Runik Mythos

The dwarf runik mythos is built around the idea of the evertree, which spawned the many deities which exist within the pantheon. See also: the Runik Pantheon

Ko and the Kursten
Ko existed before time and space, and was alone in the Kursten (“Kur-Sten” – Black Sea, also known as the night’s sky). The Kursten was a void of emptiness, a vast black sea of nothing except from the occasional drop of light which were stars. Ko swam within the Kursten and eventually he decided to create something to exist alongside him, so he planned what he would make and wrote his plans upon a tablet made from a hardened swarm of stars. This tablet was known as the first Runetuk ("Rune-Tuk" - Rune Bed, a sacred tablet which defines a rune's properties) which was the embodiment of the first piece of knowledge and the first culmination of magic; known as Fursttuk ("Furst-Tuk" - First Bed). Fursttuk defined the laws of time, space, form, life and magic within five runes embeded into the tablet. These would be known as the Ullurs ("Ull-Lur" - All Law, the all encompassing laws). Following the Tablet, Ko created from his icy breath, a sphere of ice which he dropped into the Kursten. The planet shone as the first piece of matter created within the universe, but Ko was not finished, he tore out his own beating heart and threw it at the planet with all his force. When it impacted, the heart burried itself deep within the ice. Ko, lacking a heart, began to burn up in the Kursten, where his body decayed and eventually became the distant sun; Koffisk (“Ko-ffisk” – Fire of Ko).