The Three Gods
Everything was created for a reason, be it simple or massive.
We mortal beings always wanted to know our reasons of existence, be it simple or massive.
So we mortal beings create theories, ideas, philosophies and for some, religions.
Of course we mortals known as Ponies do not have religions, though the idea is a good one, it can also bring bad things in good ideas. Thus we mainly focus on theories, ideas and philosophies.
But yet, we use to this day abilities that we believe were created by immortal beings.
Those abilities have traces of being created, not born out of nothing.
Thus, something or rather someone created those abilities that are beyond our understanding.
Early records tells us that the abilities to cast magic, controlling weathers and in others, to become immortals were created by The Three.
The Three earliest beings.
The Three immortal beings.
The Three Gods.
Now, much knowledge of the Three Gods are unknown, only small yet detailed stories on these deities are told around campfires, at bedtimes and for us, as theories and philosophies on if these Three Gods are true as the stories tells.
Their names are simple yet strange, if these were deities, why didn't they have interesting names? Surly these three would of, right?
But alas, their names are known as;
Magic, Chaos and strangest of all, Man.
Our world as we know it, was a world without life.
There was no water, the sky was brown with no clouds and the ground had no green grass or beautiful flowers or healthy trees.
To say our world was a bunch of badlands, is an understatement.
But we don't live in that world.
No my friend, we live in The Three Gods' world.
Magic -whose beauty was unmatched by the other two Gods- took pity on this poor little world and decided to give the world life. She calmed the air, coloured the skies and with her own tears, made our oceans.
Chaos -Whose sense of humour was unrivalled by the other two Gods- took interest in Magic's creation of our world and decided to join its creation with his our creation. He created awful earthquakes to raise our mountains, extreme thunderstorms to break continents apart and with his own funny humour, gave materials like iron deep underground for us to dig up.
But then came Man-Whose mind was far different than the other two Gods- just watched Magic and Chaos creating our world and wondered if he should join in its creation. But he didn't, instead he was on our world, watching mountains raising, the skies colouring up and lands splitting apart from each other. The other Gods was confused why Man just watched the creation take fold and seeing what our world like the day we know ourselves would look like.
At the end of creation, where our world's oceans and continents are today, the Three Gods watched the planet from above. Magic and Chaos was happy with their creation, but Man made an interesting offer.
"Why don't we give this world a gift from all of us?" Man asked his fellow deities. "A symbol to the mortals who will been born here and to know that we were here to give them this world, our world"
Magic and Chaos liked Man's idea and agreed to it. All of them will give a gift to our world for us, knowing that their work was not forgotten. Magic was the first to send her gift.
"Dear world and the mortals that'll live on said world" Magic whispered softly and gently like a mother would say. "I give to you a race of pure magic, a race that'll live with you and to rule over you with kindness and love without needing to fear for tyranny and evil harming your children's children. This is my gift to you"
After Magic said those words. Out from the heaven came the first Alicorns, the ones we know to this day. Their magic came from Magic herself, showing us that in this race, Magic was once here.
Magic moved away from our world to let Chaos give his gift to us.
"Dear world and the mortals that'll live on said world" Chaos said with a witty voice in his throat. "I give to you a race of pure chaos, a race that'll bend reality and science to their own sense of humour. That'll give you laughter and also in their actions will teach what order looks like without them as well, a symbol I rarely like at all. This is my gift to you"
After Chaos said those words. Out from a purple cloud of candy came the first Draconequuses, the ones we really know to this day. Their sense of humour came from Chaos himself, showing us that in this race, Chaos was once here.
Chaos moved away from our world to let Man give his gift to us... But before he did that, Man managed to trick the other two Gods by saying he hasn't created anything on our world, and because he didn't create anything, his gift wouldn't work. Magic and Chaos allowed Man to create something before giving his gift to us.
This was Man's plan all along. He didn't created anything on our world because he needed to see our world, where everything is, how things were and what history would take place on our world. And thus, he created an underground dungeon known as Tartarus and with Tartarus, he created hellish monsters, the like of which many wouldn't want to see. He corrupted a handful of Alicorns, changing them into the monsters we know as Changelings. Once Man's creations were completed, he opened the Gates of Tartarus and let those monsters organised into a Legion. But before Man opened the gates, he tricked the Alicorns and Draconequuses by removing their leaders and putting the blame on each other. The Alicorns and Draconequuses.... Went to war.
Magic and Chaos watched in disgust and horror, their created races were fighting each other and Man's creations were getting stronger by the minutes. But the worse part was that this was Man's creation, not his gift. The two Gods trembled from the thought of what Man's gift would be.
"Why are you doing this?!" Magic asked, tears rolling down her face from the carnage, seeing her and Chaos's races fighting each other. "What could possibly be good about your creations?! And this dreadful war you've created upon mine and Chaos's races?!"
But Man didn't look at Magic. Instead he pointed down at our world, where his monstrous Legion were heading towards two cities. One Alicorn and the other Draconequus. And said:
"Look"
The two other Gods looked at where Man was pointing and saw what he saw.
What the Three Gods saw was Man's monstrous Legion attacking the two cities with fury and without mercy. The Alicorns took out some of the monsters while others were immune to their magic. Whilst the Draconequuses took out some of the other monsters while like the Alicorns couldn't take out the others. The two immortal races had to flee their cities whilst the Legion devoured and destroyed their cities.
Chaos looked at Man. "What's the meaning of this horror, Man?!" Chaos bellowed at Man. "Death? War? This world doesn't need this, Man!"
But Man didn't look at Chaos. Instead he once again, pointed to our world, where Alicorns and Draconequuses were gathering together. And said:
"Look"
The two other Gods looked at where Man was pointing and saw what he saw.
They saw the Alicorns and Draconequuses talking together, explaining what happened to their cities. They found out that their powers destroyed some of the monsters in the Legion, but together, they could defeat all of them. They were once enemies, the Alicorns and Draconequuses, but now they had a common enemy. They pushed aside their differences and hatreds, and banded together to fight the Legion and put an end to this horror. The two other Gods' eyes widened in disbelief and wonder. Their races were fighting....Together. They formed bonds of friendships, brotherhood and even love. They pushed and pushed the monstrous Legion back into where they were born from; The Pits of Tartarus. Once they were in, both Alicorns and Draconequuses used parts of their magic to seal the gates forever and puts the mighty hound; Cerberus, another creation of Man in charge of keeping those monsters trapped in their prisons. After the fight, Alicorns and Draconequuses sung, danced, cheered and celebrated...Together. Before Man made the two fight each other, they didn't really chat to one another, didn't want to be friends, wanted to be lovers and wanted everlasting peace. And after Man's monstrous Legion was pushed back into Tartarus, Magic and Chaos's races were more closer than ever before.
Man turned to face Magic. "To have a kind and loving ruler is one many mortals wants to have. But that ruler needed to know and see the horror of tyranny and evil to ever achieve that kindness and love. For without evil, there cannot be good"
Man turned to face Chaos. "Having chaos is not evil nor good. It is change, an important tool for this world to need. But your race needed to know where the line is from good chaos to a cataclysmic one. Now they won't ever harm a mortal nor destroy their well beings because they have seen what that looked like and know how it felt"
Then Man turned to face our world and gave his gift.
"Dear world and the mortals that'll live on said world" Man said with a proud and friendly tone in his voice. "I give to you not a race, but a future. If one is true, noble, kind and honourable, will have a beautiful life and all the luxury of this world. If one faces evil and fights for the greater good of mortal lives, will be immortalise in history, songs and the people they helped. For if one remembers your deeds, you will never die and that is the true meaning of immortality. Not living forever, but remembered forever. This is my gift to you"
After Man said those words. A sense of peace and prosperity the like of which has never felt before on our world, blossomed throughout that day and forever more. And for those who stand to keep evil at bay, stopping horrors like the monstrous Legion trapped in Tartarus. Will know that Man was once here.
And thus our world was created. And that the gifts the Three Gods gave to us, are still with us to this day.
Magic gave us the ability to use magic and having a wonderful life.
Chaos gave us the ability to uphold order and to change forever.
Man gave us the ability to be understanding that we need evil so that we can fight for the good to keep the other gifts.
These are the gifts of the Three Gods of Magic, Chaos and Man.
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In a way Man plays the role of the Demon Emperor in order for there to be peace. Committing evil to destroy the greater evil.
Magic gave us magic is redundant.
You should probably find something to replace it like Harmony gave us magic or something similar. All the same I'll it's worth a read.
Best story I've read in AGES. I hope you do more like this one. You have my support.
*Smashes the favorite button*
is this the prelude of another story? or its just that, because is just this, then a lost my time, though it was a good reading, I'm going to like it anyway.
This story isn't good to begin with, but this is the most moronic sentiment. Yes, there bloody well can be.
6962515 im sorry? I cannot think of a single case of goodness that was not conncted to evil, however little it may be.
6962515 Matter of perspective.
How can you possibly know what's good if you don't even know what evil is? Although I'm hesitant to use it as an example, look at the creation story in Genesis. The fledgling Adam and Eve had absolutely no concept whatsoever of what good or evil was. They were more animal then human.
Only after eating the fruit did their eyes truly open.
Huh. Funny. In a twisted way, this basically says we have Satan to thank for making us all self aware and giving us independent thought...
only differences is, in this story the god magic and chaos were good. however the christian god is a tyrant, whom is more like Satan then Satan himself.
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Let's have a thought experiment, then. Let us pick one act that everyone can agree is undubitably evil, like rape. Not raping people is good. Raping people is evil. Now, instead of the wishy-washy "good" and "evil," we have this:
"You cannot have not-rapists without having rapists."
Sounds idiotic? That's because it is.
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I like you.
I would have gone the whole good and evil is subjective route myself, and that they don't exist in science or nature. Using your rape example..... rape is bad m'kay (sorry) but only in our culture. There have been numerous societies and cultures in our past that don't think anything less of rape, hell, some still do today. If we were raised by a culture that taught that rape was perfectly acceptable, or even expected, it wouldn't be considered evil at all.
But y'know I came here because the premise of the story seemed interesting. Then I saw the author..... I've encountered him before, good ideas I suppose, but he's cliche, can't properly get his thoughts on paper, and his grammar and spelling are G-d awful, and that's just all wrapped up in a burrito of failure, and I just can't deal with that.
And I'm expecting people are going to down-vote this comment, but hey, if I can't be honest
with myself (with the help of the anonymity of the internet so I don't have to worry about any repercussions
) then what sort of life is that?
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I was waffling between going with that and murder, but I've met a lot more people in my life who think that killing someone can be justified than I've met people who think that raping someone can be justified, soooo... well, relativism is a bitch like that sometimes. I just like illustrating stuff with examples, so whatevs.
At any rate, I can really agree with the rest of what you said there and you clearly got my point.
6965211 The point isn't that there cannot be good without evil, it's that people can't be good without there being evil. In the story, it mentioned that before the Legion emerged, the alicorns and draconequuses didn't communicate or really want to have anything to do with each other at all. Evil united them together, forming stronger bonds of brotherhood and love than had ever occurred before they worked together.
And before saying that the conflict between the two races wasn't bringing them together (I know your type), that wasn't the point. Try reading farther down.
As an example such as yours,
Here's a better example. "A terrorist attacks a school and kills 5, before being stopped by a bypasser with a gun who heard gunshots."
The terrorist is Evil. The bypasser is Good. You cannot have Good without Evil.
Someone cannot do something good without there being a bad alternative. Without evil there is no good.
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That's not the point of his example. The point is that before Eve ate the apple, there was no moral choices.
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This is literally the stupidest thing I've ever heard, bar non. Congrats on making me doubt the capabilities of human intellect just that little bit more.
7316444 That's very immature. No arguments against it, no points, just calling it stupid. That's what a 5 year old child would do. Are you five, wlam?
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Do you actually think that "being good" requires someone evil to fight against? What does that anyone make else then? The happy family that lives responsibly and treats and raises its childrn well is good, just for existing. They do good things and that's all it takes. It needs no theoretical rape monster to destroy so that it can be "properly" good. That entire analogy you gave was idiotic.
7316468 I don't want to get in the middle of your discussion but whatever.
Its not that if there is no evil there is no good its that you don't know what good is, you need something to compare it with
7316468 Yeah. With your example of a family happily raising their children, what I'm saying is that's normal in our society. That's a certain type of good that can exist without there being evil. That's ordinary goodness, i.e. what's expected. The type of good I'm referring to is triumph over evil. Extraordinary goodness is something that's not expected, but commended, like taking down a terrorist. It cannot exist without evil, for without evil everything is ordinary goodness, and it all goes stale. Without the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, the United States would have never become a world superpower and a shining beacon of freedom and liberty.
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By people who actually know what words mean, the kind fo thing you're talking about is called "valor in battle." While you may find that respectable, it has actually nothing to do with evil. Just with winning an important fight. You can get that out of boxing. It is not a moral good.
I've met more than a few Americans in my life who would laugh and spit in your face for a statement like that, but that's aside from the matter
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Patriotism in America sadly is at an all time low. America, in the 60s and 70s was indeed a beacon of liberty and freedom. There was still inequality, but at the time America really was the embodiment of good fighting the forces of evil. Today whatever garbage people learn about the US really comes to focus on the earlier mistakes of it, rather than how the US changed the world later. And feminism in general is an America hatefest. One of the things I hate most is how unpatriotic everyone is nowadays. "America doesn't need to be the world's police!" Especially this. If America doesn't show people what true democracy is, then who will? Russia? China? Do people really trust the world to sort itself out? It's America's duty, as a country to spread the light that is democracy to people who are being oppressed.
>inb4 George Bush invaded the middle east for oil
There were plenty of inept or bad presidents, but with the US's role in the Cold War, America has gone in balls deep in world politics and trying to retract the US from that would get messy.
/rant
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America these days is a sad, pathetic mockery of what the real America was ever supposed to be like.
v
"Fúck all those histpanics, they takin me jerbs
That's the kind of thing that's representss what America really should be. What it is, in its most essential naturel
The time when you were actually the heroes is long over. Now you're just anothe evil empire, with no Luke Skywalker in sight.
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Exactly so if there was no moral choice how could eve have been punished for it? How could a God set them up for failure. Know they we're going to fail and make them fail.( if he truly is an Omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and all good god. Of course I will not even delve into how that statement alone contradicts itself.) we can only conclude he is either evil, not all that or doesn't exist. Not lie there was any evidence anyways ... My point was more against the God argument than anything. This is absolutely not a good argument for ancient fairy tales. That really angered me.
Bruh, only the intellect and intelligence of a human could do this.......wow!!
This was poetic, yet epic not in the modern way but in the old greek way. i felt the same as i did Reading the Illad for the first time.
This was fantastic.
This was balanced in all regards.
Its needs a good editor, but damn. I loved it.
7335575 Heh heh, why else do you think Lucifer was able to deceive 1/3 of the angels of Heaven, despite the fact that they had seen God?
That was the crux of Lucifer's entire basis for rebellion: that God's law permitted no choice since it was all that existed. And it's a very effective argument in a thought vacuum with no examples to look at.
And, as God is a true Creator in every sense of the word, He did not merely wish for automatons, which meant his creations would come to think and question... so at some point, conflict would naturally arise. It was unavoidable if any free will was permitted.
So, a world had to be chosen to for the devil to work his way upon as an example. Narrow the destruction to as small a region as possible. Rather like walling off North Korea. And the beings of that world would have to be given the choice to obey the law they were initially given, or follow their own impulses and desires... while at the same time still granting an avenue of eventual escape from this doom.
It's all very simple and elegant a solution from a cosmic point of view.
I too know how to play The Long Game.
Ewwww... it was just this sort of fallacy we were taught to avoid in logic class.
It's like saying light cannot exist without darkness. It's just such an ugly, illogical statement.
7316493 And then the ultimate question: is there really a need for evil to exist to compare good against?
It seems to me that conscious minds invent these needs out of curiosity. But life and existence themselves require no such concepts. Bacteria and algae know nothing of philosophy, yet they grow freely. Good and evil are both abstract constructions of the sentient consciousness, the downside of higher intelligence, one could argue.
Both the Garden of Eden and Pandora's Box are variations of the diametric effects of raw knowledge without the wisdom of self-control and forethought.
It can be said that one cannot gain wisdom without knowing both what is right and what is wrong. But to say that one cannot exist without the other is simply logically incorrect. As both are abstractions without quantifiable variables, either or both can arise from thought... neither truly dependent on the other. They simply tend to both occur as a matter of the course of conjecture and contemplation in the thinking mind. Selfishness and altruism, hatred and love... these follow the same theme.
Can one be generous having never known greed? Can one hate having never known love? Well, for the latter we have plenty of examples of this being true!
Good and evil cannot be DEFINED without having a comparison. But their characteristic can certainly exist independently of each other.
8121632 and I agree, i said you can't know what good or evil is without the other, the abstrac concepts (created by us Humans) would still exist even if you didn't know about them but to fully define and comprehend them you need the other to compare with.
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But sadly it is true that is why world peace is impossible. Because the only way for wold peace to work is that we would have to be brought to are end so we could Rise together or we would have to ruled by 1body that is so powerful that nothing can stand agent it. Like a God,earth ending event or a very strick government that don't push it's people to far. This is why if you ever want something to change in are world today you need two things a lot of people that believe in you or an army
8534868 Or become a supreme energy being... I think I'm going to aim for that.
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That works to..... Lol
A truley uniqe and well written story of the creation of Equestria, well done!