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Thiol is the supreme creator deity in the lore that ArcheAge Chronicles inherits from the original ArcheAge and the Jeon Minhee novels. In that mythology, she created the heavens, the earth, the oceans, and everything in existence. Her most significant creation was the Garden, also known as "the navel of the world" and "the birthplace of magic," the place where everything began.

The Three Creations

Thiol's creative work followed three major phases:

1. First Creation: Thiol created Ipna, the first being, and gave him the Garden to live in.

2. Second Creation: Thiol created the Akasch (demons) and Nuil, a "first, perfect female" meant to be Ipna's mate. This pairing failed.

3. Third Creation: Thiol created another female companion for Ipna, described as "not so perfect." The two fell in love and produced many offspring. These offspring became the gods.

As the divine family grew, Thiol directed them to leave the Garden and venture into the wider world. The Garden itself was left under the rule of Faeries, beings whom Thiol had condemned for reasons not fully explained. On the mortal plane, Thiol also created three "higher races": the Ipnya and Akasch on the eastern continent, and the Nuon (ancestors of the Warborn) on the western continent.

Death

Thiol perished when the Library Expedition reached the Garden. The expedition members found Thiol and absorbed fragments of her divine essence. These soul fragments transformed the mortal expedition members into the new gods: Nui, Kyrios, Dahuta, Shatigon, Tahyang, and others. After Thiol's death, these new gods returned to Erenor and the world entered a new age, one that would end in the catastrophic war between the gods that destroyed Auroria.

Legacy

Thiol's creation of unequal beings (a perfect and an imperfect companion for Ipna, favored and condemned Faeries, powerful and lesser mortal races) established a pattern of asymmetry that runs through every conflict in the ArcheAge universe. The gods inherited her power but not her wisdom. The mortal races inherited her world but not her understanding of it. Every war, betrayal, and tragedy in Erenor's history traces back to the imbalances Thiol built into the foundations of creation.