User blog:Psyph/A Tiny History of Village Psyph

In the beginning there was the Magic Rock and a small clearing where the first house was built. This place was found to be protected from predators, fertile for farming, of quest-worthy quarries and fanciful forests. So the village Psyph was made and the village grew rapidly in constant happiness and plenty.

Soon there grew a division in the villagers, in their beliefs and rituals, so that they chose to live apart in blue and orange homes. The orange residents held that the Magic Rock was sacred and the only source of solace, the original object of respect. The blue residents held that there were many forces in the world to aid the magic rock and they also put their faith in the ancient legend of the Sunflower Brontosaurus. In spite of this division the villagers were able to commune in peace and prosperity. They all agreed to make their village a wonder in the world in spite of their tiny size.

The residents of Psyph believe that the power of the rock comes from magic and that the purity of the power comes from water. In time the villagers discovered that the duty of the protection of this purity fell upon magical creatures conjured from ancient recipes. These magical beings sometimes acted upon the world with plants as their agents. This was the seed of both of the cults which arose in the village Psyph, what eventually became the orange residents' magic Venus Fly Trap [VFT] cult and what became the blue residents' sunflower [SB] cult. Both cults revered books that held these ancient tales and they also revered the flowers that represented the magical guardians of the rock.

So it came to pass that a wonderous Stonehenge arose in the village after long labors and great patience. The village became wealthier than it had need for and it also discovered the secret of invisibility for their many properties. Only the Magic Rock could not be hidden. Other items could be hidden from the sight of all except the village managers. Thus the village was able to remain tiny in land but great in property. The village could afford to clear more land but chose to use this secret instead whenever possible.

Then tales arrived with visitors from other villages. These visitors spoke of other Magic Rocks of fantastic proportions and powers. The villagers learned from new friends that they could also enjoy the greatness of these larger towns more easily if they would only upgrade their magic rock with a new formula. This was not a strange idea since the villagers had also performed minor upgrades in the past. They had built a fine picket fence and they had raised the rock upon pillars and they had provided the greatest complements they could muster - the finest of shrubbery.

The concept of an upgrade did not upset the villagers, it was the reports that the upgrades changed the rock. This alarmed most of the village. The original magic stone was transformed in those foreign upgrades by very strong magic. It was no longer the exact same stone that village had been created with, rather it was made large and sometimes full of water or fire and raising arms above the foreign worshippers. These differences greatly worried the orange residents who held to their belief that the original stone was necessary for the purity of the village. The village practiced democracy and the VFT cult was the most populous, thus the idea of further upgrades was resisted. And so the village Psyph was isolated from the lands of titan rocks by a philosophy of the original stone.

The SB cult did not object loudly to this restriction, instead they planned to make the original rock even safer, more attractive and a source of even greater growth. To achieve the goals of the SB cult the village would have to clear a great deal more land. Then the village could be transformed instead of the original rock. This idea was embraced by the VFT cult and again in unison the villagers of Psyph labored long and awaited the day when the village could transform with a great commotion, which they came to call waiting for the big bang. They devised a plan to hide any new space needed for their secret work from other villages - by cropping sunflowers and venus fly traps whenever possible until a sudden expansion caused the bang to be heard around the world...