Cycle of Creation

The Cycle of Creation is the Vanki creation myth, positing that worlds are destroyed and recreated in an infinite cycle.

Premise

The Vanki believed that the world originated only shortly before their traditional history began, in 1321 BF. More generally, they believed in a cycle of the world being destroyed and a new world emerging, with elements carrying over from the previous. So in that regard, 1321 BF was not the beginning of their mythological history, but just of the current cycle. (In fact, in many places, the Vanki calendar counting years since 1321 BF was used before the standardization of SR starting in Siegetev's reign.) In fact, the previous cycle is used as the explanation for a lot of aspects of the world. Most notably, yarov. It is said that in the previous world, yarov were the primary inhabitants of the world, with humans or other more physical races being rare and rather occasional, and that the current cycle's yarov are a combination of the appearance of that world's yarov with a dreamlike essence. The previous cycle ended in an apocalyptic event that caused dreams to overtake reality. The predecessor of the "Delta Rune", the emblem of yarov in Iltezon and especially of Ebott, is known to predate written history as a Vanki emblem, and it is thought to be a symbol of the previous cycle as a whole.

Other details of the previous cycle that were believed in by the Vanki included the existence of different kinds of powers usable in different parts of the world, and a powerful kingdom called Cyri whose inhabitants are in modern interpretations of the previous world linked to various deities.

The world of "Delta Rune" was picked up as a secondary world by Hesanic creatives and authors, elaborated upon as a version of the real world with parts rearranged and new dynamics in play. Additionally, the world became heavily interlinked with the Ilgiric context. 914 saw one of the major contributions to this secondary world, elaborating on some of the major figures within it. However, Vanki cultures have refused to accept this version of that world, preferring instead to continue with their own reconstructions, which have diverged somewhat from the Hesanic take.

It is supposed that the current cycle will end when a single individual gathers enough power to erase the world. This particular philosophy ended up acquired by Magzi, which serves as a partial explanation for some of their strange supposed experiences. The next world that originates from the destruction of the current one will contain many of the same aspects, but contextualized differently.

Along with focusing in detail on the previous world, one can instead look at the large-scale "meta-history" of the worlds, and see that (albeit with the small amount of detail reconstructed about this) although a couple things stay very persistent, any given world in the succession is essentially unrecognizable to that before it.

In modern times, due to findings indicating an existent chronology prior to 1321 BF, the original Vanki cycle context has commonly been ignored, otherwise reconciled by incorporating aspects of previous cycles into reconstructed continuous histories, or continued to be adapted into Hesanic fiction.