Melanie Nilles

Welcome back for lucky thirteen! Today we have Haiberuk, one of the immortal Majera, the beings that created the world of Gairdra and the creatures that inhabit it.

We’re very honored you could join us. Creator is an impressive role. How did you conceive such a world?

For too long we had nothing for which to explore our part, the Darkness and the Light. We were one being then, at the beginning; one Majera. Darkness bore its own and together we shared control, each infantile and curious.

Something happened, a stage of development perhaps. Majera and Darklord both desired ultimate control. I suppose a disagreement, sibling rivalry, of a sorts. It escalated. Each battled the other.

I remember nothing of why but I remember when I gained my own consciousness. I found my sister–if you will–next to me, as confused as I was. A third part took no form. We chose names, myself Haiberuk and she Tahronen. The other took none as it had no form, but has come to be the Unnamed One in time.

We had some memory of who we were, now left alone and longing to unite, but unable to merge again. The day will come. I am only part of the whole. Each of us separate has some memory of before, but not enough to answer your question.

When you were split, how did you become a man and Tahronen a woman?

*shrugs and smiles* That I could not say. It was chosen for us. But as we had been given these forms as an alternate to what we are, so too we developed creatures of the world into two forms, always seeking each other.

So, you just–poof!–a little magic and you made the dragons and humans?

Nothing like that. We started at the smallest, learning as we went and developing each from what the universe had provided. This was all new to us, but we were determined to explore our power and to find a way to reunite and fight the darkness. It took time to perfect each, but when we knew we had them, we left the lesser beings to their own. Most died off as the stronger beings took over.

You’re talking evolution.

Yes, if that’s what you call it, but we guided life on the world into what we needed. We had a hand in every being until we found the combinations that worked.

Not until we made the First Race of men did we realize we could have done better. In developing the Second Race, we gave them the ability to reproduce far more rapidly than the First Race. However, the Darklord interfered and added his own twist to taint our creation into destroying itself with greed and lust and selfishness. We discovered his touch in time to remove all connection to magic and, thus, limited their ability to destroy one another and the world.

Do you regret anything you’ve done?

That is a tough question, but no. I believe everything we have made has served a larger purpose, the same purpose for which we were split into separate consciousnesses. We have grown and learned as we would not have otherwise. And we have given this world something of ourselves which will live on to eternity with us.

Do you think you, Tahronen, and the Unnamed One will ever be reunited as one Majera?

I believe it will happen. The universe has a purpose for us which has not yet been fulfilled. When it is, I believe then we will be one again. That will be an interesting day for the world of Gairdra.

Thank you for sharing this with us. It has been enlightening.

I would also like to thank everyone who continues to join us every week and those who are joining us for the first time. If you wish to learn more, check out the upcoming books of the Legend of the White Dragon series (Mundania Press). Dragon Prophecy will be available in January 2008.

And come again next week. We will have the son of the man many fear and loathe. Vahrik, son of Tyrkam, will join us. See you then!