Sha Hirza Ni Mythology

"Unlike the other peoples, whose stories tell of a time a hero saved them, the Sha Hirza Ni sing of the time they saved themselves." -- from Heiderlone's Travelogues

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On the Creation of the 15th God

In the time before the woven, before our tapestries could be read, the 14 Gods wove the world together. As they wove the world, the shattered God became the Demons. The Demons inhabited the south and took it over. There was nothing to oppose them.

In that time, the God of Sapience blessed a separate race, and those became the humans. These humans became favoured by the gods. The demons meanwhile found our ancestors, before we became blessed. We were simply mindless weavers, weaving homes. But the demons liked our silk, for it's incredible smooth texture, strength, and flexibility. And so they took us in.

Being in proximity to the demons gave us Awareness. And thus, we woke up.

The moment we Awoke, we could see only the suffering of our people. We were livestock. And we could foresee our own demises. Once the demons learned we had been blessed more than humans had, they gained even more interest. And so our suffering was set. And so we begged to the 14 gods to save us. But They had never chosen our people. They only chose the humans. We had no godlings among us. We were abandoned to our fates.

But we are Weavers. And thus we wove our prayers, directing them elsewhere. We could not rely on the 14 Gods. They had turned their backs on us. Instead, we wove our hopes and prayers into ourselves. And thus, the most ancient Weavers wove into existence the 15th. This shook the world when the 14 learned there was now one more. The 15th God, Shamahim, God of Freedom, Hope, and Clairvoyance. God of our People. Their birth blessed those who wove Their existence with Their voice, and thus the Weavers were the First Prophets.

When the other Gods abandoned us, we took our fates into our own hands and wove a new ending. It would take time for our actions to pay off, but our God would never forsake us. We chose our God, we chose our Fate.

Always remember that our fates are our own.

We can see futures to shape our own fate. Fate is what we decide it to be.

We have no Godling amongst us for we help to strengthen our God.

Our Prophets hear Their voice and they deeply care for us. They too weave their own fate, and so we should follow Their example, and the example of our ancestors prior.