Does my story of creation make sense?
Greetings, Everyone
I've been writing a story for a while, nearly for 7 years now. I have over 1,000 pages I've wrote in the story, but most of it basically sums up to a kid writing down what he thinks would be cool. I already made a magic-based powersystem, a beastiary, records of history before the present events take place, important relics and a map of the world. I think the reason why writing it takes so long is because I decided to individually write the stories of each of the characters before I started with the actual story.
I'm not very good at it but I genuinely enjoy writing all the time. My favorite part of the process is world-building. So, I've been thinking about how I should execute my story of creation.
The idea I had was to create an entity called Void that came to exist before anything else existed. Similar to the creation story of Norse Mythology. It goes as follows:
In the beginning there was nothing but a void. Nothing existed. There was no ground, no sea, no sky, no air, no life. The Great Void is all there was. Although Void was nothing, Void was everything at the same time. Void was infinitely empty but had the potential to be infinitely full. Here you cannot have nothing without there being something and so Void began to create everything. A world as large as the Void could accommodate. Full of water, earth, air, everything. Vast lands and raging oceans. Calm seas and small islands. Void created life, Void created death, Void created all. The first world there ever was, the world as old as time itself. All ideas Void had; it put into the world. Void did not bother naming this world, because it is all that existed. Void stood near this world and illuminated it to give it warmth, day and night, different seasons. Void proceeded to watch over this world for hundreds of millennia. Void watched as animals evolved and grew in population. It was a perfect simulation that could completely run itself. Void watched as creatures became sentient. They began building societies, civilizations and with that came wars, death, good and evil. Kingdoms would grow, destroy others then destroy themselves. Civilization would advance, fight, self-destruct and rise once again.
Void was curious what would come of this world or if it would change in any way, but at the same time wanted to create others to experiment. Therefore, Void made a decision. Void gave all entities a fraction of its powers. The power to create and destroy, to manipulate and empower. It gave them all this power, but at a cost, the cost depended on the power. No entity could use these powers completely without losing themselves in one way or another. To avoid utter destruction, it dispersed power unequally. Then Void created and eye it would use to watch this world. One that stood at a distance and illuminated the world. This eye took the job of warming the world to make sure life persisted. Void then left to create other worlds. Each light in space represented a different world created by Void. Void created an infinite number of other worlds, all different in their own way. The difference could be small, or it could be large. Void continued to create worlds and watch over all of them for all of time because that is all that Void knew. Regardless of how many worlds Void created, the original world remained the most significant. That is the story of how everything came to be. As for what happened to Void, it is still out there creating new worlds all infinitely far from each other. The people of the first world dubbed their world as “Ori” which to them meant beginning as well as one and only.
Any thoughts or opinions? I did write this as a kid too but I'm not sure if it actually makes sense. The story itself revolves around characters on one of these words being sent to Ori essentially breaking that perception of words being infinitely apart.