Law

Law (법칙, 法則, RR: Beopchik, MR: Pŏpch'ik) is a terminology in the Karsearin: Adventures of a Red Dragon and The Creature.

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At the dawn of creation... ...the very first thing to emerge from the void... was this. ^[1]

According to the law of causality. Every effect has a cause. In the beginning, it gave rise to order in accordance with this. Amidst the disorder that was yet to be organized, chaos came into being. As it became tied to causality, chaos found order, giving rise to the creation of a new law known as mana. Mana was created to shape space... and began circulating to set time in motion. ^[1]

The second law was fixity. Space, once entangled by mana, became fixed. Time began to flow, anchoring the world in place. The matter adrift in space was swept up by different mana currents. ^[1]

They then stabilized and grouped together into existence. ^[1]

The third law was fixed cycle. The fourth law was stability. Life birthed from the cycle... gradually grew systematic. ^[1]

In this way, the first rational being, the gods, came into being. To sustain their existence, they had to keep the world's cycle in motion. No longer did the laws have to intervene directly in the world. ^[1]

The fifth law was non-interference. The world was now guided by the direct will of the gods. The energy of life dispersed throughout the entire world. For a long time, the world continued in stability. In the ceaseless passage of time, the world remained unaltered, merely preserved. An eternity passed, and at last, there emerged those who chose the freedom of oblivion over cruel immortality. They were the Elemental Titans in charge of the spirits that govern the four elements. Instead of existing perpetually as mere parts that sustained the world, they wished to live according to their own will even for a bried moment. And so the titans abandoned the duties entrusted to them. At last, they managed to create their own vessels... and relinquished their divinity without hesitation. The most destructive flame, the Elemental Titan Karlax of fire. The storm that cuts through the air, the Elemental Titan Velgaric of wind. The manifestation of brilliant light, the Elemental Titan Ameneon of light. The freezing ice crystal, the Elemental Titan Lucin of ice. The darkness that envelops all, the Elemental Titan Ahmed of darkness. The land that accepts everything, the Elemental Titan Ustrax of earth. The ever-flowing cycle, the lower elemental god Taminon of ice. And so, the first titans abandoned their godly duties... and enjoyed their freedom until their obliteration. Even with the titans gone, their descendants, the dragons, remained, free to soar the boundless sky. Despite relinquishing their divinity, they had not given up their divine power. Even the elemental gods created by the gods to replace the titans... could not escape their control. Naturally, the gods grew worried about the disruption of the world's balance. In order to maintain their immortality, the gods had to remove the traitors who had forsaken their roles. However, the moment the gods neglected their duties, they would lose their reason for being and vanish... ...Hence, they need an agent. This led to the creation of... an entity with forbidden reason, an existence that counters this, yet whose deviation is so insignificant that it has no influence on the world. The renegades. That was how humankind came to be. ^[1]

Humankind, a new vessel to contain the power of the gods. However, humans were granted only a fragment of the gods' power, so they were no match for dragons who still had divine power. But if the gods bestowed excessive power to the humans... ...they would risk creating another dragon. In fact, humankind used their power... to fulfill their desires instead of carrying out their duty. They escaped the dragons' territory to lead their own lives. Humankind was nothing but another one of the gods' failures. Hence, the gods withdrew the power they had granted to the humans. They also created monsters to reduce the human population and bring stability to the world again. The gods further realized... ...that to fight back those who had defied them, the gods themselves had to deviate from them. In the end, the gods broke them... ...and used all of their divine power to create the Almighty Creature. Through the Vessel of the Soul, a forbidden sorcery, an Almighty Beast was born... ...one that defied physical, magical, and even divine forces. The gods could not grant intelligence... to the entity that had the power to destroy the world. However, it was intellect, not instinct, that was necessary to control it. So the god implanted the soul of a human, their unsuccessful experiment, into the Almighty Creature. An unstable, fragile being that, unable to withstand its own power, would ultimately self-destruct. Its name was Titan... ^[2]

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Law
- Fixity
- Existence
- Fixed cycle
  - Life
    - Gods
      - Elemental Titans
      - Elemental Kings
      - Humans
      - Monsters
- Stability
- Non-interference
Mana
- Magic