Do we know how the world has been created?

[shadowclasper]

“The serpent that sleeps in the deep slowly sheds its skin of old. Eventually, the serpent devours its tail and renders new flesh from its own. The pain felt will cause the earth to quake, mountains to crumble and rivers to run dry. Thus seven wedges must be driven into its back.” (Paraphrased from memory and thus may be worded a little differently)

The "serpent" is believed to be the Lifestream according to the Studium quests that occur prior to the Golden Dhyata being repaired, afterwhich it simply sits in the Facet of Archaeology repeating the prophecy endlessly.

Sounds ominous, but being a DoH quest I feel disinclined to think they'd lock a piece of lore that has critical relevance to the future behind such. Having to travel around Etheriys if not beyond to the shards in order to address some kind of abnormality with the Lifestream would make for an interesting second story arc IMO, though.

Sounds like it's describing the 4th umbrella catastrophe, the catastrophe of earth to me.

[TheMightyMollusk]

In the beginning, the Twelve created the universe. This angered many and has widely been considered a bad idea.

[SannaR]

It sounds closer to Ragnarock or what is said to happen with the Great Serpent of Ronka.