Thanks for nominating Monolith!
I made this to be one of the craziest decks ever made, with holofoil on both sides and also holographic gilding (Gold Monolith).
A lot of pics of the decks can be found on the product pages >
https://www.thirdwayindustries.com/product-category/monolith/If you want to know more on the backstory, here is it
Part 1 - The beginning: The Universe
"At the beginning, there was just void. Infinite space, absolute cold and a timeless eternity."
The Gods of Void were there since forever. Everything was a plain, cold, dark nothing. They were powerful, but they felt something was missing.
"We created the materia out of nowhere. We made many floating spheres. Solid, liquid, gas."
The Gods of Materia created the Planets, and spreaded them into the Void. However, everything was immobile and chaotic.
"We generated energy. Heat, light and gravity."
The Gods of Energy lit the newborn Universe with Stars.
The God of Gravity created the rules for everything.
The Universe was born.
Part 2 - The creation of Life
The Gods were happy with the Universe, but it felt empty, so they asked the God of Flora to made the first attempt to create Life.
Life was complicated and frail. It needed a cooperation of all the Gods to work. No one had to prevail: otherwise it would have been to hot, too cold, too wet or too dry.
They succeeded to agree just few times. But when they did, the result was a miracle even for them.
The first living being they created was a beautiful Apple Tree.
The Goddess of Fauna was impressed by the work of her brother. But she wanted to do even a bigger miracle: a living being with a Soul.
The effort to create Souls was huge: it required even more cooperation than the Apple Tree.
It was an exausting task for all of them, but Goddess of Fauna was able to generate few, precious species they called "Firstborns". They were spreaded on Planets to populate them.
The God of Intellect was inspired and amazed by the work of his siblings. However, he was not satisfied.
He took few creatures made by his sister, and touched their forehead with a drop of his divine blood.
They were infused with a shard of intelligence - and the divine nature of the blood gave them free will.
Part 3 - Mortals and Resets
The intelligent newborns wanted more and more. And soon, they turned against their creators.
The Gods were not worried: the creatures were unable to damage them.
However, the revolt disappointed them a lot, especially when they destroyed their precious Apple Tree.
The God of Eternity, especially, was furious: he impressed a Death Mark on all the creatures, making them all Mortals.
In response, Mortals declared war to Gods. However, when they saw that kill their Creators was an impossible task, they started to destroy each other and their Planets.
The Gods tried to educate mortals several times.
Hoping the Mortals would learn from their errors, the Gods agreed to reset the planets to start from a clean slate.
The first reset was made by Goddess of Absolute Zero. She sent an Ice Age, exterminating almost all the creatures. The survivors had the task to repopulate the planet.
However, the cycle repeated itself over and over. At a certain moment of their evolution, Mortals turned against the Gods and tried to destroy everything, even themselves.
Other Gods resetted the Planets, hoping to educate mortals: The Goddess of Heat sent a rain of fire. The God of Solid a Meteor, and the Liquid Goddess a huge flood.
But everything was useless, the mortals seemed unable to learn.
One day, the Gods decided to leave.
Part 4 - The Monoliths
"Before leave forever, we taught everything to our sons. We know your kind would forgot, so we left something as our legacy. This will help you remember: your origin, your future. Maybe the whole universe."
The Gods decided to forge some Monoliths as their legacy to mortals. They placed them around the Galaxies, near to intelligent species that can understand them.
Thousands of years passed. The mortals remember just a little of the Ancient Gods.
They gave them many different names. They inspired several legends and stories. Almost everything was forgotten.
Then, the ancient Monoliths were found.
Will the mortals understand the Gods message? Will they remember?
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