The Three Aeons - Day 9

Alexandra creates a third moon - this one smaller and imprinted with her face. Small moon acts as a regulator between the other two, regulating and calming the tides.

And there is a third moon that balances the other two, stabilizing their orbits. Her face now looks down serenely upon the world below, bestowing a radiant peace and hope upon it, bringing order of a fashion where there had been none, regulating the air and the waves in a way that makes life beyond elementals possible.

Alexander swirls her fingers in the water close to shore and creates primordial ooze, then watches to see what will happen.

And a third kind of life is born, single celled organisms, the first truly 'living' things rise forth from the primordial ooze and spread rapidly. From the perspective of time for Titans or even elementals this form of life is blindingly fast, and as it runs into the Boiling Sea and the energy of the Chaos Star within it, it accelerates rapidly, becoming several different kinds of life including simple plants and jelly fish like creatures as well, though all still very primitive.

Sawda-Saiph creates dark matter.

And so it is that Dark Matter is created, infusing the world, and the stars and the moons thereof. Only the sun is spared since its firey heat instantly incinerates the material. Often buried beneath the earth it slowly eats away at all matter though only in tiny microscopic amounts, but in relatively short order a few of the Earth and Fire elementals find it and begin to play with it, instinctively realizing its potentially destructive properties.

Χαος develops a split personality. Several more Obelisks rise up out of the earth across the lands, each glowing a different color.

Twelve are the obelisks that rise up. Order, Chaos, Mind, Might, Light, Dark, Fire, Earth, Air, Water, Machine, and Magic, each slowly but subtly influencing the minds of the elementals near it, further changing them.

Tiitloc's presence within the star accelerates the sun's aging. The massive blue orb pulses and sheds the blue shimmer. The energy wafts through the universe leaving residual radiation on solid mass as it passes. The unnamed planet is bathed in blue radiation as Tiitloc blesses the orbiting rock with a magnetic charge. At the equatorial surface of this rock, a blue pillar of stone is erected and stands upright reaching for the sun.

Behind the blue veil, as the planet witnesses the evolution of its orbital anchor, the sun expands a hundred fold to become a red giant. Tiitloc wrangles the core of the sun, directing solar flares at passing celestial bodies and hurls one of the giant's tentacles at the planet. The red giant's light pulses and fades as it attempts to ravage the surface of the planet; however, deflected by the planet's natural wards, the magnetic fields warp his blow save for a feint pillar of red light which is able to reach his temple. Red fades from Tiitloc's sun, much of its mass consumed in Tiitloc's leisure, but the pillar previously placed is wrapped in an oxidized red sheath.

With the sun now considerably smaller, and glowing a bright white-yellow, Tiitloc creates standardized and measurable units of time.

Along with the obelisks, directly on the opposite side of Mount Agni, a titanic blue pillar appears that is literally miles high, reaching up out of the atmosphere. It is a marvel to behold, and it generates a magnetic field that instantly charges the atmosphere. Earth elementals can inherently sense this force and are able to navigate within the earth with much greater ease and thank Tiitloc for the gift.

The sun expands to a fantastic degree. A symphony of solar flares plays out kissing the flames of the planet, which would have been roasted to a cinder but for the magnetic shield provided by the Blue Pillar. But the display in the heavens is unparalleled by anything they have ever imagined or concieved and all the elementals stop their pilgrimages to or away from the obelisks to simply stop and stare.

The blue pillar turns red.

And for the first time, Time is measured. And the elementals begin to count the years. For each year, a hundred makes a century, and a ten of centuries makes a millenia, and ten thousand millenia marks an Age, but one among them prophesies of an acceleration of time and declares that eventually the Titans will fall. He is killed by the other elementals for his blaspheme.