Creation
The Universe
If you ask a murdon how the world came into being, you won’t get a very interesting answer. The general consensus is “The world is, has always been, and always will be.” Murdon believe that they came before the existence of the universe, as a small twinkling of consciousness in the deep void of nothingness. This tiny spark of thought (not life) beget more tiny sparks of thought, which in turn created more thoughts, until the universe formed itself around them. Each piece of it developed by the slowly growing consciousness. So, as long as there are living things to think there will always be a universe, and as each living thing has thoughts, the universe will continue to expand. The murdon do not regard the universe as infinite or controlled, but rather as an ever changing container for thought and creation, which grows and shrinks throughout the passage of time.
There is also a less common secondary philosophy used by the murdon, which can be reduced to “The world began when I began, will continue while I continue, and will end when I end.” Popular amongst the religious followers of Prince Kutoth and particularly egomaniac individuals.
Hence, the concept of creation and thinking is, and always will be, important to the lives of all murdon.
Izarn
Izarn began its existence as a large chunk of icy rock, hurtling billions of miles an hour through space. In the time before intelligence, Izarn rocketed through Zar’s orbit and was sucked up by the gravitational pull. Like all moons, it is kept in place by the constant gravity between Zar, the planet, and Darudar, the star. Izarn began its existence as a moon barren and lifeless, its surface made of craggy rocks and spills of poisonous gasses. But, like many of Zar’s moons, it was quickly put to use.
The murdon began a small terraforming operation on its surface, converting its rocks and crystals into life-bearing soil and oceans. It took several decades to complete, and even longer to get the atmosphere attuned to the appropriate percentage of gasses to support the lifeforms the murdon desired. Izarn did not develop its flora and fauna naturally. Instead, for the first few centuries of its existence it became a “dumping ground” for various murdon creations. It was eventually considered an old project and allowed to develop on its own, leaving room for evolution to take its natural course.
Upon the return of the earth-stranded Murdon, interest in Izarn was once again sparked. Rather than destroy whole ecosystems, the atmosphere over the largest land mass was altered just enough to support life from Earth. The euclide, amuni, and defore were then sent to the moon to live out the rest of existence as a quiet, social experiment by the murdon.