Long ago, long before any of the mortal worlds came into being, and even before the birth of Heaven, God was always present. He always has been and will always be here, as is His nature as the very manifestation of Infinity. An endless being that has once been alone for time immemorial as a being of inconceivable totality.
However, before the Dawn of Creation, God was not the being of endless complexity He is known to be by much of His creation. At one time, for an almost endless time in fact, He had been completely formless.
Though infinite in nature, He was all there was and thus there was no tangible thing to attach Himself to. He was rendered a being with no distinct reference for form, and thus had nothing to do with His infinite nature, or His limitless power, or His absolute authority. He would feel lonely if concepts could be affixed to His endless form.
At this time, He was not known as God nor was he known as anything. He hadn't considered the idea of having a name or titles to substitute such a name. At this time, He had not even the idea of thought as he shifted about his empty domain among his own essence.
But He was simply alone, with boundless possibility but nothing to use it on.
Such a primitive state would persist for an untold number of years, perhaps an infinite number of years before any physical or even comprehensible thing would be dreamt up by the Infinite Creator.
No thing, living or not, can attest to the nature of the world before it was made, not even the oldest of angels were around to know God in his "infancy" or what He was like prior to the Dawn of Creation. The most ancient angels possess very little memory of such an early period, especially around the nature of God, which only further adds to the mystery of the earliest of His forms.
Part II: The Dawn of Heaven
With nothing to do but shift about in an endless void of His own being, God began to think and to dream amidst the emptiness.
He began to dream of the things He could be, with boundless possibility lying right before Him. God dreamed of an eternal bliss and of a love for something that had not yet existed. Even before the concept of the worlds of Creation or the mortal creatures that would populate them, He felt a deep love for those things. In His dreams He thought and imagined and ran and played and sang and did all the things an endless concept could possibly do.
For the first time God could think, and He loved it.
With these first flights of fancy, the swirling infinite but empty being slowly shifted into place as thoughts and ideas all came together almost like a delicate dance. This more clear-minded God would begin to plan with His dreams sitting at the forefront of such plans.
Within time, He would learn to focus and center some of the energy from His own form into a single entity. As a new project started, God would begin to create tiny things separated from His own form. These unknown things are among the first things to ever exist outside of God's own essence.
The identities of these objects have been lost due to many factors, some of which were due to active choices on God's part.
After many thousands of years and initial test courses, the main project had been realized. God had become a skilled creator, and He aimed to use His newly perfected abilities to make something far more grand than the first items He had dreamed up on a whim.
God focused, placing a great deal of power and energy into the core of His being. He looked back to the first dreams He had long ago and drew out the passion and love those dreams welled up within. In that moment, God would "speak" for the first time, commanding light into existence from nothing.
As He focused everything into a single point, a strange force pulled in Divine Power and brought forth a Holy Light.
Then the Light began to grow, increasing exponentially in size until it grew large enough to fit all of the love God had felt for His dreams, for those flights of fancy that brought Him to this point.
From that point of Divine Light, Heaven was born.
Just as God had dreamed, the world He had created was one of the deepest bliss to be found among His Creation. In its infancy, Heaven was rather similar to God's own nebulous form in appearance. However, this first grand manifestation was different from its Creator in one way; Heaven was somewhat tangible.
Though its grandeur is far beyond the comprehension of simple mortal creatures, Heaven is tiny compared to the Infinite God. This limited scope did not lessen God's love for it, and He wished to bring more things into existence to share His beloved Creation with.
This desire to have something to share such deep bliss with would call God to continue dreaming. He focused with all His being on the idea of something to populate Heaven, something that would love Him just as He loves it. This desire weighed on Heaven, causing it to expend even further as more love was poured into its core. The influx of energy flowing through His Creation made it become more physical and more tangible as a way to make a safe home for creatures smaller than He.
Soon, God's Will would come into being again, bringing forth his Angels into the world.
The newly created Angels were confused at first as neither they nor anything else like them had existed before. Amidst their confusion, God introduced Himself as their Creator and, almost by instinct, the Angels began to sing.
They had become so enamored by the presence of their God that the Angels could only react with pure unbridled euphoria. With such great emotion, the Divine Servants of God could only think to express their unwavering devotion for their Lord.
Of course, another reason for the sudden urge to sing was caused by the swift and sudden appearance of the Infinite and Divine God before far less infinite beings. Angels, having been formed with far more ancient Divine Will than other beings throughout Creation, were able to handle such a bizarre and reality-shattering encounter far better than any mortal creature could.
However, their inability to properly assess what they were seeing is the primary reason even the Angels do know fully know what God looks like or had looked like in the past. Just another way that God gets to keep His secrets.
For the first time, God had been given a title; Lord.
Part III: The Stage is Set
With the birth of Heaven and its Angels, the first true semblances of time followed suit. A combination of such a simple method of creation and such close proximity to God had made a more tangible fabric of reality less necessary than in future projects.
As time passed, more Angels came into being and the Choir of the Lord grew to such great numbers that a hierarchy would be made to bring order to God's Angels. This first hierarchy looked very different from the system that would come with the Dawn of Creation. For now, the hierarchy was dedicated to bringing form and order to the choir.
Many hundreds of thousands of years would pass with a similar pattern as more Angels joined the fold to expand Heaven as well as expanding upon the systems Angels themselves had developed.
One such effort was a dedicated search across Heaven in an attempt to properly understand their home and create an Atlas of the Divine Creation. The Angels working on this search also aimed to further understand their Creator, though direct interaction with Him only brought similar results to His first attempt to reach out to them.
After three hundred thousand years had passed, however, God returned to Heaven in a new form. The Being made of Heaven's light that greeted the Angels was undoubtedly God, they could not believe what they saw. Moreover, what they could comprehend.
God, filled with the desire to be a part of Heaven in the same way that Angels are, began to dream once more with His focus entirely on His Divine Domain. The Lord's Will would become connected to the Holy Light which dominates Heaven, and His very essence would extend out into the light itself. He found that a single spot within His Infinite form felt far more tangible than He was in all His glory.
In that moment, God had created His first Fractal; the Mote of Divine Light.
Even without the compulsion brought by a futile attempt to comprehend the incomprehensible, the Choir of the Lord began to sing when in His presence once again as pure jubilation swelled in their hearts.
Though He always appreciated the praise, God had appeared before the Angels with a goal in mind. With His Angels, the Lord would try to dream again and create another world. The Angels, always willing to serve their Lord, agreed to His plan without a single question.
The process of planning Creation took a great deal of time, around two hundred thousand years after the birth of Heaven. Much of that time was spent working towards the ideal world for any new living creatures to reside within as well as what the creatures of this new world would look like. Of course the presence of an Infinite God provided a great wealth of options and plans to work with.
Before He could bring this new world into being, He had to create a space to separate Heaven and whatever should come from his next dream. With a single command, God set apart the Heavens and the place set for Creation.
Finally the Angels watched from Heaven, the Choir providing the Almighty with their most exuberant chanting as God Himself dreamed and dreamed with all of His Divine Will. The praise of the Angels, having carried Him through the arduous process of planning his Creation, brought him a deep sense of hope which He believed would make the world just as hopeful as He felt in that moment.
The Angels, though they feared any possibility of disaster, led their Lord with their most heartfelt worship.
Soon enough, a great ball of God's Light emerged from the lifeless void, similar to his own Mote Avatar, before it collapsed onto itself. Though the Angels had feared the worst from such a sudden event, God had full faith in His Creation. For a brief moment, it seemed as if His dreams could not make it- would not make it. Some of the Choir began to weep for the seemingly failed world, believing their Lord may have failed.
Just as soon as the speck of light shrunk into itself, a vast world burst out into the void, filling the once blank space with a very different kind of light. The heat of the Big Bang lingering about brought this light, producing a sensation nothing like that of God's Divine Light.
God had brought about the Dawn of Creation and, with it, created the first mortal world.
