Magnum Auctor, Author of Existence
Magnum Auctor ( Great Author) is the founder of time and physical being. He stands as the beacon of all moral standing and hope. Translated from The Malkatech Tablets, it is believed that Magnum Auctor gave Malderane, the Dark One, dominion over the sentient realms. He, however, betrayed his trust and Will to seek out his own gains. To foil his demented endeavors, The Great Author sent forth his guardians, the Zebratarians. Taking on still majestic but less terrifying forms, he told his warriors to go forth and bring peace to all the mortal lands. Magnum Auctor became known as the creator of all existence through his Zebratarians. All who stayed true to his teachings were saved in the afterlife. Many attempt to say that this is not true because suffering exists; however, due to the fall of the first men and Malderane himself, the world is dying. He taught that the soul is what matters, and not to let mortal time blind its goals.
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Magnum Auctor is still worshiped by the majority of humans even in the Current Era as the true author of all beings. Even some non-human sentient races have recently begun to accept him as the true creator.
The Malkatech: Legends of the Dawn of Time
It is written in the Malkatech Tablets that Magnum Auctor brought into the physical plane creatures of sentient minds. A cosmos of stars, worlds, and many wonders, the Great Author made all. In His creation, he made various physical beings and nonphysical beings.
The physical beings he gave dominion over all land. Man was introduced to their home world. Serekans, Sugellee, DeSa, Torkas, all dwelt happily in the physical realms.
The nonphysical beings were given dominion over the great voids between worlds and tasked with shepherding the multitudes of mortals. The most notable of these servants was the Mazzacarian. Tall, majestic human-like beings of pure light. The head of their ranks was Malderane, known in the Dawning Era as "The Keeper." He was sent to serve humanity and guide them through mortal life to the spiritual. By his greatness, many came to honor him and his master, Magnum Auctor.
The details of what happened next in the chronicles of time are somewhat abstract. Summarized below is the most updated adaptation from the Malkatech.
"Perched on a mountain top so high, the Keeper of Man would shepherd the Great Author's sheep. Bathed in glory, the servant became more a king than a helper. Man, curious by nature of the newness of the world around him, began to venture into elements not meant for his kind. Unstopped by the Keeper on the mountain, Magnum Auctor sent signs directing the course to be changed. 'Bring my people home,' he would cry out to the Keeper on the mountain. Clouded by glory, the Keeper would heed the messenger not. Then, amid the first age of time, the first man poisoned himself with power, discovering the pools of Chyme. Man was distancing himself from his true purpose. And the Keeper on the mountain idled by. Instead of intervening, he meddled, controlling humanity from the shadows and any other sentient race caught in the flurry of corruption. His arrogance blinded him to judgment. Magnum Auctor's messenger was seen by holy men and women, going to the gates of the mountain. But the Keeper would not pay him attention. Three times it is written that a messenger went to the Mazzacarian's hall atop the mountain. But neither of the vital moments did the Keeper let him in.
As decades passed and Magnum Auctor's patience drew on, the Mazzacarian prince's list of grievances towards the Great Author came to a climax. Humanity was being swayed to harbor animosity towards other sentient races. Wars spread. The humans, now led by Ungar, began to worship false idols. Magnum Auctor's sorrow grew into rage, and He Himself came to the physical realm. During the darkest hour of the night, during the waxing crescent phase of the moon, the sky came alive with light. A figure so radiant stood before the Keeper's house that the pure light sent the whole palace of the Mazzacarians into a multitude of debris. Choosing His timing with the phase of the moon, Magnum Auctor made it clear that a new era was born. Catapulted towards space, the darkness hid the Mazzacarians. Shame punished them. Shock of judgment made the Keeper wither. Magnum Auctor sought to save humanity from its fallen state. Through His servant, the Mazzacarian, the Great Author would protect his faithful.
By the great spectacle on the mountain, all those who remained faithful to Magnum Auctor knew what they had witnessed. But to the Chyme Lords and other corrupted men, they excused the mystical site as nothing more than a natural occurrence. Some blasphemed Magnum Auctor, saying that He fell on his own instrument of creation and provided them with more Chyme in 'death'. But it was during the waning crescent of the following week that vengeance was taken on those soured by ill works and wicked minds. The Keeper returned bathed in horror. Banned from residing in his former house on the mountain, the Mazzacarian became enraged and defied all natural order. He slaughtered those he had corrupted, reaping what he had sown. The Keeper chose this phase of the moon to counter Magnum Auctor's choice. The Waning Crescent, now, was his symbol that an Era was dying. Only the men and sentient beings who hid from his gore and prayed to Magnum Auctor were spared."
It is described that Malderane "Appeared in the house of Ungar like a plague. His voice mustered the venom of death itself, and none were spared from its call. All light was gone from him, and all light he consumed in the darkness of his malice. Contempt and hatred were shown to the Chyme Lords, and once they succumbed to his will, he spared not even the children of the neighboring houses. The high and lowly were all equally reduced to animals by unholy acts of butchery. Man was now reigned by a demon, a fallen Angel who forsook everything for temporary pleasures. In a world where mortals live and die, the immortal Intellect sold his birthright, given by Mangum Auctor, to be like the mortals."
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It is written by the same author, in the Malkatech, that the faithful lived their lives and were reunited with Mangum Auctor in his halls of Glory. The descendants of the men and sentient beings that fell for the temporal pleasures, put forth by Malderane, are the races present today."