Introduction

You ever wonder why we humans love stories so much? I mean stories really do consume our lives. From songs to video games, all of our entertainment tells some kind of story. When you talk to a friend or a family member, you exchange stories. You probably exchange bad and poorly told stories, but you exchange stories nonetheless. Even when we're asleep, our brains fire off random signals, and we try to form a story out of it. Humans love stories. Why? To put it simply, gods really like stories, and they make sure their creations share that trait. The first storytellers were gods. In fact, that's still all they do. They think they're the best at it, too. They can be real narcissists.

If you've ever met an artist, you've basically met a god without all the magic powers and immortality. On every world created by a god (which is all of them in case you were a bit confused), there exist stories created by storytellers created by storytelling gods. Like I said, narcissists. Can you blame them though? Everything that has ever existed or ever will exist exists because some magical being with an overly ornate typewriter typed it into existence. That has to be worth some level of overconfidence, right?

Anyway, enough about all of that. You want to know how it all came to be, don't you? Why do the mountains rise so high and the seas sink so low? Where did humans come from and where did the unicorns go? Well, settle in, I will tell you the tale of how this world came to be, how everything on it came to be and how some things that were once on it are no longer presently on it. Trust me, it's a lot of information. So, we'll avoid the greater creation of the universe, other planets and all that good stuff for now. It can get to be real convoluted if you ask me. I'm not necessarily one of the big guy's smartest characters, though.

This is the story of Earth.

Image Information: Earth Cropped from Space Against a White Background by DonkeyHotey from Flickr