothingness. Panicked, the remaining Sadu quickly used their new powers to create bodies in imitation of the Deiwes and Beastmen, hiding away in these new, weaker biological forms. Less than ten percent of the original Sadu population remained, and in their new bodies they couldn't use the technology they once had in their original forms.

Thus begins the history of the Sadu's descendants, the Vardu (Silver Sages), Medu (Green Sages), and Azdu (Blue Sages).

If parts of that sound vaguely familiar, it's because I was heavily inspired by the Enuma Elish, along with various deluge myths. So, is there a place in the cosmology for Abussos and Eri?