The Myth of Fire
Story of the Valianist faith
Inatalia, the Agent of the Elements. Ever since her creation by God, she has loyally governed the elements as it has instructed.
She governs the properties of soil, which give and receive life. She governs the three stages of matter: air, liquid, and stone. She is entrusted with heat and cold, which provide for the transformations in matter. In her care is also the light, which combined with heat forms the Sun, and which forms the stars and the Moon.
But she is troubled. Whilst she works with Lunasi and Saratiya, the Agents of the Moon and the Stars respectively, to create the moonlight, the humans still do not have enough light for night time.
She begins to think. Luckily, Ateina, the Agent of Intelligence and Emotions, is passing by her house in the Heavens. Ateina is a close friend of Inatalia, and she hears her problem.
Inatalia worries of the wrath of God. Certainly it is caring and understanding, and it adores to see its agents invent new gadgets in order to make its life easier, but Inatalia believes that this could be seen as an insult, challenging God’s supreme craftsmanship.
Ateina does not share this view. As the wisest of the agents, and as the closest confidant of God, she knows that it would not be enraged, as long as they craft something to solve her dilemma. After all, criticizing without a solution is certainly an insult, and an insult to God is treachery.
Treachery translates to punishment.
Thus, they together begin to design a source of light that would be durable for humans. As they failed on their initial blueprints, Ateina, with all of her wisdom, thought of something.
There were two substances on Earth that, when they transformed their stages, they became sources of heat: wood and many rocks. Wood, when melted, would transform into a hybrid between liquid and stone, and many rocks, when melted, became lava. Ateina then thought of the Sun, which gave off both heat and light. Would that not work for humans? Both a source of light and heat?
Inatalia loved the idea. It solved two problems! She called the Agents of the Earth and Sun, Feiti and Korena respectively, and requested their help. They agreed, as they saw the treasure of God, humans, languishing in the night.
They all then poured their powers to create a mix: Inatalia gave her powers of stages and light, Feiti gave his wood and rocks, Korena collected a sample of the sun and presented it, and Ateina began to properly forge it all. They created fire.
They went to God to present their work. God adopted it with enthusiasm. It even changed the rules, allowing for all wood to melt into fire in order to make it more accessible, and the sparks of the rocks allowed for fire to be created.
This had an unforeseen consequence. As the humans melted the wood and used the new properties of rocks to create fire, the clouds, giant clusters of air water that create rain as the sky is colder than the Earth, began to mix with the blackish air fire transformed after it ran out. This created lightning, a mix of water and wood that reigned terror from the clouds. It is a hybrid between liquid and air, just like fire.
However, it was decided by God that it was an acceptable side-effect, as it could now use electricity as a weapon to keep the Agents in line, should they rebel in the future.