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It was at peace with water. This was what The White One first knew upon their arrival on earth, and what allowed it and life to thrive. They began to appreciate the complexities of this harsh material world, and how it changed over time, beginning to use the water to change their form into all life’s intricate designs...

However it could be capable of so much destruction.

“Plato told the story of Atlantis around 360 B.C. The founders of Atlantis, he said, were half god and half human.”

When humans began to develop like the pattern of textiles on a machine from their ape ancestors to their hairless and curious kin, The White One eventually manifested a fascination for these creatures who could not change their shape and understood so little about the sphere they resided upon. They were guided by the White One, and in it’s eternal knowledge the first humans who developed speech and language and trade became the most advanced civilization on the planet. A Civilization with tools and technology hardly of this world, with respects to the White One for their design. A true utopia of moral, spiritual people that followed the White One, who themself had taken on a malleable humanoid-serpent form at the time.

Yet the humans became filled with greed and anger. So much anger. Something that at the time The White One did not understand. It had lost faith in these creatures that had so much potential, and had no time to correct the immoral balance, for it seemed nature had its own solution: With a cataclysmic flood The White One’s humans and utopia were gone, lost under the grey waves. The legend of it’s city and The White One’s failed project of attempted perfection still told throughout the centuries and quickly became nothing more than a myth about god’s punishment of the immoral. The White one knew the truth, and it was that humans were inevitably unable to be perfect. How disappointing.

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The Guardian of the Pyramids was said by the Egyptians to have appeared with them. The massive structures were the only thing that was left from the destroyed city thousands of years ago, but the local people believed that The White One built them and protected them through time, and immediately it was adopted into their culture. It’s serpent-like form with smooth glistening skin and wavy horns inspired the symbolics of snakes in their beliefs. The beginning and end of time, resurrection and death, and most accurately, wisdom and corruption. If it could not guide these humans, then it could perhaps manipulate them in other ways.

The white-grey serpent was the size of a work horse with long legs and two eyes on each side of their face, with hindquarters that represented the strong lizard-like legs of prehistoric carnivores, and front legs being nimbler with hand like talons to grasp and act. Needle like teeth and horny ridges grew from its shoulders, jawline, and head, and spindles on it’s long, whiplike tail. The flawless scaled skin that it shed every few months was kept sacred and was believed to have healing properties. The serpent was immediately feared and revered next to the rest of the gods in the Egyptian polytheism, adorned with jewels and garbs of the highest praise.

The White One knew how seriously these people took their precious gods and had begun to replicate them. The stories of the Goddess Wadjet who spit poisonous fire and the demon Apophis who wanted to create chaos were all from the White One over generations of time. It is the reason that they believe serpents characterized so many things, because the White One wanted them too. Many anthropomorphics that depicted the gods were inspired because when The White One stood on its back legs, it looked much like a human with serpent features, and eventually the gods used other sacred animals as well.

After the fall the Egypt and then the formation and death of other empires, this form also began the mythological history of dragons, each society manipulating their own features into it’s design, showing just how much The White One could do without saying hardly a word. Eventually it disappeared as the wars for human conquested waged on, becoming more subtle creatures to manipulate the desires of men and women or to act like a guardian angel or miracle to those he deemed with a kinder, stronger soul. However The White One was created to be the perfect being, and not the savior of humanity as it once thought it could be.