The Spinner's Writ: Cymniria
The mother and father
looked upon their world
and their Children
and their animals and plants.
They felt great pride
and love for all
that they had wrought.
They also hated the violence
and death and ruin.
Their hearts were uplifted
when seeing the courage
of the prey fighting
against the predator.
They were saddened
when that creature was
killed and eaten.
But they reveled in the
glory of the victorious hunter.
The king and queen of the world
realized that all of life existed
as if on a frozen lake.
All beings walk through life,
some careful to avoid
cracking the ice.
Others stomped through life,
causing the creatures around them
to fall in the freezing water and drown.
Some creatures made it
to the other side, weary and cold.
They grieved for those
lost in the water.
They celebrated with those that
struggled to the far shore.
These two extremes
of glory and misfortune,
exaltation and disaster,
love and hate,
peace and war,
were to be governed by a Child.
This Child could plot out
the chance occurrences of all things
that live in order to bring them
to Glory and Ruin.
This Child sprang into being,
fully formed and declared
their name to be,
Cymniriaroaviwvyerolsahy,
which means,
“Glorious heights and ruinous depths,
cloud and mud, blade and wound.”
We call them Cymniria for short.
They stood before their mother and father.
The King and Queen spoke
to their Child of their new
domains of governance.
They have duties.
Cymniria governs the extremes
of every situation.
They govern the
greatest and worst outcomes.
They are Glory and Ruin.
They are Exaltation and Disaster.
They are the furthest ends of the rope
and therein the world knows balance.