A Wanderer's Romance

The world began as nothing but ocean. The Origins raised up a million colourful islands, anything larger than a few dozen miles being swallowed by the envious deep. Some of these immaterial beings chose to take a physical form and live in the varied lands they had created, eventually settling into the forms of men and beasts. Our ancestors. The Origins that did not take physical form paid a great cost. They were left unable to affect their world directly, relying upon influencing men with...