Many traditional creation myths in Roduram culture center around the initial growth of the Great Ari Tree, and the creation of plants and animals by deities born from the tree, called "The 4 Elders".
Traditionally, the writings of Charlo-i, Scor/Sca were held to be the first recordings of the Roduram creation myth. However, during the Period of Historical Reckoning, radio-excavators found imprints of stories and written music which suggest both the style and content of the writings had already existed for at least several centuries prior.
Regardless, Charlo-i's 'How It Came to Be' forms a common core of most Roduram Mythologies. As translated by Primuso:
ah ask how asking me how it came to be
quiet now listen now listen to treesfirst hush was only hush land and the sea
waves hush made rain hush of thousands of seeds
none hush took root hush till Great Ari Tree
two hush leaves grew hush the sun power seekone two three four flowers grew from the stems
and fell from the blossoms seeds to root againfrom new seeds grew elders, creators of we
and still ever growing the Great Ari Treethey took from it seeds for to make the great forest
then made their own seeds when each sang their own chorusnaa'fen and naa'leen naa'la with their seed
sa'ben and sa'feen saa'la with their seedwhen all had returned they found in the tree grown
feathered and furred ones who called it their homeeach elder found those who sang the same songs
on the next journey outward, these friends came alongsaa'ven and naa'fen aa'fen with their kin
saa'ben and naa'leen aa'leen with their kinand now the lands filled with plant and with creatures
the elders returned to make one final featurethey sang from their hearts what they knew of themselves
and the Great Ari Tree grew the first Roduram
The Arrival presented major challenges for Roduram theologians, historians, and philosophers. The existence of a previously unknown intelligent species contradicted much of the prevailing wisdom.
In regions where Auglish culture had largely been assimilated into the broader Roduram culture, the creation myth expanded to explain how the Auglish came to be as well. In the most common version, when Naa'leen returns to the great forest after guiding her kin through her lands, she finds the other elders have already created the Roduram. Jealous and hurt, she runs back to the ocean in the northeast where she is surrounded by only her own creations, and the vast empty sea. She cries in time with the waves, and the spirit of the sea appears to her. They make a deal. The spirit of the sea agrees to bring her to an undisturbed land which would be her blank canvas. In exchange, he would take the whole of this land into the sea in 4,000 years time. This deal is the cause of the great floods.
Upon arriving on Augland, Naa'leen continues to spread her plants and her creatures, until she comes upon the mud pits of TODO. She fashions a council of copies of herself from the wet clay, and before it drips, she breathes her power to create into the figures who become the first humans.