1. OA IS Forever, And Good, And Every Thing That Is And Is Not.
2. Through a vast expanse that is part of Oa, drift an infinite number of individual Holy Dreams called Oranods. Each unique and immortal spirit shimmers and tumbles in the liquid black nothing. The rising electric and melodic howl of the Oranod’s plucking pulse is the only sound against the slippery silence. The blinding, colorful motes flow in all directions from every point in a perpetual and mesmerizing ocean called the Everthought of Oa, the All-Mother.
3. This spiritual astronomy of Oa’s Everthought exists privately, outside of, but connected to the dimensions of the equally limitless and physical Universe, much like the oppositional relationship between Ocean and Sky. Here, however, the fish in the Everthought swim above and look down at the birds of the Universe below through the glimmer of the separating surface. This barrier separating Universe and Everthought is called Esadhu.
4. Occasionally physical entities are known to cross this membrane connecting the Sky of the Universe with the Ocean of the Everthought, becoming and adding to the currents of Oranods. Likewise, some mighty Oranods decide to trade the eternity of Everthought for the glory of Universe, and take shape.
5. Yaial was an Oranod, a blinding blue light in the endless flow of Oa’s Everthought, itself dreaming of a world, and chose to sacrifice its immortality for long-term mortality by crossing the Esadhu and becoming that world.
6. When Yaial crossed the Esadhu, part of the Everthought tore with it and wrapped around Yaial. This thin black energy that appeared around Yaial was called the Vorm. The Vorm was an empty dimension, and the thin membrane of the Vorm around Yaial was a gateway to and from it. It separated Yaial from the Universe like an invisible skin.
7. As Yaial bore through the dimensional membranes into the Universe, its blue light became blinding Heartfire. The Heartfire was a violent star that would not survive long in the interconnected systems and energies of the Universe.
8. So a white layer of crystal called Farin enclosed and contained the blinding Heartfire of Yaial. The Heartfire raged inside the Farin, threatening to explode it, so over this layer of Farin grew another layer of blue crystal called Boldid. The Heartfire of Yaial passed through the Farin and the Boldid, and into a third layer of green crystal called Purdine. By the time the Heartfire reached the next red layer of crystal called Mugia it was dampened. Another layer of clear crystal called Vyal grew over the Mugia.
9. And Yaial’s light was finally tamed and dim. The Heartfire infused the crystals for all time with its light, warmth, and power-the most powerful being the closest Farin, and the least powerful being the furthest Vyal.
10. Over its crystalline heart case grew a thick layer of Rockflesh called Dlan. And the world went dark. Beneath the Rockflesh of Dlan and above the Heartfire and Vyal formed and flowed and churned the Bloodwaters of Yaial. Water took its particular liquid form to represent Yaial’s memory of the Oan essence of the Everthought.
11. Yaial was now a living world, and its mortality, however distant, was now a fact. Its future death was now an inevitability. Yaial felt joy and sorrow.
12. Yaial set out its eyes separate from its new body, and placed them back in the Everthought. From there the lit gazes of the Holy Eyes held in place the world of Yaial that was forming in the Universe. The intense gaze of Yaial’s Eyes formed intersecting bands of light into a great cone illuminating one side of the spinning world with Day, and leaving the other in the darkness of Night.
13. This persisting connection between dimensions and through the Esadhu created a new conical realm that was neither Everthought nor Universe, but a new and magnificent place Yaial called the Way. The starlit Way was like a great plain whose black skies were constantly whispering with warm breezes blowing in from the Everthought and escaping into the Universe. Above, one could view the great moving Oranods in the faraway blizzard of Everthought, and along the horizons hung the stars of the visible Universe. Beyond the Wayplains and the Outroads were the sky and world of Yaial which floated within the Universe.
14. Yaial was now a barren world of rippling and creaking stone, spinning endlessly while half of the world warmed and expanded in the brightness of the sun, and the other half contracted and cooled in the darkness of night. The Bloodwaters churned faster and faster beneath the surface around the Heartfire. The Bloodwaters grew hotter and hotter, and began to boil.