First Men
The "First Men" are the first generation, or generations, of early humanity.
They exist as two kinds:
- They often stem from mythological tales, and share many similarities from a culture to another.
- They can also be the evolutionary break from ape-men to human species.
The mentions of First Men will naturally overlap and contradicts with each others, or ignore each others.
History
2,5 MY BC
In Africa,[1] the "first men" (seemingly twins) were delivered by the last Australopithecus sedibas, 2.5 million years ago. Those ape-men were fighting over the fate of the two babies, just before they were all exterminated by the Evolutionaries.[2]
Geyomar, the Last of the First Men
According to Zawadi, Geiomar was the last of the First Men, who predates Homo sapiens. He was offered immortality by Chthon in return for infiltrating and assassinating the new religions of the new humans, as Homo sapiens's abstract thinking, morals, and common faith were a threat to Chthon's dominion of darkness and fear.[3]
500,000 BC Lemuria tales
According to the tales of 500,000 BC Lemuria, in the times of elder Hyperborea, giant reptiles known as the Dragon Kings ruled Earth,[4] a time known as the Age of Dragons.[5] Among those giant reptiles rose kings and necromancers, the Dragon Kings, who had a wicked and cruel way of life. They built monolithic cities of black stone, and studied the dark arts. Witnessing the Dragon Kings' evil, the Nineteen Gods created the first men: Phondath the Firstborn and his mate Evalla.[4] Phondath became a hero, known to ride his mythical winged dragon.[6] Men built their first cities, and with the help of Father Gorm, eventually defeated the Dragon Kings at the end of the Thousand Years War[4] and of the Age of Dragon, to let way to the Age of Men.[5]
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The bird-men battling the first true men at the Northern Mountains
Pre-Cataclysmic Age tales
According to Ravian, sovereign elder of the mountain and king of the Bird-Men, thousands years before the Age of Kull (18,500 BC), his people, an elder race of telepathic Bird-Men who ruled over the south of Thuria tried to carve an empire and raised battle against the first true men in the northern lands of Thuria. The Bird-Men were vanquished in the Northern Mountains, their brood and females slaughtered to the last, and they went to settle a barren summit under rulership of Ravian, cheating death by the possession of the Amulet of Ka, a splinter of the talon of Ka, the Bird of Creation. When Kull visited in search for the Amulet of Ka, Ravian accepted to let the Amulet go, and upon his death, declared that his people's ancient enemy, humankind, had brought them peace, before withering himself.[7]
Hyborian Age tales
According to a story "as old as time" told in Aquilonia in the Hyborian Age of Conan, the first men were the children of the Earth-Warriors, themselves sons of the Gods. The Earth-Warriors were sent from the Heavens to take the world as their own, and battle K'Thagha, Lord of the Undead. That event involved the death of the Titans and the birth of the kingdom of Men.[8]
Another tale from the Age of of Conan stated that Gayomar was the first of all men.
Biblical Times
The Creator created Adam, the First Man of Biblical Legend, from dust from the earth the sixth day of the creation. God had created Man with power over fish, birds, cattle and everything that crept upon Earth. He then saw that he needed a helpmate so He created Eve, the first woman, and placed them in the Garden of Eden, from which they were eventually expelled.[9]
Miscellaneous
Representatives:
- Phondath the Firstborn and his mate Evalla
- Gayomar, first of all men
- Geiomar, the Last of the First Men
- Adam and Eve
- List of "first men"
See also
(See Also: Humans)